Mobile Monday August - TRAI’s consultation paper on VAS

The August event of Mobile Monday Mumbai will be held on August 18th, 2008 to discuss TRAI’s consultation paper on mobile value-added-services.

It is an important paper which will influence the regulator’s policy for the growth and regulation of the VAS industry. Some of the key issues that TRAI addressed in the consultation paper comprises the need to bring uniformity in the licensing conditions of mobile telecom operators, the need to include Value Added Service Providers under the licensing regime, importance of allocating short codes for value added services to guarantee uniformity amongst all the telecom operators and the obligation of protecting copyrights.

The paper can be downloaded from its website or read online here.

Topic:
TRAI’s consultation paper on VAS

Agenda:

• Panel discussion
• • Arvind Rao, CEO, OnMobile
  • Beerud Sheth, Co-founder, SMSGupShup.com
  • Viren Popli, SVP & Head - Mobile Entertainment, Star India
  • Raj Singh, MD, ActiveMedia
• Group Discussion
• Dinner

When:
Monday, 18th August
6.30pm - 9.00pm

Where:
Pleateau Hall,
Club Peninsula,
Peninsula Corporate Park,
GR Kadam Marg,
Lower Parel, Mumbai.

Sponsors:
Food sponsor: OnMobile
Venue sponsor: ActiveMedia Technology

Click here to register.

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