Location Based Service System

Mobile Telecom Service Providers have been asked through license amendment dated 31.05.2011 to provide location accuracies as per the following stipulations : 

The Licensee shall provide location details of mobile customers in the License service area as per below  mentioned  time frame from the date of issue of this amendment  and accuracy.  It should be a part of CDR in the form of longitude and latitude, 

Location Details :

·         The Licensee shall provide location details of mobile customers in the License service area as per below  mentioned  time frame from the date of issue of this amendment  and accuracy.  It should be a part of CDR in the form of longitude and latitude, besides the co-ordinate of the cell sites, which is already one of the mandated fields of CDR.

Accuracy in Percentage
Distance in Meters	Urban (More than 1 million mobiles in a municipal limit)		Sub – Urban & Rural			Remote
	1 year	2 years	1 year*	2 years	3 years	2 years	3 years
50	30	50
100	60	75		50	60		-
300	80	95	50	60	70	50	60
500			60	70	80	60	70

 *Applicable for the state of J&K, Assam and NE region.

·         To start with these details will be provided for specified mobile numbers.  However, within a period of 3 years location details shall be part of CDR for all mobile calls. 

Note 1: Depending upon the technological development the limits of accuracy could be modified any time in future.

The service providers are at various stages of implementing the mandated accuracies. However, no service provider has been able to complete the work and send final compliance.

Mobile Service Providers had asked for certain clarifications, which have been provided to them. Telecom service providers have been raising the issue of financing the implementation of these. However, it has been indicated that the system has to be implemented by TSPs at their cost. They have also raised the question of implementability of the stipulated accuracy levels. Information regarding whether they have raised any issues with TRAI is being collected.

The issue is being examined by TEC, the technical arm of the department. Suitable decision will be taken after the receipt of the report from TEC.

This was stated by Shri Milind Deora, the minister of State in the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology in response to a question in Lok Sabha today.