{"id":1012361,"date":"2026-06-05T08:06:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T02:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012361"},"modified":"2026-06-05T08:22:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T02:52:26","slug":"nearly-80-smartphone-users-experience-call-drops-on-highways-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/05\/nearly-80-smartphone-users-experience-call-drops-on-highways-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 80% smartphone users experience call drops on highways: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Nearly eight in 10 smartphone users, or 79% of users, experience call drops or connectivity interruptions while travelling on Indian highways, a report said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The report from CyberMedia Research (CMR) said the survey of 2,000 smartphone users aged 18-35 across New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Kolkata found disruptions are impacting working professionals both financially and emotionally. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;India has made real progress in expanding mobile coverage, yet consistent connectivity remains a challenge in everyday environments &#8211; highways, metros, and indoor low\u2011signal zones,&#8221; said Prabhu Ram, VP &#8211; Industry Research Group, CMR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Nearly eight in 10 smartphone users, or 79% of users, experience call drops or connectivity interruptions while travelling on Indian highways, a report said on Thursday. The report from CyberMedia Research (CMR) said the survey of 2,000 smartphone users aged 18-35 across New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Kolkata found disruptions are impacting working professionals both financially and emotionally. &#8220;India has made real progress in expanding mobile coverage, yet consistent connectivity remains a challenge in everyday environments &#8211; highways, metros, and indoor low\u2011signal zones,&#8221; said Prabhu Ram, VP &#8211; Industry Research Group, CMR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012362,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012361\/revisions\/1012362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}