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It seems TRAI wants to leave no stone unturned for smooth implementation of Mobile Number Portability in India. It has therefore issued a draft legislation to clear the uncertainty surrounding the introduction of mobile number portability.
The draft guidelines describes the rights, obligations and duties of both the telecom operators in consideration for [...]

Business line has reported that TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) will soon be launching a new platform to redress consumer grievance regarding inept telecom services. The platform would enable subscribers to come forward with their grievances either through Online or SMS platform.

TRAI is the regulatory body for telecom related services in India. As such [...]

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in a statement issued recently announced that nearly 11.9 million wireless (GSM, CDMA and WLL(F)) subscribers were added in April 2009. Comparatively this is lower than the 15.64 that were added in March. However, cumulatively put, the picture is quite pleasing. India’s mobile subscriber base now stands at [...]

GSM operators cumulatively added a total of 8.9 million new subscribers in April slightly down QoQ from 11.2 million new subscribers added in March. This takes the total tally of GSM subscribers to 297 million connections.
Segmented GSM operators marketshare:

Bharti Airtel is still the leading GSM player in India with total subscriber base of 96.7 million [...]

US-based Telcordia Technologies Inc. and TRAI are soon looking at introducing ENUM (Electronic Number Mapping) service to telecom subscribers.
What is ENUM (Electronic Number Mapping)?
ENUM is a new technology through which a mobile number will be used as an email address and it will as used as universal personal identifier for availing variety of Internet [...]

Department of Telecommunications’ (DoT) Technical Engineering Centre is suggesting new numbering plan due to 10 million subscribers increasing every month. Another reason behind the recommendation is that DoT has reserved six billion numbers for the fixed-line users on the contrary; actual number of subscriber is below 40 million.
On the other side, Cellular Operators’ Association of [...]

Telecom regulatory authority of India ( TRAI ) is looking into the recommendations to regulate tariffs for  interactive, active and value added services on Direct to home (DTH ) services . Trai is in discussion with the DTH operators , broadcasters , cable operators and consumers to decide whether these services should be considered as [...]

And the monthly speculation has given way to specific dates now. I just saw these details on a Rediff peice on MNP -

Consumers may not have to pay more than Rs 300 to change from one mobile service provider to another while keeping the phone number intact, a facility likely to start from September 20.

Any of you suffered due to mobile operator sudden subscription and activation of some Value Added Services (VAS) such as call ring back tone and hello tunes, TRAI has listened to your voice and on Monday TRAI directed all the mobile operators that they need to take explicit consent from users for the subscription of [...]

It is quite evident in all the recent actions of TRAI,the pace at which the actions for 3G auction are going, the way MNP implementation is delayed for a long time, the usage of the available spectrum or even the latest TRAI’s move on restricting content ratios rather than trying to solve the root problem of very low actual throughput obtained by the broadband subscribers which resulted in FUP’s by all the ISP’s.

As reported earlier in January 2009, broadband subscriber base grew to 5.65 million, compared to 5.45 million a month earlier and recorded 74.12% growth during the last year.Not yet affected by recession broadband penetration is still growing though at a slower pace when compared to the stellar mobile subscriptions.
It is well known fact that Broadband [...]

Until recently, like a week ago I could never watch a youtube video on my IDEA EDGE connection, it was a really frustrating experience to not even be able to access your mail with bearable through puts, I wished I could just switch my operator and the only thing that kept me from doing that [...]

According to the latest figures by TRAI, Indian telecom service providers added 15.41 million wireless users in January-09.
The total telecom subscriber base also exploded past 400 million mark in January end and giving a boost to India’s teledensity which now stands at 34.5%.
What’s really surprising is that this growth is even higher than the subscribers [...]

I’ve been desperately waiting to get my hands on 3G and I am amongst those hundreds of thousands of people who already bought a 3G supported mobile handset for the same. Well the latest update on the whole 3G Spectrum saga is the auction has been delayed yet again and will take place only next [...]

The talk of Department of telecom penalizing the Telcos for not following KYC norms or verification process has reached a new acme.
According to a report in Business Line : DoT has decided that operators will have to pay a penalty of Rs 50,000 per subscriber if they have more than 20 per cent of their [...]