DoT will soon move a Cabinet note seeking approval for transferring mobile network assets created in Naxal-prone regions to Bharat Sanchar ...

Some 8621 villages in locations of strategic importance across the northeast are to be brought under cellular loop to bolster mobile-based ...

BSNL’s rural landline operations had hit a rough patch after the government suspended its annual Rs 2,000-crore subsidy payouts in July 201...

The comments by the Universal Services Obligation Fund (USOF) came in response to a query by Rajya Sabha MP and former owner of BPL Mobile.

The two Anil Ambani-owned companies have been allowed to exit from all USOF sites across the country without any financial liabilities.

The proposal is seen as the first step by the government to address the telecom sector’s concerns about the prohibitive capex costs of depl...

DoT may allow BSNL a breather by excluding Rs 10,000 crore it is likely to get from USOF for implementing two government telecom ventures.

Telecom Secretary Farooqui, however, has asked BSNL to establish mobile connectivity on a war footing in the naxalite zones.

DoT can award the contract to BSNL on a "nomination basis" since the project has been tagged "security sensitive" by the home ministry.

The Telecom Commission will shortly approve a Rs 3,000 crore venture to extend mobile coverage to 56,000 villages across India.

Home ministry has dismissed a telecom department proposal to provide satellite-based communications to beef up surveillance in India’s Maoi...

All mobile phone companies contribute 5% of their annual revenues towards USOF, which is used to support rural telephony.

BSNL management believes investing in capital-intensive network rollout in naxalite pockets will further drain its finances.

BSNL is attempting a new formula to bridge the digital divide across Assam and North East, where the telco will use central funds to lay op...

Serious differences from within could stymie the Central government's ambitious plan to bridge the digital divide across the country.

The communications ministry has invited bids to set up some 28,000 wireline broadband exchanges and 6,000 satellite sites in an effort to b...

The government is considering a proposal by which companies using solar or biogas power for running the rural telecom infrastructure (tower...