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Consultation on Complaints/Grievance Redressal in Telecom Sector

Consultation on Complaints/Grievance Redressal in Telecom Sector
Start Date :
Jul 28, 2016
Last Date :
Aug 27, 2016
00:00 AM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)
Submission Closed

The telecom sector in India has grown rapidly in the last decade and subscriptions have crossed 1 billion. These subscribers are filing large numbers of complaints with the Telecom ...

The telecom sector in India has grown rapidly in the last decade and subscriptions have crossed 1 billion. These subscribers are filing large numbers of complaints with the Telecom Service Providers [TSPs]. The complaints are on account of wrong billing, indifferent or poor quality of service, non-provision of contracted services, etc. Unsatisfactory resolution of the consumer complaints, by the TSPs, is resulting in complaints and grievances being forwarded to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and Department of Telecom (DoT) on a regular basis.

As per the existing Legal and Regulatory framework, the individual consumer grievance redressal is outside the purview of the TRAI. Licensing conditions for the TSPs stipulates that “All complaints of subscribers in this regard will be addressed/ handled as per the orders or regulations or directions issued by the Licensor or TRAI from time to time.” Accordingly TRAI has from time to time issued Regulations specifying the broad frame work of the complaint redressal mechanism that all TSPs should establish and maintain within their organizations.

The role and impact of telecommunication services has metamorphosed from being a communication tool to a critical instrument for the social and economic development of the country. It is imperative that consumer complaints and public grievances in the telecom space are resolved in a timely, efficient and cost-effective manner through a system that is easily available all across the country. Without such a system, benefits of the telecom revolution, which encompasses provision of a variety of services, such as banking, money transfer, govt. Services, to the public will miss the intended target. It is therefore appropriate to revisit the issue of redressal of individual consumer complaints and grievances in the telecom space. This paper is issued with this objective.

This Paper presents an overview of the existing consumer grievance mechanisms and its efficacy, the mechanisms in place in other countries and within India in other sectors of similar size and its impact, the problem areas etc. It seeks views, opinions and comments from stakeholders on possible options to improve the existing grievance redressal mechanism, alternatives including establishing an office of Telecom Ombudsman etc.

Consultation Paper on Complaints/Grievance Redressal in Telecom Sector

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Brajendrakumar Singh 8 years 11 months ago

BSNL is a govt. telecom company but in chhattisgarh its service is too poor reason is its useless employee. Customer service operator did not responding to customer and illiterate employee don't know about RTI or letter of customer and problem of customer because they know to that govt.give them salary every month and they are relative of govt..Out the 20 years service employee or close this company ,this is the WHITE ELEPHANT for the govt.

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MURALIDHARAN MAHADEVAN 8 years 11 months ago

A TRAI complaints app need to be created which can track the status of escalations and how it is handled. It will also give realtime information of issues around Telecom and customer issues.

BODIGUTLA
BODIGUTLA 8 years 11 months ago

When customers complaints are resolved BSNL executives should get it confirmed from the customers through phone,SMS and mail

BODIGUTLA
BODIGUTLA 8 years 11 months ago

To improve the work culture in BSNL and for providing better service to the customers the following steps may help.
1. BSNL offices and customer service centers should be covered under CCTVs. The BSNL Corporate Office executives should view the functioning of BSNL Offices regularly.
2. The employees should enter their work done in the computer.
3. Performance measuring System should be installed their by employees will know their performance regularly

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PRABHAKARA VARMA PILLI 8 years 11 months ago

With multiple operators working in all the circles, the requirement for Towers is increasing. But the costs for set up, maintain and municipality taxes are playing havoc with them. Hence, less towers and call drops. Individual operator should not be permitted to put towers. A pan India entity to be created and they will instal towers as per city's requirement. Each operator will rent space on each tower on a rate decided by an independant evaluator. Thus space and better utility of tower ensured

ppvarma@hotmail.com
PRABHAKARA VARMA PILLI 8 years 11 months ago

An independent technical body should be constituted per Telecom circle to assess the traffic density of phones. It should measure the signal strength per location. Occurrence of Call drops or wrong connections should be assessed. Sudden loss of signal strength should be monitored at peak hours. Penalties should be imposed for deficiency of service.

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PRABHAKARA VARMA PILLI 8 years 11 months ago

One retired DE level ex-Telecom Dept official should be made ombudsman for all telecom complaints. This officer can be authorised to receive all complaints in his District. Each telecom operator having presence in that District should send their District head for fortnightly hearing of complaints. This Ombudsman office should function at par with Consumer Redressal forum. The cost of this office should be born by all operators as a proportion to the number of complaints received against them.

Hiren Makadia
Hiren Makadia 8 years 11 months ago

The above two are really required since nobody has time to step in to the lethargic local goverment agencies to file complaints for some hundreds or thousand rupees cases. Online consumer grievance case filing is need of an hour now. Just setup such online facility and you may expect lakhs of complaints within few hours.

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PRABHAKARA VARMA PILLI 8 years 11 months ago

We can meet BSNL for complaints.The pvt operator have no physical access. One has to use IVRS. Disgusting. TRAI should open desks for each telcom operators and receive complaints by SMS, email,post. Complaint number tobe given. The cost of managing the entire desk per operator should be born by the respective operator. Customers payment for any bills should be credited to an escrow account of TRAI and later released. Penalties can be imposed for deficient service. Service tax be realised fully.

Hiren Makadia
Hiren Makadia 8 years 11 months ago

If the government really wants to empower the users of the telecom services then first thing they need to set up online ombudsman facility in which the service provider need to respond within defined timeline (earliest one) and nodal agency need to evaluate such response and if not satisfied with the responsesthen heavy fines need to be levied on the service provider and paid to the complaintant immediately. Second, exhaustive service levels need to be defined by the nodal agency.

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