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Tanay Singh Thakur February 6th, 2021 1:36 PM 1 COMMENTS

Trai Announces New Recommendations for Regulation of Platform Services

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has recently announced that all the platform services provided by Direct-to-Home (DTH) operators, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), or Multiple System Operators (MSOs) shall be exclusive to their platforms and should not be shared with any other distribution platform operator (DPO) directly or indirectly. If the platform service is shared with a DPO, Trai or the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) reserve the... Read More

Chakri K January 28th, 2021 9:29 PM 6 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Again Outperforms Jio by Adding 4.3 Million Users in November: Trai

As per data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), Bharti Airtel, which announced earlier today that it had tested 5G in India, in a commercial manner had gained more mobile users, or subscribers, in comparison to the market leader, Jio, for the fourth consecutive month in November. This is a sign of users shifting from Vi and migrating to Airtel, which is poor news for VI, which... Read More

Chakri K January 21st, 2021 11:26 PM 2 COMMENTS

Tata Sky Market Share Increased to 32.58%, Dish TV Further Dips to 27%

Tata Sky has extended its lead at the top with a market share of 32.58%. Tata Sky ended the Q1 FY21 with 32.09% share, and it has been increased to 32.58% at the end of September 2020. The second-largest DTH operator continues to be Dish TV. However, unlike Tata Sky, Dish TV lost its market share. The remaining two service providers- Airtel Digital TV and Sun Direct also increased their... Read More

Chakri K January 21st, 2021 10:21 PM 0 COMMENTS

Prepaid and Postpaid ARPU Saw Healthy Increase in Q2 FY21: Trai Data

The Trai today released 'Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicator Report' for the quarter ending July-September 2020. As we have seen with the monthly reports for July, August and September, Bharti Airtel has added more than 10 million new customers during the quarter. At the end of June 2020, Airtel' subscriber base stood at 316.6 million, which increased to 326.6 million at the end of September 2020. In comparison, Reliance Jio... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur January 14th, 2021 12:52 PM 0 COMMENTS

Add Zero Before Making Outgoing Landline Calls from January 15, 2021

Users making outgoing calls to mobile numbers via landline connection will soon have to add ‘0’ as a prefix on the number. This is not new information; the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had floated a circular in November last year directing all the telecom operators to implement this rule in their system. As per an ET Telecom report, starting January 15, 2021, this rule will be applicable for all the... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur January 12th, 2021 6:15 PM 1 COMMENTS

5G in India Would Be Only Successful if Street Furniture is Paid Attention on: Trai Chairman

The Chairman of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), P.D. Vaghela said that telecom operators would face many challenges in deploying 5G infrastructure in India if ‘street furniture’ is not looked at properly. Even though 5G is still a long way to go in India, the operators and the government have started planning for it to ensure a faster and smoother rollout of the service. Vaghela stressed on the need... Read More

Chakri K December 26th, 2020 9:07 PM 33 COMMENTS

Will Trai Implement the Zero IUC Regime on January 1, 2021? Let’s Talk

A year ago on December 18, 2019, the Trai decided to defer the introduction of zero IUC regime to January 2021. Back then, the move was opposed by Reliance Jio and welcomed by Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea. Since then, there's no update from the Trai or telecom operators on IUC (Interconnect Usage Charges). Thanks to the postponement of zero IUC regime, Reliance Jio is charging its customers six paise... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur December 25th, 2020 12:56 PM 2 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea Segmented Offers Under Examination by Trai

Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea (Vi) have finally submitted all the details of the segmented offers to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai). Yesterday, we reported that the telcos have asked for extra time from the regulator to comply with its order. But apparently, both the telcos have submitted the segmented offer details which are now being examined by Trai. For the unaware, the regulator asked Airtel and Vi... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur December 24th, 2020 4:41 PM 7 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea to Submit Details of Segmented Offers Later

A couple of days back, an order was issued by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) for Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea (Vi) asking them to submit all the details regarding the segmented offers provided to the users within a limited number of days. The last date for the telcos as per the Trai order was December 20, 2020. Today is December 24, 2020, and the telcos haven’t submitted... Read More

Chakri K December 23rd, 2020 8:38 PM 25 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Adds 3.67 Million New Users in October, Beats Jio Comfortably: Trai Data

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) released Telecom Subscription Data as on October 31, 2020. During the month, Bharti Airtel again managed to beat Reliance Jio in monthly subscriber additions, and the story of Vodafone Idea remains the same. According to Trai, Airtel added 3.67 million new customers in October, whereas Jio managed to add just 2.22 million users. Vodafone Idea, on the other hand, lost 2.65 million existing... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur December 16th, 2020 2:20 PM 22 COMMENTS

4G Spectrum Auctions Might Take Place in March, 2021

The 4G spectrum auctions might take place in March 2021. The Cabinet has a meeting scheduled on Wednesday wherein it might consider the request made by the telecom department for the auctioning of 4G spectrum. As per a report from ET Telecom, one of the officials related to the matter believes that 4G spectrum auction is likely to happen in March next year. Whereas, for the auction of 5G spectrum,... Read More

Chakri K December 15th, 2020 9:25 AM 53 COMMENTS

Jio Approaches Trai for Anti-Competitive MNP Campaign Run by Rivals, Airtel Calls it Baseless

Leading telecom operator Reliance Jio has approached the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) asking to take 'strict action' against Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea. The Mukesh Ambani-led telco says Airtel and Vi are running 'unethical and anti-competitive MNP campaign' touting that it will benefit from the three agricultural bills passed by the Parliament. Right after Jio writing to Trai, Bharti Airtel termed the charge by Jio as 'baseless.' Vodafone Idea,... Read More