Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has issued show cause notices to Bharti Tele, Reliance Infocomm, and Idea Cellular for not adhering to prescribed format for advertising tariffs to consumers.
With TRAI's latest tariff announcements likely to make dial-up Internet access more expensive, the apex association for Internet service providers ISPAI will soon approach the telecom regulator and the communications ministry on the issue.\n\n\n\n
SMS has been a great boon to the hearing impaired and the Trai's latest decision to limit it the service to 100 pages per day has not gone down well with them.
Going all out for unlimited sharing of content on a non-discriminatory basis, Telecom Regularity Authority of India on Friday released interconnection regulations, recommending a "must provide" clause among broadcasting and cable service providers.
Kickstarting the process to introduce mobile number portability, telecom regulator Trai will soon set up a steering committee of operators, industry associations and telecom engineering centres.
Last month, Trai had initiated a debate on the issue of operators arbitrarily disconnecting services of customers on grounds of 'non-usage of numbers' or 'inactive SIM connections'.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India would come out with a consultation paper on spectrum, dealing with issues like usage and pricing, this week.
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has asked the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) to indicate the formula used in international markets to fix the ratio between the reserve and the discovered prices of 2G telecom spectrum. Trai has assumed that the base price should be 80 per cent of that of the auction discovered price which is much higher than the internatioanl norm of 50 per cent.
Telecom regulator TRAI has issued a show cause notice to Bharti Group, offering mobile services under AirTel brand, for violation of licence conditions by continuing a particular service inspite of the government's instruction to stop it.
TRAI to soon put in place a new set of 'service quality benchmarks' to monitor call drop
The Telecom Dispute Settlement and Appellate Tribunal has refused to give an interim order against Reliance's proposed roaming facility on WLL phones as the telecom regulator Trai said it was examining Reliance's reply.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has directed Vodafone Essar Mobile Services to refund value-added service (VAS) charges that were levied without "explicit consent". However, the regulator did not specify the amount the GSM major has to refund to the consumers.
Vodafone Idea's (Vi's) subscriber loss reduced to a seven-month low in March, and alongside the company added 1.1 million broadband users after two months of net loss -- two things analysts have noted as key trends that need to be monitored. While Vi has been losing customers for more than two and a half years now, the churn reduced to below a million after five straight months in March, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) data has shown. "Jio's softer than usual subscriber growth in March, and VIL's slowing subscriber market share loss are key trends to keep an eye on going forward," global investment banking and financial services major UBS said in an analyst note.
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India is unlikely to intervene in the tussle between Prasar Bharti and Ten Sports over the issue of live telecast of Indo-Pak cricket series
Trai contends that the issue does not come under the tribunal's jurisdiction.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has invited online customer feedback on the quality of Internet services in the country.
Dismissing the role of TRAI in sorting out the problems of cable TV industry, operators on Thursday demanded that the government set up an independent broadcasting authority and adopt a "Pakistan-type model
The telecom regulator on Wednesday said it will soon look at steps to address the issue, in order to make net access more affordable.
Rejecting the cellular operators' demand for withdrawal of its consultation paper on the unified licensing regime, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on Wednesday said the "question of withdrawing the consultation paper does not arise".
Trai asks telcos to add towers to address call drops.
The 40 per cent market share cap suggested by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is likely to make mergers between existing telecom operators extremely tough.
Trai chairman Rahul Khullar says concept not practised strictly even in countries like the US and the UK.
TRAI today made it mandatory for telecom operators to compensate consumers by one rupee for call drops with effect from January 1, 2016.
Trai on Monday put forward a consultation paper seeking views from the industry and experts on issues like permitting the internet service providers to have interconnection with landline and mobile telephones to provide internet telephony within the country. According to the existing licensing provisions, there is no restriction on international PC-to-PC calls through internet telephony.
Another priority is to prepare the country for the fourth generation (4G) technology. It will not only improve teledensity and improve data services, but also ensure that the country is prepared for all the future developments, says J S Sarma.
Biju Janata Dal member of Parliament Baijayant 'Jay' Panda on Monday supported the Bill to amend Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, which seeks to remove a legal hurdle in the appointment of former chairman of telecom regulatory body Nripendra Misra RPT Misra as principal secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Telecom regulator TRAI on Friday dismissed GSM operators' charges that its recommendation to revise 2G spectrum prices will hit them hard and said they (telcos) were looking at the issue from a narrow perspective.
In a major relief for business houses, telecom sector regulator Trai on Wednesday exempted messages generated by and sent to automated technical systems from the 200 SMS per sim cap imposed to curb pesky telemarketers.
While the market for satellite broadband currently is small, the potential is large as an estimated 30 per cent of the country does not have reliable terrestrial broadband services.
Dispute over Telecom Regulator's power regarding interconnectivity agreements between telecom operators reached the Supreme Court,
Under the previous quality of service rules, penalty on call drop was Rs 100,000 per violation and could go up to Rs 200,000 in case of third subsequent violation.
Trai said the reports that compensation was not feasible were based on wrong inputs.
...benefiting 350,000 persons. Also, Trai detected and blocked seven million mobile phone connections involved in cyber fraud and suspicious activities.
India may be 15th among the top 25 Artificial Intelligence nations, but it has the 'the greatest upward potential' according to research by Tufts University's business school, the Fletcher School. At the top is the US, followed by China, fighting for global leadership in AI followed by the UK, Japan, and Germany. In the 15th spot, India is ahead of Brazil, Argentina, Indonesia, Mexico, Turkey, Indonesia and Thailand.
A total of 25 new pay channels have hit the Indian TV screens since December 26, 2003, according to figures released by the broadcast regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
