The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Japan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) for cooperating on the telecom front. The MoU would also allow mutual sharing of information on best practices between TRAI and MIC.
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India has pushed the implementation of Mobile Number Portability (MNP) across selected telecom circles to March 31, 2010, a delay of three months from the earlier deadline of December 31, 2009.
The total number of telephone subscribers in India increased to 543.20 million as on November 30, 2009, a 3.34 per cent growth from 525.65 million recorded in the previous month of October, according to data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
India’s telecom regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has fixed porting charges, the amount to be paid by subscriber for changing the operator while retaining the existing mobile number, at Rs 19. Analysts and industry were expecting charges to be around Rs 200 per porting of mobile number. The charges will come into force on December 31, 2009.
The number of telephone subscribers in India has increased to 525.65 million as on October 31, 2009, compared with 509.03 million posted in September-2009. The subscriber growth registered a 3.26 per cent, which helped in im
proving overall tele-density in India to 44.87.
Dishnet Wireless, a subsidiary of Aircel group and a GSM operator in northern and eastern circles, had 20 congested points of interconnection (POIs), making it the most congested network in the country. This was followed by state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) with congestion in 8 POIs and Vodafone in 6 POIs, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) said in its Network/PoI Congestion Report for April, May and June 2009.
The Indian telecom subscriber base would rise to 1 billion in the next five years, more than doubling from the present around 456 million, according to projections by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). The regulator has projected the country’s spectrum requirement to be at 582 MHz in various bands for wireless mobile and broadband services by 2014.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, or TRAI, has issued a consultation paper seeking industry views on issues like spectrum management and limiting the number of operators per telecom service area in the country. The regulator has sought comments from the industry before November 12 and counter comments by November 19, according to the notice posted on TRAI website. continue reading…
The Indian regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, is mulling of rolling out a consultancy paper seeking opinion from the industry on making per second billing mandatory. Trai Chairman JS Sarma, who is visiting the ITU World Telecom event in Geneva, told reporters that the regulator was looking at the possibility providing per-second billing as a mandatory option.