Category: telecom
2G Spectrum Scam – What is the Roadmap After Landmark Supreme Court Judgement ?
The Honorable Supreme Court of India has passed ruling to cancel 122 licenses for 11 telcos (licenses issued from 2008 onwards). Operators are allowed to operate for 4 months with the existing licenses. Overall, this is slightly positive for the industry as canceled licenses contribute minuscule revenue but it would…
How Spectrum Sharing is a Win-Win for Reliance Industries + Reliance Communications
India’s DoT allowed spectrum sharing between operators with a higher levy based on the combined spectrum of both the operators. For example, if player A with 4.4MHz spectrum and player B with 4.4MHz spectrum agree to share spectrum, both had to pay spectrum charges on 8.8MHz. The norm allowed collaboration…
Technology Neutral License + De-Linked from Spectrum
TRAI has issued Draft Guidelines on De-Linking all the Licenses from Spectrum. Currently, an operator needs to take separate licence for services such as mobile, fixed‐line, NLD, ILD, broadcasting, DTH and other allied telecom services. As going forward, the new licence will be technology‐neutral the operator can offer any telecom…
Are Telecom Tariff Wars Back with Reliance Mera Pack + Uninor’s iGain Plans ?
Despite incumbents raised Voice Call prices in India, Uninor took a dare devil step to reduce tariffs with its iGain series of Special Tariif Vouchers. Just yesterday, Reliance Communications launched bucket plans (fixed number of minutes for a certain price) – Reliance Mera Pack targeted at heavy users across nearly…
Voice over LTE – What’s Stopping it from being used for Mobile Voice Calls ?
Voice Over LTE (VoLTE) has emerged as a preferred solution, but there are no clear-cut standards for designing VoLTE systems. State of LTE For Voice – LTE is both a boon (for data) and bane (for voice) – standards for provisioning voice over LTE have not crystallized. Headroom for disruptive…
4G 700 MHz Auctions – Why only to Select Few ? Open it to the World
The Indian Telecom Sector is in Deep mess with Rampant Corruption from the office of Telecom Ministry to DoT. The TRAI may recommend keeping the incumbents (those holding 900 MHz 2G spectrum) out from the first phase of auctioning of 700 MHz BWA spectrum. The idea behind this strategy is…
TRAI to bring Call Termination fee to Zero by 2014
TRAI has proposed reducing termination charge from 20p to 10p from Jan1-12 with plans of eventually eliminating it by ‘2014. The proposal came following Supreme Court’s directive to TRAI to evolve a new set of interconnect charges. This directive had been given on a petition filed by TRAI challenging TDSAT’s…
Download National Telecom Policy 2011 – Complete Analysis
We have obtained the Draft of National Telecom Policy 2011 – NTP 2011 Draft. Here are the proposals from the Government and our analysis on the same. Increase rural teledensity from the current level of around 35 to 60 by the year 2017 and 100 by the year 2020. Broadband …