The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Friday launched a session paper to hunt views from stakeholders on topics similar to telecom infrastructure sharing, spectrum sharing, and spectrum leasing. The session course of from Trai follows the division of telecommunications (DoT) push for optimum utilisation of telecom sources among the many licensees, which incorporates sharing of all types of telecom infrastructure and community parts amongst all classes of service suppliers, for approved telecom providers. Apart from, telecom operators have additionally requested the federal government to allow inter-band spectrum sharing and leasing of spectrum in order to minimise their value.
“The problems associated to spectrum sharing and leasing of spectrum have additionally been taken up together with the problems referring to infrastructure sharing,” Trai mentioned in a launch. At the moment, the telecom operators are solely allowed to share lively infrastructure similar to antenna, feeder cable, radio entry community, and transmission techniques.
Nonetheless, the telecom operators, by their consultant the Mobile Operators Affiliation of India (COAI) has pushed for sharing of core community parts additionally similar to Cell Switching Middle (MSC), Residence Location Register (HLR), Clever Community (IN) and many others amongst telecom operators.
In response to COAI, the sharing of lively infrastructure will keep away from duplication of funding by the TSPs (telecom service suppliers), enhance high quality of service, incentivise firms to supply service in underserved areas, entice funding from the entities offering infrastructure funds, assist TSPs to focus on their core enterprise/competency, and speed up roll out of digital service.
In response to the ITU (Worldwide Telecommunication Union), passive infrastructure sharing can result in the decreasing of the telecom tariffs by 30%. In a 72-page session paper, the telecom regulator has sought views on points similar to whether or not the passive infrastructure sharing needs to be permitted or not, growing the ambit of sharing of different lively telecom infrastructure, want for modification in telecom service licenses,sharing of sources funded from the federal government’s common providers obligation fund (USOF), and sharing and leasing of spectrum, amongst different issues.The feedback on the session paper may be submitted by February 10.