India\u2019s telecom regulator Friday recommended the administrative allocation of satcom spectrum for a fee pegged at 4% of adjusted gross revenue (AGR), to be assigned for five years, paving the way for commercial rollout of next-generation satellite internet services in India.<\/p>\n
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has proposed that both geostationary (GSO) and non-geostationary (NGSO)-based Fixed Satellite Services (FSS) operators will be required to pay 4% of their Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR), with a minimum annual charge of \u20b93,500 per MHz spectrum block.<\/p>\n
Additionally, operators offering services in urban areas would have to shell out \u20b9500 per subscribers annually, the TRAI said in its much-awaited satcom recommendations on Friday. <\/p>\n
NGSO FSS operators will need to pay quarterly subscriber fees based on the number of urban users, using a formula of 125 multiplied by the number of urban subscribers.<\/p>\n
Trai has proposed a five-year licensing framework, extendable by two years, for both geostationary (GSO) and non-geostationary (NGSO) satellite services. The recommendations follow consultations with over 40 stakeholders and suggest a structured roadmap for assigning spectrum across multiple frequency bands, including Ku, Ka, Q\/V, L, S, and C bands.<\/p>\n
TRAI has urged the government to consider subsidies for NGSO user terminals in unserved and underserved rural areas to promote digital inclusion. <\/p>\n
Satellite Earth Stations may be permitted in IMT (mobile network) bands like 42.5\u201343.5 GHz in remote, uninhabited regions, to avoid interference with terrestrial services.<\/p>\n
It also suggested that spectrum be assigned within 30 days of application, provided the applicant has received in-principle clearance from the government.<\/p>\n
Operators using shared frequencies must coordinate in \u201cgood faith,\u201d with TRAI proposing a potential last-resort \u201cspectrum split\u201d model similar to U.S. FCC guidelines in case of coordination failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
India\u2019s telecom regulator Friday recommended the administrative allocation of satcom spectrum for a fee pegged at 4% of adjusted gross revenue (AGR), to be assigned for five years, paving the way for commercial rollout of next-generation satellite internet services in India. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has proposed that both geostationary (GSO) and non-geostationary (NGSO)-based Fixed Satellite Services (FSS) operators will be required to pay 4% of their Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR), with a minimum annual charge of \u20b93,500 per MHz spectrum block. Additionally, operators offering services in urban areas would have to shell out \u20b9500 per subscribers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929497","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}