The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released its independent drive test (IDT) findings for Gwalior City and Itarsi to Burhanpur Railway Route of Madhya Pradesh licensed service area (LSA) during the month of September 2025. The IDT have been designed to capture real-world mobile network performance across diverse usage environments -urban zones, hotspots, public transport hubs, etc.
TRAI, through its appointed agency, conducted detailed drive tests of 391.6 kilometres (kms) of city test and 4.7 kms of walk test in Gwalior City between September 1 to September 4, 2025 and 252.2 kms of railway route from Itarsi to Burhanpur on September 18, 2025. Technologies evaluated included 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G, reflecting the service experience of users across multiple handset capabilities. The findings of IDT have been intimated to all the telecom service providers (TSPs) concerned for further necessary action.
Drive tests were conducted to assess the quality of (like 2G/ 3G/ 4G/ 5G) for voice and data service provided by cellular mobile telephone service providers namely Bharti Airtel Limited (Airtel), Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (Jio), Vodafone Idea Limited (Vi), and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)/ Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL), for voice and data services in August 2025. The observations presented in drive test reports represent the performance of the service providers on the area/ route under test on the day/time of conducting the drive test.
Airtel, BSNL, Jio and Vi had 99.66 per cent, 81.33 per cent, 99.44 per cent and 98. 22 per cent per cent call setup success rate while call setup time of 1.28, 2.47, 0.64 and 0.80 seconds respectively in auto-selection mode (5G/4G/3G/2G). Meanwhile, Airtel, BSNL, Jio and Vi had drop call rate of 0.11 per cent per cent, 7.81 per cent, 0.11 per cent and 0.23 per cent respectively in auto-selection mode (5G/4G/3G/2G) while a silence call rate of 0.16 per cent, 3.04 per cent, 0.48 per cent and 0.47 per cent respectively in packet switched network (4G/5G). further, Airtel, BSNL, Jio and Vi had average MOS of 4.01, 3.18, 3.91 and 3.99 respectively.
Furthermore, the average download and upload speed of Airtel (5G/4G/2G) was 119.58 and 24.77 Mbps, BSNL (4G/3G/2G) was 1.45 and 3.13 Mbps, Jio (5G/4G) was 227.27 and 26.04 Mbps and Vi (4G/2G) was 24.40 and 9.49 Mbps respectively. The telcos’ 50th percentile latency stood at 34.40 ms, 87.50 ms, 22.10 ms and 30.45 ms respectively.
