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• TRAI has issued a consultation paper on “Review of measures to protect interest of consumers in Telecom Sector” to address consume grievances.  Different regulations had been enacted by TRAI on various occasions to ensure effective redressal of consumer grievances and ensuring reliability of billing and metering and maintaining high standards of QoS. TRAI went a step ahead further strengthening the consumer redressal mechanisms for the benefit of the consumer. The Consultation paper is available here. #
• Alok Kejriwal  the founder of  games2win.com has written a snappy piece on successfully shifting his business model due to mass piracy of the games created by his company. He shifted from a proprietary format of content creation for revenue generation to embedding advertisements and products in his games. Hence every time his flash game was pirated he gained! Though his mantra of, “Protecting IP was futile on the Internet” may not apply to every business model he did it successfully in his case. To read this interesting article click here #
• I recently saw a documentary on the US Patent system, specifically focusing on the Bilski Case. Makes an excellent case against software patents which it compares to a, "tax" on software companies. You can watch it at the following link #
• Everyone is concerned about the fate of Telcos that lost out in the race for 3G airwaves. Well the good news for them that they can opt for MVNO says the report by US-based telecom market research and consultancy Strategy Analytics. The report further mentions that operators who won the 3G airwaves will be compelled to enter into such deals to ensure a pan-India rollout of their 3G services. For more click here An MVNO is a telco that doesn’t have its own licensed spectrum or infrastructure, but provides mobile phone services by buying wholesale airtime from existing operators and selling them to end-user . #
• Both TRA and RBI has agreed to introduce mobile banking in India . To read more please click here. To get a a general idea about mobile banking please click here #
• The Copyright (Amendment) Bill, 2010  which is presently pending before the Lok Sabha has been referred to a standing committee headed by Mr. Oscar Fernandes for examination. The Committee has invited suggestions which may be emailed to sundrial@sansad.nic.in within 15 days. For a copy of the advertisement published in national dailies click here. Expect much hullabaloo. (hat-tip @avinash) #
• The recent series of altercation between SEBI and IRDA with respect to ULIPS might have spillover effect to other sectoral regulators also. I recently came across this peice by Gopal Jain (Advocate, Supreme Court) where he refers to similar kind of situations in the past and present click here. Though Professor Rahul Singh wrote on this subject long time back when he envisaged the future conflicts which might arise between CCI and sectoral regulators which has been referred in one our previous post Click here . #