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New year, new rules: What all is changing from January 1, 2021
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Karan Manral
UPDATED ON DEC 30, 2020 02:38 PM IST
Several new rules, affecting a common man’s life, are set to come into effect from the first day of the new year.
Spectrum for 4G to be auctioned off in March
Mint, New Delhi | By Ishita Guha
UPDATED ON DEC 17, 2020 12:45 AM IST
Govt to auction Rs3.9 lakh crore worth of airwaves across seven spectrum bands
Policies, regulatory regime need to be evolved to reap full benefits of 5G: Trai chief
New Delhi, Delhi | By Press Trust of India | Posted by Shivani Kumar
UPDATED ON DEC 09, 2020 11:18 PM IST
Describing 5G as a “gamechanger”, Vaghela said it will be widely used not only within telecom but by all other sectors, and help bridge urban-rural divide.
From January 1, add 0 before dialling a mobile number from your landline
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Shankhyaneel Sarkar
UPDATED ON NOV 25, 2020 12:02 PM IST
The circular dated November 20 also said that it may inform landline customers about this change. “Fixed-to-mobile calls shall be dialled with prefix ‘0’.
Accelerating the digital transformation journey in the telecommunications space
By Samit Banerjee
UPDATED ON OCT 26, 2020 02:30 PM IST
Remote working, e-learning, and physical distancing have become the buzzwords in the present business landscape, and digitization is the driving force that is propelling this radical change.
2 TV channel owners arrested for ratings fraud, Republic TV on radar: Cops
Hindustan Times, Mumbai | By Manish K Pathak
UPDATED ON OCT 08, 2020 07:04 PM IST
Preliminary investigations also revealed that these accused persons have manipulated the sampling metering services by inducing the barometer users by paying them periodically to watch particular television channels.
PD Vaghela appointed new TRAI chief
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON SEP 28, 2020 09:49 PM IST
Vaghela was the secretary, pharmaceuticals, since August 2019. He played a crucial role in regulating prices of medicines and medical goods. Vaghela is also considered one of the foremost bureaucrats to have rolled out the goods and services tax (GST) in 2017.
TRAI says no to regulations for OTT players
Reuters | By Reuters| Posted by Susmita Pakrasi
PUBLISHED ON SEP 15, 2020 08:39 AM IST
India’s telecoms firms have long lobbied for regulation of apps that offer free voice and text services over the internet, arguing that such services erode their revenues.
Low tele-density hits parties’ plan to reach voters ahead of Bihar polls
Hindustan Times, Patna | By Subhash Pathak
UPDATED ON SEP 07, 2020 01:10 PM IST
In keeping with deteriorating dele-density (user of phone by per 100 persons in certain area), political parties are depending heavily on virtual rallies so that the electors can see their leaders live on large screens addressing them in their vicinity ahead of the polls.
Issues facing online education
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Abhishek Jha, New Delhi
UPDATED ON AUG 17, 2020 02:13 AM IST
Digital divide: Students who, in theory, have access to e-teaching will have to depend on inconvenient methods such as mobile phones
RIL’s telecom unit wants to be party in tariffs case
Mint, New Delhi | By Ishita Guha
UPDATED ON JUL 14, 2020 11:44 PM IST
It has emerged that Trai’s order barring both Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel from offering differentiated products in 4G postpaid plans was passed following a complaint filed by Jio on July 8.
Bharti Airtel may appeal Trai order on postpaid plan
Mint, New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON JUL 13, 2020 11:44 PM IST
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has blocked Bharti Airtel’s Platinum and Vodafone Idea’s RedX premium plans that offer faster data speeds and priority services to customers.
TRAI blocks Airtel, Vodafone Idea’s premium plans over net neutrality issues
New Delhi | By Asian News International | Posted by Arpan Rai
PUBLISHED ON JUL 13, 2020 06:00 PM IST
Vodafone Idea’s RedX plan has been in the market since November 2019. They made some modifications in May 2020 and the Bharti Airtel was soon going to launch a similar plan.
TRAI ‘categorically rejects’ reports on shifting to 11-digit mobile numbering plan
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By hindustantimes.com | Edited by Meenakshi Ray
PUBLISHED ON MAY 31, 2020 03:29 PM IST
It released a clarification regarding its recommendations on ‘Ensuring Adequate Numbering Resources for Fixed Line and Mobile Services’ on Friday. Reports had said the usage of 11-digit long mobile numbers was a part of that.
What TRAI said after users get ‘bill shocks’ over online conferencing calls
New Delhi | By Press Trust of India
PUBLISHED ON MAY 11, 2020 03:39 PM IST
The regulator said it is also aware of cases where the customer care centres of service providers are either premium numbers or international numbers.
TRAI calls for overhauling TV rating agency BARC’s structure
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
PUBLISHED ON APR 29, 2020 07:04 AM IST
After a consultation process involving all stakeholders, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) recommended that structural reforms are required in the governance of BARC to mitigate the potential risk of conflict of interest, improve credibility and transparency.
Internet speeds fall to lowest in 2 years
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Vijdan Mohammad Kawoosa
UPDATED ON APR 29, 2020 11:39 AM IST
The nationwide lockdown began in the last week of March while some states ordered closure of schools and a ban on public gatherings even before that, which led to people staying home
TRAI recommends making set top boxes interoperability mandatory
New Delhi | By Press Trust of India
UPDATED ON APR 11, 2020 03:29 PM IST
The TRAI also called for the setting up of a coordination committee by the I&B ministry having members from Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, TRAI, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and representatives of TV manufacturers.
DoT to finalise firm to develop spectrum auction software on March 6
Mumbai | By Press Trust of India
UPDATED ON FEB 14, 2020 09:33 PM IST
Financial bids of qualified firms will open on February 28 and the auctioneer will be finalised on March 6.
Rajya Sabha panel lays out child porn crackdown plan
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By Saubhadra Chatterji
UPDATED ON DEC 24, 2019 01:18 AM IST
Naidu constituted the panel, comprising senior leaders from 10 political parties, to look into the issue of easy access of pornography to children and its implications.
Relief for Vodafone Idea, Airtel as Trai defers scrapping IUC levy
Live Mint, New Delhi | By Navadha Pandey
UPDATED ON DEC 18, 2019 01:38 PM IST
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) will now scrap IUC from January 1, 2021 instead of next month.
RS panel to consult social media firms on how to stop kids from accessing porn
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | By HT Correspondent
UPDATED ON DEC 04, 2019 05:53 AM IST
The group held its first meeting in New Delhi on Tuesday and laid the broad contours of MPs’ task. The panel is likely to give its report by the end of this month after talking to experts and agencies, said a member of the group.
After Airtel and Vodafone Idea, Reliance Jio to hike mobile tariffs
New Delhi | By Press Trust of India
UPDATED ON NOV 19, 2019 08:41 PM IST
Reliance Jio said telecom regulator TRAI is likely to initiate consultation process for revision in telecom tariffs.
Trai fixes mobile call ring time at 30 seconds; 60 secs for landline
New Delhi | By Press Trust of India
PUBLISHED ON NOV 01, 2019 06:39 PM IST
Telecom operators on their own were reducing incoming call ring time to attract reverse call from subscriber of other networks.
Jio charges for voice calls for IUC, rival telcos may wait till Jan 2020
New Delhi | By Indo Asian News Service
UPDATED ON OCT 19, 2019 01:22 PM IST
The company said that it has paid IUC to Airtel, Vodafone Idea and other operators while offering free voice calls to its customers. So far in the last three years, Reliance Jio has claimed to have paid nearly Rs 13,500 crore as NET IUC charges to the other operators.
Is India’s internet economy also slowing?
Livemint | By Sneha Alexander
UPDATED ON SEP 03, 2019 05:52 PM IST
According to data from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), between 2014 and 2018, the number of wireless subscribers doubled to 568 million even as data usage rose a whopping 56-times to 46.4 billion GB over the same period.
Indian market yet to see return on 4G spends, believes Ookla co-founder and GM
New Delhi | By Abhijit Ahaskar
PUBLISHED ON AUG 21, 2019 10:34 PM IST
The reason behind the speed degradation could be capacity, spectrum, last mile connectivity or backhaul: Ookla co-founder.
Airtel says 5G spectrums ‘unaffordable’, urges Govt to reduce base price
Mumbai | By Press Trust of India
PUBLISHED ON MAY 31, 2019 09:28 PM IST
Vittal said the base prices recommended by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) places the radiowaves in the ballpark range of Rs 50,000-55,000 crore for 100 MHz of spectrum.
Hackers stand right behind as you shop online in India
New Delhi | By Indo Asian News Service
UPDATED ON MAY 12, 2019 02:40 PM IST
With more and more Indians going online and generating never-heard-before kind of data, hackers have turned their focus on a country with over 450 million smartphone users and more than 550 million Internet users.
Nine crore TV homes migrate to new tariff regime: Trai chief
New Delhi | By Press Trust of India
UPDATED ON FEB 10, 2019 01:48 PM IST
RS Sharma, who is spearheading Trai’s new tariff and regulatory framework for broadcasting and cable services, said of the nine crore TV homes that have made their channel preferences clear, 6.5 crore are cable TV homes and 2.5 crore are DTH homes.
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