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3 G to 2 G?..

Posted on May 19, 2010
I had the opportunity to go through the recent recommendations released by TRAI. Though the entire recommendations report comes around 431 pages, a 13 page summary is also included in the recommendations report which gives a brief idea about various recommendations made by the authority...

The recent series of altercation

Posted on May 06, 2010
The recent series of altercation between SEBI and IRDA with respect to ULIPS might have spillover effect to other sectoral regulators also. I recently came across this peice by Gopal Jain (Advocate, Supreme Court) where he refers to similar kind of situations in the past and present click here...

Internship @ UIDAI

Posted on May 04, 2010
Image via Wikipedia UIDAI has created an internship programe which welcomes students from diverse background like Economics/Finance/Public administration/Social Sciences/ Law etc. For more details click here . The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has been created as an attached office under the Planning Commission...

First Impressions on the Copyright Amendment Bill, 2009

Posted on May 03, 2010
Image via Wikipedia Thanks to PRS Legislative the Copyright Act Amendment Bill, 2009 is finally online. While glancing through the bill I noticed four provisions which can have direct impact on electronic commerce. The first two are exceptions from Copyright Liability where provisions have been inserted to further shield intermediaries...

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First Impressions on the Copyright Amendment Bill, 2010

the utilitarian critique of E-2 Labs v. Zone-H

Posted on April 28, 2010
Image by ulle.b via Flickr Most litigation lawyers are aware of the incredible power of interim orders. These orders acquire a heightened status due to the prolonged delays which beset our adjudicatory institutions. Often these delays morph interim orders into perpetual ones...

for this accursed string strangles us all

Posted on April 26, 2010
I am quite fond of the quote, “for this accursed string strangles us all”. It is the cry by an Indian Mutineer who when lead to the gallows pointed to the telegraph line which would carry his execution orders and yelled it to the morbid amusement of our former colonial masters...

Section 5 of the ITA

Posted on April 20, 2010
Section 5 of the Indian Telegraph act can be considered as an effective tool of the state to keep an eye over its citizens. It is effective compared to other surveillance used by the state as it allows the Government to intercept communications and to regulate transmission...

Section 5 of the ITA

Posted on April 18, 2010
Section 5 of the Indian Telegraph act can be considered as an effective tool of the state to keep an over its citizens. It is effective compared to other surveillance used by the state as it allows the state or the Government to intercept communications and to regulate transmission...

burn after reading

Posted on April 18, 2010
Image via Wikipedia On any given day I am offered a Russian mail order bride, Viagra Prozac and other controlled drugs from Canadian pharmacies, win a billion Euros in a British lottery and asked for assistance to set up a fund transfer for the progeny of deposed despots from Nigeria...

Ministry of Corporate Affairs introduces e-stamping

Posted on April 15, 2010
Stamp payments to be made by Companies on the MCA website have to be now done compulsorily through electronic means. Done under a notification called as the, “?Scheme for Filing of Statutory Documents and other Transactions by Companies in Electronic Mode, ( Second Amendment), 2009″ it comes into force on 1st April, 2010...

Another mudslinging?.In the recent

Posted on April 12, 2010
Another mudslinging?.In the recent past the Telecom Mister came under CAG?s scanner for alleged loss of Rs.26,685 crore to the exchequer in awarding 2 G spectrum licenses in 2008 (click here). But DoT refuted all allegations by stating that it will respond to CAG?s allegation in due time...

TRAI releases consultation paper on Policy issues on uplinking/downlinking television channels in India

Posted on March 30, 2010
The boom in the number of television channels has not gone unnoticed. India which till 1995 had a limited set of doordrashan national and regional channels now has about 500 channels. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India mindful of the growing number of television channels has issued a consultation paper on regulating the entry of [...

Schadenfreude in Mandarin

Posted on March 27, 2010
Image by Getty Images via Daylife With Google exiting china we can hardly hide our glee. It seems the tiger may finally steal a march over the dragon. Pop nationalistic sentiment may rise in some newspaper columns and talk shows calling it a victory of models of government...

On 26th February 2010, TRAI issued

Posted on March 25, 2010
On 26th February 2010, TRAI issued a direction to ensure compliance of the terms and conditions of the license regarding confidentiality of information of subscribers and privacy of communications. TRAI Directs the Service Providers to :- i. to ensure confidentiality of information as provided in the license conditions ii...

A few updates on 3 G spectrum Auction

Posted on March 21, 2010
Image by Getty Images via Daylife On 25th February the Department of telecom (DoT) issued the notice inviting applications (NIA) for bids on third-generation (3G) spectrum and the Broadband Wireless Access (BWA, which will be auctioned on April 9 ...

Who am I to you?

Posted on March 21, 2010
Image via Wikipedia From the early 1980?s to the late 1990?s bollywood as a content production industry believed religiously in the application of ?formulas? and ?equations? for achieving success at the Box-Office. Rajshree Productions was one of the movie production houses which routinely used to practice this arithmetic...

The Super Power season: exploring the power of the web

Posted on March 15, 2010
The BBC is running a season from March 18th to 19th on how the web is transforming people’s lives. There are documentaries, features and specials on television and radio and even more material available online. Their endeavor is to answer some of the big questions: what kind of business do we want now that all businesses [...

S

Posted on March 13, 2010
Recently the Supreme Court rebuked telecom company S Tel for writing to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on issues pending before the court. Recently the DoT has asked S Tel to stop providing service in three circles for security reasons. In a previous post which referred the possibility of scores being settled as the company has embarrassed [...

PIL : P is not only for the ?public?

Posted on March 13, 2010
Image via Wikipedia It is quite obvious that when Pornography mixes with modern technology it poses deep problems for law, Lawrence Liang writing at the Kafila Blog on “law, cinema and sleaze” in his post, “watching films blindfolded” described the difficulty of the interpretative technique in rendering decisions on “obscene movies”...

Petronet LNG v. Indian Petro Group : Two Unpleaded Torts

Posted on March 12, 2010
Image by Write Pics via Flickr One of the decisions I came across while recently authoring a paper on privacy law was the Delhi High Court decision in the case of Petronet LNG v. Indian Petro Group and Anr. (CS (OS) No. 1102/2006). What I found interesting were the categorical findings in the decision on [...

Notice inviting application with Queries and Responses related to 3G Spectrum and BWA Auction

Posted on March 12, 2010
Image via Wikipedia On 25th February DoT published its Notice Inviting Application for 3 G Spectrum and BWA Auction (click here). While going through the Notice it can be observered that DoT deliberately sought to ignore few issues which have been the part of public discussion regarding allocation of 3 G spectrum...

The DoT has asked new telecom service

Posted on March 09, 2010
The DoT has asked new telecom service provider S Tel to stop services in three circles on grounds of national security. Observers do not rule out the possibility of scores being settled as the company has embarrassed telecom minister A Raja in the alleged spectrum controversy, which is being investigated by the CBI...

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the age of Facebook

Posted on March 09, 2010
In this blog post I am borrowing more than just the title from Niel Postman?s seminal work on media studies. I am also borrowing the metaphors which were utilized by him, originally spawned by my personal heroes, George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. I quote the thesis of Postman?s work which has been succinctly stated at [...

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

Posted on March 06, 2010
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web will be opening an office in India. Contemporaneously with the launch of the office a two day conference will also be organised to spur India’s participation in the development of standards...

Another body has jumped into the

Posted on March 04, 2010
Another body has jumped into the 3G spectrum pit. The CVC has called upon the DoT to ensure a level playing field in the 3G spectrum auctions to be held on 9th April, 2010. read more on this here Share on Facebook

The Fading Norm

Posted on March 04, 2010
Image by graney via Flickr It would seem natural and obvious to a user of social media that technology is changing the norm of privacy. Here the change is not limited to technology itself but the sociological response to it, as I sense we become more agreeable to share personally identifiable information...

Job Opening at PRS Legislative

Posted on February 24, 2010
“PRS Legislative Research www.prsindia.org is seeking applications for the position of Research Assistant (RA), a support-level role in the PRS team. The RA will be required to undertake tasks related to basic research and data collation. This is a support role, but will give the candidate an excellent opportunity to understand various facets of policy making in India...

Public consultation, the right way

Posted on February 23, 2010
The Bt-brinjal consultation process has been unprecedented in several respects. Often we find politician?s referring to the metaphorical device of a "public debate" without following up on it. However, Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Mr...

The privacy debate is raging online

Posted on February 23, 2010
The privacy debate is raging online with the recent statements by Mark Zuckerberg that Online Privacy is a fading norm. the onset of cloud computing presents another challenge to online privacy. Columbia Law Prof. Eben Moglen at a recent talk given at the Internet Society of New York, lucidly explains the threats posed to privacy [...

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