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Sunday, June 21, 2009

Re: [India_Vision_2020] How Indian telephony users perceive? A snap survey report



Dear Mr Srinivasan,
 
Good survey & good findings on the perceptions of telephone users. My perception on the working of BSNL is found to be in line with that of several users. All regulatory authorities are teethless - be it telephones, electricity, media and even the ambitious Right to Information.
 
My mobile, my landline and my internet connection are all from BSNL. Inspite of difficulties, I am not able to dispense with them because I am bound by the brand loyalty.
 
Regards,

 

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On 6/21/09, Prime Point Srinivasan <prpoint@gmail.com> wrote:


dear friends

Watch the findings of the survey 

Prime Point Foundation and Corporate ezine PR-e-Sense conducted an online 'snap survey' during the second week of June 2009 to quickly understand the perception of various Indian telephony users. The survey coverred landline, mobile, broadband and DTH/Cable TV services. The survey findings were presented by K. Srinivasan, Chairman, Prime Point Foundation on 20th June 2009 in a Seminar organised by Consumers Association of India (CAI) jointly with Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).

1. Generally, the BSNL users are critical of the quality of service (QOS) and customer care provided by BSNL. Generally consumers are more concered that BSNL is not giving tough competition to the private operators. This attitude of BSNL is not in the interest of the Nation.

2. Users from Private operators are critical of the customer care and lack of transparency in their tariff structure. Though TRAI has directed that all the operators should have a proper system in place for customer care and to provide 'escalation path' like call centre, nodal officer, appelate authority, etc. I found that they are more in paper.  In some of the sites, it is difficult to get the numbers of the nodal officers. In many cases, the numbers will not be picked up anybody.

3.  All the mobile users complain about unwanted marketing calls/SMS advts.  Nearly three-fourth of the mobile users who have registered under 'Do not call registry' are getting marketing calls. 

In the Seminar, TRAI was represented by Mr Mathew Palamattam, Deputy Advisor. Airtel, Aircel, Vodofone, BSNL were represented by their middle level Officers. Tata Indicom and Reliance did not send any representative.

From the various deliberations, I observed that TRAI does not have enough 'teeth' or 'powers' to punish/penalise the erring operators. I understand that TRAI has powers only to announce rules and regulations. When the operators do not care for such rules, possibly, TRAI also will join the consumers only to 'weep'. They cannot do anything more. Only Government can explain as to why they keep TRAI 'teethless'.

The recorded version of my presentation in the Seminar is given in the following link.


Srinivasan
Prime Point
94440 50273




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