TRAI has issued Consultation Paper on Review of Terms and Conditions of PMRTS and CMRTS Licenses dated 29.08.2023. Written Comments on the Consultation Paper are invited from stakeholders by 26.09.2023 and counter-comments by 10.10.2023. Comments and counter-comments will be posted on TRAI’s website. Comments and counter comments may be sent, preferably in electronic form, to Shri Akhilesh Kumar Trivedi, Advisor (Networks, Spectrum and Licensing), TRAI, on the email ID: advmn@trai.gov.in.
Stakeholders are requested to provide responses to the following questions with detailed justification:
- Whether there is a need to review the terms and conditions of PMRTS License and PMRTS Authorization under Unified License? Kindly provide a detailed response with justifications.
- Whether PMRTS providers should be permitted Internet connectivity with static IP addresses? Kindly provide a detailed response with justification.
- Whether there is a need to review the extant provisions relating to service area for PMRTS Authorization under Unified License? If yes, whether it would be appropriate to grant PMRTS Authorization for three different categories with service area as (a) National Area; (b) Telecom circle/
Metro Area; and (c) Secondary Switching Area (SSA)? Kindly provide a detailed response with justification. - Whether there is a need to review the extant provisions relating to the authorized area for use of a particular frequency spectrum to PMRTS providers? If yes, in what manner should these provisions be amended?
- Whether there is a need to review the mechanism of shifting the fixed station from one location to another location within the authorized area for use of a particular frequency spectrum? If yes, what should be the terms and conditions for such permission? Kindly provide a detailed response with justification.
- Whether there is a need to permit PMRTS providers to shift a few frequency carriers out of a pool of frequency carriers, assigned to an existing Fixed Station, to a new Fixed Station located within the
authorized area for use of the pool of frequency carriers? If yes, in what manner the challenges arising out of such partial shifting of frequency carriers may be mitigated? Kindly provide a detailed response with justification. - Whether there is a need to review the requirement of obtaining Wireless Operating License (WOL) by PMRTS providers? Kindly provide a detailed response with justification.
- Whether there is a need to review the provisions related to sale, lease and rent of the radio terminals of PMRTS? Kindly provide a detailed response with justification.
- In case your response to the Q9 is in the affirmative, what kind of changes will be required in PMRTS licenses and Dealer Possession License (DPL) and guidelines? Kindly provide a detailed response with justification.
- Whether there is a need to review the provisions related to import of the radio terminals of PMRTS? Kindly provide a detailed response with justification.
- Whether there is a need to review the provisions related to replacement of unserviceable network elements of PMRTS? Kindly provide a detailed response with justification.
- Whether there is a need to mandate PMRTS providers to migrate to spectrally efficient digital technologies in a time-bound manner? If yes, what should be the time frame for mandatory migration to spectrally efficient digital technologies? Kindly provide a detailed response with
justification.
