People in Maharashtra may face telecom connectivity issues if lockdown is imposed: TAIPATAIPA has alleged that various local authorities and municipal corporations are not ready to acknowledge and accept the telecom infrastruct...
25 Mar, 2021, 10.44 PM IST
Input Tax Credit must be paid on towers: TAIPA"Currently, the telecom infrastructure providers can not avail of the Input Tax credit against GST paid by them on telecom towers, which ac...
22 Jan, 2021, 05.07 PM IST
Optical fibre laying speed needs to go up nearly 4 times to achieve PM's vision: TaipaAccording to Tower and Infrastructure Providers Association (Taipa) , approximately 28 lakh kilometer of optical fibre cables has been laid...
05 Jan, 2021, 05.46 PM IST
TAIPA calls for implementation of network roll out rules notified 3 years agoOut of the remaining states and UTs, Delhi, West Bengal, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Chandigarh, Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, Karnataka, An...
26 Oct, 2020, 05.29 PM IST
TAIPA says industry needs clarity on resuming construction, installation of new telecom towersTower and Infrastructure Providers Association (TAIPA) Director-General T R Dua said that during the lockdown period so far, telecom tower-...
04 May, 2020, 07.48 PM IST
Telecom infra players urge states to slash power tariffThe Maharashtra State Electricity Regulatory Commission (MSERC) has reduced electricity tariff by 10 to 15 per cent to boost industrial and...
23 Apr, 2020, 04.28 PM IST
Tower companies urge DoT to intervene in clearing dues from BSNLThe group of eight infrastructure firm under the aegis of industry body Tower & Infrastructure Providers Association (TAIPA) has written to...
10 Apr, 2020, 11.08 PM IST
Mobile tower cos ask DoT to expand permit scope for handling network loadhe Industry body Tower And Infrastructure Providers Association (TAIPA) said that around 90 per cent of employees in the country is working...
03 Apr, 2020, 06.52 PM IST
Urgent need for states to align policy with 'Right of Way' rules: TAIPASome metropolitan cities like Hyderabad and Bengaluru have already seen cellular network data consumption increase by 70 per cent since the...
31 Mar, 2020, 07.31 PM IST
No relief for telecom industry in Budget: TAIPAStating that the telecom industry had played a key role in shaping India's economy, TAIPA Director-General T R Dua asked the government to ...
06 Feb, 2020, 08.05 PM IST
Cost of providing mobile telephony services would go up by 10%: TaipaThe group has said that under the new GST Act, telecom towers have been specifically excluded from the plant and machinery clause which wou...
10 Jan, 2018, 08.52 AM IST
Narendra Modi’s Gujarat RoW policy favours 4G technology: TaipaTaipa represents mobile tower firms such as Indus Towers, Bharti Infratel, American Tower Corporation (ATC), Tower Vision and GTL Infrastru...
03 Jan, 2018, 02.28 PM IST
Tower companies plan to cut fossil fuel useThe sector has already deployed 90,000 diesel-free mobile sites, according to Taipa, a lobby group that represents India’s dominant tower f...
17 Apr, 2017, 12.05 AM IST
Tower operators seek special treatment from electricity boards"We want all state governments to direct their electricity boards to give special treatment to telecom sector and tower operators," said Ak...
26 Mar, 2017, 01.09 PM IST
TAIPA seeks Ravi Shankar Prasad's help over tower rule mismatchThe industry body represents companies like Bharti Infratel, Indus Towers, Reliance Infratel, GTL Infrastructure and Viom Networks.
29 Apr, 2015, 12.37 PM IST
Citing technical challenges, Tower and Infrastructure Providers Association urges Trai to recalibrate green targetsTelecom infrastructure lobby group TAIPA has urged the telecom regulator to revise its Go Green targets as there were technical challenges.
04 Oct, 2014, 06.36 AM IST
- TAIPA flays Trai's recommendation on tower companies
TAIPA demanded that Trai recommendations to bring infrastructure firms into the ambit of unified licence regime be kept in abeyance till Do...
07 May, 2012, 08.04 PM IST