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TRAI’s Consultation Paper on Review of Interconnection Usage Charges

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Aug 09, 2016

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Sep 06, 2016

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Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released a Consultation Paper on ‘Review of Interconnect Usage Charges’ on 05.08.2016. ...

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released a Consultation Paper on ‘Review of Interconnect Usage Charges’ on 05.08.2016.

Interconnection means the commercial and technical arrangements under which telecom service providers (TSPs) connect their equipment, networks and services to enable their customers to have access to the customers, services and networks of other TSPs. Interconnection is extremely important from a consumer perspective. Telecom users cannot communicate with each other or connect with services they demand unless necessary interconnection arrangements are in place. Commercial and technical arrangements must be made to facilitate interconnection between TSPs. A number of issues must be agreed upon by the TSPs or determined by the regulator in order to finalize these arrangements. The most important commercial issue for a successful interconnection arrangement is the Interconnection Usage Charge (IUC). The Authority specified IUC for the first time in 2003. Subsequently, these charges have been revised in 2006, 2009 and 2015.

The Consultation Paper issued today, inter-alia, seeks inputs of the stakeholders mainly on the following broad issues:

(i) Approaches to be used for prescribing domestic termination charges (viz. mobile termination charges and fixed termination charges) for maximization of consumer welfare, adoption of more efficient technologies and overall growth of the telecommunication services sector; and

(ii) Approaches to be used for prescribing international termination charges and international settlement rates in the country for long-term sustainable growth of the International Long Distance (ILD) service segment.

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VISWANADHA RAO TATAVARTY 9 years 8 months ago

1) the name of the sim owner should be displayed on the cell home screen along with the NSP. 2) the sim should be linked to aadhar card. For the existing give a time frame to get sim linked to aadhar card 3) voice call/data usage should be made available on internet on user account for both prepaid and post paid.

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C. R.Paranjape 9 years 8 months ago

Existing operators who have invested billions in creating infrastructure and spending thousands of crores of rupees are at big disadvantages if interconnection charges are made nil and new monster entrant who built is empire by just manipulating government policies and evadind thousands of crores of taxes will benefit by offering free calls to his new subscribers.This will destroy the competition.Government will lose huge service tax revenue.and the mejor loser will be Bsnl but who bothers?

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Kshirod Dash 9 years 8 months ago

BSNL WIMAX users are suffering a lot because they are paying Rs 905/-for unlimited plan and getting a speed 512kbps.But most of times the service is unavailable.For landline broadband users it is 1MBPS speed with Rs750 unlimited plan.So the plan rate should be equal or data speed should be equal.

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AMOL WANDILE 9 years 8 months ago

trai should limit minimum and maximum rates for the data plans of 2g 3g 4g speed was issue there please solve this issue Broadband users are not getting the proper speed

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Hemantkumar Narendrabhai Malpure 9 years 8 months ago

In Mobile Networks Many Places Have Not Come Network. Many Cumpony's Give Full TalkTime Schemes, But They have not give Proper Benifits To Customer. In Date 22/08/2016, Once Customer Having Offer 130 Rupees Recharge Will Customer Do, Then Customer Get 140 Rupees. But Cumpony cannot give 140 Rupees. They give only Rupees 110. Please You Solve This Problem Fast.

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Dinesh Baskaran 9 years 8 months ago

There should be a proper escalation matrix in reporting our views/problems of the service providers. And at every time we cant trust the Private regularities so my suggestion is the end point of the escalation should be a Government regularity. It would be very helpful in bringing complaint mail id to the customers as the final escalation matrix.

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Sahasrangshu Choudhury 9 years 8 months ago

Sir following are my suggestions 1. National and international termination charge should be fixed. 2. By doing so sim boxing operatos will be eliminated. 3. Revenue booking and retail pricing would be easier as a result tax yo telco would be easier. Most of the African and gulf based countries has adapted to this. Also a feed of all incoming call cdr should be sent to government who in turn can also support to curb sim boxing.

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Naveen Singh Chandrawanshi 9 years 8 months ago

All sim of mobile no. should be connected or based with aadhar cards to prevent pre activated sim business and dialer tone should be fixed on based of Aadhar card e.g You are calling Naveen singh Raipur. if so happened fraud bank call can be easily traceable by call back. sir

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neerav patel 9 years 8 months ago

On the basis of the feedback received from various stakeholders about the IUC regime put in place through the Telecommunication Interconnection Usage Regulation, 2003, the Authority revised the IUC regime through ‘The Telecommunication Interconnection Usage Charges Regulation, 2003 (4 of 2003)’ dated the 29.10.2003 superseding the earlier Regulation. This Regulation came into effect from 01.02.2004.

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Rejimon C K 9 years 8 months ago

One Nation One Charge. When GST is now coming there is no need for so called ROAMING charges. Maximum IUC charge should be 5 Paise. The Telcom companies uses PUBLIC Spectrum, Space, Earth and facilities. They earn HUGE PROFIT already, the customer base is so huge in India with volume, it hardly affect them. Therefore, IUC charges should be based Quality, City and set maximum say 5 paise from current rate.

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