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Monitoring all offers, will intervene if regulations are not met: Trai

Telecom service providers have joined forces with mobile phone manufacturers to bring bundled 4G smartphones

Trai to meet telcos on international call termination rates

International settlement rates to be paid to the Indian access provider is decided domestically

DoT approaches TRAI on review of spectrum caps for telcos

The recommendations made by the IMG tasked with examining financial stress in the telecom sector

Trai plans to upgrade MySpeed app, mulls new method to track data speed

Draft report on the underlying methodology and algorithms used in the app to be prepared by month-end

Relief for telecom sector, spectrum payment deferred to 16 years

It means the interest rate on delayed payments will come down to 12 per cent

IUC cut a boost for Reliance Industries

The Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRAI)'s decision to cut interconnect usage charge (IUC) by 57 per cent from 1st October and further to nil from start of 2020 further boosted street sentiment towards Reliance Industries (RIL). The RIL stock hit new highs of Rs 872.10 following expectations of better prospects of its telecom venture, Jio. Although analysts had expected IUC charges to be revised from current 14 paise to 7 paise per minute, TRAI reduced it to 6 paise effective 1st October. This should bring down costs for Reliance Jio. Motilal Oswal Securities estimates IUC cost savings of Rs 6,000 crore to Rs 4,500 crore, while adding that Jio's IUC per subscriber should reduce from Rs 85 to Rs 40. Analysts at Kotak Institutional Equities say that for Jio, which is running a net IUC bill of about $1 billion, this would mean an annualised saving of $550-600 million.Not surprising that analysts at CLSA see the cut in IUC boosting RIL's earnings by eight per cent over FY18-20. They have ..

Trai to assess India's potential in manufacturing local telecom equipment

Trai had floated a consultation paper on the subject in December 2010

Trai bats for homemade telecom equipment

Issues paper to identify policy and incentives, aims to beat security threat from foreign goods

Trai restarts consultation on pesky calls, SMSes

The regulator has asked for comments on the paper by October 12 and counter comments by October 26, 2017

Trai recommends delicensing of some spectrum for M2M services

In order to facilitate smooth roll-out of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications utilizing licence exempt airwaves, sectoral regulator Trai has recommended delicencing of a chunk of spectrum in a few bands. Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) in its recommendations on "spectrum, roaming and quality of service related requirements in M2M communications" said spectrum allocation should be technology and service neutral and no separate spectrum band should be allocated exclusively for M2M services. However, in order to facilitate smooth roll-out of M2M services utilizing "licence exempt spectrum, 1 MHz of spectrum at 868 MHz (867-868) and a chunk of 6 MHz of spectrum at 915-935 MHz is recommended to be delicenced. Delicencing the V-band (57-64 GHZ) as recommended by the Authority on various occasions may be done on priority."M2M is the basis for automated information exchange between machines and can impact various industry verticals like smart city, smart grid, smart water, ..

Trai starts exercise for next spectrum auction across 9 bands

Sectoral regulator Trai has started the exercise for conducting next round of spectrum auction for airwaves spread across nine bands, which include two new bands that can be used for deploying 5G services as well as the spectrum which remained unsold in the last sale.The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) in April had sought recommendations from Trai for the reserve price and as well as quantum of airwaves to be sold in auction, planned to be held in 2017.However, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said given that 60 per cent of the airwaves remained unsold in the last auction held in October 2016 and concerns have been raised about the financial health of telecom industry, it is to be consulted when to conduct the auction and if entire airwaves should be put on the block at one go or should the airwaves be sold in a phased manner.Trai said the government is planning to auction the right to use of spectrum in 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 2100 MHz, 2300 MHz, ..

Trai recommends changes in MNP rules to curb portability request rejection

Rejection may be due to wrong submission or incorrect entry of UPC content by potential subscriber

Trai comes out with consultation paper on privacy and ownership of data

As it looks to protect data rights of individuals, sectoral regulator Trai has come out with a consultation paper on privacy, security and ownership of data in the telecom sector.The paper by Trai comes in the backdrop of the regulator's ongoing tussle with Apple regarding its Do-Not-Disturb (DND) app, which is not being allowed on iOS platform. The app is available of Android platform. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) through the paper plans to define personal data and who should have ownership and control when a customer uses telecom services. As per an official, the Authority has been working on the paper for the past couple of months as currently there are no guidelines regarding use of data by third party entities and also who owns the data.The Trai will come out with recommendations and in case of sovereign power, security and licencing issues, it will suggest to Department of Telecommunications to take a call on the matter. The Authority has suo-motu decided to .

Trai issues recommendations on norms for shutting down services

Trai said continuation of access services is now no longer assured

Airtel Chairman Sunil Mittal urges TRAI to reject 'bill and keep' method

Under BAK method, call termination charges are not paid

Sunil Mittal wants IUC regime to continue

Mittal writes to Trai against bill-and-keep pricing

Telecom body alleges misinformation on IUC

Trai is reportedly aiming to conclude the IUC review soon and will come out with a new framework

No need to fix floor price as of now: Trai

This came after Trai's meeting with telcos on Friday and there was consensus against such move

Trai to come out with new IUC framework soon

Incumbents say removal or lowering of IUC would hit growth of telecom infrastructure in rural areas

Trai recommends 50% cut in VSAT entry fee

There is no justification for charging additional 25 per cent amount as reuse factor