The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has announced the results of a special audit undertaken by it to assess the performance of mobile towers in the country. The audit was conducted to address the issue of increasing call drops in the country.

According to DoT, out of 34,600 mobile towers which were earlier found to be operating poorly, performance of about 16,962 towers has improved and work is in progress to improve the performance of the rest.

Meanwhile, DoT has stated that it is monitoring the telecom service quality on a weekly to 10-day basis with all operators.