The AGR System – A Bottleneck for Motivating Investment
Investments are crucial for the growth of the Indian telecom sector. One way of triggering investments is by laying out...
SC Judgment on AGR: Rationale and Implications
Recently (24th Oct 2019), the Supreme Court decided the "definition of revenue" on which license fee shall be applicable. The case...
The battle of the 26 GHz band: Facts vs Myths
Yesterday, I wrote a piece titled "Will 5G in India Get Killed?" which estimates the increase in deployment cost of 5G in...
Will 5G in India Get Killed?
The purpose of this note is to estimate the additional cost to deploy 5G in the 26 GHz band in...
DoS stance will prevent the rollout of 5G in India
Introduction Possible 5G bands in India are 700 MHz, 3.5 GHz and 26 GHz. Out of which, 26 GHz band is the most...
Can TV OTT Apps be Licensed Under Same Terms as Others?
On May 18th ET carried out a story that TRAI is mulling to license TV enabling OTT apps so that they can...
Is Importing and Selling Refurbished Phones Allowed in India?
MOCI Notification Recently ministry of commerce issued a notification No.5/2015-2020 dated 7th May 2019, which amends the earlier notification No.50/2015-2020 dated 8th Jan...
Can Operators Use 5G for Broadcasting TV Channels?
Technical they can. How? As 5G will exponentially increase the capacity of the wireless network and also prevent average throughout...
Broadcasting Regulations: Are the objectives met?
On 3rd March 2017, the TRAI issued a new tariff order for regulating the pricing of channels of the broadcasting...
Aadhaar Amendment Bill 2018 – Key Features
Recently the GOI has introduced the Aadhaar Amendment Bill 2018 in the parliament. As described in my earlier writings ( Section...