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Tanay Singh Thakur

TRAI Says Zero Charge for SMS Broadcast During Disasters

TRAI Says Zero Charge for SMS Broadcast During Disasters

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has decided that there would be no charge for the SMS/messages broadcasted through the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) during the time of disasters. On Tuesday, the regulatory body issued Telecom Tariff (69th amendment) order 2022 on Tariff for SMS and cell Broadcast alerts … Read More

Bhavya Singh

DIPA Pushes for Active Sharing of Telecom Infrastructure

DIPA Pushes for Active Sharing of Telecom Infrastructure

Expanding the scope of IP-1 without any licencing is the only way to go in order to attract the desired investments into the sector, according to the Digital Infrastructure Providers Association. Telecom is a very capital-intensive industry, and the roll-out of new technologies like 5G, M2M/IoT, Edge Data Centers, and … Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur

TRAI to Conduct Consumer Survey on Tariffs

TRAI to Conduct Consumer Survey on Tariffs

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) will soon conduct a survey on tariffs for wireline and wireless subscribers in India. The survey will be conducted both in online as well as offline mode during September 2022. TRAI has chosen the M/s Academy of Management Studies (AMS), a survey agency … Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur

TRAI Conducted Drive Tests in 12 Cities for Checking Performance of Mobile Networks

TRAI Conducted Drive Tests in 12 Cities for Checking Performance of Mobile Networks

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has conducted drive tests in 12 cities and surrounding areas of those cities. TRAI included the following destinations in its test – Sangli, Tumkur, Rajkot, Nellore, Salem, Visakhapatnam, Udaipur, Indore, Kanpur, Meghalaya, Dehradun, and Gopalganj. The regulatory body also included two highways – … Read More

Palak Sharma

TRAI in-house Study Centre to Keep India Up to Mark with Innovative and New Tech

TRAI in-house Study Centre to Keep India Up to Mark with Innovative and New Tech

To support proactive research activities into emerging and developing technologies that are anticipated to further disrupt the telecommunications and broadcasting industries, the Indian telecom regulatory authority (TRAI) has established an internal study centre. A senior TRAI official told ET Telecom that the regulatory body has formed a study centre which … Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur

TRAI to Leverage AI for Curbing Cybercrime and SIM Frauds

TRAI to Leverage AI for Curbing Cybercrime and SIM Frauds

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is looking to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) for curbing cybercrime and SIM frauds. India allows consumers to hold up to 9 SIM cards under their name. This gives fraudsters room for taking multiple SIM cards and then utilising them for fraud. (Note that … Read More

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