NEW DELHI: Director General of All India Radio (AIR) Brijeshwar Singh has been appointed the vice- president of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA). The elections to...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) will be holding Open House Discussions (OHD) in Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore and Kolkata on the consultation paper on...
NEW DELHI: The mutterings in the industry over the broadcast regulator’s decision to permit only an inflation-linked four per cent annual hike in cable TV prices,...
MUMBAI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has announced several measures to protect the interest of consumers. TRAI guidelines in this regard are given below for...
If the task of a regulator is to keep consumers happy, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has quite achieved that. But it has irked...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has allowed an inflation-linked four per cent annual hike in cable TV prices (exclusive of taxes) with effect...
MUMBAI: As per a compilation done by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) based on latest reports from operators, the subscriber base for telephony services...
NEW DELHI: Just ahead of annual revision of cable TV rates, broadcast regulator has floated a discussion paper on whether all new TV channels should be...
MUMBAI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is looking into the complaints of cable operators against broadcasters forcibly pushing their second bouquet of channels. “We have...
MUMBAI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) chairman Pradip Baijal has expressed the hope that once the Tata-Star DTH platform T-Sky launches next year the market...
MUMBAI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) chairman Pradip Baijal has expressed the hope that once the Tata-Star DTH platform T-Sky launches next year the market...
MUMBAI: After having dealt with some of the pressing matters of the broadcast industry, broadcast and telecom regulator has now trained its guns on removing hurdles...
MUMBAI: Idea Cellular in New Delhi has announced that is has crossed the 700,000 subscriber mark in the capital city. Idea created landmarks of being the...
MUMBAI: Flag Telecom, a Reliance Infocomm company, has gained from a strong demand for its bandwidth by broadband service providers across the globe. The network support...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today recommended that the first phase of digitalisation of cable TV should start from April 2006...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has issued a consultation paper to deliberate on various issues relating to transition from IPv4 to IPv6. This...
Entering July and the private FM radio players finally have more than a sob story to recount to the world. The government today set in motion...
BANGALORE: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) conducted an open house on 24 May in Bangalore to discuss its consultation paper on interconnection usage charge...
NEW DELHI: Telecom regulator today recommended that spectrum fee paid by service providers to the government be lowered to four per cent (of the revenue) and...
MUMBAI: The days of cell phone companies foisting value added services “surreptitiously” on consumers could soon be over. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today...
MUMBAI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has decided to retain the previous ceiling tariff for 64 Kbps domestic leased circuits, provided through Managed Leased Line...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has extended till 15 April, the deadline for sending in feedback to a consultation paper on...
NEW DELHI: Affordability. Connectivity. High Speeds. Value. Four things that the impending broadband revolution in India needs to focus on to become a reality. Chaired by...
NEW DELHI: On a day when the information and broadcasting minister was dwelling on the need to set up a regulatory body for the broadcast sector...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast regulator Telecom Authority of India (Trai) has said that details of commercial dealings filed with it could be kept confidential, but a service...
MUMBAI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has reduced the international bandwidth prices by up to 70 per cent. Following this, tariffs for ISD, Internet and...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast and telecom regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has increased the transition period to 120 days for interconnection regulation to come into...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast and cable regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has directed country’s first DTH TV service provider to replace set-top boxes (STBs), if...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has issued directives to Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) for the withdrawal of the advertisement of Garuda-FW Service which...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has directed Sony-Discovery to immediately restore signals of its bouquet of channels to Allahabad-based Three Star Communication which...
NEW DELHI: In its new set of recommendations for Unified Licence, Trai has reduced the revenue share licence fee from 15 percent to 6 per cent...
Regulation, as opposed to the market, largely determined trends in India’s cable and satellite distribution business over the past 12 months. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of...
BANGALORE/ MUMBAI: In what is going to be a shot in the arm for Asianet and its subscribers, Trai has directed Zee Turner to restore the...
MUMBAI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has obtained the quality management system certificate license under ISO 9001:2000 from Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), a national...
MUMBAI: Conditional access system (CAS) may not have taken off but the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) now moots setting a deadline for digitalisation of...
MUMBAI: Transparency, a dirty word in the cable TV industry, is what the Telecom and Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is pressing for. Broadcasters and multi-service...
NEW DELHI: With an eye on expanding the scope of radio broadcast, telecom regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today invited suggestions on issues relating to satellite...
MUMBAI/Delhi: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today formally issued interconnect regulations for the broadcast sector, nixing exclusive broadcaster-distributor contracts and disallowing premium on exclusivity....
NEW DELHI: The private broadcasters’ worst fears are about to come true. The broadcast and cable regulator is likely to issue its final interconnect regulations order...
NEW DELHI: Unfazed by a lukewarm response from the government to some of its earlier radical recommendations on broadcasting, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today...
NEW DELHI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of India chairman Pradip Baijal today called for further reduction in tariffs to enable broadband penetration into rural areas to make...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast and cable regulator is unlikely to come out with the final interconnect regulations this week as had been envisaged, even as it grapples...
NEW DELHI: Cable rates are set to go up by seven per cent (basic tariff excluding taxes) from 1 January, 2005. According to a statement released...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is preparing a consultation paper on digitalisation of TV broadcasting. The regulator is expected to submit the paper...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast and cable regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), has reiterated some its earlier suggestions on FM radio broadcasting, while “strengthening” some other...
NEW DELHI: As per a compilation done by TRAI based on latest reports from operators, the subscriber base for telephony services continued to maintain its growth...
NEW DELHI: In a bid to break the government’s financial hold over it, telecom and broadcast & cable regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), has...
NEW DELHI: The telecom and broadcast and cable regulator is now pushing for convergence to happen. Any move in this direction would primarily serve to to...
NEW DELHI: Broadcast and cable regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today clarified that the cable industry can review the prices to adjust an increase...
MUMBAI: Telecom Regulatory Authority of Indian (Trai), which submitted its draft recommendations on Unified Licensing on 6 August, today justified the inclusion of ‘broadcasting services’ under...