Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has approved the Reference Interconnect Offer of the three undersea cable owners -- Reliance, Bharti and VSNL, paving the way for long distance operators and Internet Service Providers to access the trios' cable landing systems at competitive rates.
The three undersea cable station owners were asked by Trai to submit the Cable Landing Station - Reference Interconnect Offer,' containing the terms and conditions, charges and time limit for providing access.
A senior Trai official said in the absence of a regulation, there is a scope for non-provisioning of access by these players to the bandwidth users like ISPs, ILDOs and other corporate users while adding the reference RIO would act as a guidance between the cable landing station owners and the prospective
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