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India's telephone subscribers total 100.93 crore in July: TRAI
Sep 30, 2015, 06:06 PM ISTNew Delhi: The number of telephone subscribers in India increased from 100.69 crore at the end of June 2015 to 100.93 crore at the end of July 2015, a monthly growth rate of 0.23 percent,
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Call drops: TRAI recommendations on compensation by mid-October
Sep 10, 2015, 04:44 PM ISTNew Delhi: With the problem of call drops becoming acute, regulator TRAI today said it will issue final recommendations by mid-October on compensation to be paid by mobile operators to their customers.The telecom watchdog has
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TRAI gives 15 days to mobile operators on call drops
India | Sep 09, 2015, 08:45 PM ISTNew Delhi: Seeking urgent steps by mobile operators to check call drops, regulator TRAI today said their performance would be reviewed after 15 days and warned it will "cross the bridge" if they fail to
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PM Modi addresses students; Govt withdraws security cover of VIPs: Top 5 News Headlines
India | Sep 04, 2015, 09:43 PM ISTStudents to get aptitude certificate instead of character certificate: PM ModiNew Delhi: Students would soon get aptitude certificates in place of character certificates at the end of schooling, reflecting their overall personality, Prime Minister Narendra
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Telcos should compensate users for call drops, proposes TRAI
India | Sep 04, 2015, 11:32 PM ISTNew Delhi: Plagued by the vexed problem of call drops, telecom regulator TRAI today proposed that service providers should compensate mobile subscribers for call drops and poor quality of services.The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
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Why are discounted SMS rates not valid on certain days?
India | Aug 13, 2015, 05:22 PM ISTDid you ever receive that dreaded text message from telecom service provider that discounted and free packages won't apply the next day and that normal rates would apply? Did you ever wonder as to why
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Government's final view on net neutrality still awaited: Ravi Shankar Prasad
Jul 23, 2015, 04:35 PM ISTNew Delhi: The recent report submitted by the government on net neutrality was not the final one, and the final view is still awaited, parliament was informed on Wednesday. “The committee of officers constituted by the
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Government's final net neutrality view still awaited: Ravi Shankar Prasad
National | Jul 22, 2015, 06:03 PM ISTNew Delhi: The recent report submitted by the government on net neutrality was not the final one, and the final view is still awaited, parliament was informed on Wednesday."The committee of officers constituted by the
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Most telecom companies not meeting standards on call drops: TRAI
Jul 22, 2015, 10:40 AM ISTNew Delhi: Amid growing concerns over the call drop issue, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said that most of the telecom companies in Delhi and Mumbai are not meeting the prescribed standards. The regulator further
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Telephone connections cross 100 crore mark in India
India | Jul 10, 2015, 10:16 PM ISTNew Delhi: The total number of telephone connections in the country crossed the record one billion mark in May, bolstered by growth in number of mobile users.At the end of May, total number of telephone
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Telcos gross revenue rises 9.5% in Oct-Dec 2014: Trai
May 10, 2015, 06:19 PM ISTNew Delhi: On 10th May , Total gross revenue of telecom service providers increased by 9.54 per cent to Rs 63,955 crore in October-December, 2014, a report by telecom regulator TRAI said.The combined gross revenue
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CCI waits for Net Neutrality norms before probing telco plans
May 10, 2015, 04:20 PM ISTNew Delhi: With debate continuing to rage on Net Neutrality, the Competition Commission will wait for regulations to be in place before taking a call on whether the actions of the telecom and Internet firms
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BSNL slashes roaming tariff by up to 40%
May 02, 2015, 03:45 PM ISTKolkata: State-run telecom operator BSNL today slashed roaming tariff by up to 40 per cent for its prepaid and postpaid mobile connection with effect from May 1.The decision had been taken in the wake of
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Airtel, Vodafone, Idea slash national roaming rates
May 01, 2015, 09:00 AM ISTNew Delhi: Telecom operators including Airtel, Vodafone, Idea and Reliance slashed their national roaming rates by up to 75 per cent weeks after regulator Trai cut ceiling tariffs.Country's largest mobile operator Bharti Airtel said its
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TRAI to unveil new service quality benchmarks to curb call drops
Apr 29, 2015, 02:55 PM ISTTo check the call drop menace, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) will soon put in place a new set of 'service quality benchmarks', non-adherence to which may lead to stricter penal action against the
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Congress seeks probe into TRAI releasing 1 mn e-mail IDs
National | Apr 28, 2015, 01:45 PM ISTNew Delhi: The Congress on Tuesday asked the government to investigate as to why thed Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) put up on its website the names of over one million people who had
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Trai website down after uploading comments and email IDs on net neutrality
India | Apr 27, 2015, 09:23 PM ISTNew Delhi: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's (TRAI) was hacked after the regulator made public the email ids of those who have submitted their comments on net neutrality.Anonymous India, a group of hackers have
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BSNL offers free pan-India calling from landline
Apr 23, 2015, 02:45 PM ISTNew Delhi: To boost landline business, the state-run BSNL today announced unlimited free calling scheme during night hours from its fixed line phones to any operator including mobile phones anywhere in the country from May
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TRAI says, shrill voices won't win debate regarding 'Net Neutrality'
India | Apr 19, 2015, 01:15 PM ISTNew Delhi: As the uproar continues in favour of Net Neutrality, telecom watchdog Trai Chairman Rahul Khullar today said “shrill voices” will not win the debate and the concept is not “practiced strictly” even in
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Net Neutrality: Trai paper says mobile apps can impact national security
Apr 15, 2015, 05:49 PM ISTNew Delhi: As a debate rages on ‘net neutrality', a discussion paper floated by regulator TRAI has said that mobile applications providing free internet-based calls and messaging services can be a threat to individual and