India's telecom regulator TRAI today said that the next 3G spectrum in 2100 Mhz band be auctioned by June 2014 and should be made available immediately after the new government takes charge. TRAI Chairman Rahul Khullar said "you should be planning now what you are going to do in next 3-4 years from now. One is get 2100 Mhz out by June, 2014 and the moment the new government takes... Read More
India's telecom regulator TRAI has finalized its recommendations on the ‘Working Guidelines on Spectrum Trading’ which allowing outright transfer of spectrum by telecom companies to other operators, but has suggested a bar on its leasing for now. As per the recommendations by TRAI, telecom operators holding spectrum across services - 2G, 3G, 4G (BWA) and CDMA, should be allowed to trade the radio-waves. Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said in... Read More
India's telecom regulator TRAI issued an guideline, making it mandatory for every Broadband service provider ( Wireline - ISPs) to offer minimum download speed 512 Kbps as "broadband' and reports the number of broadband subscribers in accordance with the revised definition i.e. greater than 512 Kbps. Earlier The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) issued a Notification on revising the definition of Broadband as ‘Broadband is a data / Internet connection that... Read More
In a bid to promote use of Mobile Banking Services across India, TRAI has come out with new Guidelines and Tariff on Unstructured Supplementary Service Data known as USSD -based mobile banking services. Telecom regulator TRAI has prescribed that ceiling tariff for an outgoing USSD-based mobile banking service shall be Rs.1.50 per USSD session. All mobile service providers should facilitate not only the banks, but also the authorized agents of... Read More
India's single largest Duel technology mobile service provider (GSM and CDMA), Reliance Communications (Rcom) has de-activated around 10 million in-active, low-end mobile subscribers at the end of September. According to telecom regulator TRAI's data, Reliance Communications (Rcom) purged approx 8% of its GSM and CDMA subscriber base in the month of September, 2013. With this clean-up move, Rcom lost its third position in the Indian mobile - telecom market to... Read More
India's telecom regulator TRAI today said that complaints of false activation of Value Added Services (VAS) have declined after tightens norms and following measures undertaken by it in last few months. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today issues VAS complaints data shows that in July 2013, the total number of VAS complaints were down to 1,85,468 as compared to 2,59,476 in June,2013. Earlier TRAI stringent guidelines for activation... Read More
In a bid to curb pesky calls from telemarketers, Indian Telecom regulator TRAI issued new rules include a fine of Rs.5000 for each complaint on a telecom operator if found that the unsolicited commercial call (UCC) or SMS was made by unregistered telemarketers using its network. TRAI also said that the basic phone or Wireless / Mobile connections of Banks, Insurance firms and Realty players will be disconnected if rules... Read More
Mobile customers of Uninor, MTS India, Videocon and some others operators whose licenses were canceled by Supreme Court on February 2, 2012 in many circles and they failed to get fresh spectrum for respective circles, will no longer be able to port out from closed networks by opting Mobile Number Portability. India's telecom watchdog Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has issued directive to all existing mobile service providers to... Read More
India’s leading mobile service provider Bharti airtel, Vodafone, Tata Docomo (Tata Teleservices) and Reliance Communications (Rcom) are once again on top when it comes to their Mobile Service users complaints related to Billing, tariff issues and activation of chargeable VAS without explicit consent of the customer. According to the information given by Minister of State for Communication and IT. Mr. Milind Deora "During the financial year 2012-13 up to January,... Read More
India's Telecom regulator TRAI today released a Regulation on ‘Deactivation of Cellular Mobile Telephone Connections due to Non-usage’ where in it said that inactive prepaid mobile connections cannot be deactivated if they have a minimum balance of Rs.20 in their account and the time period for considering 'inactive' has been set at 90 days. TRaid said that at present, there is lack of transparency in carrying out such disconnections of... Read More
India's mobile subscriber base (GSM and CDMA) decreased from 908.36 million in August 2012 to 906.62 million at the end of September 2012, registering a monthly negative growth of -0.19%. Aircel and BSNL emerged as market leaders in new subscribers addition during the month amid the declining trend of mobile subscriber base of all GSM biggies like Airtel Vodafone and Idea. This the th 3rd consecutive month where as decline... Read More
Now, there seems to be bad news for all the SMS fans or Heavy SMS Users! Indian Telecom regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) today issue new regulation for SMS service and the limit of per day per SIM at concessional rates has been reduced to hundred SMS (100 SMS) per day per SIM for prepaid users to curb the unsolicited SMSes. TRAI has prescribed a tariff of... Read More
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