Trai extends deadline for consultation paper on Free Data

Last of date for receipt of comments and counter comments on Free Data has been extended till June 30 and July 14 respectively

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Tuesday extended the deadline for comments and counter-comments on its consultation paper on free data, issued on May 19.

The last of date of receipt of comments and counter- comments on free data has been extended till June 30 and July 14, respectively, said the regulator, adding that such a step had been taken on the “request of stakeholder”.

Earlier the written comments on the consultation paper were invited from the stakeholders by June 16 and counter-comments by June 30.

Trai had floated the consultation paper in an effort to explore transparent models that can achieve benefits of free data. “This consultation paper is being issued to explore model(s) that could achieve the benefits of offering free data, while avoiding the ingenuity that the Differential Tariff Regulation is meant to prevent,” said the regulator in the paper.