Interconnection Guidelines Assessment: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has prolonged the deadlines for stakeholders to share their feedback and counter feedback on its newest session paper on reviewing interconnection guidelines, the Ministry of Communications stated on Monday. The session paper was launched on November 10, and the unique dates for submitting feedback had been December 8 for feedback and December 22 for counter feedback.

TRAI stated it acquired a number of requests from business teams and stakeholders asking for extra time to review the problems and put together their responses. After contemplating these requests, the authority has prolonged the brand new deadline for feedback to December 15 and for counter feedback to December 29.

“Holding in view the requests acquired from business affiliation and stakeholders for an extension of time for submission of feedback on the stated session paper, it has been determined to increase the final date for submission of written feedback and counter-comments as much as December 15 and December 29, respectively,” the ministry stated.

Stakeholders can ship their inputs in digital kind to Sameer Gupta, Advisor (Networks, Spectrum and Licensing-I). The session goals to collect business views on updating interconnection rules to maintain tempo with evolving telecom applied sciences and market necessities.

TRAI Takes Motion In opposition to Spam In Telecom Sector

In the meantime, the telecom regulatory physique stated final month that it has taken main motion in opposition to spam and fraud within the telecom sector, disconnecting greater than 21 lakh cellular numbers and blacklisting round one lakh entities over the previous 12 months.

Based on the regulatory physique, the actions had been based mostly on complaints filed by residents, and the Authority has now urged individuals to proceed reporting spam by the TRAI DND App to cease misuse of telecom companies on the supply. Based on the telecom regulator, many customers imagine that blocking undesirable numbers on their telephones is sufficient. (With IANS Inputs)