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  • Reliance Jio adds 30.5 lakh mobile users in March; Vi loses 12 lakh users May 22, 2023 09:06 PM IST

    Reliance Jio adds 30.5 lakh mobile users in March; Vi loses 12 lakh users

    Reliance Jio added 30.5 lakh subscribers in March, as its subscriber count exceeded 43 crore, compared to 42.71 crore in February.

  • Trai gives 30 days to telcos to check misuse of telemarketing message templates May 12, 2023 08:56 PM IST

    Trai gives 30 days to telcos to check misuse of telemarketing message templates

    The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has directed telecom operators to make changes in the code of practices (CoPs) around headers and content templates of telemarketing messages under the TCCCPR 2018 rules and comply with the direction within 30 days.

  • Jio, Airtel add 19.8 lakh mobile subscribers in Feb, Voda Idea loses 20 lakh customers: Trai May 11, 2023 09:49 PM IST

    Jio, Airtel add 19.8 lakh mobile subscribers in Feb, Voda Idea loses 20 lakh customers: Trai

    The top five service providers constituted 98.38 per cent market share of the total broadband subscribers at the end of February 2023.

  • TRAI chief bats for lesser regulation for existing telecom, broadcasting players May 03, 2023 06:12 PM IST

    TRAI chief bats for lesser regulation for existing telecom, broadcasting players

    Vaghela's remarks comes in the backdrop of telecom operators and broadcasting entities alleging that OTT platforms have been subjected to lenient regulatory framework, which provides them an unfair edge.

  • Trai recommends directs access of service providers' data to DoT for ease of doing business May 02, 2023 10:20 PM IST

    Trai recommends directs access of service providers' data to DoT for ease of doing business

    The telecom service providers are required to keep the records of all the operation and maintenance command logs for a period of 12 months, including the actual command given, who gave the command, when it was given with date and time and from where.

  • Regulators cannot be unreachable on financial spam calls April 18, 2023 09:50 AM IST

    Regulators cannot be unreachable on financial spam calls

    Spam calls pitching financial products are more detrimental versus others as they may force consumers to make unwise decisions. Abuse of customer database by big brands should be pulled up by regulators 

  • India now has no dial up connections, confirms TRAI April 05, 2023 12:53 PM IST

    India now has no dial up connections, confirms TRAI

    “Only BSNL was reporting the dial-up subscribers until March 2021 and afterwards BSNL was also not reporting any dial-up subscribers,” TRAI said in its note.

  • Telecom subscriber base rise marginally to 1,170.75 mn in January 2023: Trai March 31, 2023 08:18 PM IST

    Telecom subscriber base rise marginally to 1,170.75 mn in January 2023: Trai

    The net gain in the wireline segment was 0.28 million customers while mobile telephony recorded a net gain of 0.09 million subscribers.

  • Trai directs telcos to report network outages with reasons March 28, 2023 07:24 PM IST

    Trai directs telcos to report network outages with reasons

    The development follows after the regulator learnt about major network outages in the country of prolonged duration especially in the border and hilly areas, which adversely affect the quality of services being provided.

  • Trai cracks down on pesky telemarketing calls, messages; holds review meet with telcos March 27, 2023 11:21 PM IST

    Trai cracks down on pesky telemarketing calls, messages; holds review meet with telcos

    Telecom Regulatory Authority of Indian (Trai) held a review meeting with telecom operators like Bharti Airtel, Jio, and Vodafone Idea (VIL) on issue of UCC detect system.

  • Tech investments will be harder to find as investment cycles get shorter: TRAI chief February 20, 2023 12:51 PM IST

    Tech investments will be harder to find as investment cycles get shorter: TRAI chief

    The TRAI chairman also noted that India's focus must remain on using tech to enable social and inclusive development, unlike developed countries where the focus is more towards making monetary gains.

  • Improve telecom service quality immediately, report call drop data at state level too: TRAI to telecom companies February 18, 2023 12:53 PM IST

    Improve telecom service quality immediately, report call drop data at state level too: TRAI to telecom companies

    TRAI has advised players to write to the Telecom Department, to flag the issue of low-quality handsets.

  • Trai chief asks telcos to improve service quality, report call drop data at state level too February 17, 2023 08:41 PM IST

    Trai chief asks telcos to improve service quality, report call drop data at state level too

    Trai has made it clear to operators that it will tighten service quality benchmarks, for which a consultation process will be initiated.

  • TRAI cracks down on unauthorised telemarketers; directs telcos to stop misuse of headers, message templates February 16, 2023 09:03 PM IST

    TRAI cracks down on unauthorised telemarketers; directs telcos to stop misuse of headers, message templates

    The move is expected to come as a relief to mobile users, annoyed by deluge of unauthorised, pesky promotional messages.

  • Telcom operators push for regulation of communication OTTs in meeting with TRAI chief February 15, 2023 09:42 PM IST

    Telcom operators push for regulation of communication OTTs in meeting with TRAI chief

    The industry has long been demanding a level-playing-field with communications OTTs, emphasising that regulatory conditions and licence treatment must be made uniformly applicable for similarly placed players.

  • DoT asks Trai to add stricter benchmark in telecom service quality norms February 15, 2023 10:47 AM IST

    DoT asks Trai to add stricter benchmark in telecom service quality norms

    The move comes after DoT collected feedback from the public through an IVRS (interactive voice response system) call around call drop, quality of calls etc.

  • TRAI's proposed mandate to display callers’ names will endanger privacy: IAMAI February 09, 2023 04:20 PM IST

    TRAI's proposed mandate to display callers’ names will endanger privacy: IAMAI

    In November 2022, the telecom regulator proposed Calling Name Presentation (CNAP), a feature that aims to allow users to identify callers

  • Trai calls for overhaul of existing norms around entertainment apps, tech convergence January 30, 2023 10:58 PM IST

    Trai calls for overhaul of existing norms around entertainment apps, tech convergence

    The regulator has invited comments from interested entities around reducing complications as well as addressing gaps in the existing rules to manage convergence of technologies across IT, telecom, broadcast and space sector.

  • Jio, Airtel up mobile subscribers tally, Voda Idea loses 18.2 lakh users in November: TRAI data January 27, 2023 08:34 PM IST

    Jio, Airtel up mobile subscribers tally, Voda Idea loses 18.2 lakh users in November: TRAI data

    India's largest telco Reliance Jio cemented its lead in the market adding 14.26 lakh net subscribers in November, whereas Airtel added 10.56 lakh users.

  • India will be first to hold satellite spectrum auction: Trai Chairman PD Vaghela December 13, 2022 01:33 PM IST

    India will be first to hold satellite spectrum auction: Trai Chairman PD Vaghela

    Speaking at a Broadband India Forum summit on SatCom, Vaghela said the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) will soon make recommendations to make permissions required for satellite communication from various ministries -- Information and Broadcasting, Space and Telecom -- seamless to enhance ease of doing business in the sector.

  • Trai sets nil termination charges on SMS sent during disaster situations under DM Act December 06, 2022 10:01 PM IST

    Trai sets nil termination charges on SMS sent during disaster situations under DM Act

    The SMS sent during disaster and non-disaster situations but without any direction under the Disaster Management Act, however, through the common alert protocol (CAP) will be charged 2 paise termination charge by the telecom operators on whose network it is sent.

  • TRAI releases consultation paper for caller ID on mobile phones November 30, 2022 02:28 PM IST

    TRAI releases consultation paper for caller ID on mobile phones

    A consultation paper seeking inputs from stakeholders is now on TRAl's website, where it will take written comments on the paper till December 27, and counter-comments till January 10

  • Tech under work to detect pesky calls, messages; joint action plan on financial frauds: TRAI November 28, 2022 06:50 PM IST

    Tech under work to detect pesky calls, messages; joint action plan on financial frauds: TRAI

    The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said that Unsolicited Commercial Communication (UCC) or pesky communication is a major source of inconvenience to the public and impinges on the privacy of individuals.

  • DoT extends deadline for public comments on draft Telecom Bill to November 20 November 10, 2022 10:36 PM IST

    DoT extends deadline for public comments on draft Telecom Bill to November 20

    The bill proposes to bring internet-based calling and messaging services under the telecom rules as well as strengthen security for consumers.

  • The negatives in Telecom draft bill far outweigh the positives September 26, 2022 11:47 AM IST

    The negatives in Telecom draft bill far outweigh the positives

    The provision that seeks to make OTT services like WhatsApp, Gmail, Telegram and Signal requiring a license from the government is particularly silly