Trai chairman RS Sharma has said that the industry has presented a need for data protection framework under which apps should be regulated. He furthered his statement by saying that Aadhaar is an exemplary service for this framework since there is a limit on how much data access is allowed for Aadhaar. On similar lines, there should be a limit on how much data these apps are allowed to take... Read More
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) often referred as the watchdog of the industry has taken stringent action by fining the big telcos like Reliance Jio, Idea Cellular, Vodafone India and Bharti Airtel for not adhering to the norms of quality of service. The fine levied on these telecom operators is applicable for the breaching of quality benchmarks in the December 2017 quarter. The Mukesh Ambani-led telco, Reliance Jio,... Read More
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) speed test report for the month of May 2018 has revealed that Reliance Jio is the leader in download speeds by averaging 19 Mbps in the said tests, while the Kumar Mangalam Birla-led telco Idea Cellular is ahead in terms of average upload speed in the country. It came as a surprise that Reliance Jio’s average download speed came out to be more than... Read More
Reliance Jio has added a whopping 9.6 million subscribers during the month of April 2018, which takes the overall subscriber base of the telco to 196.2 million and is inching towards the 200 million subscriber base. During the same period, Idea Cellular has added 5.5 million new subscribers, followed by Bharti Airtel with 4.5 million new additions. State-run PSU, BSNL added over seven lakh new customers during the same period,... Read More
All the major telecom operators in the country have crowded around Trai to request the watchdog from preventing unlicensed entities to develop public Wi-Fi hotspots in cities. The operators have cited that such a move on the regulator’s behalf will be illegal. Trai, in March last year had recommended the telecommunications department that a new category of public data office aggregators would give a boost to India’s broadband infrastructure by... Read More
The National Digital Communications Policy 2018, which was proposed in the first week of May is now expected to receive cabinet approval by the end of July. The telecom policy is expected to be in place by July 2018 said Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha. "By July-end I am hopeful that the Cabinet approval will come for the National Digital Communications Policy," Sinha told reporters here. Sinha spoke to reporters at... Read More
The telecom industry is now expecting rules which will require the handset vendors in India to dismiss apps that do not grant the ability to customers to control what calls and messages they receive. To request reconsideration on the existing regulation regarding this, Indian handset vendors have asked the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) to take some action. The Indian Cellular Association (ICA) flagged the section 34 of the... Read More
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has rejected DoT’s recommendations regarding In-flight communication. The regulator is of the mindset that only international satellites and gateways should be used for the provision of services. To carry forward the plan of launching IFC (In-flight Connectivity) on domestic flights, and on international flights which go through India, DoT officials are going to meet Aviation secretary within a week. As per reports, the... Read More
Trai has long been in a tussle with the Cupertino based phone manufacturer Apple for including a clause which requires the phone manufacturers to grant the access to call logs, SMS and other related data to the DND app, which will be used to stop pesky calls. In this new turn of event, Trai has made the clause mandatory. In a Corrigendum drafted on May 30, Trai said: "Every access... Read More
Trai, in an attempt to promote transparency in the Indian telecom sector, has said that it would put tariff plans of all incumbent service providers on a unified digital platform across 22 licensed service areas (LSA) by year-end. It is the regulator’s view that coming under the eyes of the public will further propel the telcos towards more transparency. Trai Chairman, RS Sharma presented his insight on the plan “Putting... Read More
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has now come up with its own portal to display the network coverage of telecom operators in a particular region. This move comes after the unveiling of tariff plans portal and the network coverage portal is a much-delayed one from the sector regulator. The portal can be accessed at www.coveragemap.trai.gov.in currently is in beta stage as the regular is still in the phase... Read More
In a new update, it has surfaced that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is finally resorting to Blockchain technology to ‘curb the menace’ of pesky calls and SMS. The regulatory authority even issued an official statement saying "unsolicited commercial communication, or spam, is a major nuisance to telecom subscribers", and to stop this Trai established a "Do Not Disturb" (DND) registry under regulations made in 2010. As per... Read More
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