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With the release of the draft Indian Telecommunication Bill, India is set to overhaul its telecommunication regulatory framework. The Ministry of Communications is accepting public comments on the draft bill till 20 October 2022. In this blog post, we take a look at the contents of the draft bill and its key takeaways. We alsoRead more

Access to telecommunication networks has acquired a distinct strategic lilt in modern conflicts. It is unsurprising, therefore, that the Libyan civil war beginning in 2011 had a marked adverse impact on the country’s digital and communications networks. Communications networks between the rebel-held eastern territories of Libya and the then Gaddafi-controlled west were repeatedly severed, withRead more

Preliminary The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (“TRAI”) is a statutory body that acts as the regulator of the telecommunications sector in India. It was set up by the government of India under section 3 of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997 (“TRAI Act”). The TRAI concerns itself with regulating telecom tariffs, qualityRead more

Preliminary   On 12 November 2018, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (“TRAI”)[1] published the Consultation Paper on Regulatory Framework for over-the-top (“OTT”) communication services (“Consultation Paper”).[2] This Consultation Paper was deemed necessary due to existing regulatory imbalances between telecom service providers (“TSP”) and OTT service providers, especially since the adoption and usage of OTTRead more

On 9th August 2017, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (“TRAI”) released a consultation paper on Privacy, Security, and Ownership of Data in the Telecom Sector (“Consultation Paper”) as a step towards developing a robust data protection framework to safeguard consumer interest in the telecom sector. TRAI is expected to release its final recommendations on the subject soon.[1]Read more

On 29th May, 2018, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (“TRAI”)  released the draft Telecom Commercial Communication Customer Preference Regulations, 2018 (“Regulations”), aimed to curb the problem of unsolicited commercial communication, or spam, for telecom subscribers. As stated in the accompanying press release, TRAI has chosen to adopt Distributed Ledger Technology (also known as “blockchain”)Read more

  Background   The Chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (“TRAI”) RS Sharma has announced that TRAI will soon release its final recommendations on data privacy and security in the telecom sector.[1] These recommendations will be based on the responses received to the TRAI’s consultation paperon Privacy, Security and Ownership of Data inRead more

This is the eleventh post, in a twelve (12) part series of posts, to map the opinions of all the stakeholders on the basis of their responses to the consultation paper on Privacy, Security, and Ownership of the Data in the Telecom Sector (Consultation Paper) published by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) onRead more

This is the tenth post, in a twelve (12) part series of posts, to map the opinions of all the stakeholders on the basis of their responses to the consultation paper on Privacy, Security, and Ownership of the Data in the Telecom Sector (Consultation Paper) published by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) onRead more