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| Tuesday, June 19, 2007 |
| Defence Declines to vacate Spectrum + TRAI Complains of Congestion |
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The Indian Army and Navy which occupy spectrum in the band of GSM communications is refusing to vacate until an alternate arrangement is made. Air Force has agreed to vacate the spectrum because BSNL is providing them a Optical Fibre network for their communication needs.
The Indian Air Force will vacate 40 MHz of spectrum which will take care of immediate crunch. TRAI has already invited expert opinion on capping number of operators per circle and how to effectively use the scarce spectrum in an era of unified communications breaking the barrier between GSM and CDMA.
In a separate note, the TRAI study has found that Indian mobile communications network congestion is rising since its last study in Dec-2006. |
Published on Tuesday, June 19, 2007 at 7:46 PM  |
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| Wednesday, June 13, 2007 |
| TRAI to Review License Conditions and Cap Operators |
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TRAI in a consultation paper is asking your expert opinion on review of key license conditions and capping number of access providers. The key issues in TRAI's paper are,
- Substantial equity holding
- Transfer of licenses
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Roll-out obligations
- Permitting service providers to offer access services using combination of technology [GSM/CDMA] under the same license
- Limiting the number of access providers in each service area
Equity Holding issue arises due to the Vodafone-Hutch-Essar deal. While the most important and urgent issue that needs addressal is that of letting service provider use combination of technologies - GSM/CDMA. Reliance Communications is in hurry to acquire GSM spectrum in New Delhi and Mumbai but its scarce. If you have a comment on fair allocation and efficient use of Wireless Spectrum send in your expert opinions to sudhirgupta@trai.gov.in |
| Published on Wednesday, June 13, 2007 at 7:24 AM |
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| Thursday, June 07, 2007 |
| Open Access to International Fibre Stations |
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Some Indian carriers like VSNL [Tata Indicom], Reliance Communications, Bharti Airtel have private International Fibre Networks or are in alliance with other Telcos from around the world who have landing stations in India. The right to operate these stations rested solely with these companies. However, TRAI just a while ago issued a directive to open and share access to these stations to other Telcos in India to encourage competition and fair pricing on ILD routes. TRAI recommendations are as follows,
- Provisioning of bandwidth to end consumers at competitive rates
- Boosting of competition and therefore reduction in the price of international private leased circuits (IPLCs)
- Availability of International bandwidth at competitive price to ISPs for rapid growth of Broadband Service
- Options to ILDs to purchase International bandwidth at competitive prices on a range of diversified submarine cables
- Carriage of voice/data at a competitive cost.
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| Published on Thursday, June 07, 2007 at 1:22 PM |
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