Impact of TRAI Recommendations on Airtel, Vodafone / Incumbents Vs Aircel, Uninor New Operators
This Analysis on how the new TRAI recommendations impact Incumbents and New Operators should have come 2 days ago, but can’t really help it as have to manage too many tasks on hand. Anyway, the rest of the TRAI recommendations Vs Own Views are briefly summarized here.
Now lets Analyze the Impact of TRAI Recommendations,
..all spectrum to be assigned through the auction process in future shall be liberalised. In other words, spectrum in any and can be used for deploying any services in any technology
Positive for Incumbents and Negative for New Operators, provided the Reserve Price comes down a bit. Read more
TRAI – Spectrum Auction Roadmap + High Reserve Price + ReFarming Certain + Defer Auction of Other Bands
I am very happy to see that the TRAI has come up with a Partial Roadmap on the Availability of Telecom Spectrum in India and the likely dates when it will be put to Auction. However, disappointed to see that their are no provisions made for other sectors which may require spectrum. Nonetheless, this is a very good step that offers Telecom companies on how they can mark their strategies.
TRAI Roadmap on Telecom Spectrum Auction is as follows, Read more
TRAI – Auctioned Spectrum Must be Liberalized + Allows Limited Trading + Mortgage
Due to the 2G Telecom Spectrum Scam engineered by A. Raja, Honb’le Supreme Court of India had cancelled 122 Licenses and had asked TRAI to come out with Recommendations on Auction of Spectrum. TRAI had invited comments[PDF] from stakeholders and I had submitted my views.
It’s time to see how many of my views were accepted and have found mention in the TRAI Recommendations to DoT on the auction of 1800MHz Telecom Spectrum.
Liberalization of Spectrum Read more
One Per Second Plan for Mobile Users Mandatory + Tariff Regulation on Contest SMS / Calls – TRAI
The TRAI has passed an order which requires all Wireless / Mobile Communication Service Providers[CDMA /GSM ] to offer atleast one per second billing plan in both post-paid and pre-paid segments. Please note that their shall be atleast One Per Second Pulse Plan. Not all Bill Plans are on the basis Per Second Pulse, as wrongly interpreted by many people.
What the TRAI Order Doesn’t Cover is, the tariff per pulse. Thus operators Read more
BSNL’s Broadband + Wired + Wireless Integrated Plan Offerings – Will Airtel Catch Up ?
I think from 2007, I have been asking Bharti Airtel to offer Integrated bouquet of Services – Broadband, Mobile, Landline and Dish TV. But they have always answered in the negative. However, there is a reason for Airtel to be ashamed that even a Government company like BSNL has put the integrated bouquet of telecom services on offer for customers for quite sometime and are now pushing them aggressively.
BSNL Hyderabad has launched Two UNLIMITED Broadband Plans – TPTS 799 and TPTS 1999.
TPTS 799 – BSNL DSL Broadband at 1 Mbps upto 10 GB and later speed capped at 512 Kbps [Not bad at all] Read more
Airtel + Vodafone + Tata DoCoMo Want 700 MHz Auction – Rest Vote Against
In response to the 2G Spectrum Scam, TRAI had issued a Consulting Paper on Auction of Spectrum and had slipped in questions on the auction of 700 MHz Spectrum. Here are the responses of various stake holders,
Sunil Mittal’s Bharti Airtel wants to grab 700 MHz
We would recommend that the auction of the complete 2×45 MHz spectrum in 700 MHz band is done as soon as possible, preferably along with the auction of spectrum in 800/1800 MHz, and consequent to availability of the complete 2×45 MHz of interference free spectrum.
It is apparent now that Mittal wants Read more
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