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June 14th, 2017 4:23 PM 12 COMMENTS

TRAI Received 4.96 Million MNP Requests in April 2017

The Telecom Regulator Authority of India (TRAI) has released the data for the month of April 2017. According to the data, the newcomer Reliance Jio has added just 3.9 million subscribers in the month of April, which is the company's lowest monthly addition since the commercial roll out of 4G services in September 2016. Besides the overall subscriber data, the regulator also released the total Mobile Number Portability (MNP) requests... Read More

June 6th, 2017 3:50 PM 4 COMMENTS

TRAI Advices Telecom Operators to Launch At Least One Data Pack With Validity for One Year: Report

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) yesterday officially announced a new app called 'MyCall' application for monitoring the call quality directly from the users. At the same time, the regulator has urged Indian telecom operators to launch at least one data with a long validity of 365 days (one year). According to a report by Business Standard, TRAI has advised the operators to launch at least one data pack... Read More

June 5th, 2017 4:31 PM 7 COMMENTS

Idea Cellular and Vodafone India Lead the List of Average Upload Speeds in April 2017: TRAI

Yesterday, we reported that the newcomer Reliance Jio is India's leading telecom operator in the average download speed with speed touching 19.12 Mbps in April 2017. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released the data recently. In the upload speed department, Reliance Jio is not the leading operator. Idea Cellular, the country's third largest telecom operator with pan-India broadband footprint, has the highest average upload speed of 8.459... Read More

June 1st, 2017 3:55 PM 6 COMMENTS

TRAI Working With Telcos to Enable Customers Check Data Speeds for Free Via New URL: Report

In a move aimed at empowering customers and battle the low-speed issue, the telecom regulator, Trai, is said to be working with telecom operators to figure out a way for customers to check their data speeds at no extra cost and share the findings with the regulator. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) chairman RS Sharma told Financial Express that the authority would soon ask Indian telecom operators to... Read More

May 1st, 2017 8:26 PM 6 COMMENTS

TRAI Starts a New Process to Frame Rules for Network Testing Before Commercial Launch

Reliance Jio’s free services for six long months has forced Telecom Regulatory Authority of India to implement a new paper on network testing ahead of the operator’s commercial launch of services. The consultation paper from TRAI is due to the criticism faced by telecom regulator when Jio came out with two promotional offers for 90 days. Reliance Jio became paid just a couple of weeks ago, but before that the... Read More

April 3rd, 2017 7:04 PM 74 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio With 16.48 Mbps Average Download Speed Leads in February 2017: TRAI Speed Test Results

Reliance Jio has pipped incumbent telecom operators—Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular—in terms of 4G download speeds in the month of February at 16.48 Mbps, which however declined marginally from 17.42 Mbps in January. The fresh data assumes great importance amid the ongoing battle between Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel over the latter’s TVC based on Ookla findings terming it India’s fastest 4G network of 2016. Recently, ASCI, which the... Read More

March 28th, 2017 10:57 AM 68 COMMENTS

Indian GSM Telcos Say MediaTek Chipset Powered Smartphones Slow Down Network Quality

Indian GSM telecom operators through their industry body the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) have informed the telecom regulator that 4G smartphones running on Taiwan-based MediaTek chipsets slow down network quality. In a letter to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the COAI cited a recent test conducted by individual telecom operators to come to this conclusion about MediaTek chipsets. The industry body, which represents Bharti Airtel, Vodafone,... Read More

March 10th, 2017 3:48 PM 1 COMMENTS

Broadband India Forum’s President TV Ramachandran Bats In Favor Of TRAI’s Recommendations for Public Wi-Fi

Just after a day of TRAI's recommendation on ‘Proliferation of Broadband through Public Wi-Fi,' the Broadband India Forum President, Mr T.V Ramachandran praised the recommendations of the regulator by calling it as a huge step towards expediting the availability of affordable and accessible broadband everywhere and to achieve the vision of  Digital India. He said, and he hoped that the Department of Telecom would provide their first consent to these recommendations and pave... Read More

March 6th, 2017 9:07 PM 153 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Rose to Top Again With Average Monthly Data Speeds of 17.5 Mbps in JAN

After losing the place to Bharti Airtel in the data speeds space in the month of January, Reliance Jio has risen to top again with insane average download speeds of 17.427 Mbps in the month of February. Bharti Airtel last month topped the chart with download speeds of 11.862 Mbps, but the operator's data speeds have decreased to 11.254 Mbps in February, according to tests conducted in TRAI's Myspeed app.... Read More

February 23rd, 2017 7:22 PM 69 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio’s Free Services Led to Rs 685 Crore Losses to Govt, TC Pulls Up TRAI

Telecom Commission (TC), the inter-ministerial panel has pulled up the telecom regulator Trai for jeopardising the health of the sector by allowing Reliance Jio’s free offers to continue beyond the stipulated time. According to various media reports, Reliance Jio’s free services have cost the government Rs 685 crore. The Indian government collects license fees and spectrum usage charges from telcos, calculated by their revenue. Jio’s free offers have led to... Read More

February 9th, 2017 1:57 PM 9 COMMENTS

PoI dispute between Jio and Airtel is a serious consumer issue, says TRAI Chairman: Report

In the latest development, the Chairman of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) R. S. Sharma said that the points-of-interconnect (PoI) issue, surfacing between Reliance Jio and incumbent operators, is a “consumer issue” and the regulator will continue to monitor it. “We have been deliberating on this issue...It is not an issue of (operator) A versus B. It is an issue of consumers,” TRAI Chairman R. S. Sharma said during... Read More

December 23rd, 2016 3:32 PM 20 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio PoI issue: Delhi HC denies to stay TRAI’s Rs. 1050 crore penalty imposed on Vodafone: Report

Bringing a setback to Vodafone, the Delhi High Court refused to stay the TRAI’s penalty of Rs. 1050 crores on Vodafone for allegedly denying Points-of-Interconnect (PoIs) to Reliance Jio, reports Economic Times (ET). The Court has also issued notice to the Department of Telecom (DoT) to make it a party to the case. In the backdrop of the complaint filed by Reliance Jio against the incumbent operators, TRAI sent a... Read More

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