There is no plan to direct over the top (OTT) communications players who generate large amounts of traffic to give a 'fair and proportionate' share of their revenues to telecom network operators, the communications ministry has said. A senior official allayed any such apprehension by saying: "We have no proposal of this kind or anything like this which we are working on. "There is no fresh reference on this matter to the regulator (Trai)," he said. The ministry's view is significant as telecom network operators have been escalating this issue since July when Trai issued a consultation paper called 'Regulatory Mechanism Over OTT Communication Services and Selective Banning of OTT Services'.
State-run BSNL on Tuesday moved TDSAT against the regulator's order, asking the company to reduce carriage charges from 65 paise to 20 paise a minute irrespective of the distance.
VSNL on Wednesday got a temporary relief after telecom regulator TRAI decided to keep its earlier order of announcing up to 64 per cent reduction in international bandwidth prices in abeyance till October 3.
The authority has received over 10 lakh (1 million) petitions.
The social media giant had launched a public campaign to defend its platform.
Telecom operators have to take double confirmation from consumers before activating value added services (VAS) and must complete de-activation requests in four hours, sectoral regulator Trai said.
Under attack for not acting tough on inter-connection disputes between public sector undertakings and private telecom operators, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
Telecom regulator TRAI on Wednesday said operators can offer a special set of tariffs to their own customers and different tariffs to subscribers of any other network.
The attack comes in the backdrop of the regulatory authority uploading about one million comments on net neutrality
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.
The basic telecom operators accused Trai of not following the process of transparent consultation on matters as significant as amending the licence terms of one set of operators, and urged the government not to implement Trai's recommendations.
Its pre-consultation paper has been silent on the issue of closed electronic communication network, a loophole telcos can exploit to offer discriminatory pricing.
The government plans to remove the definition of broadcasting services altogether from the bill to help reduce confusion among stakeholders.
Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJIL) has written to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) stating that a recent complaint against it by Bharti Airtel is a deliberate, malicious attempt at defaming RJIL's consumer-friendly tariff. RJIL has also asked the regulator to warn Airtel against 'making such frivolous complaints in the future'. The move is in response to Airtel recently requesting Trai to bring content aired through broadband under the regulatory fold and keep a check against discriminatory bundling tactics.
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.
...benefiting 350,000 persons. Also, Trai detected and blocked seven million mobile phone connections involved in cyber fraud and suspicious activities.
Tata Teleservices has accused Trai of favouring the GSM players in spectrum allocation.
Currently, STB of a particular operator cannot be used by a consumer to receive signals of another operator
Call rates to be reduced by 35%, text charges by 80%.
The Apex court had earlier given Trai four months time on February 4 for coming up with recommendation on telecom interconnection charges which expired on June 4.
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The inter-ministerial body will take the final decision on October 29 taking into account Trai's reply.
The plethora of tariff schemes offered by telecom service providers has caught the attention of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on Friday announced setting up of a Telecom Consumers Education and Protection Fund to educate and inform the consumers.
India's telecom regulator TRAI on Wednesday slashed mobile roaming tariffs by up to 56 per cent and also scrapped rental for roaming services.
The next spectrum auction will be held in late February 2024 and the reserve price for most bands will remain the same as the 2022 auction, department of telecommunications (DoT) officials have said. The government expects operators to go for low bands beginning in 600 megahertz (MHz), licences for many of which are lapsing soon. Back in September 2021, the government had decided that spectrum auctions should be held annually.
Jio had launched the inaugural free voice and data plan in September last year, and in December, extended the freebies till March 31, 2017
As per the latest data released by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), Vodafone Idea -- born last year from the merger of older operators Vodafone India and Idea Cellular -- continues to be the largest operator with 38.75 crore consumers and 33.36 per cent market share in the wireless segment as on May 31, 2019.
Reliance Infocomm chief Anil Ambani is understood to have raised a number of issues, including interconnection in telecom
Jio makes data on call drops public, says 121 mn calls failed in a day
Telcos say tests were done in the known problematic areas of Delhi-NCR, where operators face issues in obtaining cell sites.
Welcoming the concept of uniform call rates across India, proposed by Communication and IT Minister Dayanidhi Maran, Telecom regulator TRAI on Tuesday said this was a progressive step forward and it would take Indian telecom sector to new highs.
Bharatiya Janata Party has issued a whip to its members in the Lok Sabha to support a Bill to amend the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, which seeks to remove a legal hurdle in the appointment of former TRAI chairman Nripendra Misra as principal secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Telecom regulator TRAI on Tuesday expressed concern at the 'alarming congestion' in mobile networks, saying it was an issue largely between BSNL and the private mobile operators.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India received the award at the Frost & Sullivan Technology awards in Singapore.
The CPI(M) on Friday renewed its demand for sacking of TRAI chief Pradeep Baijal and a full-scale probe into the entire 'scam.'\n
Mobile subscribers from May 3 will be able to port their numbers anywhere in the country.
TRAI seeks views to regulate net-based calling, messaging apps
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on Tuesday extended the deadline to June 30 for service providers for filing their revenue sharing agreements, which have to conform to Interconnection Usage Charges regulation.\n\n
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