Ashok Sud

Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India (AUSPI) Secretary General Ashok Sud said that it still doesn't have the approvals of putting up towers in a place like Delhi, where the already rooted towers are under the fear of sealing.

Trai asks telcos to start compensating for call drops

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) issued amendment in Telecom Consumers Protection Regulations on October 16, 2015 in which it added a rule mandating mobile service providers to compensate their subscribers for call dropped or automatically disconnected due to technical glitches in their network.

Is Re 1/call compensation best way to nip call drop menace?

According to the new rules imposed by Trai, telecom operators will have to compensate its users by paying Re 1 for every call dropped from January 1, 2016, and limit it to a maximum of three calls dropped per day

Trai questioned on how it arrived at spectrum prices: Auspi

Ashok Sud, Secretary General, Auspi says Trai is being questioned on the methodology deployed to arrive at the spectrum prices and whether the telecom regulator had actually thought of the premium that should go in as a result of the new spectrum being liberalised.

Govt decision influenced by lobby of older operators: AUSPI

Ashok Sud, Secretary General of AUSPI considers the new spectrum refarming decision to be a very unfair one and he is not yet clear about what drove the EGoM to take such a decision. According to him, the government has given into the lobby of older operators who hold large chunks of 900 Mhz spectrum.