Yesterday, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India released the speed test results of its MySpeed App for the month of May 2017. And guess what: for the fifth consecutive time, Reliance Jio came on top beating incumber operators such as Vodafone, Idea Cellular, and Bharti Airtel hands down. Every month, we publish this report of TRAI, but most of our readers outrage us saying that the results are inaccurate and some... Read More
Reliance Jio, the LTE-only network of India has emerged as the fastest network yet again for the month of May 2017. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released the speed test data conducted by over million users on the TRAI My Speed app, which says that Reliance Jio registered an average download speed of 18.809 Mbps in May 2017. Source: TRAI. Average Download Speed... Read More
The Department of Telecom (DoT) is reportedly looking to implement stricter rules to track a lost cell phone in the country. A report from PTI states that DoT is "working on rules to make tampering of IMEI number -- a unique 15-digit serial number of mobile devices -- a punishable offence with up to three years of imprisonment." With this move, the loss issues of cell phones in the country... Read More
The Cabinet’s appointment committee has appointed Aruna Sundararajan as the department of telecom’s (DoT) secretary. Sundararajan, who till now was serving as the secretary of IT and electronics, was recently given the additional charge of telecom secretary after power secretary PK Pujari’s tenure got over. The post of the telecom secretary was lying vacant following the posting of former telecom secretary JS Deepak to the WTO as India representative. According... Read More
India's top telecom operators have reportedly questioned the telecom regulator (TRAI) for delaying consultation on mobile network test rules. These telcos had last year alleged that Reliance Jio had bypassed regulations by offering full-fledged services under the guise of test services, which helped it gain quick subscribers in the country. The issue related to network testing rule was first brought to the regulator's notice last year, which had then flagged... Read More
India's incumbent telecom operators have urged the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to set a floor price for voice and data services. The request if accepted by the telecom regulator would put an end of free services for customers in India and would mean that telcos would need to get tariffs cleared by the regulator for various plans. The demand follows pressure on top telecom operators' revenue and profitability... Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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