Frequent Mobile Call Drops Worry Users

Hyderabad: Do you find your mobile call is getting disconnected abruptly?

Call drops have become more frequent than ever before. It is the responsibility of the service providers to maintain the instractures to ensure a continuous call. They are under an obligation to compensate for any call disruption. Not many subscribers seem to be complaining about the increasing instances of call drops and nor do the companies bother to rectify this problem.

The call drop while you are on a serious conversation may lead to your adversity; the other party may misunderstand you thinking you've snapped the call when it's actually not your fault. The call drop problem has further aggravated with the GHMC's action recently; power supply to almost 245 cell phone towers in the city was stopped for not paying property tax.

The previous Andhra Pradesh government had levied tax of a lakh of rupees on telecom companies for building each cell tower which needs to be approved by the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation. Tax is levied even on shared usage of the towers.

Sri Ramachander, a senior official from the GHMC's town planning wing, said that the cell-phone towers are considered as part of building's property and they need to pay the property tax for its functioning. He said that around 6,000 illegal towers are in operation in the city without paying the property tax.

The Senior Director of TAIPA says they have over four lakh cell-phone towers in the country. He says that these towers are not building and it is wrong by the GHMC to consider it as building. So they should be exempted from any tax.

Well, the tussle between TAIPA and GHMC only worsens the conmon man plight. Even after going for the change of service provider or going for high-end handset didn't alleviate common man woes. Both the parties should come to a meeting point and find a solution.

A city can only be called as 'Smart City' when there is a smooth functionality on mobile service without frequent call drops.

P. Manasa