Location-based services are yet to make a debut in the Indian telecom space.
Prior to this, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had amended operators? licence conditions and had asked them to provide location details of users as part of call records.
As per DoT?s guidelines, law enforcement agencies should be able to track 30 per cent of mobile users in urban areas within 50 metres of the location specified by the telecom operator. The operators were also mandated to provide location details of 50 per cent of subscribers within 300 metres in the semi-urban and rural areas of Jammu and Kashmir, Assam and other north eastern states.
Operators were given until end-May to comply with the regulatory norms on this subject. Now, as per news reports, telecom players have missed this deadline.
It is believed that the operators have cited huge costs and technology unavailability as the reasons for not meeting the deadline.
