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 [...]

Regulating privacy vs Blackberry

The recent coverage on media regarding the controversies related to Blackberry has raised certain serious questions on the State’s absolute power to monitor the flow of information and to regulate it in the name of National Security. This is not the first instance where state has been eager in intercepting messages, Section 5 of the [...]

Highlights of the National Identification Authority of India Draft bill 2010

Image via Wikipedia 1)      One of the crucial aspects that the bill tries to address is related to the protection of an individual’s privacy. Section 9 of the proposed bill specifies that the Authority would not require any individual to disclose information pertaining to his race, religion, caste, tribe, ethnicity, language, income or health. Which [...]

The National Identification Authority of India Bill 2010

Image via Wikipedia I will be covering the recently introduced National Identification Authority Bill 2010 .This bill has been introduced to establish Unique Identity Authority as statutory body/board which at present is presided by Nandan Nilekani. They have put up draft legislation at their website while seeking suggestion from various stakeholders and general public. I [...]

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 [...]

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

3 G to 2 G…..

I had the opportunity to go through the recent recommendations released by TRAI. Though the entire recommendations report comes around 431 pages, a 13 page summary is also included in the recommendations report which gives a brief idea about various recommendations made by the authority. (For the recommendations please click here) The recommendations begin with [...]

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 [...]

Internship @ UIDAI

Image via Wikipedia UIDAI has created an internship programe which welcomes students from diverse background like Economics/Finance/Public administration/Social Sciences/ Law etc. For more details click here . The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has been created as an attached office under the Planning Commission. Its role is to develop and implement the necessary institutional, technical and [...]

Section 5 of the ITA

Section 5 of the Indian Telegraph act can be considered as an effective tool of the state to keep an eye over its citizens. It is effective compared to other surveillance used by the state as it allows the Government to intercept communications and to regulate transmission. I recently came across this bit of news [...]