The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) made some reeling change on the first day of the year. As the new year knocked its way into the people’s lives, so did a new change for the DTH industry as well. Under this new notification which Trai released on January 1, the telecom regulator announced a plethora of changes which will change how the industry is functioning starting March 1. The... Read More
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) dropped a significant notification on the New Year’s Day announcing the changes from the discussions and consultations paper held over the past few months. While the first half of 2019 went into the implementation of the Trai tariff regime or the National Tariff Order (NTO), the other half of it went into fixing the so-called “drawbacks” of the NTO. After a lot of... Read More
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), in its monthly report, mentions the number of subscribers industry-wise for all the important industries like the broadband, wireless, DTH, FM Radio and more. The figures are very important and crucial for the industry because they help us track of the industry's health, consumer interest, companies, and other things. As per this report, for the month ending in October 2019, the broadband subscribers... Read More
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has been working to bring some changes to the new tariff regime, which it had implemented last year. The tariff regime was one of the far-reaching things that the DTH industry had ever seen. It was a pan-India exercise for the DTH companies as they had to migrate their subscribers from the previous pricing regime to the new rules. For the subscribers as... Read More
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has finally released the amendments to the tariff regime. Trai's new tariff regime in the broadcasting sector became effective on April 1, 2019, but TV viewers had several issues with the major one being the increased monthly bills. To address the issues with Trai tariff regime, Trai issued two consultation papers on August 16, 2019, and September 15, 2019. Trai has addressed various... Read More
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has issued some major regulatory measures in 2019, which defined the face of the telecom industry. However, on the last day of the year, the telecom regulator issued another major release in which it defined the draft regulations for “Network testing before Commercial launch of services for Wireline Access Services”. It is worth noting that there had been a consultation paper on the... Read More
The year 2019 has been a very happening one for the Indian Telecom industry. This was a year full of ups and downs and many waves. The telecom operators were mostly locked in a battle for the large part of the year, and the effects of the data tariff war definitely spawned in the entire industry. The future of the telecom industry was also decided somewhat in this year with... Read More
One of the best things that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has been working on this year is the Set-Top Box Interoperability. Now the concept and the idea has been in the DTH industry since the last few months, but apparently now that the idea is being vetted by the DTH operators, who are going to be the one implementing the idea, it has not seen the best... Read More
Reliance Jio continues its aggressive subscriber addition even after the introduction of IUC Top-Up vouchers. Back in October this year, Reliance Jio came out with IUC vouchers and also started charging six paise per minute from the users for off-net voice calls. According to the latest Telecom Subscription Data released by Trai, Reliance Jio added a whopping 9.1 million new customers in October 2019, which was followed by other operators-... Read More
After making several changes in the telecom sector, Trai must be now looking to implement the changes it planned for the broadcasting sector. In April this year, the new tariff regime by Trai became fully effective, but the television subscribers were not satisfied with the changes brought by Trai. The one major change which irked a lot of users is the Network Capacity Fee (NCF); Every DTH/Cable TV connection now... Read More
Just like other means of living like electricity and food, data is now becoming an integral part of every Indian. How do we know this? The data presented by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) speaks for itself. In the latest report which the telecom regulator has shared with the public, the sector watchdog has compiled the data available until September 2019. In this report, Trai has revealed that... Read More
One of the prime things of focus for the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) this year has been the issue of Set-Top Box Interoperability. The telecom regulator has floated consultation paper earlier this year to garner the views of industry stakeholders on the technology and implementation of interoperable Set-Top Box. However, in this paper, Trai’s views have not exactly been met with affirmation. Instead, the DTH operator opposed the... Read More
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