TRAI seeks views on new licence for sale of foreign SIMs & eSIMS

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has sought comments on whether to introduce a new service authorisation under the Telecommunications Act for sale of foreign SIMs and eSIMS for machine-to-machine and Internet of Things devices meant for exports.

In a consultation paper released Friday, TRAI said there are practical difficulties in fitting the specific use case in the existing no-objection policy and KYC compliance requirements. The current NOC policy requires extensive KYC documents and also strictly limits in-India activation, mainly used for international roaming SIMs/eSIMs.