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Issue guidelines to ascertain predatory pricing: TDSAT to telecom regulator

But Jio, which was also a respondent in the matter, said free calls were permissible under the guidelines

Department of telecom aims to clear Trai suggestions by March 31

Trai proposals would be processed and placed before "competent authorities for consideration" within the stipulated timeline, he asserted

Trai issues interconnectivity rules; fixes 30-day deadline for inking pacts

The new interconnection regulations will apply to all the service providers offering telecom services in India

Trai mulls ways for telcos closing operations to return unused balance

Such telcos may crediting the unused amount to the Aadhaar-linked bank accounts of their consumers in a Direct Benefit Transfer type model

Trai may cut mobile number porting cost by 80% to Rs 4 from Rs 19

Trai decided that upper ceiling for per port transaction charge may be reduced as costs of operations of MNPSPs have substantially gone down

Indian telecom subscriber base declines to 1.2 bn in October: Trai data

The mobile subscriber base in the country declined by 48.5 lakh to 117.82 crore in October

Test networks with 5% subscribers: Trai

Trai said a telecom company should be allowed to enroll subscribers for network testing before launch of services

Trai takes the right call

Some niggles still need to be ironed out in net neutrality suggestions

Trai favours removing cap on spectrum holding by telcos

If these suggestions are accepted by the telecom department, they would provide a major relief for the soon-to -be-merged Idea Cellular and Vodafone

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, ..