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Chakri K March 1st, 2018 10:48 AM 24 COMMENTS

The 3 Latest Regulatory Amendments by Trai Which Will Change Pricing As You Know it

With the landscape of Telecom changing rapidly in the last year and a half, it is important to have a look at the latest amendments and the possible implications 1. New Entrants can create cut-price plans as compared to incumbents. 2. Existing telcos cannot cut prices to match new entrants according to new laws. This means the customers of the existing telcos cannot enjoy lower tariff rates. 3. Due to... Read More

Chakri K February 27th, 2018 7:57 PM 56 COMMENTS

Aircel Asks Trai to Issue Mobile Number Portability Codes for Subscribers in Licensed Circles

Here comes the official news about Aircel. While the company keep on saying that it's still up for offering services, consumers are not ready to enjoy the service, thanks to the massive network down issue faced by them recently. Since then, Aircel started receiving a lot of MNP requests, and due to that, even the company' servers crashed. Following the massive demand, Aircel approached telecom regulator Trai to facilitate Mobile... Read More

Chakri K February 27th, 2018 11:13 AM 4 COMMENTS

Trai Releases Consultation Paper on Fixing Quality of Service Norms for VoLTE Networks

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today released a consultation paper on 'Voice Services to LTE users (including VoLTE and CS Fallback).' In the paper, Trai discussed the growth of LTE networks and various migration paths followed by different Indian telecom service providers for providing voice services via LTE. The paper also highlights various options for providing voice services on an LTE network like VoLTE, Circuit Switch Fall Back... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas February 7th, 2018 10:55 AM 31 COMMENTS

Trai Warns RCom as the Telco Trying to Run Away With Customers Unspent Balances

Telecom regulator (Trai) has given a warning to Reliance Communications (RCom) for trying to 'pocket' the unspent balances of prepaid users and security deposits of postpaid customers. RCom was directed to refund the said amount to respective customers maximum by February 15 via three mechanisms, but the company refused and sent a white paper to Trai explaining the same. After shutting wireless operations, a telco needs to refund all the... Read More

Chakri K January 19th, 2018 2:24 PM 17 COMMENTS

Trai Directs RCom to Refund the Unspent Balance of Prepaid and Postpaid Users by February 15

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today directed Reliance Communications (RCom) to refund the unspent balance of prepaid mobile subscribers and security deposit of postpaid subscribers pursuant to the closure of 2G GSM, CDMA and discontinuation of voice services in all the licensed services areas. RCom closed its 2G services in eight circles and CDMA services in nine circles. Right after the closure of 2G GSM and CDMA service,... Read More

Chakri K January 5th, 2018 4:46 PM 10 COMMENTS

RS Sharma Says Trai to Introduce New Rules on Tariffs

Indian telecom regulator, Trai, will soon come up with a new rule aimed at defining whether a particular tariff by any telecom service provider is transparent, non-predatory and non-discriminatory or not. "Transparency, non-discrimination and non-predatory, these are three broad principles which have to be adhered to... what will be the hallmarks or attributes of such tariffs, that is what these principles will decide,” Trai chairman R.S. Sharma told Mint newspaper.... Read More

Chakri K January 3rd, 2018 9:19 PM 1 COMMENTS

National Telecom Policy: Trai Seeks Stakeholders’ Views via Consultation Paper

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Wednesday issued a consultation paper to seek from all stakeholders on the new telecom policy (NTP). The NTP is being formulated by the Department of Telecom (DoT) department. The Department of Telecommunications, through its letter dated August 21, 2017, requested the regulator to suggest its policy inputs for the formulation of National Telecom Policy- 2018. Based on preliminary discussions with various stakeholders... Read More

Srikapardhi December 20th, 2017 1:07 PM 4 COMMENTS

Trai to Meet Telecom Operators to Discuss Pressing Issues

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) chairman RS Sharma will meet telecom companies in the first week of January to discuss important and strategic issues. During the meeting, the authority will also seek these telcos' views on priority areas for 2018, the Economic Times reported. “We intend to call a meeting in the first week of January of all telcos and ask them of the priority areas. These are... Read More

Chakri K November 30th, 2017 8:53 PM 2 COMMENTS

Trai Focuses on Ease of Doing Business, Moots Easier Norms for Telecom Sector

India's telecom regulator on Thursday said that promoting "Ease of doing business" is essential for unhindered growth of the telecom sector and is amongst the priorities of the government. It has also recommended various steps for improving ease of doing business in the sector, including speedier merger and acquisition approvals and easier norms that would allow trading of the excess spectrum of a merged entity within a year and a... Read More

Shruti R October 10th, 2017 9:59 PM 2 COMMENTS

TRAI Floats Paper on Public Protection and Disaster Relief Communication Network

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released a consultation paper on “Next Generation Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR) communication networks”. The PPDR communication network supports several services related to the day-to-day life of the public including protection of life and property, maintenance of law and order, disaster relief and emergency responses. An official statement by Trai said that keeping in view the requirement to have a robust... Read More

Chakri K September 30th, 2017 3:34 PM 22 COMMENTS

BSNL Leads the Wired Internet Segment in India With a Market Share of 59.63% As of June 2017

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) recently released “Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicator Report” for the Quarter ended June 2017. We've already covered the new related to telecom subscriber count, which you can read by heading over here. In the same report, the regulator also revealed the wired internet segment and the standings of ISPs in the country. In wired internet segment, BSNL holds 59.63% market share with 12.92... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas August 13th, 2017 5:19 PM 45 COMMENTS

Trai Set to Cut Interconnect Rate to Below 10 Paise per Minute: Report

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is set to introduce the new interconnect usage charges (IUC) rate, which will be under 10 paise per minute, as compared to the currently 14 paise per minute rate, according to a Times of India report. The move will lead to more cuts in voice calls across telecom operators in India. Notably, incumbent telcos like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular have... Read More