Category Archives: TRAI

Broadband spectrum: Trai favours e auction

TRAI is best known as a regulator that cannot enforce it’s own recommendations. Therefore, it brings forth new regulations to replace the ones it had brought earlier. It believes them to be set in stone and believes that they are … Continue reading

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Spice Telecom: Snapped up by Idea

Birla’s group Idea snapped up Spice, one of the last stand alone players in the market. Idea cellular is no angel in white. Spice isn’t the best thing to have happened to mobile industry ever although, they were among the … Continue reading

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Indian Telecom: New Players

Raja has done it again. Reliance has managed to trip over it’s nearest competitors, Bharti and Vodafone and ordered 80-100 million lines. They can easily manage to swing lower equipment costs and hence lower prices to start off with. They … Continue reading

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TRAI: Another salvo

Wow. It’s called as kicking in between the telecom companies crotch. It would hurt them for sure. TRAI has called for universal implementation of IPTV by the cable service providers. This means that cable companies would provide a direct competition … Continue reading

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TRAI:Breaking it’s mould

What has happened to TRAI? All of a sudden, it seems to have jumped from an IQ of deliquency to IQ of supranormal intelligence. There is a definite transformation of the dumb dodos into normal thinking human beings. First salvo … Continue reading

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Mobiles in India: A rip off!

I have the numbers finally. Something that I have been alleging but could never get the right numbers because it was impossible to break in through the opaque structures. Roaming charges have a rip off for years. I was wondering … Continue reading

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TRAI: Killing Internet

This is an excellent write up on Business Standard (and luckily on Rediff). I reiterate all over again that Business Standard must improve it’s layout and content archival system. This does not befit a premium newspaper at all. I quote … Continue reading

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