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The Dollar Business Bureau  With explosive growth recorded in data usage, led by lucrative offers from telecom operators such as Reliance Jio and Airtel, India is expected to become the second biggest 4G handset market by 2018, said a report by market research firm Counterpoint on Thursday.  With a projected installed user base of around 340 million 4G handsets, India will take over the US as the second biggest market. Currently having a user base of 150 million, India is placed just behind China and the US, said the report.  There is speculation that US would see the 4G installed base to rise 245 million from the current 225 million. India too is likely to witness an accelerated growth, led by rising usage ...

The Dollar Business Bureau The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) underscored the need to identify some of that bottlenecks that are obstructing the functioning of telecom business growth in India and pointed out some growth-oriented steps including license acquisition, spectrum allotment and mergers to be reviewed to make the process simpler. "...the Authority is of the opinion that various processes that a telecom licensee is required to go through should be simplified and combined to the extent possible to economise on efforts on part of the Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) as well as the government," TRAI said. The regulator said regulatory intervention was important to encourage "ease of doing telecom business" in India. Some of the processes “include procedures related to the ...

 The Dollar Business Bureau Close to the Make in India Telecom Conclave where all the stakeholders and the Government of India have been talking about taking Indian Telecom sector to the next level by manufacturing telecom equipment indigenously and exporting it to Africa and Middle-East nations, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has expressed its displeasure over a statement made by the Union Telecom Minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad. Speaking at a telecom event on Saturday, Prasad pulled-up private telecom operators not providing adequate service to the customers citing ‘Spectrum’ as the reason and that there needs to be a better monitoring of the existing by the operators to assist customers. The operators also cited difficulty in installation of ...