Telecom service providers to inform TRAI about major outages
These major network outages in the country for a prolonged duration, especially in border and hilly areas, adversely affect the availability or quality of service in affected areas.
These major network outages in the country for a prolonged duration, especially in border and hilly areas, adversely affect the availability or quality of service in affected areas.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has directed telecom service providers to take urgent steps to demonstrate visible improvement in the quality of service and quality of experience by consumers.
Among the recommendations, Trai suggested there shall be a separate satellite earth station gateway (SESG) license under the Indian Telegraph Act, the SESG license will not form part of the Unified License (UL), and the service area for the license shall be at a national level. Unified License implies that a customer can get all types of telecom services from a unified licence operator.
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Chairperson Dr. P.D. Vaghela on Friday said that introduction of 5G technology will enable India to achieve the digital empowerment goal and improve the well-being of the people.
The Broadband India Forum (BIF) on Friday said the draft Indian Telecommunications Bill 2022 requires a critical and balanced review, as it aims to take away the statutory independence of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), seeking to make it subservient to the government.
According to a recent report by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the average active subscriber base of DTH services has seen a sharply declined by 25 percent, which came down to 54.26 million in April to June quarter in comparison to 72.44 million in January to March this year.
TRAI's new regulatory requirement for commercial messages, based on blockchain technology, aims to curb unsolicited and fraudulent messages.
The active subscribers are calculated based on the reported visitor location register (VLR), a key metric reflecting the number of active users on a mobile network.
Mobile based broadband subscriber base grew 1.15 per cent to 712.67 million in October as compared to 704.57 million in September.
The TRAI filed civil appeals against this order and also filed an intervention application seeking interim direction to the service providers to disclose information sought by it regarding the segmented offers.
