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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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. … 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 … Read More
A new report has come up which informs that a top official said that Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) would not regulate the tariff which air passengers will pay for making calls and browsing the Internet in-air. Although, it won’t be the case for mobile phone operators, sector watchers … Read More
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is now seeking details of tariff plans offered by telcos across the country to make the data available on its comparison portal that was launched last month. Trai, last month, unveiled a beta portal for comparison that initially allowed users to compare the … Read More
The telecom regulator, Trai is planning a review of the charges that telcos pay each other for text messages, and possibly even consider discarding the charges, according to an ET report. The regulator will be issuing a consultation paper to seek stakeholder views on revising the interconnection usage charge (IUC) … Read More
Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) in a letter to Trai last week has asked the sector regulator not to levy penalty on telcos over minor issues. “We request that these nominal or marginal deviations from the prescribed benchmarks should be waived off and no financial disincentives should be imposed … Read More
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