Just days prior to his term coming to an end, TRAI chairman Pradip Baijal on Wednesday recommended on one of the most crucial issues of number portability on mobile phones saying the facility can be made available for a one-time payment of Rs 200.
Trai lowering of roaming tariffs likely to have negligible impact on financials as existing headline tariffs are lower.
The average monthly revenue per subscriber has declined to Rs 374 for the quarter ended September 2005 for GSM mobile operators while for the CDMA operators the figure is even lower at Rs 244.
Cellular operators have sought intervention by TRAI to restrain Reliance Infocomm from offering predatory tariffs in its new unlimited talktime plans claiming this was non-compliance of the regulator's order.
Following a directive from telecom regulator TRAI, private cellular operator Hutch has stopped offering push-to-talk services to its subscribers with effect from March 9.
Telecom regulator TRAI has asked Hutch and Idea Cellular to stop charging higher rates for calls made to the mobile networks of state-owned BSNL and MTNL as compared to the same made to private GSM operators.\n
Telecom regulator TRAI on Thursday announced a substantial cut in levy accrued to state-owned BSNL at Rs 3,200 crore (Rs 32 billion) from over Rs 5,000 crore (Rs 50 billion) and shifted to revenue share regime from per call basis.
The figure is based on the base price of spectrum for the upcoming auction fixed by the TRAI and on the assumption that there will be no bidding war.
Company says it has been the victim of a 'mischievous' campaign by rivals.
The euphoria over the lifetime validity offered by all cellular operators may be short lived as the telecom regulator TRAI
The spat between cable TV operators and broadcasters continues despite the appointment of Trai, with the cable service providers accusing Trai of being helpless in reining in broadcasters and calling for a licence regime to control the channels.
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Local and national SMS tariff has also been reduced by 75%
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Operators to miss January 1 deadline, express inability to upgrade system before 4-6 months.
Telecom tribunal TDSAT on Friday reserved the judgement on MTNL's petition challenging the new levy regime of TRAI, which could result in a loss of Rs 550 crore (Rs 5.5 billion) to the public sector undertaking, till Monday.
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The minister said revenue receipts for 2014-15 will be generated from auction of spectrum in 800MHz, 900 MHz and 1800 MHz bands and from annual spectrum usage charges.
Six major multi-system operators on Wednesday resented any move to scrap conditional access system in favour of - TRAP - a new system saying it was being promoted by vested parties both broadcasters and telecom operators.
It seems the Congress party's act of bravado in opposing the ordinance on Nripendra Misra witnessed in the Lok Sabha on Friday may prove to be just that: an act. Rediff.com contributor Anita Katyal reports.
Complying with the Trai directive, Idea Cellular has stopped levying one time migration fee from one of its tariff plans to the other and has refunded the subscribers their due amount.
Hearing from Apr 18 by five-judge SC bench against WhatsApp, FB move; Centre, Trai also summoned
Reliance's much publicised STD call offer of 40 paise a minute to subscribers in its network may not be possible with telecom regulator Trai on Tuesday saying that the company was yet to submit revised tariff package
Softening its stand on reduction in access deficit charge, a levy paid by private operators to BSNL for rural telephony, the department of telecom on Tuesday said the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India must ensure that by doing so the revenues of
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Reliance Communications lost the largest number of users.
It said that fixing reserve price of 800 MHz band at low levels benefits a certain set of operators.
Cellular operators on Tuesday said they were ready to implement the new tariff structure including contentious interconnection user charge from May 1.
Cellular operators on Thursday sought the help of the Telecom Regulator against the WLL players whom they allege are misleading the public into believing that WLL(M) was identical and even more advanced than mobile services.\n\n\n\n
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