Category: telecom
TRAI to Review License Conditions and Cap Operators
TRAI in a consultation paper is asking your expert opinion on review of key license conditions and capping number of access providers. The key issues in TRAI’s paper are, Substantial equity holding Transfer of licenses Mergers & Acquisitions Roll-out obligations Permitting service providers to offer access services using combination of…
Open Access to International Fibre Stations
Some Indian carriers like VSNL [Tata Indicom], Reliance Communications, Bharti Airtel have private International Fibre Networks or are in alliance with other Telcos from around the world who have landing stations in India. The right to operate these stations rested solely with these companies. However, TRAI just a while ago…
Aircel is now copying Bharti’s Business Model
Sunil Mittal was the first dare devil CEO of the telecom sector in the world to outsource Network and Infrastructure management to companies such as IBM/Nokia etc. Soon the copy machines were in force – Hutch, Idea and now Aircel is copying the same business model. Aircel, subsidiary of Maxis…
TRAI wants operators to declare SMS charging days
Telecom Operators like Spice Telecom and Reliance Mobile quietly started charging full charges on SMSs sent during festivals. This inflated the bills of ignorant consumers. TRAI spotted this anomaly and has issued a notification to Mobile service providers. TRAI has asked, The black out days i.e. the days on which…
DoT in a fix over Reliance Pan India GSM
The DoT is in a fix on use of mixed technologies [GSM & CDMA] by private operators on PAN India basis. Reliance which already has a PAN India footprint in CDMA wants to provide GSM services as well. Reliance GSM and CDMA services both operate under separate cost centers and…
DoT wants Monopoly in Intra-State Long Distance
Mobile, then The DoT wants to retain its monopoly in Intra-State Long Distance calls using BSNL network. For instance you want to make a call from Mangalore to Bangalore/Bengalooru using your Airtel Mobile. Airtel has to hand over the traffic to BSNL @ Mangalore to carry it to Bangalore. BSNL…
TRAI Recommendations on Wireless Infrastructure Sharing
You are reading this First here:The TRAI just a while ago released final recommendations on Active and Passive infrastructure sharing for Wireless service providers in India. Passive Infrastructure involves Real Estate Space for Tower, feeders, Transimission Equipment, Power Backup units etc. The Active Infrastructure constitutes antenna systems, cables, filters, allocated…
Hutch Customers beware of Fake Offers
You are reading this first here: Telecom India has got to know about a fake call center racket that operated from South Delhi offering Hutch customers upgrade to their existing plan. Modus Operandi, the fraudsters have procured Hutch subscribers database [Stolen ?] and they would call the consumers offering schemes…