New Delhi: Former Department of Telecom Secretary Nirpendra Misra has been appointed new Chairman of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India with effect from Wednesday.
Misra will succeed Pradip Baijal, who completed his three-year tenure on Tuesday.
Baijal, a 1966 IAS officer of the MP cadre, directly dealt with a variety of key issues impacting the telecom industry in India, including changes to the Access Deficit Charge (ADC) that punctured mobile phone bills.
In fact, it was he who is credited with suggesting a reduction in ADC, a fee that private operators pay BSNL for compensating its rural operations, and its eventual withdrawal by 2009.
He was also responsible for TRAI's recommendations on regulation of the vastly unorganised cable industry in India.
Another step of far-reaching implications was his continued thrust on Unified Licensing, under which an operator can offer telecom and broadcasting services on a single licence and Next Generation Networks for Indian telecom sector that would bring down the network costs significantly.
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