The department of telecommunications has referred the issue of using multiple technologies under a single unified access services licence to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
It is significant that Modi who speaks of introducing a new kind of governance, decided to amend the law to accommodate one person, when the law was made to ensure that bureaucrats do not use their connections to seek out lucrative postings.
Indian telecom operators may soon be asked to compulsorily give their customers the option of paying tariff based on usage per second instead of the current per minute pulse, sector regulator TRAI said.
Internet service providers will have to pay a nominal entry fee of Rs 30 lakh and no licence fee to offer corporate networking services, TRAI said in its recommendations on Tuesday.
Telecom regulator TRAI on Friday fixed at Rs 19 the reference rate for portability to charged from users for changing operator while retaining the number.
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on Tuesday directed the cellular and basic telecom operators to provide accessibility to Internet services for cellular subscribers.
The total number of telephone connections in the country crossed the record one billion mark in May, bolstered by growth in number of mobile users.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India will announce on Saturday the revised basic telecom tariffs, including monthly rentals, call charges and the much-awaited interconnection charge.
All existing emergency numbers will be phased out within a year of rolling out 112, depending upon the awareness about this new facility.
The Delhi High Court has issued a notice to MTNL on a petition filed by telecom regulator TRAI challenging TDSAT's order to go ahead with adjudication of regulations on the new access deficit charge levy regime.
This puts an end to Facebook's Free Basics and Airtel's zero rating plans in India.
Telecom operator Vodafone has been the top gainer of customers through mobile number portability facility while Reliance Communications is the biggest loser.
100 commentators, across languages, will bring this season's games to viewers's homes in India and across the world.
Trai wants to prevent accidental activation of such services.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Monday said the DTH subscriber base has swelled to more than 13 million in the country, indicating an increased penetration of the service.
On September 4, Trai issued a consultation paper on call drops.
Telecom operators are not opposed to over-the-top service providers like Skype, Viber, WhatsApp but looking to work in synergy with them, Bharti Enterprises Vice Chairman Akhil Gupta said on Wednesday.
New telecom operators such as Swan, Unitech, Datacom and Loop, and Reliance Communications have asked regulator Trai to reduce the termination charges, while existing GSM players, led by Bharti, want the 30 paise per minute charge to continue.
According to sources, Idea Cellular has agreed to provide interconnection to RCom thereby not becoming a part of Cellular Operators' Association of India's likely petition against Trai's directive on the same. Besides, other operators to provide interconnectivity to RCom GSM network are Aircel and Spice Communication.
As the TRAI imposed deadline ends on April 24, Rediff Chat will host a series of net activists and experts to explain the issues involved, what is at stake here, and why net neutrality needs to be an article of faith if the dream of Digital India is to be realised.
Rahul Khullar's guiding credo was that a civil servant must never lose sight of his client: The little guy. The evil men are those who are decision-makers but abdicate their responsibility of taking decisions, leading people to lose confidence in public institutions.
The government has asked the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to speed up its responses on the allegations that Reliance Communications (RCom) has violated revenue reporting norms. The government will also appoint a special auditor to scrutinise RCom's books.
Mobile tower radiation reaching us is more than a thousand times weaker than that from the handsets we use and the Indian standards are 10 times more stringent than the global norms recommended by the World Health Organisation, points out T V Ramachandran.
When on October 24, the Supreme Court, on a petition moved by the government, ordered payment of past dues according to its new definition of AGR, the country's second-biggest carrier Vodafone-Idea Ltd warned of shut down if no relief is given. The total dues for the industry ran into a whopping Rs 1.47 lakh crore. For an industry that has come from 7-8 operators to just three private players and state-owned fourth operator, the warning by Vodafone-Idea sounded like a death knell.
The Congress remains isolated as the ruling Bharartiya Janata Party wins over majority of its Opposition on the bill that clears the legal hurdle for Prime Minister Narendra Modi to appoint a principal secretary of his choice -- former TRAI chairman Nripendra Misra. Anita Katyal reports
Several factors have held India back. One is DoT policy somersaults and lack of clarity on whether to or not to ban Chinese gear makers.
Nivedita Mookerji explains why a timely rollout of 5G may not be easy in India.
Reliance Communications (RCom) has served legal notice to the government on allocation of additional spectrum to existing GSM operators.
The broadcast regulator, TRAI, on Friday announced an increase of about 7 per cent in cable rates, both conditional access system notified and non-CAS areas in the country.
Call drop problem to improve in 12-16 weeks in Delhi: Vodafone
In a reversal of its recommendations made in April 2008, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India whittled the increase it had suggested then in the foreign direct investment cap for companies set up to uplink television news channels, as well as in FM radio.
GSM operators may face the music as DoT considers the decision of taking away excess spectrum.
This means that if Star TV's bouquet of 14 channels is priced at Rs 88 in non-CAS areas (70 million cable TV homes), it can charge only Rs 44 or less from existing DTH operators like Tata Sky, Dish TV and new entrants like Big TV, Bharti and Sun Direct. But all broadcasters are charging more from DTH companies than from non-CAS cable homes.
The overall wireless subscriber base increased to 114 crore at the end of June
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Income will be higher as spectrum in 2,100-MHz band will also be auctioned
Mobile operators have strongly opposed the decision of telecom regulator Trai to impose penalties on them for unsolicited calls, saying the move is "unfair" and would discourage service providers which cannot be blamed for the nuisance.
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