According to data released by TRAI about telecom subscriber base in India at the end of July 2016, Wireline subscriber base declined from 24.74 million at the end of June 16 to 24.62 million at the end of July 16. Net reduction in the wireline subscriber base was 0.13 million at the monthly decline rate of 0.51%. The share of urban and rural subscribers in total wireline subscribers were 83.74%... Read More
The total mobile subscriber base in the country has declined marginally to 103.42 crore at the end of July this year from 103.51 crore in June, primarily due to operators like Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices losing CDMA subscribers. According to latest subscription data shared by TRAI, overall telecom operators lost 0.88 million mobile subscribers during the month. State run BSNL added 1.1 million new users, followed by Bharti Airtel... Read More
According to data released by TRAI about telecom subscriber base in India at the end of June 2016, Wireline subscriber base declined from 24.88 million at the end of May 16 to 24.74 million at the end of Jun 16. Net reduction in the wireline subscriber base was 0.13 million at the monthly decline rate of 0.52%. The share of urban and rural subscribers in total wireline subscribers were 83.51% and... Read More
The total mobile subscriber base in the country has marginally grown to 1.035 billion, with Bharti Airtel leading the GSM subscriber addition for the month of June 2016. According to latest subscription data shared by TRAI, overall 1.36 million new mobile subscribers were added during the month. Top operator Bharti Airtel added 1.4 million new users, followed by BSNL (1.3 million) and Vodafone (0.70 million users) in the month. Idea Cellular... Read More
Indian telecom regulator, Trai, has come out with its recommendations of the upcoming spectrum auction, which is likely to take place around May-June this year. It has given its recommendations on spectrum price for seven bands, including 700 MHz, 800 MHz, and 2500 MHz. The regulator, for the very first time, has suggested auction of the super premium 700 MHz band, which is most suitable for 4G services. It has... Read More
Reliance Communications (RCom) has been asked by the telecom regulator Trai to suspend Facebook's Free Basics services on its network till it submits the terms and conditions of the services, including tariff plans, according to media reports. "Trai has today (Wednesday) again written to RCom to submit details of the plans, and asked it not to commercially offer the services till the regulator clears it, especially as there is a... Read More
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has issued a new paper which questions the differential data pricing for content services, bringing to the fore the Net Neutrality debate once again. Although, the paper seeks fresh comments on data pricing but does not mention the term net neutrality. TRAI’s consultation paper titled, “Consultation Paper on Differential Pricing for Data Services,” focuses on the zero-rating platforms which are being offered by... Read More
GSM telecom service providers have asked Trai to retain the current band-wise spectrum caps. They have also urged Trai not to pursue its proposal to count all frequencies under 1 GHz as one frequency for calculating the 50% cap on spectrum holding in a band, according to media reports. COAI, the GSM lobby body, said that such a move will lead to spectrum concentration in a specific band with a... Read More
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), the telecom regulator, may float a consultation paper by the end of this month to ascertain the reserve price of spectrum across different bands that the government is planning to auction next year, ET reported. In the upcoming spectrum auction, the government may look at selling airwaves in the 2G, 3G and 4G bands, apart from the bandwidth left unsold from the previous sale.... Read More
Telecom regulator Trai has overturned telecom operators’ demand to withdraw an order of compensating the customers for up to three call drops, as a result, the telcos are most likely will pass on the burden to the customers now in the form of rise in mobile tariffs. GSM lobby group COAI and the association for CDMA operators AUSPI had written to Trai on October 27 to withdraw its regulations on... Read More
In a letter to finance minister Arun Jaitley, a copy of which was also marked to the Prime Minister's Office and telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, COAI and AUSPI said the government should make modifications in the spectrum trading norms — which are being finalized — so that dual taxes can be avoided. As reported by Economic Times. "It is understood... that the proposed spectrum trading guidelines have a provision... Read More
TRAI has released telecom subscriber data for the month of May 2015. The total telecom subscriber base was at 1002.05 million and overall tele-density was at 79.67% at the end of May 2015. In the month, total of 2.34 million new subscribers were added generating a monthly growth rate of 0.23%. Wireless subscriber witnessed net addition of 2.44 million subscribers out of which 2.38 million were from rural and just 0.05 million subscribers from urban.... Read More
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