The growth of telecommunications services in India has been rapid, and there are now more than 170 million telephone subscribers. As telephones have become a ubiquitous communications medium, there has been a sharp increase in marketing and advertising activities through the telephone, a process colloquially referred to as ‘telemarketing’. A significant share of telemarketing is unsolicited, where the called subscriber has not given explicit prior consent to the calling party. A large number of subscribers find that such calls are a nuisance and inconvenient since they encroach on the called party’s time and often interfere with the called party’s activities. Additionally, such calls disturb the privacy of the subscriber. Over the past year, commercial unsolicited calls have engaged the time and attention of the Hon’ Rajya Sabha, the Hon’ Supreme Court of India, the Hon’ High Court of Delhi, the Reserve Bank of India, and the State Commission (Consumer) of Delhi. Further, the Authority has received numerous subscriber and consumer complaints about unsolicited calls and SMSs. The consumer resentment and dissatisfaction has been very loud and have found expressions at various fora. Therefore, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has initiated this consultation process to seek the views of all stakeholders for a comprehensive solution that prevents the bulk of such unsolicited commercial communications to address this widely shared grievance. Pl. click on the above link to know more.

TUV South Asia Pvt. Ltd. has been awarded the contract by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India for conducting an Objective Assessment and Customer Satisfaction Survey of the Basic and Cellular Mobile Telephone Service - Report on Quality of Service (QoS) for the quarter ending 30th June 2006. A comprehensive revised report dated October 13, 2006 submitted for TRAI by TUV South Asia. The report is a self explanatory.

The above document is a Draft Orders on tariff for commercial subscribers for Broadcasting and Cable Television Services for CAS notified areas and non-CAS areas issued by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) for the month of November 2006 . The orders are ; Draft Tariff Amendment Order for CAS commercial subscribers  and Draft Tariff Amendment Order for Non CAS commercial subscribers  respectively. Pl. click on the above link to gather more.

National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) was set up for peering of ISPs among themselves for the purpose of routing the domestic traffic within the country. This was expected to reduce International bandwidth requirement, reduce latency for domestic traffic and cost savings resulting in better Quality of Service and reduced charges to customers. The above document is a Consultation Paper on Improvement in the Effectiveness of National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) for the month of October 2006.

The above TRAI's Regulation shall cover the commercial and technical arrangements under which licensed Access Service Providers shall connect their equipment, networks and services to enable their customers to have access to the Intelligent Network of other Service Providers. The Regulation shall come into force from the date of its publication in the official Gazette. Pl. click on the link to access the more information.

GSM industry continues to sustain its aggressive growth in subscriber additions. The month of October 2006, saw the GSM industry set a new record by adding 4.7 million subscribers (which is even higher than the 4.4 million subscribers added in the month of September 2006). With this the All India GSM subscriber base has touched the 96 million as on end October 2006 as compared to 91 million as on end September 2006. The above document gives the citywise, metrowise, circlewise & operatorwise cellular subscriber statistics for the month of October 2006.

The GSM industry has witnessed the highest ever subscriber additions in the month of September 2006. The GSM industry set a new record by adding 4.4 million subscribers in September 2006 which is even higher than the 4.2 million subscribers added in the month of August 2006. The above document contains the citywise, circlewise, metrowise, operatorwise cellular subscriber statistics for the month of September 2006