TRAI has plans to remove bottlenecks in Indian Broadband Scene

TRAI has plans to remove bottlenecks in Indian Broadband Scene

Broadband is supposed to have arrived in the country. But if we consider the regular users, they still face plenty of problems. Speed problems, reliability and expensive data transfer packages are regular issues. Now, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has some plans for the companies to remove the bottlenecks in the Indian broadband scene and it would be interesting to see if these help.

TRAI has now recommended a series of measures which includes permitting the resale of bandwidth. They call this step a necessary requirement to remove the “various bottlenecks persisting in the segment”. They also agreed that lack of competition in the international bandwidth space also resulted in the high tariffs for the end users.

TRAI said in a statement: “After the opening up of international long-distance sector in March 2002, effective competition has not taken place in the international private lease circuits (IPLC) market due to various impediments and the price has not come down sufficiently as desired.”

They have also proposed that the resale of the IPLC be permitted with effect from February 2007. For this, existing conditions of the ILDO licence can be amended to allow these latest steps. The regulatory authority has also proposed that international cable carriers be allowed to terminate cable capacities on existing landing stations to provide IPLC to ILD operators.