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Despite a moderately lower contribution to the overall teledensity of the country, rural areas have succeeded to beat the metros with a comparatively high subscriber additions rate. Based on the TRAI figures, the four metros together added 10.3 million subscribers in the first nine months of 2008, while the rural areas added over 11.3 million.

Communications and Information Technology Minister A. Raja on Tuesday said all charges against him regarding corruption and favouritism in spectrum allocation were “politically motivated” and that he had only followed recommendations of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India in giving spectrum to 2G mobile service providers.

During these times of cutbacks there’s one thing which Indians are buying in abundance-mobile connections. During the month of October the country added the highest-ever addition to the mobile subscriber base at 10.42 million taking the total number of mobile users to over 325 million, according to the data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority [...]

MPFI (Mobile Payment Forum of India) is an association comprising of banks, telecom operators, service providers, technology companies, regulatory bodies (RBI-Banking Regulator and TRAI-Telecom Operator), academic and Govt. Institutions ( RTBI, IIT, IDRBT, DIT ) as members. MPFI is a non-profit Society with its board comprising of 15 members from spearheading Institutions responsible for enabling [...]

With TRAI getting tough on unsolicited commercial calls made to mobile phone users, telemarketers have now turned their pesky attention to land lines as an alternate route to the consumers ear. Telemarketers are targeting fixed line phones with far greater frequency than ever before. Though the population of fixed line phones is significantly lower than [...]

With Union Communications and Information Technology Minister A. Raja clearing the file related to “mobile number portability” (MNP) on Wednesday, mobile phone users would soon be able to change their telecom operator without changing their phone number.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is planning a consultancy paper on mobile termination charges (MTC) even as it examines various methods and global practices on MTC. The move gains importance as telecom operators in the country are divided over the issue of MTC — with existing operators seeking a hike and the new [...]

The guidelines for Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) to launch operations in India are set to be unveiled soon. A committee set up by department of telecom (DoT) to examine sector regulator TRAI’s recommendations for allowing MVNOs in India has endorsed the regulator’s proposals with some minor changes.

Telecom regulator Trai has said that the telephone connections of over 10,000 telemarketers have been disconnected for calling mobile subscribers registered with the ‘National Do Not Call’ (DNC) registry. Of those, 8,602 disconnections are of unregistered telemarketers. Currently, India has about 20,000 registered telemarketers and an equal number of unregistered players.

The rollout of mobile services in rural areas is beginning to bring in the numbers for operators. Compared to a trickle of rural subscribers just a few years back, operators are now getting more than 30 per cent of their new mobile users every month from villages. While operators got 25 million new users across [...]