Broadcasters wary of TRAI decision on review pricing
They fear that the intrusive approach by the regulator will only discourage and disincentivise fresh investments into the sector, which can have dire consequences.
Aug 20, 2019, 10:58 AM IST
Jio adds most subscribers in April; Airtel, VIL lose
State-run BSNL was the only other gainer with over 2.28 lakh new subscribers taking its total tally to around 11.59 crore.
Jun 25, 2019, 11:10 AM IST
Trai seeks views on free spectrum allotment worth Rs 98,520 cr to Railways
The DoT in its comment to Trai mentioned that the spectrum in 700 MHz band is a valuable spectrum as the reserve price provided by the regulator Trai in its recommendations dated August 1, 2018 on pan-India basis comes out to be Rs 98,520 crore for 15 MHz (paired) spectrum.
Jun 25, 2019, 10:10 AM IST
DCC clears imposing penalty on Airtel, Voda Idea; seeks Trai view on fine amount
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) in October 2016 recommended imposing total penalty of Rs 3,050 crore on Airtel, Vodafone Idea for allegedly denying interconnectivity to newcomer RJio.
Jun 17, 2019, 15:03 PM IST
Trai to initiate consultation on spectrum issues, valuation methodology in 2019
Trai, in August this year, had recommended rules and prices for the next round of spectrum auction that included radiowaves for 5G mobile services and other bands.
Nov 29, 2018, 14:51 PM IST
Trai to be renamed as DCRAI soon
The minister earlier in the day shared change in name of Telecom Commission-- apex decision-making body at the Department of Telecom, to Digital Communications Commission.
Sep 27, 2018, 17:57 PM IST
TRAI releases TCCCPR 2018 to check pesky calls and spams
The regulation says that the companies will have to register themselves for commercial SMS and calls.
Jul 20, 2018, 17:59 PM IST
TRAI notifies draft norms to curb pesky calls, texts
The new features of the regulation are adoption of Distributed Ledger Technology (or blockchain) as the RegTech to enforce regulatory compliance while allowing innovation in the market.
May 29, 2018, 17:04 PM IST
Telcos' revenue dips 8.6% to Rs 2.55 lakh crore; govt collections from licence fee
The gross revenue for the sector stood at Rs 2.79 lakh crore in 2016.
May 04, 2018, 17:22 PM IST
Guess how many people changed mobile operators in January 2018
The highest number of MNP requests till date have been received in Karnataka (35.27 million) followed by Andhra Pradesh (30.15 million).
Mar 23, 2018, 20:59 PM IST
Mobile bills to become cheaper, TRAI slashes international incoming call termination rates
These rates are paid by foreign carriers for terminating international calls in India.
Jan 12, 2018, 17:53 PM IST
Trai's net neutrality views by Oct-end; OTT consultation soon
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has already concluded open house discussions around the controversial issue of net neutrality and is in the process of drafting the recommendations.
Oct 02, 2017, 12:51 PM IST
Trai's discussion paper on spectrum auction likely this week
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is likely to release a discussion paper on spectrum auction this week, chairman R S Sharma said on Monday.
Aug 21, 2017, 13:11 PM IST
Trai gets tough on call drops; slaps penalty of upto Rs 10 lakh
Telecom regulator TRAI on Thursday issued stringent guidelines to curb call drops along with a penalty of up to Rs 10 lakh on service providers if they fail to meet the benchmark for three consecutive quarters.
Aug 18, 2017, 15:44 PM IST
Trai to begin consultation on mobile applications seeking user data
The submission by the Centre was made before a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Justice Dipak Misra which was examining the contentious issue of 2016 privacy policy of WhatsApp.
Jul 23, 2017, 14:44 PM IST
Major telcos push for doubling mobile call termination charge
Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular on Tuesday sought doubling of interconnection usage charge (IUC), a key input for mobile rates, saying that incoming calls to their networks cost 30 paise per minute to complete.
Jul 18, 2017, 15:55 PM IST
Satellite phone sector is open for all: Telecom Minister
BSNL has set-up gateway for satellite phone service in partnership with INMARSAT at a cost of around Rs 83 crore.
Jul 16, 2017, 15:54 PM IST
Telecom subscriber base in India crosses 1.2 billion mark
The telecom subscriber base crossed 1.2 billion mark in May, according to sectoral regulator Trai.
While the growth was led by 6.23 million net subscriber additions in the mobile services segment, it was marginally impacted by decline of 0.14 million landline subscribers.
'Reliance Jio eats into market share of large telcos in 2016'
Reliance Jio ended the year with 6.4 per cent market share, as per data by telecom regulator Trai. Leading telecom majors Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular saw their market shares shrinking in 2016.
Jul 03, 2017, 22:48 PM IST
Trai exhorts operators to launch data pack with 1 year validity
Telecom regulator Trai has asked telecom operators to launch at least one mobile Internet data pack that has higher validity of one year.
Jun 05, 2017, 17:04 PM IST