The document reports on network issues across several regions in Uganda, including Iganga, Mbale, Soroti, Lira, and Gulu. Actions were taken to address issues such as network availability, call quality, blocking, and congestion. Updates provided indicate improvements in network stability and availability for most regions after implementing corrective actions such as increasing capacity, changing configurations, adding new equipment, and ongoing troubleshooting and optimization efforts. However, some issues remain open or ongoing.
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The document reports on network issues across several regions in Uganda, including Iganga, Mbale, Soroti, Lira, and Gulu. Actions were taken to address issues such as network availability, call quality, blocking, and congestion. Updates provided indicate improvements in network stability and availability for most regions after implementing corrective actions such as increasing capacity, changing configurations, adding new equipment, and ongoing troubleshooting and optimization efforts. However, some issues remain open or ongoing.
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1 Iganga N/W busy after 1800hrs KPI to be shared 2 Iganga 6th Sep (Sat) NW was completely down Og detail to be shared with corrective actions to be taken 3 Iganga N/W is down 3 to 4 days in a week Og detail to be shared with corrective actions to be taken 4 Iganga Many Problems in Airtel Money - double transactions etc 5 Iganga 3G speed is Ok but NW not stable Og detail to be shared with corrective actions to be taken 6 Iganga In 3G data consumes very fast 7 Mbale Mostly on Sat / Sun NW is not there Og detail to be shared with corrective actions to be taken 8 Mbale Call set up has issues - need to dial 3/4 times for a call Blocking KPI's to be shared 9 Mbale Many Call drops even when both parties are stationary DCR to be shared for Mbale sites 10 Mbale Silent Calls CSR followup required 11 Mbale Many locations 3G is off e.g Kamuli Og detail to be shared with corrective actions to be taken 12 Mbale Nasuti is suppose to serve big town but not optimized ( 3Km from town) Optimization team visit required 13 Mbale SMS can not go in one go To be shared with Comviva for further investigation 17 Mbale NW completely off on 4 / 6 /8 Sept (Thursday / Sat / Mon) Og detail to be shared with corrective actions to be taken 18 Mbale People unable to load airtime ( external aplication down) 19 Mbale Call to call centre needs 3/4 attempts 20 Mbale Branding not done 21 Mbale Mob phones are costly than other competitors 22 Mbale Batterys and phone gets faulty very often 23 Mbale Airtel sells there phones at 45K whereas completitor sells same phone @ 30K 24 Mbale Many Problems with Airtel money platform - Money doesn't go ; message doesn't go ; Promotion 25 Mbale KYC Process is not clear 26 Mbale Advertisement to be done on radio station 27 Mbale Mbale resort 3G-2G ping pong 28 Kumi NW is bad during 1800 hrs till 2300 hrs KPI to be shared 29 Kumi No NW when power goes off Og detail to be shared with corrective actions to be taken 30 Soroti Cracking voice (B party was moving) Capacity expansion details to be shared 31 Soroti Call set up has issues - need to dial 3/4 times for a call 32 Soroti Katakwe / Amuria has echoe. Issue in 1st call - second call is OK TBI 33 Soroti Kateta region need site ( MTN doing 9mill business) 34 Soroti Problem in Airtel money on sat / sun. ( message comes later) 35 Soroti Triri trading centre - site needed - 4 mill business will grow to 8 mill 36 Soroti Obalanga / Abirela need sites 37 Soroti Arapo need site (transmission repeater as of now) 38 Soroti Initially coverage was there but after Soroti main was sw off there is no coverage 39 Lira Call Drops KPI to be shared 40 Lira Call Quality KPI to be shared 41 Lira Silent Calls CSR followup required 42 Lira Call set up has issues - need to dial 3/4 times for a call KPI to be shared 43 Lira Chawente - people have relocated. Need to shift site 44 Lira Namakora - site access issue to be resolved 45 Gullu Lachor tower ht issues - hence no coverage in barracks 46 Gullu Kamdini site need to be shifted 47 Gullu Oul Atiak 5min outage to be resolved To be taken up with EATON for site batteries 48 Gullu Border issue - customer being charged roaming in No man land whereas competitor dont charge roaming Updates (Sep 29) Update (Oct 21) * KPI analysis for all 4 Iganga sites done and no blocking seen on the KPIs except for Walgogo sector 1 had high SDCCH drops * No internal alarms on any of the 4 sites * Drive Test team did a lengthy drive in Iganga and observed blocking on kasokoso (all three sectors) and walgogo (sector 1) * SDCCH capacity has been increased for kasokoso site and is now under observation. * Configuration for switching onto half rate has been changed from 40% to 10% utilization * Identified congestion on A interface and 1 STM has been added. WIP to add 2nd STM (completion 30 Sep 1st half) after which traffic will be observed in busy hour. Iganga has shown considerable and sustained improvement. Also confirmed by Regional Sales Team * 2G Network Availability for Iganga on Sep 6 was 99.25% * 2G Network availability for Iganga for Sep 1 - 28 was 99.29% * 3G Network outage totalling to 2612 mins effecting 4 (3G) sites was reported on Sep 6. * After installation of some battery banks all 2G sites have been much more stable since Sep 22. * Iganga has shown considerable and sustained improvement. Also confirmed by Regional Sales Team. 2G Network availability for Iganga for last 10 days was 99.72% * Network availability of Iganaga has been stable and further improved since Sep 22. * Congestion issues in Iganaga on 2 sites have been worked upon and should so improvement from Sep 30. Under Observation and will be confirmed from ASM on ground. Iganga has shown considerable and sustained improvement. Also confirmed by Regional Sales Team * 3G on Iganaga_C earlier had availability issues but now improved and has been stable since Sep 14. Still under observation. Iganga has shown considerable and sustained improvement. Also confirmed by Regional Sales Team No specific network issues over the weekend. Network availability in Mbale 97.90%. WIP to further improve on this 2G Network availability for Mbale for last 10 days was 99.84%. These sites are under close observation Apart from ATC_IUIU Nkoma sector_A has TCH Blocking, the rest of KPIs look ok. Esclated to field team but appears the sector may need an upgrade. Discussing with all stake holders KPI's for all Mbale sites are attached. Drive test team is also in the region to verify. Various actions ongoing, Shared in a separate tracker (GETC TFO) fuction was deactivated on Huawei MGW after which improvement has been noticed. Still under observation Troubleshooting ongoing for kamuli site. Further updates to be shared by Sep 30 Last 10 days availability is 98.06%. However ZERO minutes of outage since October 17. Under observation Nasuti, team will be sent, but note the site is located in a poor area as the Nasuti TC is in a valley. Best optimization possible has been done. However the site is located in a poor area as the Nasuti TC is in a valley NW availability for 4/6/8 Sep was 100% for Mbale Mbale Resort indoor coverage not good and needs an idoor site. Mbale resort falls in null sector Availability of Kumi site for first two weeks of Sep was poor. After being worked upon the availability from Sep 14 - 28 has 99.25% Test calls in Soroti have reported no issues. The scenario reported could have possibly been one of issues where subscriber may have moved into poor coverage area SDCCH redimensioning has been done for entire network. Under observation Nothing picked up in various test calls. Testing continues. Troubleshooting ongoing for intermittent issues on BSC 10. Troubleshooting ongoing for intermittent issues on BSC 10. Various actions ongoing, Shared in a separate tracker SDCCH redimensioning has been done for entire network. Under observation 5-7 mins of daily outage due to lack of batteries still persists Zero minutes outage on site since Oct 18 Status Closed Closed Closed Open Closed ongoing ongoing ongoing D:\userdata\ saqrani\Desktop\M ongoing Closed ongoing Closed Closed Closed ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing ongoing Closed