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Reliance Jio violate TRAI directions on special offers

08 Saturday Apr 2017

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Despite clear direction from the TRAI to stop the summer special offers extended for more than 90 days to customers, Reliance Jio has given advertisements continuing the offer for more than 15 days.

Probably, Reliance Jio will be thinking that Modi government will not take any action against it, since  it was Prime Minister Modi’s photo that they put in their full page advertisements earlier.

TRAI and DOT should take serious action against the violation of rules by Reliance Jio, which has resulted in great loss to the government, in terms of licence fee to the extent of 30% as reported bt DOT to the Minister.

TRAI takes firm stand on Net-Neutrality

09 Tuesday Feb 2016

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Putting an end to the discriminating tariff plans of certain net-providers like Facebook and Airtel, the TRAI has taken a firm stand on Net-Neutrality. Violation of Net-Neutrality will invite penalty up to a maximum of Rs.50 lakh.

The TRAI stated as follows: ” Keeping in view of India’s large number of Net users and content producers, the authority has taken a view that  prohibition of discriminatory tariff for data services is necessary to ensure service providers continue to fulfill obligations in keeping Internet open and non-discriminatory.”

Facebook’s Free Basics and Airtel Zero are barred accordingly. It is reported that Facebook has spent thousands of crores of rupees towards publicity of its Free Basics.

Reason has won at least for the present. TRAI has stated that it may review the decision after two years. The service providers have been given 6 months time to comply with the present decision.

 

TRAI firm on penalty for call drops

04 Monday Jan 2016

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The TRAI has firmly told the telecom companies to pay compensation for call drops to the customers from 1st January 2016. The compensation for one call drop will be Rs. 1/- and the maximum for a day is Rs.3/- for one customer.

Telecom companies are avoiding payment stating that there is case pending in the court, on which decision is expected on 6th January.

The direction  of the TRAI has resulted in less call drops.

No Penalty for Call Drops till 6th January 2016

23 Wednesday Dec 2015

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New Delhi, Dec 22 Telecom Regulatory Authority ofIndia (TRAI) today told the Delhi High Court that no coercivesteps would be taken against telecom companies till the nextdate of hearing on January 6 for not complying with the calldrop compensation norms.
Additional Solicitor General (ASG) P S Narasimha made thesubmission before a bench of Chief Justice G Rohini andJustice Jayant Nath which listed the pleas of cellularoperators challenging the call drop regulations for furtherhearing on January 6.
The ASG, however, made it clear that the regulations wouldcome into force from January 1 as was decided.
The operators have sought quashing of TRAI’s October 16ruling mandating service providers to pay subscribers Re 1 percall drop experienced on their network, subject to a cap ofthree a day.
Besides Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI),the Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India(AUSPI) and 21 telecom operators, including Vodafone, BhartiAirtel and Reliance have said that the decision has been takenknowing fully well that laws of physics make it impossible to provide a hundred per cent call drop-free network.(PTI)

1Million 4G subscribers in India – TRAI

11 Friday Dec 2015

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A recent TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) report indicated that the country has achieved around one million 4G LTE subscribers as on 30 June 2015.

The TRAI report says about 25 percent of the total wireless subscribers use wireless data (Internet) services in India.
There were about 300 million wireless Internet subscribers in the country as on 30 June 2015. Out of this subscriber base, about 207 million subscribers use 2G (GPRS, EDGE and CDMA-1X) networks to access Internet, about 92 million subscribers use 3G (HSPA, WCDMA, EVDO etc.) and rest are 4G LTE subscribers.

TRAI STATISTICS ON MOBILE INTERNET

1 million 4G subscribers
92 million 3G subscribers
207 million 2G subscribers
(Courtesy: Telecom Lead)

Telcos will have to pay consumers on call drops, Re. one for one call drop

16 Friday Oct 2015

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It is reported in the press that the TRAI is set to issue notification to the telecom companies to pay Re.1/ compensation for each call drop with a maximum of Rs. 3/- for a day. Though the telecom companies have protested, the large number of complaints on the call drops and also the assurance of the Minister that call drops will be reduced, it is almost certain that the TRAI will issue the orders.

Call Drops – Mainly due to lack of infrastructure like towers.

07 Monday Sep 2015

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The TRAI has criticised the telecom companies for the continued call drops since it is mainly due to the lack of infrastructure like towers. The telecom companies are providing connections much more than their capacity to serve. While there has been increase of 12% in GSM calls  and 106% in data usage, the number of base stations have gone up  only by 8%. The telecom operators have been asked to provide the details of the infrastructure, number of towers etc. by the TRAI.

One Million e-mails to TRAI in support of Net-Neutrality!

23 Thursday Apr 2015

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It is one of the biggest social campaign India has seen in recent times.  After the TRAI called  for an open discussion on the question of Net-Neutrality, more than 10 lakh e-mails have been received by TRAI that net-neutrality should not be compromised and the proposals to allow internet providers to charge for special schemes etc. can not be allowed.

This is a good response. The proposals against net-neutrality being thought about cannot be allowed.

 

 

India’s Teledensity increased to 77.58% – TRAI

08 Sunday Feb 2015

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Indian Telecom industry is growing along with the increase of  number of telephone connections and telephone density.

The Teledensity in India has increased from 77.12% in November to 77.58% in December 2014, according to a TRAI report.

The total number of telephone subscribers have increased from 964.20 millions to 970.97 million during the same period.

Wireless subscribers increased from 937.06 to 943.97 millions.

Broadband subscribers also increased from 82.22 millions to 85.74 millions.