{"id":908121,"date":"2025-02-22T07:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T02:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=908121"},"modified":"2025-02-22T07:54:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T02:24:56","slug":"trai-recommends-slashing-authorisation-charges-for-dth-radio-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/22\/trai-recommends-slashing-authorisation-charges-for-dth-radio-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Trai recommends slashing authorisation charges for DTH, radio services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has recommended that the authorisation fee for direct-to-home (DTH) service operators be slashed to 3 per cent of adjusted gross revenue (AGR), down from the current 8 per cent. <\/p>\n<p>The regulator has outlined plans to eliminate the fee entirely after 2026-27. It has also reduced the bank guarantee needed for DTH services to \u20b95 crore, or 20 per cent of the authorisation fee for two quarters, whichever is higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has recommended that the authorisation fee for direct-to-home (DTH) service operators be slashed to 3 per cent of adjusted gross revenue (AGR), down from the current 8 per cent. The regulator has outlined plans to eliminate the fee entirely after 2026-27. It has also reduced the bank guarantee needed for DTH services to \u20b95 crore, or 20 per cent of the authorisation fee for two quarters, whichever is higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-business-standard-newspapers","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}