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April 20th, 2015 7:15 AM 3 COMMENTS

Make Wireless Planning and Coordination an independent body, says TRAI in its recommendations to improve broadband delivery

TRAI has released recommendations to better the current stature of broadband delivery in the country. The recommendations are based on the responses it received from the stakeholders for its consultation paper, which was published on 24th September 2014. An open house discussion too was held on this regard. According to the paper, India exhibits a really slow penetration of broadband, with only 1.2 per 100 inhabitants having access to fixed... Read More

April 16th, 2015 12:00 PM 0 COMMENTS

Jio and COAI divided on new interconnect charges enforced by TRAI

Reliance Jio which is yet to launch its commercial services is a member of the cellular operators association of India (COAI). The decisions of the COAI are greatly influenced by those of the incumbent operators Airtel, Vodafone and Idea cellular which have a major share of active cellular subscribers. Recently TRAI had reduced the interconnect charges that the operator on whose network the call originates pays the operator on whose... Read More

April 10th, 2015 8:00 PM 6 COMMENTS

TRAI releases telecom subscription data, Airtel continues to lead the market as of FEB 2015

TRAI has released the telecom subscription data as of 28th Feb 2015. Total wireless subscriber base increased from 952.34 million at the end of Jan-15 to 960.58 million at the end of Feb-15, thereby registering a monthly growth rate of 0.86%. The Wireless subscription in urban areas increased from 553.45 million at the end of Jan-15 to 557.27 million at the end of Feb-15 and wireless subscription in rural areas increased... Read More

April 10th, 2015 12:36 AM 0 COMMENTS

TRAI responds to DOT’s reference on priority call routing during emergencies and disasters

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India wrote a recommendation letter to Department of Telecommunication (DoT) stating the failure of the network during the network disaster on November 26, 2013. Immediately after the receipt of this letter, the DoT constituted a committee and ordered the examination of these recommendations suggested by TRAI. After putting in extra-ordinary efforts to look after all the possible points, it forwarded the report to the Committee on... Read More

April 9th, 2015 7:48 PM 21 COMMENTS

TRAI mandates the telcos to reduce ceiling tariffs in roaming, new tariffs will benefit the customers

The roaming call charges will cost your pockets less from May 1st, as soon as the telecom operators comply with the latest regulation of TRAI. The regulator has ordered the service providers to cut the ceiling tariffs (maximum rates that telecoms can charge for incoming calls on national roaming) for national roaming calls and text messages, effective from May 1st. It has also asked the operators to come up with... Read More

April 8th, 2015 7:09 PM 20 COMMENTS

TRAI to set new recommendations to enhance internet speed from 512 Kbps to 2Mbps soon

The dream of Indians to get faster internet seems to be a step closer, with TRAI planning to frame recommendations to enhance broadband speed from minimum 512 kbps to up to 2 Mbps. The announcement came soon after TRAI made it mandatory for the wirelines to offer a minimum download speed of 512 Kbps as broadband. For wireline services, TRAI has planned to improve the optical fibre cable penetration in... Read More

April 7th, 2015 11:41 PM 4 COMMENTS

TRAI recommends single number based ‘Integrated emergency communication & response system (IECRS)’

TRAI has today given its recommendations for establishing '112' as a single number that can be dialled in case of any of emergency situation, similar to 911 being used in USA. These recommendations have been finalized after wider consultations with the stakeholders. The Authority had issued a Consultation Paper titled 'Universal Single Number based Integrated Emergency Communication & Response System' dated 15th March 2013 for seeking comments of stakeholders. Since State Governments are major stakeholders... Read More

April 7th, 2015 6:20 PM 1 COMMENTS

TRAI annual report 2013-14 : Broadcasting Sector, increased FDI limit and Interoperability soon to be reality

The broadcasting sector consists of Television and Radio Services. India has the world’s third largest TV market after China and USA. As per industry estimates, as on March 2014, of the 2701 million households, around 1691 million have Television sets which are being served by cable TV systems, DTH services, IPTV services and the terrestrial TV network of Doordarshan. The pay TV universe consists of around 991 million Cable TV... Read More

April 7th, 2015 11:10 AM 0 COMMENTS

TRAI annual report 2013-14 : Telecom Sector, TRAI rooting for financial inclusion of rural India

The Telecom Sector witnessed substantial growth in the number of subscribers during the year 2013-14. At the end of the financial year, the subscriber base was 933.00 million, out of which 904.51 million were wireless subscribers. During the year, wireless subscriber base recorded an increase of 36.71 million while the overall teledensity increased from 73.32 to 75.23. The year also saw an increase in rural teledensity from 41.02 to 43.96 while the... Read More

March 21st, 2015 1:09 PM 13 COMMENTS

Aircel, Vodafone and BSNL fail to meet QoS for call drops in few circles

3 telecom operators namely Aircel, Vodafone and PSU BSNL were reported as failing to meet quality of services benchmark set by DOT with regards to call drops as Economic times reported today. The performance on call drop is accessed through quality of service (QoS) parameters like call drop rate/circuit switch voice drop rate for which benchmark is less than or equal to 2 per cent. For worst affected cells having over 3... Read More

March 13th, 2015 4:42 PM 13 COMMENTS

Incumbents urge TRAI to reconsider proposal for lowering roaming ceiling tariffs

Telecom operators like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India, Idea cellular and Aircel have reportedly sent an application to Telecom regulatory authority of India for reconsidering its proposal to reduce the ceiling tariffs for voice calls and SMS in roaming which are applicable in the absence of any roaming tariff voucher. Earlier we had reported how TRAI had proposed to reduce these tariffs . If the new guidelines are passed outgoing local... Read More

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