The website of telecom regulator Trai remained inaccessible for a few hours for the second consecutive day due to a technical snag in its system provided by the National Informatics Centre. The site has been facing frequent outage since Monday when it made comments public that it received in response to consultation paper floated for regulation of over-the-top players and net neutrality. “A router... 

To 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 mobile operators. The new parameters should be announced within a month, Trai Chairman Rahul Khullar said on Wednesday. “It is a work in progress,” Khullar said on the... 

The much-awaited auction of 2G and 3G telecom spectrum has been deferred to March 4 from February 25, an amended Notice Inviting Application by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) said Tuesday. The last date of submissions of applications is now February 16 – postponed from February 6 as declared earlier. The total spectrum put to auction is 103.75MHz in 800MHz band, 177.8MHz in 900MHz... 

Telecom regulator Trai has issued draft regulations to facilitate full mobile number portability which is set to start from May 3. The full or nationwide mobile number portability (MNP) will allow consumers to change service provider in any part of the country while retaining their existing number. At present, mobile number portability allows consumers to change their service provider within a telecom... 

According to the recent “Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicator Report” for the Quarter ending March, 2013 by TRAI, Idea Cellular has added the highest number of wireless subscribers in Jan – March Quarter followed by Bharti. However in terms of total wireless subscribers, Bharti remains the leading operator with 188.20 million subscribers at the end of Mar-13, followed by Vodafone (152.35... 

Recently Trai has issued a notice about the telecom operators percentage contribution to the billing disputes by Aircel, Vodafone, Idea, BSNL and MTS which varies between 0.11 percent and 2.42 percent. Of which lowest score is 2.42 percent scored by Aircel’s Maharashtra. Gujarat, Jammu and Kashmir, Kolkata, Karnataka, Punjab and Rajasthan were most of the disputed regions where Aircel postpaid bill... 

As we know that Videocon Mobile Services a part of $4 billion Videocon Group, has made a bold decision to make roaming free on pan india basis by making incoming calls free. To avail this benefit, customers have to make a special recharge. Earlier if the customers was on roaming then for local call the rate will be Re 1 per minute, std call the rate will be Rs 1.5 per minute, Local & STD roaming SMS charges...