Telecom Watchdog: Vi is “Misleading” the Federal Government
Consumer body of India asks government for rejection of Vodafone Idea’s call for relief on the basis of the telecom spectrum allocation formula.
The Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAAI) has urged the government to reject the offer made by Vodafone Idea India Pvt. Chairman and Managing Director, Mr. Raju Ramachandran, to the government to use existing spectrum on the condition that the revenue generated from selling airwaves in India is not less than Rs. 40,000 crore annually.
The proposal to sell airwaves in India has come under the scanner of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and it has come up with the Telecom Council and the government.
Vodafone Idea has in its proposal not only suggested to sell airwaves in India but also asked the government to release the revenue from selling airwaves. There has been a lot of debate and discussion on whether airwaves can be easily sold or not in India and there is no clear consensus on what the revenue generated from selling airwaves should be, according to Indian telecom expert Ashish Tewari.
At the present moment, the TRAI has not made any recommendation for the government to reject the proposal of Vodafone Idea, while the telecom executive council has not deliberated on whether airwaves can be sold in India. However, there are many stakeholders in Telecom who have come together to try and find a solution to this problem, including people from industry, industry associations, people from the government and various other departments.
In a statement on its website, the Industry Association of India also has stated that no one can be blamed for any decision taken at a given time. It has also stated that it is ready to cooperate with any government and work closely with TRAI and government for the welfare of Indian telecom.
But, Tewari has cautioned that it is too early to say that the government can reject Vodafone Idea’s proposal. Earlier, the telecom expert had also voiced this criticism, stating that the issue of airwaves should be resolved before the proposed auction take place.
“Airwaves are scarce, the government must make efforts to sell them by auction.
Telecom Watchdog: Vi is “misleading” the Federal Government.
Article Title: Telecom Watchdog: Vi is “misleading” the Federal Government | Network Security.
The National Security Agency has quietly been monitoring the personal data of all Americans who receive or browse the internet over AT&T/Opticom and Sprint’s Mobile Messaging Services (MMS) service for the past two years. This action has been directed at American citizens. The same surveillance of citizens has come to light.
The surveillance and “underage” monitoring activities do not appear to be new. The NSA’s PRISM program has also been “targeted” at the personal use of private emails and private browsing over the internet.
If you are concerned about the NSA’s surveillance and monitoring of Americans with an internet connection, then you can find out more about this ongoing surveillance by visiting the NSA’s website here.
The National Security Agency has quietly been monitoring the personal data of all Americans who receive or browse the internet over AT&T/Opticom and Sprint’s Mobile Messaging Services (MMS) service for the past two years. This action has been directed at American citizens.
The same surveillance of citizens has come to light.
The surveillance and “underage” monitoring activities do not appear to be new.
The NSA’s PRISM program has also been “targeted” at the personal use of private emails and private browsing over the internet.
If you are concerned about the NSA’s surveillance and monitoring of Americans with an internet connection, then you can find out more about this ongoing surveillance by visiting the NSA’s website here.
The National Security Agency’s PRISM program has long been shrouded in mystery. The only public knowledge of PRISM and the NSA program was released on June 20, 2012 by the Washington Post. The Post’s story reveals that the NSA has been targeting Verizon Business Services’ customers for surveillance. Verizon Business Services is the carrier that provides internet access to Sprint’s customers.
The NSA has been using PRISM to target communications from Verizon Business Services’ customers to an undisclosed number of U. Government agencies and foreign intelligence services.
The NSA has been spying on the communications of American citizens, including all U.
Vi, Reliance Jio and Bharti: Challenges in raising spectrum funds
Reliance Jio, a fast growing telecom company, has been aggressively raising a large amount of funds in recent years. The Jio-branded telecom infrastructure in every state has been under construction over the last two years. At the time of this writing, the company’s total raised through various entities so far amounts to over ₹40,000 crore.
The infrastructure is being built on top of the spectrum band in use by the telecom operators. That is where the problem arises in assessing the funds raised for the infrastructure because the operators are providing their spectrum under licences that are not transferable. As per the law, spectrum being used by telecom operators under a licence cannot be sold to private entities. The operators want to sell their spectrum and hence have opted to raise funds through various financial institutions.
The raised funds would mainly be directed towards the infrastructure built by the telecom operators. The funds raised by each operator would be equally divided among all of its infrastructure units. If the sum collected by each operator from the financial institutions are less than that raised by the others, it is the responsibility of that operator to disburse its funds to other operators.
Currently, the financial institutions operating in this region are seeking assistance from government as well as non-governmental entities to raise funds for the construction. However, some of them have been reluctant to initiate the process due to the lack of transparency. We wish to discuss the main challenges faced by various financial institutions to raise funds for this telecom infrastructure.
The telecom spectrum bands have been auctioned to the telecom operators in 2013 and 2014. All the operators failed to get their license fee in the form of auctions. The licences to the bands have been issued by the competent government authority and are not transferable. The licences are issued in the name of the Government and there is no way to transfer them.
The government has announced that it is providing 100% cash subsidy across the country to the operators for the construction of these telecom infrastructure units, and for other services like the deployment of Wi-Fi and broadband capacity. All the licence fees are being provided as grants to the operators. The telecom operators have no way to collect these money that is provided by the government.
Vi is losing prospects: An example of management inefficiency
A short article that presents a picture of the situation in the field of network security, and tries to get at some of the causes of the situation, and some proposals for the way ahead. The article is not aimed at trying to set up a “problem”; merely to describe the situation that the field is in today. It is written in order to show that there are some fundamental causes that are still unresolved. In general, network security is a relatively young field, and even the more well known problems have been solved in such a way that they are no longer of concern. However, other problems remain. For instance, it is widely held that the current system of security, as provided by the World Wide Web, is not sufficient for a secure system. In terms of our understanding of security, this point corresponds to the point of failure, and hence, to the point of vulnerability. As the author of the article points out, the current system fails, in fact, to provide effective security. This failure is not the result of an inherent weakness in the security system, but of the failure of the entire system. A similar discussion can be found in a blog post by Chris Ansell (which is referenced later in this article).
On 1st January 2007, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C or W3C) held another meeting to review some of the technical issues that are still holding back the widespread penetration of Web applications (such as Web sites, Web servers, etc) into the mainstream. This meeting was a response to what, at the time, seemed evidence of a ‘cripple’ in the security of the Internet.
The World Wide Web has grown very rapidly, and the network of computers that connect to it has exploded. The Web, originally a collection of Web sites and applications, has spread into the everyday lives of millions of people in such places as the United States, Europe, the Caribbean, and even the Arctic. The reason that it is so important for computers in the World Wide Web to be secure (and in many, perhaps most, cases, to be trustworthy) is that the World Wide Web has proved itself to be the medium of a vast amount of information that has become very accessible to computers connected to the Internet.
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