Telcos approach Trai seeking early decision on floor price issueThe Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), which represents private players Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Reliance Jio Infocomm...
25 May, 2020, 06.44 AM IST
COAI urges TRAI to consider online open house discussion on "pressing" floor price issue"The bulk of responses have already come in through written comments, and additional inputs, if any, can be given via suitable alternates l...
22 Mar, 2020, 11.44 AM IST
Exempt telcos with under 15% market share from floor price norms: BSNL, MTNL to TraiIn their suggestions to Trai, the two public sector operators have acknowledged that the telecom industry is facing heat due to sudden and ...
08 Mar, 2020, 04.50 PM IST
Blow for telcos: Niti Aayog, CCI oppose fixing floor for telecom tariffsNiti Aayog said, “The proposed minimum floor price are likely to disincentivise competition on cost efficiency, price, and quality paramete...
05 Mar, 2020, 08.42 AM IST
Telcos seek floor price for data for 2-3 years, oppose any ceilingWhile Airtel and Vodafone Idea want a cost-based methodology to arrive at a floor, Jio said that it must be determined on headline tariffs ...
04 Mar, 2020, 08.55 PM IST
No question of speeding up floor pricing process, no deadline on it: Trai chairman RS Sharma"We have already floated a consultation paper on the subject of floor pricing… There is no question of expediting the process…There is no s...
29 Feb, 2020, 07.31 AM IST
TRAI extends deadline for views on floor ratesThe Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has extended timeline for receiving comments over its consultation paper which seeks views...
18 Jan, 2020, 07.56 AM IST
Trai defers zero-IUC regime for a year, to take effect from January, 2021For domestic calls, termination charge would continue to remain as 6p/min up to 31st Dec, 2020, Trai said.
18 Dec, 2019, 07.03 AM IST
Looking at telecom industry demand to fix floor price: TraiTrai had, in past, vehemently opposed any intervention by the regulator in setting either cap or floor tariffs, and the U-turn in its thoug...
12 Dec, 2019, 05.57 PM IST
Airtel, Jio, Vodafone Idea seek Trai's intervention for setting up floor price of data services"Telecom service providers in the private sector namely Bharti Airtel Limited, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea Limited are in complete agree...
04 Dec, 2019, 07.47 AM IST
Trai unlikely to intervene in tariffs, floor price for now: SourcesWith large telecom operators planning a rate hike in coming days, Trai is unlikely to make an immediate intervention on tariff issues, incl...
27 Nov, 2019, 06.17 PM IST
Setting floor for telecom tariffs may not be practical: TRAITrai doesn’t intervene in tariffs, and any move to set a floor price would overturn this practice. While Trai had rejected the proposal for...
06 Nov, 2019, 09.54 AM IST
Trai rejects telcos proposal on floor price for voice and data services"We had a detailed discussion on this. Fixing a floor price was not a workable idea. Prices as they are under forbearance should continue a...
21 Jul, 2017, 11.27 PM IST
Trai to discuss tariff floor price with telecom companies on July 21The minimum floor price, for both data and voice calls, has been demanded by a section of incumbent telecom operators, but implementing it ...
16 Jul, 2017, 04.52 PM IST
TRAI talks net neutrality, floor pricing with US Federal Communications CommissionTrai chairman told that he and US FCC chief Ajit Pai also discussed their action plans on spectrum bands, including upcoming technologies l...
29 Jun, 2017, 12.37 PM IST
CDMA body to ask Trai to auction 800 MHz bandThe lobby body for CDMA mobile operators will shortly write to telecom regulator Trai that it should auction airwaves in the 800 MHz band.
19 Oct, 2013, 10.40 AM IST
Spectrum auction floor prices: Accept Trai’s proposals, not DoT panel’sThe DoT quibbles with the assumptions made to calculate the new base rates, and rejects the Trai’s recommended rates.
03 Oct, 2013, 04.00 AM IST