TRAI deferring zero-IUC regime to hit Voda Idea & Airtel, benefit Jio: AnalystsMukesh Ambani-led Reliance Jio now stands to pocket as much as Rs 1,600 crore in interconnect fees from the two older carriers over the nex...
21 Jan, 2020, 07.30 AM IST
Trai mandates minimum call ringer duration of 30 secondsThe ring duration issue is at the heart of interconnect usage charges spat between older carriers and Jio.
01 Nov, 2019, 08.23 PM IST
Jio's Mathew Oommen says IUC concept outdated"The concept of points of interconnect and interconnection are related to 2G, its outdated," said Mathew Oommen, president, Jio.
15 Oct, 2019, 08.06 PM IST
No proposal before TRAI to amend interconnection usage chargesSinha said the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) regularly assesses the tariff and IUC and an exercise on this was carried out a...
18 Jul, 2018, 02.12 PM IST
Trai may reject Reliance Jio’s demand to slash international termination ratesThe Telecom Regulatory Authority of India slashed the local interconnection usage charge (IUC) – paid by operators from where calls origina...
28 Oct, 2017, 10.01 AM IST
Interconnect Usage Charge: Facts that you should knowThe three telcos control 60% of the 1 billion subscriber base, therefore most calls are likely to terminate on networks of the three.
21 Sep, 2017, 01.45 AM IST
Trai order gives Reliance Jio more firepower, can put more fight in itTrai has more than halved the interconnect usage charge to 6 paise a minute from the current 14 paise and said it would be brought down to ...
20 Sep, 2017, 12.17 PM IST
Telecom sector recovering, but hurdles remain, says JPM“If revenue/subscriber market share is the overriding intent for RJio, this could keep industry ARPUs in check. This, in turn, keeps indust...
20 Sep, 2017, 11.35 AM IST
Idea Cellular gives two ideas to calculate interconnect usage chargeReliance Jio, too, wrote to Trai on Thursday, to rebut Airtel’s assertions that it was exaggerating and distorting facts to get the IUC abo...
15 Sep, 2017, 01.14 AM IST
Airtel accuses Jio of trying to mislead Trai for third time in two monthsAirtel alleged that Jio was exaggerating and distorting figures of India’s older telecom operators, making false claims to mislead authorit...
13 Sep, 2017, 01.46 AM IST
TRAI may phase out the controversial interconnect usage chargeIncumbents Airtel and Idea will obviously not want to lose out on this fee. Jio, on the other hand, has been seeking for the IUC to be scra...
23 Aug, 2017, 10.16 AM IST
Airtel challenges TRAI's interconnect regulation in HCIUC or termination charges are payable by one telco, whose subscriber makes a call, to another whose subscriber receives the call.
12 Feb, 2016, 06.21 PM IST
Telecom stocks edge lower on Trai moveTrai has also reduced network interconnection IUC on calls made from mobile phones by about 30 per cent to 14 paise per call from 20 paise ...
24 Feb, 2015, 08.47 PM IST
Trai extends date for submission on comments on IUC to December 22Earlier, while releasing the consultation paper on Interconnect Usage Charges' (IUC), Trai had asked the stakeholders to send their comment...
12 Dec, 2014, 06.16 PM IST
- TDSAT disposes of Tata Communications pleas against MTNL
The pleas relate to the dispute Tata Communications and MTNL have over the payment of Interconnection Usage Charges charges for the period ...
23 Jan, 2013, 09.06 PM IST
- TDSAT sets aside MTNL payment demand from Airtel, Vodafone
TDSAT has set aside a demand note by MTNL to Airtel & Vodafone, seeking return of interest on part of the network interconnect charges coll...
20 Feb, 2012, 10.11 PM IST
- BSNL challenges interconnect usage charges norm of TRAI
BSNL on Monday challenged the interconnect usage charges regulation of TRAI before the sectoral tribunal TDSAT, in which the regulator has ...
30 Mar, 2009, 07.00 PM IST