Trai defends its satcom spectrum levy recommendations, stating they won't distort the market or harm terrestrial players. Spectrum charges are separate from license fees. Satellite capability differs vastly from terrestrial.
Trai proposes 4% AGR levy for satcom firms like Starlink in India, higher than desired. Jio and Airtel fear competition. Satellites aim to connect underserved areas, crucial for disaster relief.
TRAI suggests classifying critical IoT services, enabling M2M transfer, and a technology-agnostic approach. It emphasizes security, privacy, and impact on national safety and the economy.
TRAI will start, this month, a pilot to onboard paper-based and past permissions given by customers for receiving commercial communications onto its digital distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform, a process that in the long-run would include scrubbing and verifying their current validity and offering opt-outs to those keen on it, Chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti said, adding that tighter regulations on curbing spam as well as new consultation examining an authorisation framework for telemarketers can also be expected in coming weeks.
Going forward, analysts expect Jio's AirFiber service to be a key catalyst for home broadband adoption, especially since the cost of CPE (customer premise equipment) has fallen over the last 2-3 years.
At Reliance Industries Limited's 47th Annual General Meeting (AGM), the company unveiled JioBrain, a comprehensive suite of tools and platforms designed to span the entire artificial intelligence (AI) lifecycle.
Telemarketing entities or resellers of SMS services must be brought under government’s licensing regime to hold them accountable for culprits transmitting spam messages across the delivery value chain, otherwise “this piecemeal approach” will not yield any positive results, telecom companies have argued.
“This deviation makes the consultation paper and the consequent recommendations vulnerable to legal challenges, particularly since it fails to address the issue outlined in the DoT’s reference, such as ensuring level playing field,” Jio said in the letter, a copy of which was also sent to Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia.
