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Bala Yogesh April 17th, 2020 6:22 PM 0 COMMENTS

Platform Services of Tata Sky, Airtel Digital TV and Dish TV in the Times of Lockdown

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) in November 2019 announced its recommendations on the platform services (PS) offered by Direct-to-home (DTH) operators which included capping of such services. In its recommendations, the authority suggested that the platform services be limited to 3% of the total channel carrying capacity of an operator and to a maximum of 15 service channels. While the industry opposed the recommendations from Trai, several months... Read More

Shrijan Soni April 17th, 2020 5:21 PM 0 COMMENTS

Trai Revises Fixed International Terminal Charges to Re 0.65 per Minute

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has released the 16th amendment of the Interconnect Usage Charge (IUC) Regulations. Trai has changed the provisions and rate of the fixed International Termination Charges (ITC). ITC charge, which was earlier prescribed at Re 0.30 per minute, has been changed to the prescribed regime of Re 0.35 per minute to Re 0.65 per minute. Also, Trai has marked that Access providers will offer... Read More

Shrijan Soni April 17th, 2020 1:38 PM 0 COMMENTS

Telcos Seek More Time from Trai for Submitting Prepaid Recharge Pattern Details

Last week, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) directed all the major telecom operators Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Reliance Jio to submit data on recharge pattern details. In response to the request as reported by ET Telecom, telcos have urged Trai to provide time till April 20, 2020, as the requested information is vast and compilation process would take more than 24 hours. Since the government of India... Read More

Bala Yogesh April 15th, 2020 7:46 PM 5 COMMENTS

Chennai Setting Tone for India’s Broadband Landscape

The city of Chennai has been leading the broadband landscape in India as the data consumption in the city is close to the average of developed countries. Hathway, a pan India broadband provider, said in its investor presentation for the third quarter of previous financial year that the average data consumption per consumer in Chennai is 190GB per month. The company said that the average data consumption per user in... Read More

Shrijan Soni April 15th, 2020 12:47 PM 0 COMMENTS

Telecom Operators Must Provide Data on Recharge Patterns: Trai

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has directed all the telecom operators to provide data on recharge patterns and other necessary information of prepaid users. Since the government of India has extended the lockdown period until May 03, 2020, Trai is creating a blueprint on how the prepaid benefits will be extended for subscribers which will cater to the needs of seamless connectivity in the lockdown period. Once, telecom... Read More

Chakri K April 15th, 2020 9:45 AM 3 COMMENTS

Trai Believes Telcos Should Extend the Validity of Current Prepaid Plans

The demand for mobile connectivity has soared and reached a new level. People are consuming more content than ever because of being forced to stay inside their homes during the lockdown. The lockdown was further extended by PM Modi yesterday until May 3, 2020. This is why Trai believes telcos should extend the validity of current prepaid plans. Even though this is not an absolute liability for the telcos, they... Read More

Bala Yogesh April 14th, 2020 3:07 PM 1 COMMENTS

DTH and Cable TV STBs Cannot Be Interoperable Due to Technical and Financial Constraints: Trai

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Saturday announced that all Set-Top Boxes (STB) in India must be interoperable. The authority said that the Direct-to-Home (DTH) providers as well as multi-system operators (MSO) would be given six months from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) notification to facilitate the service. Crucially, it was said that the interoperability would be permissible within the DTH segment and within cable segment... Read More

Bala Yogesh April 11th, 2020 6:42 PM 0 COMMENTS

COAI Says Telecom Operators Provided Over Rs 600 Crore Benefits to Prepaid Users

The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) said in a letter to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) that the telecom operators provided over Rs 600 crore of benefits, Economic Times reported. According to the report, COAI, the industry body representing telecom operators like Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea said that the benefits were offered to prepaid customers by validity extensions and additional talk time. The telecom operators in... Read More

Chakri K April 11th, 2020 1:40 PM 0 COMMENTS

Trai Makes Set-Top Interoperability Mandatory, DTH Operators Have 6 Months to Adopt New Standards

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has been in talks with industry stakeholders for a while to bring Set-Top Box (STB) interoperability to India. Right now, the STBs offered by Cable TV operators are non-interoperable, meaning the same STB cannot be used across different service providers. However, the STBs of DTH operators comply with the license conditions to support Common Interface (CI) module based interoperability. But Trai states that the... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj April 8th, 2020 1:57 PM 6 COMMENTS

2G Subscribers Still Facing Connectivity and Recharge Issues: Trai

Trai has rounded up various telecom operators for extending the validity of prepaid plans for a specific group of subscribers. The telco list includes Vodafone Idea, Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and the government-owned MTNL. Trai addressed the telecom operators and stated that 2G subscribers are still facing connectivity and recharge issues amid the lockdown period, reports ET Telecom. To ensure that telco users are connected in the difficult times, Trai... Read More

Sneha Bhardwaj April 6th, 2020 7:13 PM 0 COMMENTS

Trai NTO 2.0 Implementation Might Affect TV Segment Revenues

Trai has rolled out new tariff order with new provisions which was challenged by multiple broadcaster and federations. However, currently the NTO 2.0 has been sub-judice, and as per a new report by FICCI-EY 2020, it is estimated that the TV Segment revenues might take a hit of Rs 1,500 crore to Rs 2,000 crore. Trai in NTO 2.0 has announced specific provisions which might result in loss of Jobs.... Read More

Chakri K April 1st, 2020 7:42 AM 0 COMMENTS

Trai NTO 2.0: Long-Term Recharge Options from DTH Operators Detailed

Over the phase of the last 18 months, the Indian broadcasting sector has gone through some major changes, thanks to the introduction of National Tariff Order (NTO) by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai). The regulator brought several changes to the industry like the introduction of Network Capacity Fee (NCF), removal of actual long-term plans, Free-to-Air (FTA) channels concept and more. NTO 1.0 made users moving away from their TV... Read More