Trai has released a draft report on enabling innovative technologies, services, use cases, and business models through a regulatory sandbox in the digital communication sector. The paper proposes that applicants should expressly spell out what regulatory requirements are being complied with and what exemptions from the existing regulatory regime pertaining… Read more...

June 19, 2023 TRAI has extended the deadline for counter comments for this consultation to June 22, 2023. May 15, 2023 TRAI has extended the deadline of this consultation. Comments are now due on May 18, and counter comments due on June 1, 2023. April 11, 2023 The Telecom Regulatory… Read more...

May 22, 2023 TRAI has extended this consultation. The new deadline to submit comments is May 22, and a new deadline for reply comments June 5, 2023. April 24, 2023 The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is inviting comments on issues related to low-power short range FM radio broadcasting.… Read more...

The Technology Innovation Group on 6G (TIG-6G) set up by the Indian government’s Department of Telecommunications has published a major policy document on 6G.The document contains a number of recommendations, including on spectrum. Among them is an opening up of new bands for IMT and an expansion of the mid-band… Read more...

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is consulting on spectrum sharing, infrastructure sharing and spectrum leasing. Chapter 3 of the consultation document focuses on the proposal on sharing of spectrum. The regulator asks stakeholders to submit their views on regulations related to inter-band spectrum sharing between two telecom service… Read more...

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released a consultation paper on data communication services between aircraft and ground stations provided by organisations other than airports. The government has tasked TRAI to provide recommendations on an appropriate mechanism to regulate services using VHF data communication services. Secondly, TRAI has… Read more...

Indian Ministry of Communications is inviting comments on the new draft Telecommunications Bill. This follows an earlier consultation this year on the need for a new legal framework governing the telecommunications sector. Stakeholders can comment on the draft until October 20, 2022. Read more...

Telecom regulator TRAI has launched a consultation on the spectrum needs of the National Capital Region Transport Corporation (NCRTC) for railway traffic control. NCRTC, a joint venture company of the Indian Government and the states of Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and Delhi, has requested the Department of Transportation to allocate… Read more...

The Indian telecoms regulator, TRAI, is consulting on using street furniture to provide telecom services. Street furniture is a term used to describe objects placed or fixed in the street for public use, such as postboxes, road signs, and benches. TRAI says that using this infrastructure for 5G deployment "could… Read more...

January 4, 2021: TRAI has announced that it is extending this consultation. Comments are now be due by January 10, and reply comments are due by January 24. December 6, 2021: The Indian telecoms regulator, TRAI, has issued a consultation on its upcoming 5G spectrum auction. The consultation asks stakeholders… Read more...