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Indian Telcos Call for Fair Contribution from OTT Platforms: A Comprehensive Report

The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) urges regulatory intervention for OTT platforms to share network costs, combat spam, and secure the 6GHz spectrum for 5G and 6G expansion. The surge in data traffic generated by large over-the-top (OTT) platforms has resulted in escalating financial challenges for Indian telecom operators. As the demand for data continues to rise, these telcos…

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COAI urges Centre to reduce tax burden on telcos in Union Budget

The Indian telecom sector will get a boost if the Centre further reduces the tax burden in the upcoming budget to help enhance the financial well-being of the sector, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) said on Wednesday. In its recommendations on behalf of the telecom industry, the COAI said considering the huge capital that telecom service providers (TSPs) have to invest in the…

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IIT Roorkee has received the 5G Use case Labs Award by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) under 100 5G Labs Initiative Program. The honorable Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi Ji officially awarded the 5G Use case Lab to all the selected academic institutes in the inaugural function of Indian Mobile Congress (IMC) 2023 with the objective of building competencies and engagement in 5G and beyond technologies for students & startup communities.

The Indian Mobile Congress 2023 is being jointly organized by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) in collaboration with the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) from 27th to 29th October 2023 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.

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[ad_1] Telecom industry body COAI has cautioned the telecom department that delicensing spectrum in the 6 Ghz band will hamper roll out of 5G advance and 6G services in the country.In a letter dated August 10 to Department of Telecom Secratory Apurva Chandra, the Cellular Operators Association of India -- whose members include Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio, Vodafone Idea, etc -- has requested the Department of Telecom to include the 6 gigahertz spectrum in the auction and support its allocation for mobile telecommunication at the global level.COAI said that the 6 GHz band is the only additional contiguous spectrum available in mid-band for IMT (International Mobile Telecommunications), beyond what has already been put up in auction."Hence, it is important for future growth of 5G and beyond technologies, including the roadmap for 6G introduction in India. This spectrum will be crucial as India firms up an action plan for Bharat 6G. Delicensing this important chunk of spectrum will seriously hamper the deployment of 5G+ and 6G In India," COAI Director General SP Kochhar said in the letter.The industry body has cautioned the department that heeding the demand of Wifi service providers to make the 6 GHz band freely available will lead to revenue loss to the government."We understand that some industry body(ies) have approached your good office, demanding that this band be delicensed for promoting Wifi services in the country. We believe that this spectrum can be utilised far more efficiently for the benefit of the nation and our citizens by augmenting 5G services in India," Kochhar said.The DoT had delicensed or made the 600 megahertz of spectrum freely available in the 5 GHz band in 2018.COAI said that delicensed 255 MHz in the 600 Mhz spectrum is completely unutilised in the absence of device ecosystem support."We believe that not using the available spectrum optimally and demanding more spectrum on top of that would lead to waste of such a scarce available valuable resource," Kochhar said.According to the industry body's letter, the top speed of Wifi will remain the same in 5 GHz and 6 GHz bands at 9.6 gigabits per second, which will not lead to any real value addition for end-consumers.The COAI DG said that any delicensing of 6 GHz or part thereof will reduce the spectrum for 5G and thereby limit the growth of 5G and 6G, which would be the main drivers of broadband in the country."For instance, the recent mid-band (C band) spectrum auctions of 2022 in India have derived a sale value of Rs 317 crore per MHz. This clearly indicates the huge potential implication of the decision on licensing or de-licensing the 1200 MHz spectrum (of 6 GHz band) to the government exchequer," Kocchar said.COAI has requested the DoT and Wireless Planning and Coordination Wing (WPC) to continue supporting the upper part of the 6 GHz band, which is a frequency range between 6425-7125 MHz for mobile telecommunications in the Asia Pacific Telecommunity Conference Preparatory Group for World Radiocommunication Conference 2023.The conference is organised by a UN body International Telecommunications Union to decide on spectrum use in various bands.The sixth meeting of the APG started on Monday and will continue till August 19."DoT to kindly take further decision on inclusion of the lower part of the band, i.e. 5925-6425 MHz in IMT. The above decision will go a long way in creating certainty around critical spectrum required for 5G/IMT technologies and will clear the path for auction of this spectrum," Kochhar said. Affiliate links may be automatically generated - see our ethics statement for details. [ad_2]

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Centre must avoid frequent internet suspensions, says Parliamentary panel

Centre must avoid frequent internet suspensions, says Parliamentary panel

A parliamentary committee said that when the government’s approach is towards digitization, the frequent suspension of the Internet for “flaw reasons” is unwarranted and should be avoided. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, chaired by Congressman Shashi Tharoor, called in its report titled “Suspension of Communications and Internet Services and Their Impact” for…

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Alert! A viral message promising for free internet? Its a SCAM

Alert! A viral message promising for free internet? Its a SCAM

Fake messages on social media platforms have become a new phenomenon that is disrupting the lives of many. Social media is used as a weapon to peddle lies that have a certain agenda. Therefore, a new fake message is doing rounds that claim to offer free internet. This is a scam. In order to protect users from falling on these traps, the telecom companies have time and again issued advisories…

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पीएम नरेंद्र मोदी कल इंडिया मोबाइल कांग्रेस को संबोधित करेंगे

पीएम नरेंद्र मोदी कल इंडिया मोबाइल कांग्रेस को संबोधित करेंगे

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पीएम नरेंद्र मोदी (फाइल फोटो).

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प्रधानमंत्री नरेंद्र मोदी (PM Narendra Modi) मंगलवार को वर्चुअल इंडिया मोबाइल कांग्रेस (IMC) 2020 के उद्धाटन समारोह को संबोधित करेंगे. यह समारोह सुबह 10.45 बजे से होगा. उनका यह संबोधन ऑनलाइन होगा. यह जानकारी प्रधानमंत्री कार्यालय (PMO) ने दी है. पीएमओ ने बयान जारी कर कहा कि आईएमसी 2020 का आयोजन भारत सरकार के दूरसंचार विभाग और सेल्युलर…

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दूरसंचार कंपनियों की TRAI से मांग, सेवाओं की न्यूनतम दरें लागू करने का काम जल्द हो

दूरसंचार कंपनियों की TRAI से मांग, सेवाओं की न्यूनतम दरें लागू करने का काम जल्द हो

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नई दिल्ली। दूरसंचार कंपनियों ने भारतीय दूरसंचार नियामक प्राधिकरण से सेवाओं की न्यूनतम दरें तय करने की प्रस्तावित व्यस्था लागू करने में तेजी करने का आग्रह किया है। निजी क्षेत्र की दूरसंचार सेवा कंपनियों ने कहा कि इस क्षेत्र की मजबूती और कंपनियों को स्पेक्ट्रम तथा समायोजित सकल राजस्व (एजीआर) के बकायों के भुगतान की हालत में बनाए रखने के लिए न्यूनतम मूल्य या…

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Coronavirus Has Enabled the Telecom Sector to Contribute 35% GDP in India

Coronavirus Has Enabled the Telecom Sector to Contribute 35% GDP in India

FILE PHOTO: Telecommunication towers are pictured through hanging flower pots at a residential building in Kolkata. (Reuters Image)

The leading industry experts said that many of the patterns and trends that have emerged during the pandemic situation are going to stay and the telecom sector needs to get prepared for that.

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Last Updated: May 3, 2020, 12:41 PM IST

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After Netflix, Facebook and Instagram Reduce Streaming Quality in India

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The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has written to over-the-top (OTT) streaming platforms to ensure smooth video streaming across the country as people are staying indoors and taking to work-from-home amid the coronavirus crisis.

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Last Updated: March 24, 2020, 6:05 PM IST

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Airtel, Vi and Jio wants 5Gi to support global standards by 3GPP

India is towards 5G launch, and at a crucial time such as this, Vodafone Idea (Vi), Airtel, Jio and global telecom vendors such as Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia, and Samsung have said that India’s 5G standards known as 5Gi should match the global standards set by the 3GPP.

It will be important to set the tone of 5G’s rollout and future in India. According to an ET Telecom report, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) said that the issues regarding interoperability of the 5Gi are still there. No specific advantageous differentiation has been found for using the 5Gi standard against the 5G standard of 3GPP.

A senior executive from the industry said that going with local 5G standards can prove to be very costly for the telcos and might result in a delayed nationwide 5G rollout. Communications Today brings latest 5G News India.

Jio supports local 5G standards while Airtel doesn’t

Mukesh Ambani, Chairman and MD of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) said that Jio supports the local 5G standards. However, he further said that the local standards should be flexible and adaptive to the globally set standards.

Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman of Bharti Airtel said that India’s local 5G standards will push it way behind other nations and keep it out of the global ecosystem.

The Telecommunications Standards Development Society, India (TSDSI) said that 5Gi will prove to be a ‘game changer’ for the industry. However, the industry believes that the standards set by TSDSI aren’t in line with what 3GPP has recommended and will prove to be very costly for the whole nation.

TSDSI said that operators won’t have to incur any extra cost since the changes will have to be made in the software domain and not at the hardware level. The 5Gi standard recommended by the TSDSI won’t work with existing 4G networks. At the same time, it does not include any of the recommendations by the 3GPP. Telecom Talk.

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