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MTNL soars 6% as board to seek nod for Rs 2,138.6 crore fund raising

The government allowed MTNL to raise up to Rs 6,500 crore for a tenure of 10 years through sovereign guarantee bonds as part of its revival...

MTNL to seek shareholders' nod for raising Rs 2,138 cr through sovereign bonds

The government allowed MTNL to raise up to Rs 6,500 crore for a tenure of 10 years through sovereign guarantee bonds as part of its revival...

BSNL employees come out in support of farmers' organisations

Thousands of farmers, mostly from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, are protesting at various border points of Delhi against the new farm ...

Bharti Airtel gains as co pips Jio in monthly mobile subscriber addition after 4 years

Bharti Airtel led mobile subscriber growth in September 2020 with a net addition of 3.77 million new customers. It was followed by Reliance...

5G lab trials: Telcos seek removal of gear & vendor restrictions

People familiar with the matter said that the latest letter is aimed mainly at pushing the government to clarify its official stance over t...

Kanhaiya Kumar joins Left parties stir against agri bills

Kanhaiya Kumar, a former JNU students union president, appealed to people from all walks of life to lend their support to the movement laun...

India's corporate captains commit infrastructure investments to UP CM

Adityanath had a meeting with the youngest scion of the Adani family, said people close to the development. Adani committed investments in ...

View: India's goal of being Atmanirbhar will require a pound of flesh

As part of its atmanirbhar strategy the government wants domestic producers and vendors to supply 4G equipment, and hence it is nudging BSN...

India may amend license norms to bar sourcing of 'critical telecom equipment' from China

Department of Telecommunications (DoT) officials have been holding discussions with security agencies and other relevant ministries over th...

ITI in talks with Indian companies to provide complete 4G, 5G network gears

"Our company with its efficient and innovative state-of-art facilities and capabilities for manufacturing telecom equipment plans to manufa...

Dept of Telecom feels BSNL deliberately delaying 4G

The loss-making telco, which has struggled to keep pace with private operators, has opposed the suggestions, saying it still gets 60% of it...

Govt seeks financial bids from property consultancy firms for monetising MTNL assets

DIPAM added that the consultancy firms empanelled will be required to prepare the 'Feasibility Report' in about three weeks for each of the...

Fibre broadband underserved market, renewed efforts to help firms gain wallet share: Report

India's wireline broadband market is seeing a pickup with one million new connections in year to date - more than FY17-20 combined - crossi...

Centre mandates all ministries, public departments, CPSUs to use BSNL, MTNL services

"The government of India has, inter-alia, approved the mandatory utilisation of capacities of BSNL and MTNL by all ministries/departments o...

BSNL to retrench another 20,000 contract workers: Employees' union

The union in a letter to BSNL Chairman and Managing Director P K Purwar said the financial condition of the company has deteriorated after ...

Telecom subscriber base falls to 116.3 crore in May; Jio, BSNL continues to grow

"The number of telephone subscribers in India decreased from 1,169.44 million at the end of April 2020 to 1,163.67 million at the end of Ma...

Nokia warns of sacking staff working on BSNL project over outstanding payments

Nokia said it has a large number of employees dedicated to BSNL projects and for the last four months it has been retaining them in an atte...