Saptak Sanyal
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 businesses [...]
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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 [...]
Notice inviting application with Queries and Responses related to 3G Spectrum and BWA Auction
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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 PMO [...]
TELECOM REGULATORY AUTHORITY OF INDIA
TRAI will be holding Open House Discussion on the Amendments required in the Telecom Consumers’ Protection and Redressal of Grievances Regulations, 2007 and Foreign Investment in Broadcasting Sector on 24th and 25th February at Delhi. Interested Stakeholders/industry representatives are invited to participate. For more details please click here and here.
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I just came across this bit of news that Law Ministry has finally given its approval to the Notice Inviting Application (NIA) that outlines the policy for allocating the 3 G spectrum. As Law Ministry only last month raised certain objections that led to this deferral of the auction 3 G Spectrum till further notice. [...]
Yet another spectrum issue… Justice denied to ISP
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Yet another spectrum issue… but this time both DoT and TDSAT has to share the blame on an equal basis…!!
Last year ISPAI ( a lobbying organization of ISP similar to COAI) sued DoT for making them surrender 2.5 GHz Wimax spectrum and ‘discriminating’ against ISPs. The spectrum was already allotted to ISPs in [...]
Recently I came across this article in Forbes Magazine which provided a step by step analysis of the proposed 3G auction process.
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MNP – Update
These are certain new developments in relation to my earlier post on MNP. There is an article in today’s Economic Times which refers to DoT’s decision to increase the duration of the entire portability process by seven days which was supposed to be within four days if a customer requests for a change of operator. [...]
Summer Internship Program 2010
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Summer Internship Program 2010……
For 10 weeks each summer The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University swings opens the doors of its big yellow house to welcome a group of talented, curious, and energetic full-time interns who are passionate about the promise of the Internet and issues related [...]
Delayed Further!!!
Recently certain news popped up about the 3 G auction been further delayed. Though it is not being confirmed by the DoT but the Telecom minister has clarified this issue during his interview. This possible delay has not gone well either with the stakeholder or with the policy makers. But an article in Economic Times [...]
