TRAI has constituted three subgroups in areas such as licensing, tariff and service quality, to identify and weed out obsolete regulations and orders.
Three advisors of TRAI — Sanjeev Banzal (Networks, Spectrum and Licensing), Vinod Kotwal (Finance and Economic Analysis) and Asit Kadayan (Quality of Service) — are heading the individual subgroups.
The idea is to identify obsolete regulations that have outlived their purpose.
The subgroups, which also include industry representatives, will jointly examine and identify regulations and tariff orders that are out of sync with the times.
Industry representatives from Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India, Reliance Jio, Idea Cellular, Telenor and BSNL are some of the members of the subgroups.
Industry associations such as Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India (AUSPI) and ISP Association of India are also involved in the exercise.
TRAI Chairman: R S Sharma.
