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strongNew Delhi:/strong Telecom regulator Trai today said it will soon begin a public consultation process for implementation of free telecom roaming in the country. These are matters that are still to be decided. The question of whether national roaming should be free is a tariff related issue. It is a matter on which Trai is competent to take a decision, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) Chairman Rahul Khullar told reporters on the sidelines of 'Telecom India 2012' conclave organised by Ficci. [caption id=attachment_557275 align=alignleft width=380 strongNew Delhi:/strong Telecom reg
Telecom regulator TRAI allowed operators to provide new kind of recharge coupons for pre-paid connections that will provide dual benefit to consumers. The new Combo vouchers will enable customers to add value in their mobile phone account as well as avail services at discounted rates. ...the Authority has decided, through the Fourth Amendment to the TCPR 2012, to permit the Combo Vouchers as a fourth category of vouchers with safeguards, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said in a statement. Earlier rules allowed only three categories of vouchers, namely Plan Vouchers (either through cards or electronically) that enrols a consumer into a tariff plan, Top-up coupons for adding monetary value in to pre-paid account of consumers and Special Tariff Vouchers for getting value added services or discounts on services. [caption id=attachment_498967 align=alignleft width=380 Telecom regulator TRAI allowed oper
An Indian officegoer checks a text message on his mobile phone in Mumbai on September 27, 2011. India's telecom watchdog the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) exempted various service providers, including the dealers of telecom operators, e-ticketing agencies and social networking sites, from the new limit of one hundred Short Message Service (SMS) per day per SIM, which was imposed to block pesky calls and messages. India is the world's fastest-growing cellular market and second largest after China with over a dozen operators competing for millions of new customers each month with 858.37 million subscribers as of July 2011 according to latest official data made available by India's telecom regulator TRAI. An Indian officegoer checks a text
Amid talk of India's subscriber base hitting a stonewall and stagnating, following the drop in the number of wireless subscribers in India for the first time in July this year, the Cellphone Operators Association of India's (COAI) latest statistics only seemed to confirm that the telecom revolution has hit aplateau. But, Rajan Matthew, director general of the Cellular Operators Association of India told emFirstpost/em that the figures were actually a good sign that sanity is returning to the market amid competitive pressures. According to figures released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the number of wireless subscribers in July 2012 fell to 913.49 million from 934.09 million in June, a fall of 20.61 million or 2.21 percent. This steep fall in the number of wireless subscribers was majorly due to Reliance Communications- a CDMA operator-shaving off a whopping 20.49 million subscribers (or 13 percent of its user base) a href=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2012-09-07/news/33677124_1_active-customers-customer-data-mobile-subscribers)who were inactive/a. [caption id=attachment_458761 align=alignleft width=380 Amid talk of India's subscriber bas
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Friday issued a directive to all operators to ensure that no ISD facility is activated on prepaid SIM without the explicit consent of the consumer. The directive was sent to operators following complaints from consumers about fake missed calls from international numbers-often premium numbers-which prompted customers to call back. The telecom regulator has said that it had also received many complaints about SMSes from international numbers informing them about winning of prizes or lotteries and by responding to such calls and SMSes consumers had to pay unintended charges.[caption id=attachment_451861 align=alignleft width=380 The Telecom Regulatory Authority of
divTelecom subscriber base fell to 944.81 million in July from 965.52 million a month ago, the first ever decline in the country. The subscriber base report for the month of July released by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) shows that overall telecom user base of the country dropped by 20.71 million subscribers over June. This is the first time we have seen decline in overall subscriber base, said a TRAI official. The decline in total subscriber base for the first time was led by the wireless segment where users declined by 20.61 million.The biggest loss in user base came from Reliance Communications that lost 20.48 million users, followed by Tata Teleservices, Uninor, Videocon, Loop and MTNL. RCom said the drop is due to removal of inactive customers from its user base./div div/div div [caption id=attachment_449198 align=alignleft width=380 divTelecom subscriber base fell to
strongNew Delhi:/strong Telecom regulator Trai has asked telecom companies to de-activate the international calling facility in pre-paid numbers and restore it only after a subscriber gives his explicit consent to avail this facility. Inform all pre-paid subscribers having ISD facility, through SMS, within 10 days of the date of issue of this direction, that ISD facility of the subscribers shall be discontinued after sixty days, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said in a directive to telcos. If such subscribers want to continue with ISD facility, they should give their explicit consent for availing such facility within 60 days of the receipt of the SMS, it added. [caption id=attachment_449030 align=alignright width=380 strongNew Delhi:/strong Telecom reg