New Delhi: India's telecoms regulator on Sunday reaffirmed most of its proposed rules for an auction of mobile airwaves, including a steep base price for bids, despite howls of protests by carriers in the world's second-biggest mobile phone market. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) had last month suggested an auction starting price that is nearly 10 times of what carriers had paid in a 2008 state grant process...
06:05 PM, May 14, 2012
New Delhi: Television viewers will soon get to choose a minimum of hundred Free to Air (FTA) channels at a maximum retail price of Rs 100, as per new tariff rules for Cable TV announced by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Monday. According to the regulatory framework for Digitalised Cable TV brought out by TRAI to safeguard consumers' interests, cable operators will have to mandatorily offer a Basic...
09:46 AM, May 01, 2012
If the government implements TRAI suggestion, mobile tariffs could increase. ...
10:09 AM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has proposed a base price for auction of 2G spectrum that is higher than the 3G auction price set in 2010, reports CNBC-TV18 quoting sources. For the 900 mega hertz band, the telecom regulator has proposed a base price at Rs 7000 crore, which is twice the base price set for a 3G spectrum. For 700 megahertz band, it has been...
05:44 PM, Apr 23, 2012
Barcelona: India is looking at holding spectrum auctions for the fourth generation (4G) mobile services by the end of this year, besides finalising plans to sell off radio waves for the 2G services, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal has said. "By the end of the year, we are actually going to auction 4G (spectrum). That is what our intent is. We have enough spectrum now to share with everybody," he said...
12:16 PM, Feb 29, 2012
New Delhi: In a move that will pave the way for the exit of unsuccessful telecom service providers from the business, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Friday issued a pre-consultation paper on a proposed exit policy for various telecom licence holders. "To solicit the comments and views from all the stakeholders on issues, implications... to the individual licensees, to the government revenues and to the telecom sector as...
09:54 PM, Jan 06, 2012
New Delhi: Telecom firms will have to set up complaint centres and web-based monitoring systems for their customers within 45 days as per the new consumer grievance redressal guidelines announced on Thursday by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). The new rules come into force with immediate effect. Every service provider will have to ensure redressal of the complaints and service requests in accordance with the time-frame as specified...
10:11 AM, Jan 06, 2012
TRAI Chairman Misra said that auction is the best way for issuing licences. ...
12:21 PM, Mar 20, 2009
Bharti Airtel reduced roaming tariffs by up to 56 per cent and also scrapped the rental for roaming services. ...
11:08 AM, Feb 15, 2007
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