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Articles tagged with: Trai
India Regulator to Permit Sharing of "Active" Tower Infrastructure
India's Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has approved recommendations from the regulator, trai to permit operators to share the active component of their tower networks. Until now, they have only been allowed to share the passive infrastructure aspects of their tower installations. more
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India Telecom Regulator Suggests Bidding for Mobile TV Services
NEW DELHI -(Dow Jones)- India's telecommunications regulator Thursday said it has recommended that the government auction licenses to companies wanting to broadcast mobile phone-based television services. more
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Indian Regulator Wants Speedy Allocation of 3G Licenses
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (trai) has published a paper calling for the speedy allocation of radio spectrum for 3G and WiMAX services in the country. The trai reports that the Indian Government announced Broadband Policy in 2004 and made certain projections for broadband subscribers' growth. It was expected that broadband growth rate would be stepped up. However, it is observed that the growth of broadband in the country is slow and below expected level. more
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Indian Regulator Favours Auction for 3G License Awards
India's telecoms regulator, trai favours an auction for the future 3G spectrum allocations. Speaking at FICCI seminar, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India chairman Nripendra Misra also said that the auction should be restricted to incumbent operators and not opened to new entrants. more
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Indian Network Interconnection Congestion Falls - Slightly
India's telecoms regulator, the trai has reported that congestion at the Point of Interconnection (POI) between various service providers on the Indian cellular networks has declined slightly during the Months of April, May and June. The report only includes the Service Providers who do not meet the trai stipulated POI Congestion benchmark of 0.5 per cent of the calls taking place between two networks, meaning that only 1 out of 200 calls are allowed to be disrupted. more
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India Telecom Regulator Moots Raising Spectrum Usage Charge
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3G is the Solution to Indian Spectrum Crisis
..evel to the next, he said. Mr. Kar said, "there is a constraint in allocation of spectrum. The rules have to be enabled in a manner where service provider has motivation to use technology that increases networking capacity". Network capacit more
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Indian Regulator Recommends Network Infrastructure Sharing
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (trai) says that it is supporting plans to allow network infrastructure sharing in India. The Department of Telecommunication had sought recommendations from trai on effective sharing of passive infrastructure (towers etc.). Given the significance of infrastructure sharing the Authority says that it not only considered the issue of passive infrastructure sharing but has given the recommendation regarding active infrastructure sharing and backhaul on a suo-motu basis. more
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National Roaming Charges to Fall in India
India's Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (trai) has ordered a wholesale cut in internal roaming charges for customers who travel across India between different operator licensed areas, or circles. more
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Significant Drop in Mobile User Satisfaction Levels in 2006
A nation-wide mobile users' satisfaction survey carried out in India shows that there has been a large scale drop in satisfaction of mobile phone subscribers with respect to most service providers during 2006 compared to the previous year. The 4th survey conducted by the publication, Voice&Data, is based on a sample base of 4,524 respondents across 51 Indian cities in 23 states. more
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