Telecom Bill clears path for allocating satcom spectrum
This is a big win for Bharti Airtel's Eutelsat OneWeb, Elon Musk's Starlink and Amazon's Kuiper.
This is a big win for Bharti Airtel's Eutelsat OneWeb, Elon Musk's Starlink and Amazon's Kuiper.
The draft telecom bill proposes a provision to waive any fee, interest and penalties of telecom service providers. Provisions related to identity have been included in bill to prevent cyber-frauds.
At present, identifying the culprit who engages in fraudulent activities has been one of the major challenges for TRAI to curtail fraudulent calls.
Ashwini Vaishnav says new Bill will be based on 3 pillars -- wireless planning coordination reforms, bringing down licencing time to 28 days and ushering in licencing reforms online.
The new telecom bill has also proposed a provision to waive off any fee, interest and penalties of telecom service providers.