Anyone who has ever tried to go through the mobile number portability process knows what hassle a person has to put up with to get their numbers transitioned to another operator. Trai finally is looking into a solution to relieve the customers of their woes related to the portability issue. A consultation paper is under speculation which will be released by the Trai. The paper is said to look into... Read More
Trai's recent predatory pricing order disappointed top telcos such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular. Today, Trai chairman RS Sharma said that top telcos are free to match rivals by providing affordable tariffs or they can even provide complete free offers. “We are not saying that you cannot do anything. For example, an SMP can also give free offers. So long as it is not doing it with a... Read More
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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