Questions raised over move to give telecom department charge to officer nearing retirementPower secretary Pradeep Kumar Pujari, set to retire in June, has been given additional charge of DoT.
13 Mar, 2017, 12.13 AM IST
Telecom companies vie for 2300 MHz bandThe 2010 bidding in this band marked entry of Reliance Industries in telecom, as Reliance became the only operator to have 4G spectrum acro...
05 Oct, 2016, 12.46 AM IST
Budget 2016: Service tax to be levied on spectrum trading dealsFM said that assignment to right to use radio frequency spectrum will not be taken as a sale of intangible goods and therefore will be liab...
29 Feb, 2016, 02.24 PM IST
Trai recommends licence amendment to facilitate Internet callsTrai has recommended suitable amendments in the Unified Licence to pave the way for interconnection to happen at the IP level between licen...
12 Feb, 2016, 02.08 AM IST
Analysts divided on Trai's spectrum pricing recommendation on 700 Mhz bandSome experts said that the starting price of Rs 57,425 crore for a pan-India 5 MHz block of 700 Mhz spectrum wasn’t too high, given the eas...
28 Jan, 2016, 11.17 PM IST
Lack of data spectrum, limited presence put Telenor in spotSources say its talks to buy Videocon Telecom's airwaves in two circles as well as those with the Tatas have run into valuation hurdles.
31 Dec, 2015, 03.20 AM IST
India to lease bandwidth from Bangladesh to reduce BSNL's dependence on Tata CommunicationsThe move is aimed at reducing BSNL's dependence on Tata Communications Ltd's Chennai landing station for routing international voice and da...
13 Aug, 2013, 02.28 PM IST
Bharti Airtel to cut 4G charges by 31% on MondayMove comes barely a week after India's biggest mobile phone company by customers and revenue cut 2G data charges by nearly 90% to shore up ...
24 Jun, 2013, 12.00 PM IST
- Tata Teleservices in no hurry to launch Delhi GSM services
Tata Teleservices, however, claims its Delhi GSM services is hanging fire since it is yet to recieve its approved start-up airwaves.
05 Mar, 2013, 10.51 AM IST
Cut the phone-a-fraud lifeline: 56 mobile licences still in operationThe 2G scam includes the 56 mobile licences still in operation, along with the 122 quashed by the SC.
20 Dec, 2012, 04.47 AM IST
- Telecom dept seeks to map all its land assets
Under the shareholders' agreement between the Tatas and the Centre, proceeds from the near 741-acre land bank are to be distributed to non-...
21 Feb, 2011, 04.47 AM IST
- Patil's report indicts 6 officials in 2G scam
Justice Patil submitted his 150-page report along with 1,300 pages of annexure to telecoms minister Kapil Sibal in New Delhi on Monday.
01 Feb, 2011, 06.51 AM IST
- BSNL to outsource management and maintenance of its towers
BSNL plans to outsource more than 50,000 towers and over 100,000 km of optic fibre cable, two executives with the telco told ET. The deal c...
28 Sep, 2009, 10.15 AM IST
- India targets 500 mn mobile subscribers by 2010
Given the explosive growth in mobile communications, India through its use of variety of wireless technologies is aiming to reach 500 milli...
16 Apr, 2008, 03.49 PM IST