Abstract

The increasing rate of call-drop among wireless cellular networks has become a headache for subscribers of mobile voice networks in Ghana. Despite the many studies that have been carried out on call-drop, most of them have failed to examine call-drop probability rates, a key metric of tackling the issue of call-drop. This study combines the probability distribution function of call-drop and maximum likelihood estimator to estimate call-drop probability rates among the wireless cellular networks in Ghana. The call-drop of the networks was, first of all, fitted to a probability distribution. The call-drop probability rate was then estimated using the maximum likelihood estimator of the fitted distribution. The call-drop probability distribution of Airtel-Tigo, Vodafone, and Glo follow the Geometric probability distribution, while that of MNT follows the Negative Binomial probability distribution. The call-drop probability rate of MTN is 7.6%, Vodafone is 3.3%, Airtel-Tigo, and Glo is 3.0%. These call-drop rates are found to be outside the prescribed NCA's acceptable limit of less than 3 %.

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