Taking the pole position among other operators, Reliance Jio logged download speed of 19.12 mbps during April, even bettering its own performance of 18.48 mbps demonstrated in the previous month
The telecom regulator on Thursday decided to carry out a quick consultation with all stakeholders on several issues, including lifetime validity plans and sought from the service details of cost, traffic and revenue from service providers. \n
Telcos demanding OTT players to come under some sort of regulation as they are eating into their SMS and voice revenues.
A Bench headed by Justice Altamas Kabir sought an reply from 11 repondents Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India, Reliance Communications, Tata Teleservices, Vodafone Essar Mobile Services, Cellular Operators Association of India, Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular, BPL Mobile Communications, HFCL Infotel, and Spice Communications -- as to why they should not pay ADC to BSNL.
The statement came a day after Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea Ltd announced a hike in call and data charges from next month.
But says more than 5 MHz can be auctioned in 9 circles
'All regulatory agencies must be made Constitutional bodies like the Election Commission, the Supreme Court, and the CAG.' 'That way they will become independent of the minister,' recommends T C A Srinivasa-Raghavan.
Telecom operators can look forward to offering all telecom and broadcasting services, including cable TV, DTH, STD, ISD and radio, through a single licence by paying a one-time fee of Rs 107 crore (Rs 1.07 billion).
Telecom complaints against other players were below 500 in the first half of 2016.
From spending a little less than three hours on making voice calls, Indians are spending well over 5 hours. So, while people make more calls, they are spending less than ever, reports Romita Majumdar.
The TRAI has released a consultation paper on community radio, which aims at obtaining structured inputs on issues like eligibility, licensing process, funding, and regulation and monitoring for the segment.
Denial of interconnection "appears to be with ulterior motive to stifle competition and is anti consumer", Trai said.
Modi has appointed P K Sinha, who superannuated as cabinet secretary on Friday, as Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), he said.
Responding to queries from the Central Vigilance Commission amid allegations from political parties that Rs 50,000 crore (Rs 500 billion) was squandered in distribution of spectrum, telecom ministry said it had gone by the book and had done nothing wrong.
The call drop rate should not be more than 2 per cent and for worst affected cells it should not be more than 3 per cent.
The regulator has suggested that all spectrum will be auctioned as opposed to the current policy of bundling it with a 2G licence. A beginning has been made with the auctioning of spectrum for 3G services, which is due later this year. Trai has also suggested that licences for any telecom service should be auctioned as opposed to the current policy, where it is given on a first-come-first-served basis. The new policy is expected to be ready by the end of December this year.
A call drop is a voice call, which after being successfully established, is interrupted.
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved revision in guidelines for providing direct to home (DTH) services in the country under which licenses would be issued for 20 years, Union minister Prakash Javadekar said. The Union Cabinet has also approved 100 per cent FDI in the DTH broadcasting services sector, Javadekar said, adding that while the commerce ministry had spoken of 100 per cent FDI in the DTH sector, the guidelines of the information and broadcasting ministry needed to be changed.
Far from benefitting consumers, the new rules on roaming charges have opened another front in the battle between large and small operators.
India's telecoms regulator must guard against overly aggressive price-cutting in the nation's fast-growing telephone industry, a key policy maker said on Thursday.\n\n
For the PMO this is urgent as the Digital India framework would depend on how the telecom companies perform. It is also linked to the proposed auction of 5G airwaves.
The regulator may ask broadcasters to abide by the tribunal's pricing formula.
Move to ensure deals do not hit govt licence fees, revenue share.
Analysts at rating agency ICRA say the debt level of the telecom companies is very high and the ecosystem for the premium band is not in place.
Customers of Vodafone, Idea Cellular, Tata Teleservices and BSNL in some circles have reported maximum discrepancies in their phone bills, according to a latest report by telecom regulator TRAI.
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India will come out with new tariff for long distance calls and also fix interconnection charges between two points for basic telephone services this month, its chairman M S Verma said on Friday.
Indicted in the draft JPC report, former Telecom Minister A Raja on Monday hit back maintaining that "every major decision", including entry fee and non auction of spectrum, was taken after consulting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and P Chidambaram and Pranab Mukherjee.
It would be perfectly possible for a rogue customer to disconnect a call and then claim compensation.
It emerges that Vi has probably offered good data quality despite being short on spectrum and infrastructure due to its stretched finances. Did the two companies that merged face the heat due to price wars? Probably. Did the government's tough stance in demanding its "due" share of telecom revenues hurt the company? Certainly!
Trai has suggested abolition of ADC on private operators. This move will make telecom services more affordable.
'We have filed our draft red herring prospectus for a floating IPO for a net offer size of 86.6 million shares.'
It is learnt that the defence ministry is refusing to let go of its 100 MHz spectrum, which was allotted earlier. In that case, the department of telecommunications (DoT) will be left with only 175 MW of 5G spectrum of the total 300 MHz.
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