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April 9th, 2017 3:34 PM 32 COMMENTS

Vodafone Tops Maximum Service Norm Violation List in Oct-Dec 2016, Airtel and Idea Are No Less: TRAI

According to the latest report published by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), Airtel, Vodafone, and Idea are among the ones to have received maximum billing complaints during October and December in 2016. With 0.11% to 0.12% benchmark violation range, Bharti Airtel received most of its complaints from the 2G prepaid users in regions including Tamil Nadu along with Chennai, Kolkata, Haryana, and Jammu and Kashmir. Vodafone, on the... Read More

March 28th, 2017 10:57 AM 68 COMMENTS

Indian GSM Telcos Say MediaTek Chipset Powered Smartphones Slow Down Network Quality

Indian GSM telecom operators through their industry body the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) have informed the telecom regulator that 4G smartphones running on Taiwan-based MediaTek chipsets slow down network quality. In a letter to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the COAI cited a recent test conducted by individual telecom operators to come to this conclusion about MediaTek chipsets. The industry body, which represents Bharti Airtel, Vodafone,... Read More

March 15th, 2017 12:24 AM 1 COMMENTS

TRAI aims to create comfortable regulatory environment for telecom industry; float paper on ease of doing business

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has come up with a new consultation paper to identify bottlenecks that make the functioning of telecom business difficult and create the environment more comfortable by simplifying the regulations. The regulator has also listed out processes such as spectrum allotment and use, assignment and clearance process for the airwaves, approval process for spectrum trading and sharing as part of the ease of doing... Read More

March 14th, 2017 8:04 PM 6 COMMENTS

TRAI raps international SIM card and global calling card companies for poor quality of service

Following numerous instances of unsatisfactory service quality provided to travelling consumers, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has asked international SIM card and global calling card companies to explain the reason for the poor service, PTI reported. According to the report, the regulator called a meeting of 8-9 players, including Matrix, Uniconnect and Oneworld Teleservices, to discuss the poor service, which causes huge inconvenience to customers when they are... Read More

March 11th, 2017 2:58 AM 9 COMMENTS

Establish Office of Telecom Ombudsman to resolve the increasing number of consumer complaints: TRAI tells Govt

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has recommended to the government that an Office of Telecom Ombudsman needs to be established on lines similar to the insurance sector to resolve the increasing number of consumer complaints in the telecom industry. The regulator had earlier floated a consultation paper for the same in July last year. The telecom regulator on Friday said that there is a need for an independent... Read More

March 8th, 2017 5:06 PM 5 COMMENTS

Intel, Micromax Come Together To Tackle Mobile Threats

Intel Security today announced a strategic partnership with Micromax, to protect its range of smartphones against growing and increasingly complex mobile threats. These devices will come integrated with McAfee Mobile Assistant that will help provide a secure mobile experience to Micromax users in India. According to TRAI, today, 133 million phones in India are connected to the internet. As the country moves towards integrating mobile in the economy, there has... Read More

February 18th, 2017 12:41 PM 8 COMMENTS

Following a war between Reliance Jio and top telcos, Trai to review tariff orders

Following a war between Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and Vodafone India over predatory pricing and promotional offers by the Mukesh Ambani-led telecom operator, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has floated a 32-page consultation paper to review tariff orders within a bid to develop a new framework for the telecom sector. With this new paper, the regulator aims to address certain ambiguities in rules around issues... Read More

February 4th, 2017 9:22 PM 33 COMMENTS

Indian GSM, CDMA telcos face penalty for bad 2G and 3G services: Report

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has reportedly imposed Rs 11 crore penalty on Indian GSM and CDMA telcos for bad service quality including call drops, according to Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha. While informing the Rajya Sabha, Sinha said that the regulator imposes financial disincentives for non-compliance with the benchmarks for Quality of Service parameters including call drops. He said that the Trai monitors the performance of service providers... Read More

August 21st, 2016 10:35 AM 0 COMMENTS

TRAI mulls over revenue-based SUC for internet service providers

TRAI, the country’s telecom regulator, has come up with a consultation paper to seek public feedback on levying spectrum usage charges linked to annual revenues for Internet service providers (ISPs). The government currently levies spectrum usage charges linked to annual revenues on telecom operators in India. In a consultation paper, the regulator said service providers with Cellular Mobile Telephone Services and Unified Access Service Licence are assigned spectrum through market-based... Read More

February 17th, 2016 10:52 AM 9 COMMENTS

Transparent broadband services: Last date to file counter comments to TRAI

On January 20th,2016 Trai came up with a consultation paper named "Draft Direction under section 13, read with clause (b) of sub-section (1) of section 11, of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997 (24 of 1997) to service providers for delivering broadband services in a transparent manner by providing adequate information to broadband consumers". This paper suggested defining broadband as a 512kbps connection. SAVETHEINTERNET coalition took part in this... Read More

February 5th, 2016 3:59 PM 7 COMMENTS

Indian telecom operators paid Rs 6 crore penalty for service quality norms violation: Trai

Indian telecom service providers have paid a total penalty of Rs 6 crore during July 2014-June 2015 to Trai for violation of service quality norms in the country. The regulator got a maximum penalty from mobile services providers who paid Rs 3.48 crore, followed by fixed line service providers and broadband service providers who paid Rs 44.5 lakh and Rs 21.75 lakh, respectively, the Trai’s annual report revealed. “Approximately a total... Read More

November 6th, 2015 9:37 PM 58 COMMENTS

Mobile tariff to move north as TRAI overturns telcos’ demand to withdraw call drop compensation order

Telecom regulator Trai has overturned telecom operators’ demand to withdraw an order of compensating the customers for up to three call drops, as a result, the telcos are most likely will pass on the burden to the customers now in the form of rise in mobile tariffs. GSM lobby group COAI and the association for CDMA operators AUSPI had written to Trai on October 27 to withdraw its regulations on... Read More

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