Telcos set up joint monitoring centre with DoT amid rising hostilities

Telecom operators Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel, and Vodafone Idea have established a national-level monitoring centre to ensure uninterrupted services and disaster resilience amid increasing hostilities with Pakistan, telco officials said. The decision was taken at a meeting with the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on Wednesday, they added.

Operational since Thursday, the joint centre is providing a critical real-time communication link between the DoT, Ministry of Home Affairs, and telecom operators. “It was asked to be operationalised with immediate effect and manned 24×7. The operators have acted accordingly. All measures in line with disaster management guidelines have been implemented,” a telco official said.