NEW DELHI : The telecom regulator is ready to roll out its cell phone caller identification system—verified by KYC or know your buyer particulars—throughout the subsequent three weeks.
It can additionally discover new regulation maintaining in view the “state of affairs of a number of screens, identical content material”, P.D. Vaghela, chairperson of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) mentioned on Wednesday.
The caller ID system can be pitched as the federal government’s substitute for the favored Truecaller app. “Trai has carried out a number of stakeholder consultations to iron out the problems,” Vaghela instructed HT. “The brand new function ought to be rolled out within the subsequent two to a few weeks.”
Vaghela added that the regulatory and authorized framework must maintain tempo with new developments with a view to guarantee not solely clean adoption of the brand new applied sciences but in addition safety of state and shopper pursuits.
He instructed the Confederation of Indian Business (CII)’s Massive Image Summit, “The first space which requires consideration of the regulatory regime is the convergence of content material. At this time, the identical content material is out there on tv, sensible linked screens in addition to smartphones. Owing to the distinction within the distribution mechanism on these platforms, they pose a regulatory problem. Due to this fact, within the new technological world of convergence, we have to deliberate on the doable alignment of regulatory regime maintaining in view the state of affairs of ‘a number of screens, identical content material’.”
“We at Trai are nicely conscious of the challenges. Lately, now we have obtained references from the federal government for OTT-based providers and on issues arising as a consequence of convergence. Our consultants are learning these points with a view to making a degree taking part in area amongst numerous service provisioning mechanisms. Our goal can be to introduce a light-touch framework that irons out the inconsistencies created by technological disruptions. We can not have regulatory imbalance between standard applied sciences of yester-years and new applied sciences. But, on the identical time, we should always not stifle innovation and competitors. At Trai, we consider in insurance policies and laws which are technology-neutral.” The physique additionally goals to introduce amendments to its tariff order and interconnection laws in step with its acknowledged coverage of “light-touch laws” and never put undue burden on customers.
“Trai has noticed the challenges confronted by tv broadcasting sector and we try to beat the challenges by aligning our regulatory framework. Our latest session on tariff-related points for tv channels (and bouquets) is a results of a number of discussions with every group of stakeholders – broadcasters, multi-system operators, DTH gamers and native cable operators,” he mentioned.
“Quickly, we count on to subject amendments to the Tariff Order and Interconnection Laws in step with our acknowledged coverage of sunshine contact laws.”
He added that the Trai expects the trade to reply with tariffs and costs that don’t put undue burden on customers. “I can guarantee you that if all of the service suppliers work in a cohesive method, Trai might take additional steps to maneuver in the direction of forbearance. As well as, now we have additionally recognized different pertinent points pertaining to community capability payment, multi-TV reductions and distribution of income share amongst numerous gamers. We’re bringing out one other session paper to take up these points additionally for session quickly. I’m positive that via fixed dialogue with all trade stakeholders, we are going to discover options that can stimulate progress within the tv broadcasting sector,” he mentioned.
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