February 12, 2020 04:08 PM IST Minister of State for telecom and IT Sanjay Dhotre had informed Rajya Sabha last week that a Draft Cabinet Note has been prepared for the auction of the spectrum, and that the document is under consideration within the Department.
January 13, 2020 08:05 PM IST The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), which notified the amendments on January 1, had come in for criticism from the broadcasters as well as cable operators.
January 02, 2020 10:03 AM IST TRAI said that it had decided to modify certain provisions of the new tariff order (NTO), implemented in February 2019, to address the issue of huge discounts offered by broadcasters when channels are sold as a bouquet vis-à-vis sum of the cost of à la carte channels.
January 02, 2020 08:10 AM IST Significantly, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) capped at Rs. 160 the amount consumers will have to pay monthly for all free to air channels.
December 26, 2019 12:16 PM IST This new 5G chunk is separate from the Rs 5.2 lakh crore spectrum sale plan approved by the Digital Communications Commission on December 20
December 16, 2019 06:48 PM IST With the new guidelines, the MNP process will be reduced to 48 hours from its previous cap of eight days.
December 10, 2019 04:40 PM IST The new process, which comes with conditions for generation of Unique Porting Code (UPC), entails three working days' timeline for port out requests within a service area, and five working days for requests for port out from one circle to another.
December 09, 2019 08:52 PM IST The concept of unbundling of layers through differential licensing is enshrined in the new telecom policy, the 'National Digital Communications Policy (NDCP), 2018', Trai noted.
December 04, 2019 08:50 AM IST The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), in a letter to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), said that Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea have agreed that the data tariffs should be regulated, a move which was vehemently opposed by the industry players in the past.
November 29, 2019 02:31 PM IST No floor on telecom tariffs puts Airtel in a commanding position to skim 2G-3G market
November 29, 2019 02:25 PM IST All four players – Bharti, Vodafone, Reliance Jio and BSNL – may actually look at each other to take the lead in raising prices. It is unlikely that anyone will make the first move as that may prove to be a costly mistake.
November 28, 2019 02:00 PM IST Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Chairman RS Sharma rued that cost of data in India delivered via satellite technology was 400 times higher than that in the US, presenting a stark contrast to telecom and mobile services domain where India is offering one of the cheapest tariffs in the world.
November 27, 2019 09:30 PM IST Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has sought views on higher transparency in details of unlimited data plans, where promised speed is provided only up to a certain level of usage and information is concealed in service thereafter.
November 27, 2019 06:45 PM IST Sources aware of Trai's views on the issue said that making any fresh move on floor prices or intervention does not make sense at this point, given that operators have already announced plans to hike tariffs in coming days.
November 27, 2019 05:05 PM IST The move came after TRAI received a significant number of complaints from individual consumers on lack of transparency in disclosure of tariff information.
November 27, 2019 04:12 PM IST Sources said that floor price and redefining adjusted gross revenue (AGR) were among key issues that were flagged by the industry representatives at the meeting today.
November 25, 2019 07:10 PM IST The DoT source also said Digital Communications Commission (DCC) will meet in the first half of December and could take up the issue of spectrum auction pricing.
November 21, 2019 09:04 PM IST The latest move by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is aimed at ensuring that banks, insurance companies and others would have a ready list (without names) of mobile numbers that are disconnected.
November 19, 2019 08:34 PM IST As per the data, Bharti Airtel lost 23.8 lakh users in September to take its total user base to 32.55 crore. Similarly, Vodafone Idea lost 25.7 lakh users in the month to take its total user base to 37.24 crore.
November 18, 2019 01:02 PM IST Last week, TRAI conducted an open house discussion with industry representatives and other stakeholders on whether there is a need to postpone the applicable date for scrapping the call connect charges also called Interconnection Usage Charges (IUC) beyond January 1, 2020.
November 15, 2019 05:13 PM IST The government has constituted a committee of secretaries to explore a financial bailout package for the telecom sector. Last month, when the high-level panel was set up, an official source had said that sector regulator Trai is expected to examine prescribing minimum charge for voice and data services, which will ensure long-term viability and robust financial health of the sector.
November 07, 2019 12:41 PM IST Is this big fight all about saving cost, or is there more to it than meets the eye?
November 01, 2019 05:55 PM IST "The time duration of alert for an incoming voice call, which is neither answered nor rejected by the called party, shall be thirty seconds for Cellular Mobile Telephone Service and sixty seconds for Basic Telephone Service," Trai said in an amendment to quality of service norms for basic telephone service and cellular mobile telephone service.
November 01, 2019 05:32 PM IST The Telecom User Group (TUG) in it submission to regulator Trai has requested to move to BAK regime from January 1.
October 30, 2019 10:25 PM IST Accordingly, a Draft Telecommunication (Broadcasting and Cable) Services Interconnection (Addressable Systems) (Amendment) Regulations, 2019 was issued on August 27, 2019.
