New Delhi – The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has issued a consultation paper seeking to know the opinion of stakeholders to licensing issues related to Next Generation Networks (NGN), seeking their views by February 27. TRAI feels that there is need for a suitable regulatory framework to be established to promote investments in NGN. It had earlier made recommendations in March 2006. Consequent to these recommendations, an Expert Committee on Next Generation Networks (NGN-eCO) was constituted under the aegis of TRAI having representations from licensor, regulator, DOT, TEC, service providers, vendors and academic institutions. TRAI believes that the regulator’s role is to analyse the various impediments and initiate appropriate action to redress these impediments in a time bound manner – so that service providers interested to migrate to NGN can do so without any regulatory obstacles. TRAI asked stakeholders to comment on whether they feel there is need for a change in the present licensing and regulatory framework in view of the emergence of NGN. Stakeholders have also been asked if there is need to identify the control points and monitor the market development to ensure smooth migration to NGN and their opinion has been sought on what the regulator’s role should be. Other issues discussed in the consultation paper are competition issues; provision of third party service and applications; Service Level Agreements (SLA); placement of active elements in the network; and compatible interface by NGN for interconnections with TDM networks.
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