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Biggest ever spectrum auction underway; telecom companies in fray
Oct 01, 2016, 02:21 PM ISTIndia's biggest auction of telecom spectrum kicked off today morning with seven operators in fray for a total of 2,354.55 MHz across seven bands, towards which a reserve price of Rs 5.66 lakh crore ($85
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Jio vs others: TRAI to take ‘swift action’ on call failures, seeks details from telcos
Sep 20, 2016, 01:45 PM ISTTRAI chairman R S Sharma on Monday warned of swift action for call failures on Reliance Jio network, asserting that breach of quality of services to consumers is taken “very seriously”.
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Airtel calls truce, agrees to provide additional interconnection points to Reliance Jio
Sep 13, 2016, 08:01 PM ISTBharti Airtel today agreed to provide Reliance Jio additional points of interconnection (POIs) for checking massive call drops Jio users have been facing. The decision was taken at a bilateral discussion with Reliance Mukesh Ambani-owned.
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Jio vs others: TRAI set to reject telcos’ plea to charge higher fee from RJio
Sep 12, 2016, 01:34 PM ISTTelecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is all set to reject the demand of telecom companies such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular for an increase in the fee that they charge from Reliance Jio to terminate its calls on their networks
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Jio vs others: TRAI summons Airtel, Vodafone and Idea after DoT says 'can't help'
Sep 08, 2016, 05:54 PM ISTTRAI has summoned executives of Bharti Airtel, Idea, Vodafone and Relaince Jio on Friday to discuss the interconnection issue.
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TRAI allows telecos to increase mobile data packs validity to one year
Aug 20, 2016, 02:18 PM ISTThe Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has allowed the telecom companies to increase of validity for mobile data packs to 365 days, from the current up to 90 days. “Requests were received in
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TRAI discriminating against existing telcos: COAI takes RJio fight to PMO
Aug 12, 2016, 01:14 PM ISTCellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI) on Thursday took the fight to the Prime Minister’s Office, this time training its guns on the telecom regulator for alleged discrimination against existing mobile operators.
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Airtel, Vodafone and Reliance receive maximum complaints on quality of services
Jul 21, 2016, 11:40 AM ISTNew Delhi: Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Reliance Communications have received the maximum consumer complaints about poor service and call drops in the last three years and the trend continues. Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha shared data
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TRAI seek public view on Wi-Fi models, expects 90 pc cut in data price
Jul 14, 2016, 01:26 PM ISTNew Delhi: Telecom regulator TRAI on Wednesday issued a consultation paper seeking public views to let non-telecom companies to participate in setting up public Wi-Fi hotspots. The public views were sought by August 10 on
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Service quality norms for mobile data to be fixed in a month: TRAI
Jul 06, 2016, 11:17 AM ISTNew Delhi: TRAI had recently launched an app for measuring real time mobile Internet speed. Giving thumbs up to the app the telecom authority on Tuesday said it would start the process within a month
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TRAI should allow apps, websites to decide for rewarding free data to customers: Nasscom
Jul 04, 2016, 11:08 AM ISTNew Delhi: Nasscom, the IT industry body, said that the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) should allow apps and websites to decide on provisions for rewarding free data to customers. In response to Nasscom,
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Top IT majors term TRAI's Free Data paper violation of net neutrality
Jul 02, 2016, 08:52 AM ISTSeveral IT majors have questioned the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) proposal to explore models to provide free data saying it is a ‘violation of the net neutrality by the regulator’.
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Call drops: Dealing with the menace or just shifting goal posts?
Jun 29, 2016, 11:51 AM ISTNew Delhi: It is nothing short of an irony that the world’s second largest mobile user market that boasts of being the world’s fastest growing economy is plagued by poor infrastructure and overloaded networks to
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TRAI app now lets you check internet speeds offered by telcos
Jun 27, 2016, 11:54 AM ISTNew Delhi: In an initiative aimed at ensuring that customers do not fall into the trap of false claims made by internet service providers in terms of internet speed, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
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Supreme Court to hear plea on banning WhatsApp for security reasons
Jun 24, 2016, 10:52 AM ISTNew Delhi: Popular messaging app WhatsApp can soon be banned in India due to security issues. A petition was filed against the end-to-end encryption launched by the company recently. According to the petition the encryption
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Aircel, Voda, Idea using call drop mask tech incorrectly: TRAI
Jun 21, 2016, 10:29 PM ISTLeading operators Aircel, Vodafone and Idea are using call drop masking technology or RLT incorrectly in Mumbai, telecom regulator Trai said today.
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Ravi Shankar Prasad not in favour to impose penalties on telcos
Jun 15, 2016, 04:08 PM ISTNew Delhi: Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has rejected the demand for giving penal power to telecom regulator TRAI in a letter to Rajya Sabha member Rajeev Chandrasekhar. Prashad has said that the authority has
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Government eyes legal access to your emails, IMs; TRAI floats paper
Jun 11, 2016, 03:47 PM ISTThe government is mulling to snoop into various cloud computing services with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) seeking views on its recently rolled out new paper titled ‘Consultation paper on cloud computing’.
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Chairman and Managing Director Narendra Kumar Yadav MTNL resign
Jun 10, 2016, 11:48 AM ISTNew Delhi: Chairman and Managing Director Narendra Kumar Yadav, MTNL, has put down papers. MNL reported in its BSE filing that for the time being Director (Finance) P K Purwar has been given the charge
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Telecom Secretary to Meet CEOs of Service Providers for call drop issue
Jun 07, 2016, 03:20 PM ISTNew Delhi: Telecom Secretary J S Deepak has called a meeting of CEOs of mobile service providers to discuss the call drop issues pertaining and much more. "The telecom secretary has called a meeting of