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Date: 2025-09-09 Category: Directions State: Union Government Country: India

Direction to the service providers regarding publication of their performance with respect to the benchmark of QoS parameters specified under the Standards of QoS of Access/Broadband (Wireline and Wireless) Service Regulations, 2024

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RG-29/(1)/2025-QoS I/36034/2025 भारतीय दूरस ंच ार िविनयामक (cid:255)ािधकरण Telecom Regulatory Authority of India [ भारत सरकार / Government of India] Dated: 09.09.2025 DIRECTION Subject : Direction to the service providers regarding publication of their performance with respect to the benchmark of Quality of Service parameters specified under the Standards of Quality of Service of Access (Wireline and Wireless) and Broadband (Wireline and Wireless) Service Regulations, 2024 (06 of 2024) F. No. RG-29/(1)/2025-QoS ---- Whereas the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (hereinafter referred to as “the Authority”), established under sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997 (24 of 1997) (hereinafter referred to as “TRAI Act”), has been entrusted with discharge of certain functions, inter alia , to regulate the telecommunication services; ensure compliance of terms and conditions of licen c e; ensure technical compatibility and effective inter- connection between different service providers; lay - down the standards of quality of service to be provided by the service providers and ensure the quality of service and conduct the periodical survey of such services provided by the service providers so as to protect the interest of the consumers of telecommunication service; 2. And whereas the Authority, in exercise of the powers conferred upon it under section 36, read with sub-clauses (i) and (v) of clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 11, of the TRAI Act, made the Standards of Quality of Service of Access (Wireline and Wireless) and Broadband (Wireline and Wireless) Service Regulations, 2024 (06 of 2024) dated the 02 nd August 2024 (hereinafter referred to as “the regulations”), which have come into force with effect from 1st October 2024; 3. And whereas sub-regulation (2) of regulation 15 of the regulations provides for publication of its performance with respect to the benchmark of Quality of Service parameters by the service providers and the said sub-regulation reads as under: - “(2) Every service provider shall publish, for the information of the consumers, its performance with respect to the benchmark of QoS parameters specified in regulation 4, regulation 6, regulation 7, regulation 9 and regulation 10, as applicable, in such manner and format, as may be directed by the Authority from time to time.”; 4. Now, therefore, the Authorit,y in exercise of the powers conferred upon it under regulation 15 of the Standards of Quality of Service of Access (Wireline and Wireless) and Broadband (Wireline and Wireless) Service Regulations, 2024 (06 of 2024), hereby directs all service providers to publish on their website, within fifteen days from the last date of submission ofRG-29/(1)/2025-QoS I/36034/2025 Performance Monitoring Report to the Authorit,y its performance with respect to the benchmark of Quality of Service parameters of access service (wireless), access service (wireline) and broadband (wireline) service, as applicable, on quarterly or monthly basis, as the case may be, in accordance with the guidelines specified in the Annexure attached with this Direction. 5. This Direction shall come into force with effect from 08 th November 2025 . Enclosure: As above Advisor (QoS-I) To All Service Providers having : i. Unified Access Service License; ii. Unified License with authorization for Access Service; iii. Internet Service Authorization under any License; and iv. Authorization under the Telecommunications Act, 2023 for providing Access or Broadband Service. व (cid:208)ड (cid:170) (cid:367)ेड स (cid:164)टर , टावर -एफ , नौरोजी नगर , नई िद (cid:208)ली -110029 World Trade Centre, Tower-F, Nauroji Nagar New Delhi – 110029RG-29/(1)/2025-QoS I/36034/2025 Annexure Guidelines for publishing performance with respect to the benchmark of Quality of Service parameters on service providers’ website Service providers shall strictly adhere to the following guidelines while publishing performance with respect to the benchmark of Quality of Service parameters on its website in accordance with the provision of sub-regulation (2) of regulation 15 of the Standards of Quality of Service of Access (Wireline and Wireless) and Broadband (Wireline and Wireless) Service Regulations, 2024 (06 of 2024) dated 02nd August 2024: ( i)Service providers shall publish performance with respect to the benchmark of Quality of Service parameters of access service (wireless), access service (wireline) and broadband (wireline) service, whichever is applicable, on their official website, within fifteen (15) days of the last date of submission of respective performance monitoring report (PMR) to the Authorit.y (i i)Performance of access service (wireless) shall be published on monthly basis, whereas performance of access service (wireline) and broadband (wireline) service shall be published on quarterly basis and shall be accessible by all the customers/subscribers. (ii i)The information published on service provider’s website shall be the same as submitted to the Authority. (iv A) tab titled ‘Service Quality’ should be provided in the navigation bar on the home page/landing page of the website. Under this tab, the PMR of different service should be published under different sub-menu titled “Basic”, “Mobile” and “Broadband (Wireline)”, whichever is applicable. (v T)he performance shall be published in a clea,r tabular format that is easily readable and user- friendly with the options, as detailed below: a. Performance for specific period: By default, performance of last quarter/ month, as applicable, shall be displayed for all LSAs/ Service areas (sorted alphabetically). Howeve,r users shall have the option to select a specific quarter/month, and the performance of all LSAs/ Service areas (sorted alphabetically) shall be displayed for the selected quarter/month. Performance of all quarters or months, as applicable, for last two financial years shall be accessible. Howeve,r the performance for the period prior to 1 st October 2024 is not required to be displayed. Format for displaying performance of various services are as follows: Access Service (wireless) - As per Appendix-I Access Service (wireline) - As per Appendix-II Broadband (wireline) Service - As per Appendix-IIIRG-29/(1)/2025-QoS I/36034/2025 b. LSA/ Service area wise : User shall have the option to view the performance of a specific LSA or service area. On choosing a specific LSA or service area, performance of that LSA or service area for all quarters or months, as applicable, for last two financial years shall be displayed in the descending order (latest at top). Howeve,r the performance for the period prior to 1 st October 2024 is not required to be displayed. Format for displaying performance of various services are as follows: Access Service (wireless) - As per Appendix-IV Access Service (wireline) - As per Appendix-V Broadband (wireline) Service - As per Appendix-VI c. Any non-compliance with respect to specified benchmarks of respective QoS parameter shall be highlighted in ‘Red’ colou.r (v Ti)he service providers are free to provide more information and user-friendly features for enhancing the user experience. *****RG-29/(1)/2025-QoS I/36034/2025 Appendix-I Performance with respect to the benchmark of Quality of Service parameters for Access service (Wireless) for the quarter/ month of ________________ (like June-2025) A. Network Related QoS Parameters Voice Connection Establishment Broadband Network Availability Voice Connection Maintenance (Retainability) A(ccessibility ) Service Percent age of Availabil significa Call ity of nt DCR Set-up service network Call DCR Spatial Succes Downlink Uplink wise outage Set-up Spatial Distribut s Rate: Packet Packet geospati (service Succes Distribut ion Cumulat Inter - Drop Rate Drop Rate al s not s Rate: ion Measure ive Service Point of for for Packet coverag Worst availabl Intra- Measure for Latenc downti provide Interconnec Packet Packet Drop e map Affecte e in a Service for Packet y i(n S. me r tion P(OI) Switched Switched Rate LS on d Cells district provide Circuit Switche 4G and N (Cells (incomi Congestion Network Network (in 4G A service due to for more r Switche d 5G o not ng (90th (4G/5G 4(G/5G and 5G provider downti than 4 (within d (4G/5G netwo availabl from percentile and and netwo ’s me hours) service (2G/3G) and rk) e for other value) beyond) beyond) rk) website reported provide network beyond) service) service [DLPDR_ [ULPDR_ for to the r’s [CS_QSD network provide QSD 8(8, QSD 8(8, percent Authorit networ (88, [PS_QSD rs’ 88)] 88)] age of y within k) 88)] (92, networ working 24 hrs 92)] k) cells of start of the outage ≤ 75 ≥ 99% ≤ 2 % ≤ 2 % 100 % ≥ 98% ≥ 95 % ≤ 0.5% ≤ 2 % ≤ 2 % ≤ 2 % ≤ 2 % ≤ 3 % msec 1 2 3 . .RG-29/(1)/2025-QoS I/36034/2025 B. Customer Service Related QoS Parameters Customer Service Application of adjustment to Percentag Acces Resolution customer’s account e of calls Termination/ sibilit Refund of deposits of billing/ within one week from answered closure of y of within 45 days of Billing and charging the date of resolution by the service within S call closure of service charging complaints of billing and operators seven working N LSA centre or non- complaints within charging complaints (voice to days of receipt o / provisioning of four or rectification of voice) of customer’s custo service weeks faults or rectification within 90 request mer of significant network seconds care outage, as applicable ≥ ≤ 0.1% 100% 100% ≥ 95% 100% 100% 95% 1 2 3 4 . .RG-29/(1)/2025-QoS I/36034/2025 C. Offered typical download/ upload speed and 80 th percentile measured download/ upload speed for different tariff offerings 80th percentile 80th percentile Offered typical value of download Offered typical value of upload download S No LSA Name of Tariff offerings speed measured in upload speed speed measured speed (In test samples (In (In Mbps) in test samples Mbps) Mbps) (In Mbps) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 . . . .RG-29/(1)/2025-QoS I/36034/2025 Appendix-II Performance with respect to the benchmark of Quality of Service parameters for Access service (Wireline) for the quarter of ________________ (like June-2025) Service Point of Provisionin Fault Repair Intercon Customer Service g nection Provision Fault Fault Fault Mean Point of Billin Resolut Application of Percen Terminatio Refund of of a service inciden repai repai Time Intercon g ion of adjustment to Accessib tage of n/ closure deposits within 7 ces r by r to nection and billing/ customer’s ility of calls of service within 45 working (No. of next withi Repair (POI ) char chargin account within one call answer within days of days of faults worki n (MTTR) Congesti ging g week from the centre/ ed by seven closure of S. LSA payment of per ng three on 9(0th comp complai date of resolution custome the working service or No. Name demand 100 day worki percentil laints nts of billing and r care operat days of non- note by the subscri ng e value ) within charging ors receipt of provisioning customer bers) days four complaints or (voice customer’ of service weeks rectification of to s request faults or voice) rectification of within significant 90 network outage, second as applicable s ≥ ≥ ≤ 10 ≤ ≥ 98 % ≤ 5 ≤ 0.5 % 100% 100% ≥ 95 % ≥ 95 % 100 % 100 % 85% 99 % hrs 01.% 1 2 3 4 5 . 22RG-29/(1)/2025-QoS I/36034/2025 Appendix-III Performance with respect to the benchmark of Quality of Service parameters for Broadband (Wireline) Service for the quarter of ________________ (like June-2025) A. Performance against QoS Parameters Service Provisionin Broadband Service Performance Fault Repair Customer Service g Application Maximu of m adjustment Bandwid to Refund th utilizatio customer’s of n of any Faul Resolu account Percenta Terminati deposits Provision of t tion of within one ge of on/ Custome Acce within a service Fault Fault repa billing week from calls closure of S Service within 7 r incidenc repai ir Billing / the date of ssibil answere service 45 days No Area working Pack serving es (No. r by with and chargi resolution of ity of d by the within of Latenc et node to Jitte chargi call days of of faults next in ng billing and operator seven closure y Drop ISP r ng centr payment of per 100 worki thre compl charging s (voice working of Rate Gateway compl e/ demand Node subscrib ng e aints aints complaints custo to voice) days of service note by the [Intra- ers) day wor within or mer within receipt of or non- customer king four rectification 90 customer’ network care provisio days weeks of faults or seconds s request ] or rectification ning of Internet of significant service Exchang network e Point outage, as Link(s) applicable ≥ 98% ≤ 50 ≤ 1% ≤ 80% ≤ 40 ≤ 5 ≥ ≥ ≤ 100% 100% ≥ ≥ 95% 100% 100 % msec mse 85% 99% 0.1% 95% c 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 .RG-29/(1)/2025-QoS I/36034/2025 B. Offered typical download/ upload speed and 90 th percentile measured download/ upload speed for different tariff offerings 90th percentile 90th percentile Offered typical value of download Offered typical value of upload Service download Name of Tariff offerings speed measured in upload speed speed measured S No Area speed (In test samples I(n (In Mbps) in test samples Mbps) Mbps) (In Mbps) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 . . . .RG-29/(1)/2025-QoS I/36034/2025 Appendix-IV Performance with respect to the benchmark of Quality of Service parameters for Access service (Wireless) for __________________ LSA A. Network Related QoS Parameters Voice Connection Voice Connection Maintenance Broadband Network Availability Establishment (Accessibility) (Retainability) Service Percent age of significa Availabi nt Call lity of DCR network Set-up service Call DCR Spatial outage Succes Downlink Uplink wise Set-up Spatial Distribut (service s Rate: Packet Packet geospat Succes Distribut ion Cumulat s not Inter - Drop Drop ial s Rate: ion Measure Packet ive availabl Service Point of Rate for Rate for Latenc coverag Worst Intra- Measure for Drop downti e in a provid Interconne Packet Packet y (in e map Affecte Service for Packet Rate S Quart me district er ction (POI) Switched Switched 4G on d Cells provid Circuit Switche i(n 4G N er/ (Cells for i(ncom Congestion Network Network and service due to er Switche d and o Month not more ing (90th (4G/5G (4G/5G 5G provide downti (within d (4G/5G 5G availabl than 4 from percentile and and netwo r’s me service (2G/3G) and netwo e for hours) other value ) beyond) beyond ) rk) website provid network beyond) rk) service ) reporte service [DLPDR_ [ULPDR_ for er’s [CS_QS network d to the provid QSD 8(8, QSD (88, percent networ D (88, [PS_QS Authorit ers’ 88)] 88)] age of k) 88)] D (92, y within networ working 92)] 24 hrs k) cells of start of the outage ≤ 75 ≥ 99 % ≤ 2 % ≤ 2 % 100% ≥ 98% ≥ 95% ≤ 0.5% ≤ 2 % ≤ 2 % ≤ 2 % ≤ 2 % ≤ 3 % msec 1 2 3 . .RG-29/(1)/2025-QoS I/36034/2025 B. Customer Service Related QoS Parameters Customer Service Application of adjustment to Percentag Resolutio Acces customer’s account e of calls Termination/ n of sibilit Refund of deposits Billing within one week from answered closure of billing/ y of within 45 days of and the date of resolution by the service within S Quarter charging call closure of service charging of billing and operators seven working N / complaint centre or non- complaint charging complaints (voice to days of receipt o Month s within / provisioning of s or rectification of voice) of customer’s four custo service faults or rectification within 90 request weeks mer of significant network seconds care outage, as applicable ≥ ≤ 0.1% 100% 100% ≥ 95% 100% 100% 95% 1 2 3 4 . .RG-29/(1)/2025-QoS I/36034/2025 C. Offered typical download/ upload speed and 80 th percentile measured download/ upload speed for different tariff offerings 80th percentile 80th percentile Offered typical value of download Offered typical value of upload Quarter/ download S No Name of Tariff offerings speed measured in upload speed speed measured Month speed (In test samples (In (In Mbps) in test samples Mbps) Mbps) (In Mbps) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 . . . .RG-29/(1)/2025-QoS I/36034/2025 Appendix-V Performance with respect to the benchmark of Quality of Service parameters for Access service (Wireline) for __________________ LSA Point of Service Fault Repair Intercon Customer Service Provisioning nection Provision of Fault Fault Fault Mean Point of Billin Resoluti Application of Percent Terminatio Refund of a service inciden repair repair Time to Intercon g and on of adjustment to Accessibil age of n/ closure deposits within 7 ces by withi Repair nection charg billing/ customer’s account ity of call calls of service within 45 working (No .of next n (MTTR) (POI) ing chargin within one week centre/ answer within days of days of faults worki three Congesti comp g from the date of customer ed by seven closure of S. payment of per 100 ng worki on (90th laints complai resolution of billing care the working service or No. Quarter demand subscri day ng percentil nts and charging operato days of non- note by the bers) days e value) within complaints or rs receipt of provisioning customer four rectification of (voice customer’s of service weeks faults or to request rectification of voice) significant network within outage, as 90 applicable second s ≥ ≥ ≤ 10 ≤ ≥ 98% ≤ 5 ≤ 0.5% 100% 100% ≥ 95% ≥ 95% 100% 100% 85% 99% hrs 0.1% 1 2 3 4 5 . .RG-29/(1)/2025-QoS I/36034/2025 Appendix-VI Performance with respect to the benchmark of Quality of Service parameters for Broadband (Wireline) Service for __________________ Service Area A. Performance against QoS Parameters Service Provisionin Broadband Service Performance Fault Repair Customer Service g Application Maximu of m adjustment Bandwid to Refund th customer’s of utilizatio Faul Resolu account Percenta Terminati deposit n of any Provision of t tion of within one ge of on/ s Custome Acce a service Fault Fault repa billing week from calls closure of within r Billing ssibil S Quarte within 7 incidenc repai ir / the date of answere service 45 Pack serving and ity of No r working es (No. r by with chargi resolution of d by the within days of Latenc et node to Jitte chargi call days of of faults next in ng billing and operator seven closure y Drop ISP r ng centr payment of per 100 worki thre compl charging s (voice working of Rate Gateway compl e/ demand subscrib ng e aints complaints to voice) days of service Node aints custo note by the ers) day wor within or within receipt of or non- [Intra- mer customer king four rectification 90 customer’ provisi network care days weeks of faults or seconds s request oning ] or rectification of Internet of significant service Exchang network e Point outage, as Link(s) applicable ≥ 98% ≤ 50 ≤ 1% ≤ 80% ≤ 40 ≤ 5 ≥ ≥ ≤ 100% 100% ≥ ≥ 95% 100% 100% msec mse 85% 99% 0.1% 95% c 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 .RG-29/(1)/2025-QoS I/36034/2025 B. Offered typical download/ upload speed and 90 th percentile measured download/ upload speed for different tariff offerings 90th percentile 90th percentile Offered typical value of download Offered typical value of upload download Quarter Name of Tariff offerings speed measured in upload speed speed measured S No speed (In test samples I(n (In Mbps) in test samples Mbps) Mbps) (In Mbps) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 . . . .

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