{"id":982826,"date":"2025-12-31T09:05:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982826"},"modified":"2025-12-31T09:57:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:27:21","slug":"trai-moots-light-touch-authorisation-for-foreign-iot-sim-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/31\/trai-moots-light-touch-authorisation-for-foreign-iot-sim-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"TRAI moots light-touch authorisation for foreign IoT SIM sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telecom regulator TRAI has recommended that the sale of foreign telecom service providers\u2019 SIM cards meant for use in for-export M2M and IoT devices should be regulated via a light-touch service authorisation under the Telecom Act. The new service authorisation should be termed as \u2018International M2M SIM Service Authorisation\u2019, it said. The entry fee, minimum equity, minimum net-worth, bank guarantee, and fee for the authorisation should be nil, TRAI said, mooting `5,000 as application processing charge for the authorisation. The regulator has suggested a 10-year validity period for the authorisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telecom regulator TRAI has recommended that the sale of foreign telecom service providers\u2019 SIM cards meant for use in for-export M2M and IoT devices should be regulated via a light-touch service authorisation under the Telecom Act. The new service authorisation should be termed as \u2018International M2M SIM Service Authorisation\u2019, it said. The entry fee, minimum equity, minimum net-worth, bank guarantee, and fee for the authorisation should be nil, TRAI said, mooting `5,000 as application processing charge for the authorisation. The regulator has suggested a 10-year validity period for the authorisation.<\/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":[4,80,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982826","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=982826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}