Telecom Commission Current Affairs, GK & News
New Virtual Network Operators License Regime – Unified Licence VNO (UL-VNO)
On June 3, 2016, the Telecom Department has released licence guidelines for virtual network operators for license called Unified Licence VNO (UL-VNO). This opens the door for a new class of telecom players in the country viz. VNOs. Earlier, there was a proposal by the Telecom Commission to allow a licensing regime that would facilitate ..
Topics: Mobile Communication • Telecom Commission • Telecom Regulatory Authority of India • TRAI
Telecom Commission approves 112 as the single emergency number
The Telecom Commission has approved the number 112 as the single emergency number for India, similar to 911 of United States (US) and 999 of United Kingdom (UK). Henceforth Indian citizens in distress will be able to get all emergency services such as police, fire department and ambulance by just dialling this single-number. It will ..
Month: Current Affairs - March, 2016
Topics: Current Affairs 2016 • National • Telecom Commission
What is Spectrum Cap?
The spectrum cap is the limit of radiowaves a telecom operator can hold for providing wireless services. Spectrum cap rules prevent an operator from buying additional spectrum in a respective band. The idea is to prevent operators from acquiring a disproportional amount of spectrum compared to its peers thereby preventing market dominance. As per existing ..
Topics: Indian Telecom Spectrum Auction • Optics • Physics • Radio resource management • Radio spectrum • Spectrum • Spectrum auction • Spectrum Trading • Telecom Commission • Telecommunications in India • TRAI • Wireless