Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) today gave a split verdict in the 3G intra-circle roaming case. Holding the 3G intra-circle roaming pact illegal, the TDSAT Chairman, Justice SB Sinha directed Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to send out fresh notices to telecom operators while another judge PK Rastogi, dismissed telecom operators plea saying they cannot provide roaming and 3G service by having mere 2G licenses.…
Blow to Telcos : TDSAT declares 3G roaming pact Illegal
DoT to impose 8% uniform license fee on telcos from April 2013
As per the newly approved National Telecom Policy, Government will charge a uniform licence fee of 8% of Annual Gross Revenue (AGR) from all telecom service providers across all category of service and circles (metro A, B and C categories) as compared to the existing range of 6-10 %, from the financial year 2013-2014.…
Airtel adds maximum GSM subscribers in May 2012
Bharti Airtel with the highest subscriber additions, 2.01 million, in the month of May 2012 has now a total user base of 185.30 million. Whereas 1.2 million subscribers chose Vodafone, which has now a total user base of 152.84 million. Airtel and Vodafone was followed by Idea and Aircel, which reported an addition of 1.75 million and 8 lakh subscribers respectively.…
Read more ...Re-farming of Spectrum – Top Telecom Guns writes to Pranab Mukherjee
In an attempt to stop the re-farming of spectrum, the top telecom guns Airtel, Vodafone and Idea have sought FM Pranab Mujherjee’s immidiate intervention. Refuting TRAI’s claims of 3-4 paise incrtease in voice tariff with the study done by a well known research agency Analysis Mason, the telecom company’s CEOs argued that the tariff rates would go up by atleast 64 paise per minute.…
Cabinet approves National Telecom Policy (NTP) – 2012
On Thursday, 31st May, the cabinet approved the National Telecom Policy 2012 to replace a decade old legislation. The new “one nation – one number” policy proposes to make roaming free for mobile users across the nation and allows the users to retain the same number in any part of the country, except Jammu and Kashmir and north-east.…
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