{"id":999120,"date":"2026-03-25T09:07:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T03:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999120"},"modified":"2026-03-25T09:07:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T03:37:56","slug":"trai-drops-1-turnover-penalty-proposal-caps-telcos-false-reporting-fine-at-%e2%82%b95-cr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/25\/trai-drops-1-turnover-penalty-proposal-caps-telcos-false-reporting-fine-at-%e2%82%b95-cr\/","title":{"rendered":"Trai drops 1% turnover penalty proposal, caps telcos\u2019 false reporting fine at \u20b95 cr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has dropped a proposal to impose penalties of up to 1% of turnover on service providers that file incorrect financial reports after objections by operators.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Trai has opted for a capped, slab-based penalty framework in its final regulations, under which penalties of as much as \u20b95 crore can be imposed, depending on whether the violation is major or minor and the company\u2019s turnover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has dropped a proposal to impose penalties of up to 1% of turnover on service providers that file incorrect financial reports after objections by operators. Instead, Trai has opted for a capped, slab-based penalty framework in its final regulations, under which penalties of as much as \u20b95 crore can be imposed, depending on whether the violation is major or minor and the company\u2019s turnover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999120","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}