Cellular operators on Monday moved Telecom Dispute Settlement and Appellate Tribunal against limited mobility operators accusing them of violating licence conditions and judicial orders of the tribunal.
Tata Sky gets Zee bouquet, not to charge extra.
"Respondent (Zee-Turner) would supply all its 32 channels from all bouquets to the petitioner (Tata Sky) within 48 hours," said TDSAT chairman Justice Arun Kumar, admitting the prayer of Tata Sky, an 80:20 Tata-Star venture, in this regard.\n\n
After remaining closed for more than two months, the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal is set to resume functioning with new chairman from next week.
From banks and credit card firms to mobile operators, everyone is using the power of SMS to reach out to potential customers and now, even Telecom Disputes Settlement And Appellate Tribunal has jumped the SMS bandwagon.
The ban had been imposed by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting after one of its radio jockeys allegedly made a derogatory remark against Indian Idol winner Prashant Tamanag.
The Supreme Court on Friday deferred till Monday (November 10) the hearing on the appeals filed by Cellular Operators' Association of India against a telecom tribunal verdict allowing WLL.
The Telecom Dispute Settlement and Appellate Tribunal on Friday, by a majority judgement of 2:1, dismissed the petition filed by cellular operators challenging government's decision.
So far, most of those horrified by the dramatic evidence that surfaced last week of Telecom Minister A Raja's largesse on 2G spectrum costing the nation $10bn (that on 3G will probably cost another $5bn) have comforted themselves with one thought: maybe the Telecom Dispute Settlement and Appellate Tribunal, which is hearing the case, will conclude the policy changes were illegal and smacked of favouritism.
The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal has wrapped up hearings on the government policy allowing fixed-line telephone firms to offer cheaper limited mobility services and will rule later on the issue.
The Supreme Court on Friday stayed a telecom dispute tribunal's order directing the government to give to cellular phone service providers copies of files pertaining to its decision allowing WLL operations.
Government on Wednesday decided to appeal in Supreme Court against telecom tribunal's order rejecting its claim of privilege on certain internal documents which led to the decision to allow basic operators to offer limited mobility services.
Telecom tribunal on Monday fixed April 2 as the date for hearing of petitions by Association of Basic Telecom Operators, Cellular Operators Association of India, Data Access and Bharti Telesonic against telecom regulator's IUC regime.
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.
In a major setback to the leading telecom giant, telecom tribunal TDSAT on Wednesday dismissed Bharti's petition for refund of Rs 135 crore (Rs 1.35 billion) paid by it as licence fees for entry into basic services prior to the new uniform licencing
In a setback to the telecom regulator, the Telecom Dispute Settlement and Appellate Tribunal has barred TRAI from intervening in any dispute arising between two operators on the terms and conditions of interconnection.
The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal has decided to charge commission on the petitions, claims and suits for recovery of money or an outstanding amount.
A high-powered group of ministers on Thursday decided to go for a unified licence regime for telecom services, a move seen to resolve the ongoing battle between basic and cellular operators on limited mobile services.
The cellular operators criticised the majority judgement of the TDSAT, which had permitted the WLL services, saying there was no reason given by the two judges to justify their views which were contrary to those of the TDSAT chairman.
TRAI said it will submit recommendations on the TDSAT's directive to work out a level playing field between the cellular and basic operators offering wireless in local loop services, to the government in 2-3 months.
With the hotting up of the telecom and broadcasting sector due to entry of more and more players, legal disputes in the field are bound to increase, Justice Santosh Hegde, who took over as chairperson of TDSAT, said on Monday.
Telecom Dispute Settlement and Appellate Tribunal on Wednesday sought the views of cellular operators regarding the alleged loss to their revenues on account of limited mobility services.
In a major victory for Zee-promoted DTH provider Dish TV, Telecom Disputes Settlement And Appellate Tribunal ordered Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star on Friday to provide its channels to the platform within the next 15 days.
The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal has given the go-ahead to MTNL for recovering Rs 8.7 crore from Data Access.
Delhi High Court says it can do so under the TRAI Act, rejects petitions filed by telecom associations.
'Similar to the case of the digital payment system where the government created a public platform and others joined in, we are exploring a similar structure to create a PPP platform where the compute required for AI could be accessed by the small player.'
It said the petitioner could also approach Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal with his plea.
Vodafone had contended in its plea that DoT instead of signing and executing the ULs had at the last moment informed them that their request for deletion of 'restrictive' clauses in licence pertaining to roaming cannot be accepted.
TDSAT had stated no amount was payable till resolution of the disputes.
Telecom operators Vodafone and Idea Cellular on Monday said they will resume 3G services in circles where they don't have spectrum through intra-circle roaming (ICR) pacts with other operators.
In a setback to telecom service providers, the Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Centre's plea to recover adjusted gross revenue (AGR) of about Rs 92,000 crore from them.
Jio had launched the inaugural free voice and data plan in September last year, and in December, extended the freebies till March 31, 2017
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The ministry's move to intervene in the matter comes 20 days before implementation, after broadcasters complained they would suffer huge loss because digitisation was still in the first phase across the country.
The tribunal accepted the government's argument that licence or spectrum is a state asset over which Aircel had no right of ownership.
The Chief Justice, while speaking at the farewell reference organised by the high court, said that judges are only interpreters and are not here to make the law or to evolve a policy and a balance has to be maintained between judicial activism and restraint.
The Sunil Mittal led firm accused the regulator of "wrongly" holding Jio's promotional offer as compliant with the regulatory guidelines
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