6G TIG comprises members from the government, academia, industry associations and TSDSI (Telecom Standards Development Society of India).
In its 1st meeting on November 25 this year, TIG members presented the future technology needs in different sectors of economy to enhance India's contribution in global value chain.
"Taskforce are formed to make recommendations on aspects viz. Mapping of global 6G activities; India's competencies and potential pre-Standardization activities; Mission 6G program; Research views on IMT for 2030 and beyond; with regard to Networks, Devices, Spectrum, multi-disciplinary innovative solutions, ..
The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) has stayed the sector regulator’s orders which allowed subscribers to port out of their network from their service provider irrespective of their tariff plans. The appellate was hearing the Vodafone Idea’s (Vi) appeal against the regulator’s order.
“The issue noted … requires consideration. But till decision on the issue raised, respondent shall not take any precitipate act ..
Vi (the appellant) and Telecom Regulatory Authority of India clashed when the latter on December 7 had ordered telcos to allow subscribers to be able to port out to another telecom operator, irrespective of their prepaid or postpaid tariff plans. Vi went to appellate tribunal against the regulator’s order
Earlier, Reliance Jio Infocomm had alleged that Vi and Bharti Airtel tariff plans, disallowed consumers below a certain pricing threshold from putting out.
Jio had said that as per Vi’s new tariff plans for prepaid consumers, SMS services had been moved to a higher tariff plan of Rs 179 – from Rs149 - which would discourage subscribers from porting out to other service providers
“TRAI had issued direction in view of various co ..
Mobile number portability (MNP) requires subscribers to first send an SMS to their service operator. Upon the MNP request’s approval, a further process is initiated which may take three to five days for the user to move to a rival telco, while retaining the same number.
“…the stand of the appellant is that certain prepaid plans do not have SMS facility unless they are topped up to a certain level and such plans have the necessary approval under the tariff forbearance scheme and subscrib ..
provided, but if he wishes to avail of such facility, he can top up his plan by required standards to enjoy SMS facility for all purposes,” TDSAT had observed on Vi’s stance.
Vi, which lost 18.8 million users just in the last year, ended the September quarter with 253 million users. The loss-making telco is desperate to arrest and then reverse the trend of subscriber losses. It had 408 million at the time of merger between Vodafone India and Idea Cellular in August, 2018.
New customer acquisition is also crucial for Jio which has 429.5 million users but lost 11 million in the July-September quarter. The telecom market leader is pulling out all stops to touch a 500 million user base. Towards this end, it launched JioPhone Next – an affordable 4G smartphone developed with Google - to rope in more feature phone users, most of whom are with Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel, and use lower priced plans.
As of September end, Jio's average revenue per user (ARPU) ..
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