TRAI releases consultation paper on Policy issues on uplinking/downlinking television channels in India

The boom in the number of television channels has not gone unnoticed. India which till 1995 had a limited set of doordrashan national and regional channels now has about 500 channels. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India mindful of the growing number of television channels has issued a consultation paper on regulating the entry of [...]

Schadenfreude in Mandarin

Image by Getty Images via Daylife With Google exiting china we can hardly hide our glee. It seems the tiger may finally steal a march over the dragon. Pop nationalistic sentiment may rise in some newspaper columns and talk shows calling it a victory of models of government. The model’s of government debate which is [...]

 On 26th February 2010, TRAI issued a direction to ensure compliance of the terms and conditions of the license regarding confidentiality of information of subscribers and privacy of communications. TRAI Directs the Service Providers to :-   i. to ensure confidentiality of information as provided in the license conditions   ii. to put in place [...]

Who am I to you?

Image via Wikipedia From the early 1980’s to the late 1990’s bollywood as a content production industry believed religiously in the application of “formulas” and “equations” for achieving success at the Box-Office. Rajshree Productions was one of the movie production houses which routinely used to practice this arithmetic. In the 1994 movie “Hum Aapke Hain [...]

A few updates on 3 G spectrum Auction

Image by Getty Images via Daylife On 25th February the Department of telecom (DoT) issued the notice inviting applications (NIA) for bids on third-generation (3G) spectrum and the Broadband Wireless Access (BWA, which will be auctioned on April 9 . The Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) or Wimax spectrum auction would start two days after the [...]

The Super Power season: exploring the power of the web

The BBC is running a season from March 18th to 19th on how the web is transforming people’s lives. There are documentaries, features and specials on television and radio and even more material available online. Their endeavor is to answer some of the big questions: what kind of business do we want now that all [...]

PIL : P is not only for the “public”

Image via Wikipedia It is quite obvious that when Pornography mixes with modern technology it poses deep problems for law, Lawrence Liang writing at the Kafila Blog on “law, cinema and sleaze” in his post, “watching films blindfolded” described the difficulty of the interpretative technique in rendering decisions on “obscene movies”. Liang, wrote that legal [...]

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Recently the Supreme Court rebuked telecom company S Tel for writing to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on issues pending before the court. Recently the DoT has asked S Tel to stop providing service in three circles for security reasons. In a previous post which referred  the possibility of scores being settled as the company has embarrassed [...]

Petronet LNG v. Indian Petro Group : Two Unpleaded Torts

Image by Write Pics via Flickr One of the decisions I came across while recently authoring a paper on privacy law was the Delhi High Court decision in the case of Petronet LNG v. Indian Petro Group and Anr. (CS (OS) No. 1102/2006). What I found interesting were the categorical findings in the decision on [...]

Notice inviting application with Queries and Responses related to 3G Spectrum and BWA Auction

Image via Wikipedia On 25th February DoT published its Notice Inviting Application for 3 G Spectrum and BWA Auction (click here).  While going through the Notice it can be observered that DoT deliberately sought to ignore few issues which have been the part of public discussion regarding allocation of 3 G spectrum.  After being forced by the [...]