Press Information Bureau

Government of India

Ministry of Communications & Information Technology

26-October-2012 15:58 IST

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) today released a draft amendment to the Quality of Service of Broadband Service Regulations, 2006 (11 of 2006) on financial disincentives, and sought comments of stakeholders.

The Regulations seek to prescribe a financial disincentive on Broadband Service providers for non-compliance with the benchmark of the Quality of Service Parameters at a rate not exceeding Rs 50,000 per parameter for the first non-compliance and Rs 1,00,000 per parameter for subsequent noncompliance of the benchmarks.

The regulations further provide for a deterrent against false or delayed reporting of the Quality of Service benchmarks.

The draft amendment is available on TRAI’s website www.trai.gov.in.

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Financial disincentives for broadband quality of service proposed, with penalties per parameter and safeguards against false reporting. Prescribes a framework for financial disincentives on broadband providers tied to non compliance with specific Quality of Service benchmarks, applying capped per parameter penalties that increase for repeated non compliance and including measures to deter false or delayed reporting, while the draft is released for stakeholder comment.