New Delhi, May 16 -- Telecom regulator TRAI recently conducted independent drive tests across highways to assess the quality of service provided by cellular mobile telephone service providers for voice and data services.

The drive tests were conducted in March 2025.

In the voice services, the drive tests intended to assess call setup success rate, drop call rate (DCR), speech quality using MOS (mean opinion score), downlink and uplink packet (voice) drop rate, call silence rate, and coverage, according to data and report released by TRAI.

In the call setup success rate criteria, Jio and Vodafone were found to be efficient in most of those drive tests routes.

Jio stood out in the call setup time criteria in all drive test routes, meani...