It has been more than a month since the implementation of Trai National Tariff Order 2.0 by DTH operators. However, the NTO 2.0 by Trai failed to get a proper response from Cable TV operators- even the major ones. For instance, Hathway which is one of the popular Cable TV … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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, … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
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