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Rudradeep Biswas February 8th, 2011 1:18 PM 2 COMMENTS

TRAI’s Consultation Paper On Green Telecom Unclear About The Future

Greenpeace termed the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) consultation paper on “Green Telecommunication” as insubstantial and without a clear roadmap, especially in addressing the Telecommunication sector’s role in climate change. Commenting on the TRAI Consultation Paper, Mrinmoy Chattaraj, Climate & Energy Campaigner, Greenpeace India said “In the absence of emission assessments and standards, the promotion of false solutions like carbon credit and offsetting is designed to retard the sector’s... Read More

P K Tarun January 31st, 2011 11:45 PM 30 COMMENTS

TRAI Pushes Marketing Calls And Sms Guidelines To March 2011

If you are a high SMS user its sense of relief for you till march 2011.Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) today announced a new mechanism to effectively arrest pesky commercial calls and empowered consumers against unwanted calls and SMSes. The whole drama started in December as we shared in TelecomTalk when TRAI come with its first of its kind of amendment to regulate unwanted calls. TRAI today issued “The... Read More

Sanjay December 1st, 2010 5:09 PM 34 COMMENTS

TRAI Announces New Regulation to Curb Unwanted Calls and SMSes

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) today announce a new mechanism to effectively arrest pesky commercial calls and empowered consumers against unwanted calls and SMSes. In order to find a solution to this problem, a separate numbering series 70XXXXXXXX will be allocated for telemarketers, so that all telemarketing calls can be easily identified. Any call that comes from any number beginning with "70" will be a commercial call and the... Read More

Sanjay November 18th, 2010 5:58 PM 113 COMMENTS

TRAI Asks DoT To Cancel Licences of Telcos That Missed Service Rollout

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) today asked Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to cancel CMTS/UAS licences given to telecom operators including Cheers Etisalat DB (Swan- Cheers Mobile), Loop Telecom, Uninor, Videocon, MTS (Sistema-Shyam) and Aircel that have not met network roll-out conditions set by the authority. TRAI has recommended cancellation of 20 licenses of Loop Telecom, 15 of Etisalat DB, 11 of MTS/Sistema Shyam, 10 licenses of Videocon, 8... Read More

Sanjay August 21st, 2010 2:07 PM 13 COMMENTS

Landline Numbers May Have 10 Digits Soon

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has reject the proposal to move the mobile number from 10 digits to 11 digits and proposed that the existing 10-digit numbering scheme should be continued to avoid inconvenience to the customers that would accompany any move to shift to an 11 digit numbering scheme. Giving a two pronged strategy, TRAI has recommended that India should migrate to an "Integrated Numbering Scheme" for... Read More

Sanjay May 13th, 2010 7:12 PM 17 COMMENTS

Vodafone, TTSL and Airtel Opposed TRAI’s 2G Spectrum Recommendations

India's GSM and CDMA operators including Tata Teleservices (TTSL), Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Essar strongly opposed and slammed Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)'s recommendation to charge incumbents telecom operators a one time fee for holding 2G spectrum beyond 6.2 Mhz. TRAI has proposed introducing a uniform rate of 6% as annual licence fee component of total adjusted gross revenues from 2014.Presently operators pay in the range of 6 %... Read More

Sanjay February 8th, 2010 7:55 PM 9 COMMENTS

TRAI: QoS Benchmark Should Be Shown on Telecom Operator’s Website

In an attempt to add the transparency and protect the interest of the subscribers of Landline and Mobile services, The Telecom regulator of India, TRAI has directed all basic telephone service providers, unified access service providers (UAS) and cellular mobile service providers (CMTS) to publish the performance with respect to the “TRAI benchmark of Quality of Service (QoS)” parameter on their website on quarterly basis. According to the telecom Regulator,... Read More

TT Desk February 5th, 2010 8:52 PM 29 COMMENTS

Vodafone Karnataka Tops TRAI Quality of Service Report Ending Sept 2009

In the latest Quality of Service (QoS) Report,for the quarter ending September 2009, released by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), details of which were published recently -Vodafone achieved the highest accessibility rate of 99.03%, one of the low call drop rates of 0.98% and a 98.28% rate of calls with good voice quality and a 100% resolution of billing and charging. QoS Survey is part of the Indian Telecom... Read More

Sanjay January 20th, 2010 12:29 PM 22 COMMENTS

10 Digit or 11 Digit ? TRAI Released Consultation Paper

With the number of mobile users in India growing rapidly and increase in the number of subscribers creates requirement to revise the National Numbering system of India to accommodate more and more telecom service users. Recently the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) issued a notice to all telecom service providers to introduces 11-digit number as oppose to the present 10-digit ones. Today The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released... Read More

Sanjay January 16th, 2010 11:44 AM 15 COMMENTS

Low Cost 3G Mobile Phone could lead to explosive 3G Growth in India

India’s much awaited third generation (3G) mobile services auction was reschedule to February 2010 as we shared in our earlier news. Before the long expected 3G auctions, telecom experts advised prospective operators to search for the High-end customers in their existing subscriber base and prepare to them to shift to high speed download with the 3.5G that the third generation spectrum would facilitate. The telecom expert's view at a 3G... Read More

TT Desk January 2nd, 2010 6:35 PM 20 COMMENTS

The Year of the Telecom Industry: 2009

The year 2009 was not all that bad for the Indian telecom industry, even though the industry had its share of troubles also. What we believe one of the major achievements for the Indian telecom industry was it added 500 million subscribers in September, at least a year in advance. The industry was expecting user numbers to cross 500 million the end of 2010. The number of telephone subscribers in... Read More

P K Tarun November 23rd, 2009 12:28 PM 4 COMMENTS

India Telecom User Base Rises To 525 Million

The number of telephone subscribers in India has increased to 525.65 million as on October 31, 2009, compared with 509.03 million posted in September-2009. The subscriber growth registered a 3.26 per cent, which helped in which helped in improving overall tele-density in India to 44.87. Wireless subscriber base increased from 471.73 million in September 2009 to 488.40 million at the end of October 2009 at a monthly growth rate of... Read More