INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Authors: TheIndianSubcontinent News AgencyServices will start within 3-4 months, said telecom secretary.New Delhi: Calling and texting from
aircraft will soon become a reality as the Telecom Commission on Tuesday has approved in-flight connectivity, facilitating both voice and
Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on this have been accepted
We are expediting the process (to start) and within 3-4 months it should be ready
exception to TRAI's recommendations
The sector regulator said that foreign satellites and foreign gateways should also be permitted, "but there had been an earlier committee of
secretaries meeting that decided that it should be an Indian satellite or a Department of Space approved satellite and the gateway should be
This will also be applicable for ships
Re 1 will be the token licence fee
that grievance redressal in the telecom sector, which has been a long pending demand, the panel approved the proposal of forming a Telecom
A three tier mechanism has been proposed
First will be within the telecom service providers the first level of complaints can be lodged
Then if the consumer is not satisfied with the response, each TSP will set up an appellate mechanism within itself to which the person can
The TRAI has said they do not have the powers to create, therefore, it has now been proposed to give them powers to create an ombudsman
The idea is they can have one ombudsman per TSP, or one ombudsman per region or as many ombudsman as they feel are necessary
This will bring in much better and more satisfactory grievance redressal into the telecom sector
This will be done in priority basis
"It will be operationalising it immediately
is an extremely important recommendation because it will give a big fillip to the growth of public Wi-Fi hotspots in India and will create a
creation opportunity because right now we do not have many Wi-Fi hotspots and the idea is to proliferate this in a very large scale
So this was seen as a huge catalyst in that direction
the Telecom sector is a great milestone but how it will be implemented is a big challenge considering 100 crores plus users
The approval for Ease of Doing Business too reflect the DoT's strong resolve the revolutionize and streamline the Telecommunication
However data pricing through Wi-fi is likely to reduce tariffs but the good news that the Wi-fi will be chargeable can be very good
opportunity to increase revenues," said Hemant Joshi, Partner Deloitte India.(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by
staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
