New Delhi: Broadcasters have raised concerns over the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) decision to review the issue of pricing, barely eight months after implementing the new tariff order. They fear that the intrusive approach by the regulator will only discourage and disincentive fresh investments into the sector, which can have dire consequences. Smaller […]
New Delhi: The government is taking steps to make public sector BSNL more competitive and these include upgradation of technology and capital infusion, Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday. Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the government has inherited legacy issues and steps are being taken to make BSNL more competitive. “To ensure stability in […]
New Delhi: Preparing the Cabinet note for spectrum auction, rolling out of the new digital communications policy and establishing regulatory sandboxes, 5G technology trials, policy on experimentation and trial spectrum for technologies in June, will top the agenda of the Union Telecom Ministry over the next three months once the new government takes over. With […]
Bharti Airtel, India’s leading telecommunications services provider, has re-launched its flagship customer program – #AirtelThanks. Continuing on Airtel’s strategy of winning with quality customers, the new enhanced program is designed to deliver exclusive rewards. New #AirtelThanks – Enhanced program with Silver, Gold, Platinum tiers. Benefits offered customized to each customer, and higher tiers keep opening […]
New Delhi: Mobile subscriber base of Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel declined by nearly 14.5 million and 15.1 million respectively, totalling nearly 30 million subscribers as of March over the previous month, while Reliance Jio added 9.4 million users, according to the TRAI data. Except Jio, all telcos have lost subscribers in March. India’s total wireless […]
New Delhi: 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. The country has 366 million Internet subscribers in urban locations and 194 million in rural areas, says the latest […]
In a happy-happy news for all the Reliance Jio users, a speed chart published by telecom regulator TRAI for March revealed that Jio continues to lead in the average 4G download. Jio achieved 22.2 Mbps average download speed in the month of March, witnessing an improvement from 20.9 Mbps in February. Reliance Jio was the […]
New Delhi: With 22.2 Mbps (megabits per second) average download speed, Reliance Jio topped the 4G download speed chart of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) for March. For Jio, its an improvement over 20.9 Mbps achieved in February. Reliance Jio was the fastest 4G operator in 2018 with the highest average download speed […]
New Delhi: Reliance Jio and state-run BSNL were the only telecom operators to broaden their subscriber base in February 2019, according to data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Thursday. The subscriber base of Jio stood at around 29.72 crore in February, with an addition of 77.93 lakh users over January. […]
Mumbai: Reliance Industries Ltd on Wednesday announced that its subsidiary Reliance Jio has acquired Mumbai-based Haptik — one of the world’s largest conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms — for about Rs 700 crore. Reliance will hold about 87 per cent of the business, with the rest being held by Haptik’s founders and employees via stock […]
New Delhi: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in a white paper released on Friday said although deployment of the 5G network would require substantial investments, the operators which currently have 4G network would need a lesser amount of investment as they can use their existing 4G infrastructure for 5G services. The white paper […]
New Delhi: Reliance Jio continued to increase its subscriber base in December as other major telecom operators Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel lost users during the period, data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) showed on Wednesday. Reliance Jio added 85.6 lakh subscribers during the month under review, taking its total subscriber […]
New Delhi: Bills of cable TV and Direct-To-Home (DTH) services are likely to increase for most subscribers, a Crisil report said here on Monday. The report said that the new norms, which came into force on February 1, would benefit Over-the-Top (OTT) platforms. “The network capacity fee (NCF) and channel prices announced by broadcasters and […]
New Delhi: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) amended the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) regulations to ease and quicken the process of portability. The timeline for porting a mobile number within the Intra-Licensed Service Area (Intra-LSA) or the same circle has been limited to two days and that in a different circle or an […]
San Francisco: Apple puts a spam-filtering app “Do Not Disturb” on its iOS App Store, months after regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) threatened to ban iPhones if the firm did not approve the app by January 2019. “Fed up with years of waiting for Apple to implement anti-spam measures for iPhones, India’s telecom […]
New Delhi: The Centre has re-appointed Ram Sewak Sharma as Chairperson of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) for a further period of two years. According to an official information note issued by the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) on Thursday, the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved Sharma’s re-appointment for […]
New Delhi: Travel industry observers have welcomed the Indian telecom regulator’s recommendation to allow both Internet access and mobile phone calls on board aircraft in Indian airspace. “It is a progressive move and good for today’s travellers who want to be connected all the time,” Sharat Dhall, COO (B2C) with Yatra.com told IANS. “Also brings […]
New Delhi: Reliance Jio has topped the telecom regulator’s 4G download speed test for the eighth consecutive month, official data showed on Monday. According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s speed data, Jio recorded average speed of 18.433 Mbps for the month of August. It was followed by Vodafone (8.999 Mbps), Idea Cellular (8.746 […]
New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Reliance Jio that has recently started delivering JioPhone to its customers has restricted free voice calling service to 300 minutes per day. Company sources said to avoid misuse of the service, Reliance Jio will allow a maximum of 300 minutes (5 hours) free calls per day. The connection can only be used for […]
New Delhi: Majority of telecom operators will seek legal redressal against Indian telecom regulator’s decision of slashing mobile termination charges to 6 paisa per minute from 14 paisa, Cellular Operators’ Association of India’s Director General Rajan S. Mathews said. “Clearly this is a disastrous tariff order. We have indicated earlier that the regulator has to […]
New Delhi:The Indian telecom regulator on Tuesday came out with a regulation where it has more than halved the call termination charges from mobile to mobile to 6 paise per minute effective from October 1, 2017. “For mobile to mobile, termination charge has been reduced from 14 paise per minute to 6 paise per […]
New Delhi: After three open house discussions and debates, the Indian telecom regulator feels it would be able to furnish its recommendations on net neutrality to the government within a month. “I think today’s discussion was very fruitful. This is the third in the series of discussions that we had on net neutrality. The kind […]
New Delhi: The Indian telecom regulator has floated a consultation paper on spectrum auction of various bands on Monday where it sought the stakeholders opinion on matters like when should the next spectrum auction be held and what should be the block size for bands that will be put up for auction among many other […]
New Delhi: At a time when the telecom industry has witnessed a lot of free offers, several telecom service providers on Thursday suggested to the regulator the idea of imposing a floor price for voice and data. “The operators today have discussed the idea of creating a floor price for voice and data services. The […]
New Delhi: Reliance Jio has recorded highest average speed in 4G in the month of March, the telecom regulator said here. According to the data published by myspeed.trai.gov.in, Jio’s average speed stood at 18.487 Mbps till April 1, 00.30 a.m. The speed recorded is the highest among other players like Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular and […]
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