{"id":944169,"date":"2025-07-07T06:34:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T01:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944169"},"modified":"2025-07-07T06:42:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T01:12:54","slug":"trai-seeks-views-on-new-licence-for-sale-of-foreign-sims-esims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/07\/trai-seeks-views-on-new-licence-for-sale-of-foreign-sims-esims\/","title":{"rendered":"TRAI seeks views on new licence for sale of foreign SIMs &amp; eSIMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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. <\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-944169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944169","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=944169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}