Regulator Trai has found leading mobile operators such as Airtel, Vodafone and state-run BSNL using the Radio Link Time-Out technology at high levels, a network parameter allegedly being used for masking call drops.
Telecom companies today told the Supreme Court that entire sector is under huge debt and they have to pay big price for spectrum, therefore zero tolerance on call drops should not be imposed on them.
Operators have opposed the auction of the entire available bandwidth, questioning both the quantum of spectrum on offer as well as the proposed reserve price.
Inter-ministerial panel Telecom Commission today approved liberalisation of 800 MHz spectrum in circles where a market-determined price is not available.
Stating that Internet cannot be allowed to be monopoly of few, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today slammed Facebook's Free Basics programme and said such differential pricing modes are "plainly not acceptable".
Rejecting telecom operators' contention that questioned its call drop report, regulator Trai today said it will conduct another test in April and may add more cities for this.
The Indian telecom watchdog is likely to carry out another test drive in April to access the random call quality in various parts of the country, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) chairman R.S. Sharma said here on
Telecom regulator Trai today suggested Rs 11,485 crore per Mhz pan-India base price for premium 700 Mhz spectrum- the highest rate for any telecom frequency band- for the next round of auction even as leading operators have s
Telecom regulator Trai will firm up its view on spectrum price for the next round of auction and differential pricing of data, which is central to the Net neutrality issue, by the end of this month.
Sectoral regulator Trai will conduct an open house discussion on differential pricing for data services, a key aspect of net neutrality, on January 21.
Consumers have the right to get compensated for call drops and this was different from the quality of service guidelines that cellular service providers have to follow under the licence conditions, TRAI told Delhi High Court
Plagued by the vexed problem of call drops, telecom regulator TRAI today proposed that service providers should compensate mobile subscribers for call drops and poor quality of services.
Almost 16 months after the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India first submitted its recommendations, the spectrum trading and sharing guidelines were approved by the Telecom Commission on Thursday.
New Trai chairman: Ram Sewak Sharma is a 1978-batch IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre and is currently serving as secretary in the department of electronics and information technology.
