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May 22, 2023 09:06 PM IST Reliance Jio added 30.5 lakh subscribers in March, as its subscriber count exceeded 43 crore, compared to 42.71 crore in February.
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May 12, 2023 08:56 PM IST 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.
- May 11, 2023 09:49 PM IST
The top five service providers constituted 98.38 per cent market share of the total broadband subscribers at the end of February 2023.
- May 03, 2023 06:12 PM IST
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.
- May 02, 2023 10:20 PM IST
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.
- April 18, 2023 09:50 AM IST
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
- April 05, 2023 12:53 PM IST
“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.
- March 31, 2023 08:18 PM IST
The net gain in the wireline segment was 0.28 million customers while mobile telephony recorded a net gain of 0.09 million subscribers.
- March 28, 2023 07:24 PM IST
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.
- March 27, 2023 11:21 PM IST
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.
- February 20, 2023 12:51 PM IST
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.
- February 18, 2023 12:53 PM IST
TRAI has advised players to write to the Telecom Department, to flag the issue of low-quality handsets.
- February 17, 2023 08:41 PM IST
Trai has made it clear to operators that it will tighten service quality benchmarks, for which a consultation process will be initiated.
- February 16, 2023 09:03 PM IST
The move is expected to come as a relief to mobile users, annoyed by deluge of unauthorised, pesky promotional messages.
- February 15, 2023 09:42 PM IST
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.
- February 15, 2023 10:47 AM IST
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.
- February 09, 2023 04:20 PM IST
In November 2022, the telecom regulator proposed Calling Name Presentation (CNAP), a feature that aims to allow users to identify callers
- January 30, 2023 10:58 PM IST
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.
- January 27, 2023 08:34 PM IST
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.
- December 13, 2022 01:33 PM IST
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.
- December 06, 2022 10:01 PM IST
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.
- November 30, 2022 02:28 PM IST
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
- November 28, 2022 06:50 PM IST
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.
- November 10, 2022 10:36 PM IST
The bill proposes to bring internet-based calling and messaging services under the telecom rules as well as strengthen security for consumers.
- September 26, 2022 11:47 AM IST
The provision that seeks to make OTT services like WhatsApp, Gmail, Telegram and Signal requiring a license from the government is particularly silly
