Reliance Jio and incumbent operators are at loggerheads over PoI to facilitate voice calls among their networks
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has extended the date for receiving comments on its discussion paper on interconnect usage charges (IUC) for the second time as stakeholders have sought more time to formulate their responses in view of the coming spectrum auction.Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has extended the date to October 17 for written comments and counter-comments can be sent by October 31.The consultation paper was issued on August 5, 2016, and last date for sending comments was fixed at September 5, which was extended to September 26.
Trai has asked them to furnish the said data from September 15-19
Trai has already extended the deadline by three weeks for receiving industry's comments on the IUC discussion paper
The move will enable the regulator to look at the pattern, including asymmetric traffic on networks
Gartner estimates that IoT will support total services spending of $235 billion in 2016
The move may help the regulator analyse allegations by RIL group firm against incumbents on interconnection issue
Earlier Jio had said the points of interconnection provided by other operators were not sufficient
On Friday, Jio insisted that the director general of COAI leave the meeting involving top three telcos and Trai
COAI said that operators are in no position by way of network or financially to terminate volumes of traffic that are markedly asymmetric
Trai in July had released a consultation paper, seeking views on making broadband available through public Wi-Fi networks
Earlier, the last date to send comments was September 5
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The move is likely to meet with resistance from ISPs as it increases the cost of delivering broadband for them
The move will benefit the entry level users, who go for cheaper data plans with longer validity period
If a consumer fails to use up data purchased through voucher within the specified period, then the unused data lapses
Trai in May this year had come out with a consultation paper to explore models for providing free data to consumers without violating the concept of net neutrality
The portal will let users to see various quality parameters like call drops, coverage and call quality
The information would be available on the URL http://analytics.Trai.Gov.In