The TRAI on July 5, 2018, issued the Telecommunication Interconnection (Amendment) Regulations, 2018, inter alia, amending certain provisions under the Telecommunication Interconnection Regulations, 2018. The key amendments include the following: (i) a service provider may request any other service provider for additional ports at a point of interface (‘PoI’), if the projected utilisation of the capacity of such PoI at the end of 60 days from the date of placing the request, is likely to be more than 85%; (ii) the time-frame for provisioning of ports for initial interconnection and augmentation of ports at PoIs has been increased to 42 working days; (iii) every service provider is required to provide to the interconnecting service provider, at intervals of every six months, its forecast of busy hour outgoing traffic, for the succeeding six months, at each PoI, and the first such forecast is required to be provided within 60 days of the amendment and thereafter on April 1 and October 1 every year; and (iv) the port charges and infrastructure charges, for all ports provided before February 1, 2018 shall continue to be payable as per the terms and conditions which were applicable to them prior to February 1, 2018.