Tag: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India

  • TRAI Releases Consultation Paper On Framework For Service Authorisations.

    New Delhi: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Wednesday released a consultation paper on ‘Framework for Service Authorizations for provision of Broadcasting Services under the Telecommunications Act, 2023’.

    The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) through a letter dated 25th July 2024, sent a reference to TRAI informing that the Telecommunications Act, 2023 has been published in the Official Gazette of India. Section 3(1)(a) of the Telecommunications Act, 2023, which is yet to be notified, provides for obtaining an authorization by any entity/ person intending to provide telecommunication services, subject to such terms and conditions, including fees or charges, as may be prescribed.

    In respect of the broadcasting services, the reference has appreciated that many broadcasting platforms (which employ radio waves and spectrum for offering services) viz. DTH, HITS, IPTV, Uplinking/Downlinking of television channels (including teleports), SNG, DSNG, Community Radio, FM Radio etc. are issued license/ permission/ registration by MIB under Section 4 of the Indian Telegraph Act, 1885, which is replaced by the Telecommunications Act, 2023.

    The Ministry also shared a background note providing the details of the policy guidelines of various licenses/ permissions/ registrations issued by MIB and the relevant sections of the Telecommunications Act, 2023 that may have a bearing on the terms and conditions of authorizations.

    MIB, through the said letter dated 25.07.2024, under Section 11(1)(a) of the TRAI Act, 1997, requested TRAI to provide its recommendations on the terms and conditions, including fees or charges; for authorization to provide broadcasting services, with the objective of aligning it to the Telecommunications Act, 2023 and harmonizing the terms and conditions across various service providers, so that the terms and conditions for the authorizations of broadcasting services may be notified as Rules under the Telecommunications Act, 2023.

    Accordingly, a Consultation Paper on ‘Framework for Service Authorizations for provision of Broadcasting Services under the Telecommunications Act, 2023’ has been placed on the TRAI’s website (www.trai.gov.in) for seeking comments/ counter comments from the stakeholders. Written comments on the issues raised in the Consultation Paper are invited from stakeholders by 20th November 2024 and counter-comments by 27th November 2024, respectively.

    The comments/ counter-comments may be sent, preferably by email to [email protected] and [email protected]. For any clarification/ information, Shri Deepak Sharma, Advisor (Broadcasting & Cable Services), TRAI may be contacted at Tel. No. +91-11- 20907774.

  • 700 villages out of cyber web bounds in Uttarakhand

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    DEHRADUN:  Even because the Union executive continues to concentrate on technology-driven construction and virtual revolution around the nation, 700 villages in Uttarakhand nonetheless don’t have cell and cyber web connectivity. 

    Additionally, in 3,500 out of the 16,793 villages within the hill state, citizens have now not been ready to transport past 2G carrier. The state of affairs might alternate now, with the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) having a look at bettering services and products within the area.

    “In puts the place neither any personal operator nor BSNL is provide, the federal government has given the duty to BSNL,” O P Kanojia, BSNL Common Supervisor (Mobiles & Web), instructed this newspaper. “Now the federal government has to tell us about the place those amenities are to be given, or upgraded from 2G to 4G,” he added. 

    As consistent with the once a year record of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), as of March 2022, about 83.80 lakh other people had been the usage of the cyber web in Uttarakhand, Kanojia stated. Of this, 39 consistent with cent of cyber web customers in rural spaces are girls whilst the remaining are males, which is greater than the nationwide reasonable of 24.60 consistent with cent girls and 48.70 consistent with cent males. 

    Alternatively, cyber web amenities are nonetheless insufficient from the perspective of tourism and pilgrimage footfall in Uttarakhand, Kanojia stated. As consistent with the TRAI record, 83.80 lakh other people within the state use the cyber web. Of those, 38.90 lakh customers are from rural spaces. 

    In line with the record, simplest 52 consistent with cent other people in rural spaces are the usage of the cyber web. “So far as connectivity in city spaces is anxious, we now have been virtually absolutely a hit in offering services and products.  Now we’re specializing in inaccessible and mountainous spaces,” BSNL Common Supervisor Dehradun SK Singh stated. “In lots of far flung rural spaces of the state, other people nonetheless have to return to town to get internet-related paintings accomplished. Additionally, within the generation of on-line research, scholars don’t get internet alerts at house, and they’ve to climb within reach hills or bushes to search out alerts,” Singh added, stressing that the shortfall will likely be met to a really perfect extent after the approval given to BSNL. In line with Kanojia, BSNL is now simplest looking ahead to the federal government’s record on which places were known for set up of towers. 

    “Paintings in this will likely be began as quickly because the permission and different formalities are finished,” he added. A number of the hill states in India, Assam has the very best choice of cyber web subscribers at 1.59 crore, adopted by way of Jammu and Kashmir (84.7 lakh), Uttarakhand (83.8 lakh), Himachal (62.7 lakh), Tripura (18.70 lakh), Meghalaya (17.50 lakh), Nagaland (14.80 lakh), Manipur (11.10 lakh) and Sikkim (5.40 lakh).

    Connecting the hills

    Web customers within the state 83.80 lakh

    39% girls in rural spaces 

    24.6% girls nationally

    52% other people in rural spaces are the usage of cyber web

    Supply: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) annual record March 2022

    DEHRADUN:  Even because the Union executive continues to concentrate on technology-driven construction and virtual revolution around the nation, 700 villages in Uttarakhand nonetheless don’t have cell and cyber web connectivity. 

    Additionally, in 3,500 out of the 16,793 villages within the hill state, citizens have now not been ready to transport past 2G carrier. The state of affairs might alternate now, with the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) having a look at bettering services and products within the area.

    “In puts the place neither any personal operator nor BSNL is provide, the federal government has given the duty to BSNL,” O P Kanojia, BSNL Common Supervisor (Mobiles & Web), instructed this newspaper. “Now the federal government has to tell us about the place those amenities are to be given, or upgraded from 2G to 4G,” he added. 

    As consistent with the once a year record of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), as of March 2022, about 83.80 lakh other people had been the usage of the cyber web in Uttarakhand, Kanojia stated. Of this, 39 consistent with cent of cyber web customers in rural spaces are girls whilst the remaining are males, which is greater than the nationwide reasonable of 24.60 consistent with cent girls and 48.70 consistent with cent males. 

    Alternatively, cyber web amenities are nonetheless insufficient from the perspective of tourism and pilgrimage footfall in Uttarakhand, Kanojia stated. As consistent with the TRAI record, 83.80 lakh other people within the state use the cyber web. Of those, 38.90 lakh customers are from rural spaces. 

    In line with the record, simplest 52 consistent with cent other people in rural spaces are the usage of the cyber web. “So far as connectivity in city spaces is anxious, we now have been virtually absolutely a hit in offering services and products.  Now we’re specializing in inaccessible and mountainous spaces,” BSNL Common Supervisor Dehradun SK Singh stated. “In lots of far flung rural spaces of the state, other people nonetheless have to return to town to get internet-related paintings accomplished. Additionally, within the generation of on-line research, scholars don’t get internet alerts at house, and they’ve to climb within reach hills or bushes to search out alerts,” Singh added, stressing that the shortfall will likely be met to a really perfect extent after the approval given to BSNL. In line with Kanojia, BSNL is now simplest looking ahead to the federal government’s record on which places were known for set up of towers. 

    “Paintings in this will likely be began as quickly because the permission and different formalities are finished,” he added. A number of the hill states in India, Assam has the very best choice of cyber web subscribers at 1.59 crore, adopted by way of Jammu and Kashmir (84.7 lakh), Uttarakhand (83.8 lakh), Himachal (62.7 lakh), Tripura (18.70 lakh), Meghalaya (17.50 lakh), Nagaland (14.80 lakh), Manipur (11.10 lakh) and Sikkim (5.40 lakh).

    Connecting the hills

    Web customers within the state 83.80 lakh

    39% girls in rural spaces 

    24.6% girls nationally

    52% other people in rural spaces are the usage of cyber web

    Supply: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) annual record March 2022