The COAI is the industry lobby body representing GSM operators like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular among others.

Telcos have demanded that the telecom department reject the sector regulator's recommendations on the base price of airwaves in the 800 Mhz...

Sistema Shyam, which is the Indian unit of Russian conglomerate Sistema, is among the few telcos offering pure-play CDMA services under the...

Sistema Shyam Teleservices, operating under MTS brand name, plans to expand at pan-India level if the price of CDMA spectrum is fixed.

Sistema Shyam provides services on 800 MHz band using the CDMA technology. It is looking to acquire more bandwidth in the same 800 MHz band.

Interested entities or people can give their comments on the consultation paper by January 15 and counter comments by January 22.

"DoT has sent a fresh reference to TRAI yesterday for its recommendation on 800 Mhz (CDMA) band spectrum base price," official sources said.

Union Cabinet is learnt to have asked the Telecom Ministry to decide on reserve price of CDMA spectrum expeditiously.

Sources said the DoT would move a proposal to the Empowered Group of Ministers, headed by Finance Minister P Chidambaram, for the third rou...

The Empowered Group of Ministers on Telecom today discussed the number of slots operators should be allowed to bid for in the upcoming spec...

The decision follows a recommendation by a panel of ministers to cut the price by 30 per cent or 50 per cent.

The Empowered Group of Ministers on spectrum has asked the Cabinet to take a final call on a 30-50% reduction in the base price for airwave...

RCom and Tata Teleservices gained momentum after Kapil Sibal said the cabinet will soon decide the reserve price for the CDMA spectrum band.

Videocon's exit may force the telecom department to do away with the CDMA spectrum auctions.

Foreign participation in the upcoming 3G auctions, if any, will be restricted to the GSM space only, the communications ministry has decide...

Armed forces turned down a communications ministry demand to release airwaves ahead of the 3G auctions scheduled for mid-January next year.

The three CDMA operators - Reliance Communications, Tata Teleservices and Sistema-Shyam - will have to match the highest price paid by thei...