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PayMate Powers Inter Bank Mobile Payment Services in India
PayMate today launched an innovative application for mobile fund transfers that is now powering the Inter Bank Mobile Payment Service of three leading banks in the country.
Currently live at Syndicate Bank, Lakshmi Vilas Bank and South Indian Bank, PayMate’s application is a shot in the arm to Inter Bank Mobile Payment Services in the country.
The IMPS facility was launched with much fanfare in November 2010, under the aegis of the National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI).It promised an instant interbank electronic fund transfer service that customers could conveniently access using their mobile phones. However, although the facility is being offered by over 20 banks across the country, the adoption rate has been low.
Industry analysts have attributed this to the fact that the service in its present format is custom-made for smartphone users who can download an application from their respective banks and use it to make a fund transfer. Users with basic phones have the option of transferring funds via an SMS which limits the transaction value.
PayMate’s IMPS application add to these two modes of funds transfer with a third option that is a hybrid SMS-IVR based solution that allows even a basic phone user to transfer funds up to Rs. 50,000/-.
With PayMate powering IMPS services of 3 banks and with at least 5 additional banks in the pre-launch phase, PayMate is the single largest technology solution provider to banks for IMPS.
source :: http://telecomtalk.info/paymate-powers-inter-bank-mobile-payment-services-in-india/68440/
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@Kesav yes I also thought that Ramdev's way of protest was wrong moreover some of his demands are nonsensical. But the way the government has treated his protests is shockingly undemocratic. First try to bribe then try to beat. Also I must say the BJP and communists have not oppposed the Lokpal. It is mostly the Congress which is getting worried as it has the most skeletons in closet.
I don't think govt ever wanted to beat/harm anybody in the stage....Only protesters in the stage wanted to create scene by pelting stones(what type of sathyagraha is it??)......
It was really developing in to a security mess by involvement of outdated saffron forces....Just think why Mayawati didn't allow Ramdev to enter UP....it's a security issue......
IMHO, eviction happened with utmost care.....
We must applaud Govt for evicting such non-sense from the capital with very little collateral issues.....
Corruption is a virus and must be eradicated through people's movement.
The first step is Lokpal draft....The people's movement must not be allowed loose focus on it.....
Once Lokpal bill passed, Anna's team can take up next issue.
Let then Baba Ramdev do his fast in Haridwar in his multi-crore ashram for bringing back black money.
I can bet nobody will ever turn up if he does it in his Ashram by looking at the luxuriant atmosphere prevailing there.
I can say with conviction that more than 80% of the donations given to God and Godmen are black money.
The most damages due to Lokpal will happen to BJP(especially in Karnataka) and that's the primary reason they want to dilute Lokpal movement with help of Saffron handlers.
If BJP was sincere, why didn't their state governments reply to centre's questionnaire on Lokpal???
Is it not delaying tactics???
IMHO, each and every political party in equal measure is scared of Lokpal.
Each one trying to sabotage the movement by their own time tested tactics.
Congress by sending questionnaire ....
BJP by supporting Ramdev's antics......
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In a competing move,Nokia plans pan India coverage for e-wallet
Handset maker Nokia is looking for a pan India coverage for its Nokia Money, the mobile payment services enabling consumers to pay directly from their Nokia mobile phones in India, a top official said.
"We are now planning for a pan India coverage for our Nokia Money this year," Nokia Mobile Financial Services Director, Gerhard Romen told media.
The e-wallet services of the firm is currently available in Mumbai , Delhi National Capital Region (NCR), Nasik, Pune, Chennai and Chandigarh and the company will soon commence its operations in Surat, Baroda, Rajkot, Lucknow, Kanpur, Kochi and Kozhikode, he said.
An e-wallet is like a physical wallet that enables users to make electronic transactions quickly and securely, without cash.
"Earlier people were shocked to think that your phone could have a camera, but now everyone uses a camera phone. Similarly in a couple of years it will be a wallet in your phone," he sid enthusing optimism.
"We are still discussing with other banks for the facility, but I can not give you any names at this time," he said.
Nokia Money Services allows mobile phone users to transfer money to another person by using the person''s mobile phone number and also top up the prepaid card or pay utility bills.
Nokia's e-wallet allows its customers to have up to Rs 50,000 in cash in their mobile phones, as per the directive from the Reserve Bank of India.
Romen added his service was simpler than others as you just had to transfer the money by selecting the person in your contacts and by entering the amount to be transferred, and does not require any mobile money ID number.
The services can be accessed even in non-Nokia handsets by the interactive voice response system, but would require the transferor and the transferee to be registered on the Nokia services system.
The service is offered over a Mobile Payment platform developed by Obopay which receives its funding from Nokia, AllianceBernstein, Essar Telecom USA, Onset Ventures, Qualcomm, Redpoint Ventures, Richmond Management and Wolfensohn & Co.
Romen declined to give the firm's investment detail in India, but said Nokia Money was launched for the first time in the country because it has 1.2 billion people and over 800 million mobile subscribers. He added that the reach of the service has now equalled the population of Kenya.
On Nokia's financial services being launched in other countries, he said they are considering a few countries, but declined to give the locations.
source :: http://telecomtiger.com/Corporate_fullstory.aspx?storyid=11422&flag=1&passfrom=topstory§ion=S162
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MHA seeks storage of call records for at least 5 years by telecos
The Ministry of Home Affairs has asked the Department of Telecommunication to direct service providers to store call records of customers for at least five years and make them available to law enforcement agencies whenever required.
Citing security concerns, the MHA has conveyed to the DoT that the existing system of keeping call records by the telecom companies for six months has not been able to satisfy the security agencies and hence storing of call details for a longer period was necessary.
"We want telecom companies to preserve their call data records for five years so that the security agencies can use that whenever required," a Home Ministry official said.
MHA asks DoT for timeline on domestic telecom equipment policy
The Ministry of Home Affairs has sought information from the DoT on the timeline for implementing a new policy to promote domestic manufacturers of telecom equipment and cut down the country''s reliance on imports.
Most of the equipment used in Indian telecom networks at present is imported. The government has expressed apprehensions that imported telecom equipment may contain malware or bugs that will leak sensitive communications data to third parties, which could pose a threat to the nation's security.
The Department of Telecommunications has indicated that the forthcoming National Telecom Policy 2011 will give preferential treatment to local manufacturers. In this regard, telecom regulator TRAI has already given its recommendations on a proposed Telecom Equipment Manufacturing Policy to the DoT.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has suggested giving preferential treatment to made-in-India products -- besides incentives to telecom operators to source domestically manufactured equipment -- with the objective of ensuring that 80 per cent of India's telecom services network is based on indigenously manufactured equipment by 2020, up from just 3 per cent in the year 2009-10.
While the DoT is still studying TRAI's recommendations, the MHA's views on providing incentives to promote indigenous production have found concurrence within the DoT.
However, when Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal had held discussions on the issue with industry players in the first week of May, telecom operators criticised the need for giving preferential treatment to domestic manufacturers of telecom products.
When contacted on the issue, a senior DoT official said most of the officials in the department were busy responding to various enquiry committees set up by the government on the 2G spectrum scam and hence, a definitive timeline for implementation of the proposed National Telecom Manufacturing Policy could not be committed at this stage.
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Baba Ramdev, IMHO is a multi-crore comedian trying hard to make a publicity stunt.
If you've observed during Anna Hazare's campaign videos, his overtures to capture focus of video cameras are clearly visible.
Saffron brigade which has completely become outdated in current India is trying to piggy back on this foolish man. It's like Nokia-Microsoft collusion.
It's terrible that when entire focus should have been on Lokpal bill drafting, due to this comedian's egoistic intervention the entire movement has lost its focus.
I feel it's time for Anna Hazare's team to refocus on Lokpal instead of wasting time in this non-sense.
What the entire political spectrum(Congres,BJP,Communists etc.,) wanted has been achieved by using Baba Ramdev as pawn.....Shifting focus out of Lokpal draft.........
What is the necessity for this comedian to start this one when another campaign(Lokpal) was struggling to meet its target?????
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As per SC direction, TRAI has to come out with new IUC regulations by 1st week of June(4 months from the date of that SC order).
As on date, TRAI has completed all formalities(comments, counter-comments,open house discussion), hence TRAI can come with the regulations by this week or next week.
It cannot delay further because the case will come for hearing in SC sooner.
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Telcos scurry to conform to norms
NEW DELHI: Indian telecom companies are scurrying to conform to the government's stipulated health norms in light of growing evidence on the cancerous nature of cellphone radiation.
There has been an amendment in the Access Service Licenses — mandating self-certification radiation levels of cellphone towers — to ensure compliance with WHO-endorsed guidelines of International Commission for Non-ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP). The stricture led 5, 88,645 out of 6, 05,859 base stations to get self-certification till March 31, 2011.
Speaking to TOI, Union minister of state for communications and Information Technology Sachin Pilot said non-compliance to the stipulated radiation limits carries a penalty of Rs five lakh for every mobile tower.
Talking on the cellphone could cause a malignant form of brain cancer, said International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) recently. It classified radiation emanating from cellphones alongside gasoline engine exhaust, lead and DDT as "possibly carcinogenic to humans".
IARC said, "The WHO/IARC has classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans (group 2B), based on an increased risk for glioma, a malignant type of brain cancer, associated with wireless phone use."
Pilot said, "We are not going to compromise with radiation limits since it has health-related concerns. The department of telecommunications set up an Inter Ministerial Group in August, 2010, to evaluate the evidence, revisit radiation guidelines for mobile towers and adopt guidelines for radiation emission by cell phones. This group has recommended radiation limits more stringent than that of the United Nations."
He added, "We had called for self certification of all mobile towers. Almost 90% of the towers have completed doing so. We have extended their time frame for six more months. However, the radiation limits they are complying to are the old ones. Once new compliance levels kick in, finalized by the Department of Telecom (DoT), they will have to conform to them too."
The Inter Ministerial Group in its report made some salient recommendations about mobile handsets. The group proposed revising the limit of 2 watts per kilogram averaged over 10 grams tissue to 1.6 watts per kilogram averaged over 1 gram tissue. It also called for mandatory declaration of radiation level on each mobile handset. As far as mobile towers are concerned they recommended radiation norms which are ten times as strict as the existing ones- from f/200 watts per square meter to f/2000 watts per square meter.
The group said mobile towers should not be installed near high density residential areas, schools, playgrounds and hospitals.
"The localized specific absorption rate (SAR) value as per the Indian guidelines is 2 watt per kg, averaged over a six minute period and using a 10 gram average mass. With higher SAR — a measure of the amount of radiofrequency energy absorbed by the body while using a phone of mobile handsets — the public could potentially receive much higher radiofrequency exposure. We have recommended that SAR levels to be lowered to 1.6 watt/kg, as prescribed by the Federal Communication Commission of US," said experts.
Girish Kumar, professor in department of electrical engineering at IIT Bombay, whose research on hazards of cellphone use was taken as a reference for the committee decision, said, "There is a 40% increase in the risk of brain cancer among teenagers using cell phones for long periods. The younger the child, the deeper is the penetration of electromagnetic radiation as children's skulls are thinner."
Another Jawaharlal Nehru University study found that the exposure to radiation from mobile towers and cellphones could have an adverse impact on male fertility and pose health hazards by depleting the defence mechanism of cells. The report also suggested that children, adolescents and pregnant women should avoid excessive use of cellphones. People should use hands-free technologies to minimize the contact of the head with cellphone. "People having active medical implants should keep their cellphone at least 30 cm away from the implant," it added.
source :: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Telcos-scurry-to-conform-to-norms/articleshow/8730447.cms
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Finally, Seminar on “Next Generation Network – Implementation & Implications” is going to happen on 21st and 22nd July, 2011 in New Delhi.
Let us hope this seminar will serve as catalyst to the introduction of NGN at faster pace in India.
http://www.trai.gov.in/WriteReadData/trai/upload/misc/162/information_related_seminar%20_TRAI.pdf
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Draft Tender Document for Rural Wireless Broadband Scheme for Setting up & Management of Wireless Broadband Network and Provision of Wireless Broadband Services in Specified Rural and Remote areas.
http://usof.gov.in/usof-cms/tender/Draft_Tender_Document_Rural_Wireless_BB_Website_21[1].4.2011.pdf
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I came across interesting community in facebook on the subject....
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Looks like things are moving in correct direction in India.
:clap: Below is the list of activities carried out so for....
http://www.tec.gov.in/ipv6activities.php
Let us do it within scheduled timeframe.....
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1p/2sec -- local& STD for lifetime offer is really a path breaking one......
conditions::
(1)cumulative recharge of Rs. 900 for every six months
(2)cap of 400 STD minutes/month
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2G scam: Pitroda, Montek among experts to assist & advise JPC
The Advisor to the Prime Minister, Mr Sam Pitroda, and the Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission, Mr Montek Singh Ahluwalia, are to assist the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), probing the irregularities in telecom licensing, spectrum allocation and their pricing.
The select group of experts will interact with JPC members in the coming days to provide better understanding on technology developments in the telecom sector and also on the economic issues relating to spectrum pricing, sources said. Both Mr Pitroda and Mr Ahluwalia have the rank of Cabinet Ministers.
The JPC was formed in March this year to look into the telecom policy pursued from 1998 to 2009 including the allocation and pricing of spectrum.
CAG Presentation
Meanwhile, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), Mr Vinod Rai appeared before the JPC on Monday and made presentations on the telecom related audit reports tabled in Parliament in the years 2000, 2004, 2006 and 2010. “The discussions were inconclusive. We have sought information on the comments made by various Government departments to the draft reports of CAG,” Mr P.C. Chacko, JPC Chairman, told reporters here.
Some of the JPC members wanted to know whether the CAG had before coming with a presumptive loss factored in the TRAI''s policy recommendation that spectrum of 800, 900 and 1800 MhZ should not be auctioned, Mr Chacko said. He said that CAG is expected to come back with a reply to the JPC on this question.
Mr Rai noted that calculating the presumptive loss on 2G spectrum allocation was within the public auditor's mandate and that the CAG had “acted within its mandate”, Mr Chacko added.
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DoT, security agencies at loggerheads over mobile data services snooping
The Department of Telecom and security agencies are divided over how to deal with the issue of snooping into highly encrypted data mobile services such as those offered on BlackBerry devices.
The matter may now be referred to the Committee of Secretaries to find a solution.Proposals rejected
According to sources, the IB has rejected almost all the proposals made by the special committee.
The DoT had suggested that the security agencies should snoop into the servers of various corporates to track high encrypted data services such as those offered on BlackBerry devices.
It had also said that the law enforcement agencies should develop its own technology to snoop into telecom networks rather than depending on operators and service providers.
In the case of BlackBerry, for example, the Canadian firm which manufactures the device has told the security agencies that it has no technology available that will allow Indian law agencies to crack into the enterprise email services. But MHA insists that the company provide a solution or withdraw it services in India.
“Banning a service is not a good solution. If a company says there exists no solution and later a solution is found to exist only then the services should be barred. We have prepared a proposal which will be sent to MHA for approval. If they do not approve then we will take the matter to the CoS,” said a DoT official.
The security agencies have raised concerns about a number of data services being offered by the likes of Nokia and Google.
The basic problem is that under Indian laws, operators are allowed to use encryption up to 40 bit whereas most of the data services use much higher encryption to make it more secure against hacking. Security agencies do not have the technology to crack into anything that has higher encryption keys.
This is utter non-sense by DoT.
Is DoT agent of corporates or an arm of Govt???
:confuse: It's totally perplexing to know that DoT instead going for a kill against adamant corporates, it's playing politics with security agencies.
Looks like RIM succeeded in coughing up enough bribe to quench the thirst of bureaucrats in DoT.
It's a utter shame on India!!!!!
:'( :'( :'( :'(
DoT must simply say to telecom operators to either 'real-time decrypt' or 'ban' any service on its network.
Why on earth DoT committing suicide by undermining the position of the security agencies??????
:suicide: PS:: Let us pray that above quoted article was not a paid rumor by RIM
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In a related news,
TEC test must for all telecos before deployment
All shades of telecoms gear will have to shortly undergo mandatory certification by the Telecom Engineering Centre (TEC) before deployment in communication networks across India.
The telecoms department will soon expand the Indian Telegraph Rules to include detailed modalities for such mandatory testing and certification.
"Testing shall be carried out by the Telegraph Authority or any other designated agency on payment of a prescribed fee. A suitable test certificate will be issued (to the OEM) if it complies with all parameters of testing and certification," says an internal telecoms department report.
An internal department panel which is drafting the detailed norms for mandatory testing of telecoms gear is slated to submit its recommendations to the Telecom Commission by June 15. The seven-member panel largely comprises senior officials of the TEC, which is the department''s technical wing.
The proposed `Telegraph Authority' is likely to be the TEC, although the telecoms department interim report is yet to spell this out.
Since such certification of telecoms gear will have a validity period, the OEM will need to renew it periodically to continue selling equipment in India.
The Telegraph Authority will also have the powers to issue show cause notices to telcos using uncertified gear and OEMs selling such equipment. Under the amended Indian Telegraph Rules, it will also have powers to confiscate telecom equipment that hasn't been tested or certified. In the event, an errant OEM fails to complete certification formalities even 180 days after being issued a show cause notice, the designated authority may confiscate such uncertified telecom equipment.
source :: http://telecomtiger.com/Corporate_fullstory.aspx?storyid=11355§ion=S162
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Telecom Commission for change in methodology to calculate penalty
The Telecom Commision, the apex policy making wing of the Union communications ministry, has dismissed the recommendations of an inter-ministerial panel that was asked to determine the penalty for breach of licence conditions by mobile phone companies.
Instead, the TC wants the telecom department to frame a set of internal guidelines on determining the size of penalty on a case-to-case basis depending on the gravity of the violation.
It has also called for constitution of a smaller panel comprising members of the the department''s licencing, finance and wireless access wings to propose a suitable penalty for each individual licence condition breach, and place the same to the telecom secretary and communications minister for final approval.
The Telecom Commision believes the quantum of penalty should be determined only after factoring in the level of a licencee's culpability, the potential revenue loss to the government, the net wrongful gains made by the erring mobile phone company and the level of deterrence merited.
It also calls for stringent action against all telcos that compromise on the national security parameters in the licence agreement. "Security conditions cannot be compromised and any breach in this light should be dealt with strictly," says the internal TC communique.
source:: http://telecomtiger.com/PolicyNRegulation_fullstory.aspx?storyid=11359§ion=S174
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I whole-heartedly second your suggestion of IUC charges in denomination of 'per soecond basis' rather than current 'per minute' basis.
It'll help new operators in paying only for the seconds terminated on old operators rather than current method of 'rounding off to upper minute' for each call terminated.
This could save huge amount of money for new operators for exactly the same IUC charges.
Let us hope TRAI listens.......
Still, calculating IUC charges in 'per minute' basis is quite archaic and does not reflect the level of advacements in precison timing calculations of current technological world.
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Rai on 2G report: CAG acted within mandate
Comptroller and Auditor-General (CAG) Vinod Rai, who briefed senior Congress leader P.C. Chacko-headed Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on Monday, maintained that the CAG acted within its constitutional mandate while preparing the report on the 2G spectrum issue. The JPC is looking into the 2G spectrum allocation scam.
Sources disclosed that some of the ruling party members sought to know from Mr Rai the constitutional mandate of the CAG in looking into the policy decisions of the government. The committee members also wanted to know how the CAG arrived at the presumptive loss of `1.76 lakh crores to the exchequer in the 2G spectrum case. The JPC meanwhile, will be briefed by the Enforcement Directorate officials and its director Arun Mathur on June 8. The ED officers will brief the committee about its probe under the provisions of the foreign exchange and anti-money laundering laws in the 2G spectrum issue. On June 7, CBI director A.P. Singh will brief the committee.
Sources said, a brief argument took place when Congress member Manish Tewari sought to know the constitutional mandate of the CAG in looking into the policy decisions of the government. To this, CPI’s Gurudas Dasgupta said the CAG also follows certain conventions besides following the mandate.
Some members also pointed that the Trai had taken a “definite decision” that the spectrum 800-900-1800 Mhz bands should not be auctioned.
“That being a decision of Trai and that being a policy decision, how come the CAG has come to the notional loss of `1.76 lakh crores. Policy is not a matter which is a subject matter of audit. It is a government decision,” Mr Chacko said quoting members, while briefing the media. He said the meeting with the CAG remained inconclusive as some documents related to the CAG’s telecom reports of 2006 and 2010 were not available with the panel.
Mr Chacko said some members also wanted to know whether the CAG took into account the policy prescription of the government before arriving at the figure of presumptive loss.
source :: http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/nation/north/rai-2g-report-cag-acted-within-mandate-420
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This phone is visible on rcom website
http://www.rcom.co.in/rcom/blackberry/devices_cdma.jsp
This phone is visible on TATA Indicom website
http://enterprise.tatateleservices.com/bfsi-blackberry-style-9670.aspx
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Finally, this phone is visible on rcom website.
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Even Hungama charges in auto-renewable mode on your credit card(till you explicitly stop it) as per the information on the site.
But the funny thing is that Hungama cannot store the "VbV" or "MasterSecure" code for auto-renewal.
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IB wants telcos to store call data records for five years
The Intelligence Bureau (IB) wants all mobile phone companies to store call data records, or details of all phone calls made by their customers, for a period of five years -a move that is set to be vehemently opposed by companies citing operational costs. At present, telcos store call records only for six months.
The intelligence agency had earlier asked the telecom department to mandate Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to keep a record of all online activities of customers for a minimum of six months.
But so far this has not be implemented due to a slew of concerns, ranging from increased costs to the fact that storage of these details for a long time could pose privacy threat.
The home ministry, in a communication to the telecom ministry, acknowledged that so far all efforts to get telcos save call records for more than one year had met with stiff resistance due to the increased costs.
But, the communication adds the sector regulator Trai, which plans to analyse the call records for calculating the liability of telcos, would be looking at call records between November 2005 and
March 2009, indicating that such details were available with all mobile phone companies. "Therefore there should be no problem for service providers to preserve their call data records for five years and make it available to law enforcement agencies when required," the home ministry communication by its joint director PS Purohit added.
An executive with a telecom company said that the IB demands cannot be enacted without changes to the rules that were introduced in 2007 when the foreign holdings in mobile phone companies were enhanced to 74%.
The DoT official said that the IB''s demands were being examined while adding that the no decision had been taken on this issue.
The official also added that the DoT may ask the inter-ministerial group currently looking into monitoring of both internet services and networks in the country must take a final call on this issue.
Last month, the telecom department turned down a demand by intelligence agencies that all operators upgrade their infrastructure to tap the phones of at least 1% of their customers.
This would have resulted in companies like Bharti Airtel , Vodafone Essar , Reliance Communications and BSNL enhancing their infrastructure to tap one over million phones each as all of them have over 100 million customers. Currently, large telcos are mandated to have requisite infrastructure in place to tap 1,000 phones simultaneously.
Under the existing framework, only about 15,000 phones can be tapped simultaneously across the country.
With over 800 million mobile connections, implementing this IB plan would have required all operators to jointly create infrastructure to tap 8 million phones. According to industry estimates, all operators combined will have to invest anywhere between $500 million to $1billion, including servers and storage costs, to build capabilities to tap 8 million phones simultaneously.
The IB has off late has been seeking a series of steps from the telecom department to enhance security.
It also wants the telecom and IT departments to work with mobile phone companies and the National Informatics Centre to put in place a system that can uniquely identify any person using the internet across the country. The project aims to develop a technology platform where users will have to mandatorily submit some form of an online identification
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Old, new telecom operators fight over IUC
Incumbent telecom operators are at loggerheads with new and CDMA players, with the former gunning for a hike in termination charges while the latter have asked telecom regulator TRAI to reduce it to as low as six paise a minute from 20 paise a minute now.
Termination charges, a part of Interconnection Usage Charges, are a levy paid by one operator to another on whose network a call ends Any change in it has an impact on mobile tariffs.
As per the cost model submitted to Trai for calculation of IUC, Vodafone has suggested that termination charges should be close to 30 paise a minute, compared to 20 paise at present.
The country''s largest telecom operator (by subscriber base), Bharti airtel, has not suggested a rate, but has said the charge "needs to be calculated keeping in mind the international best practices."
Bharti has suggested that the calculation of IUC needs to be done in accordance with the directions of TDSAT and that capex should be taken into consideration, since the industry is highly capex-intensive.
While old operators have suggested revising the interconnection usage charge (IUC) upward, taking into consideration various factors like high infrastructure costs, newer operators are of the view that the charge should be lowered to help further growth of the industry.
Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications, which offers both CDMA and GSM services, has suggested a termination charge of 6 paise.
New operator Unitech Wireless, which offers services under the Uninor brandname, has suggested an FL-LRIC (Long-Run Average Incremental Cost)-based voice termination rate of 18.3 paise and a pure LRIC-based voice termination rate of 7.7 paise.
Often, IUC changes affect consumer tariffs. A lower IUC could mean lower tariffs for the end consumer.
Termination charges contribute significantly to the revenues of players, especially old operators.
Trai had sought comments from operators on the rate IUC should be charged at and whether the time has come to abolish it.
The issue of IUC has been a bone of contention between new operators and incumbent players for long now. In view of over 90 per cent of subscribers registered with old operators, they have been opposing any move to do away with termination charges, while the new operators are supporting the idea, saying this would give them a level-playing field.
source :: http://telecomtiger.com/Corporate_fullstory.aspx?storyid=11347§ion=S162
The responses from cartel is on the expected lines...started shedding crocodile tears....It's very clear form the onset that they'll never survive in true competitive world...they can only survive in the current pro-incumbent skewed (termination charge as high as 20p/minute) regulatory regime.....
TRAI must puts its foot firmly on the ground and must move towards zero-IUC regime so that real competition can take place....
@Kanaga, you're bang on target...your wish(5p) comes very close to the calculation of RCOM's(6 p) and Uninor's(7.7 p)....
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Punjab National Bank joins IMPS bandwagon taking the tally of live members to 21.
http://www.npci.org.in/bankmember.aspx
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India Against Corruption - Parivartan
in The Lounge
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I plead to differ with this wrong interpretation of black money.....
Any undeclared money is black money...either it's in India or Abroad.....
Black money rolling within India is much devastatingly harmful than those rolling outside.....
Let us not forget that fundamentally those money stashed outside is going to come back to India in one bad way or other....
At least you've the option to get the details of money parked outside but it becomes very very difficult to account for the black money which has already been seeded back in India....
Black money will only grow weeds and not rice.......
There must be full stop for this distinction between black money inside or outside.....
Black money is a black money and it's always detrimental wherever it's hedged....
Absolutely.....Ramdev should have wound of the protest immediately the permission was withdrawn. His group does not have any right to attack the police....
Despite the different point of views, let us remain focused on draft Lokpal bill which is vital for fight against corruption. The focus should never get disturbed despite this comical drama by Ramdev.