The government expects to surpass the budgeted revenue target for the current fiscal by generating Rs 1.20 lakh crore from communication se...

COAI had sought a uniform SUC rate of 3% for all assigned airwaves and wanted this to be reduced to 1% in a phased manner.

Department of Telecom (DoT) is all set to earn a revenue of over Rs 49,000 crore, exceeding the budgeted target by about Rs 6,000 crore.

DoT will shortly issue the guidelines for spectrum auction in 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 2100 MHz, 2300 MHz and 2500 MHz bands sh...

DoT is working on modalities for next round of spectrum auction for which it needs to appoint an agency that will design software and opera...

In the fiscal year 2014-15, government revenue from communication services will include receipts from spectrum sale, licence fees and one-t...

Companies like RIL, which bought 4G spectrum in a 2010 auction, will continue to pay 1% of their revenue as annual spectrum fee.

The Finance Minister said that if a serious telecom player wants to remain in the Indian market, he must acquire spectrum.

If all the CDMA spectrum put up for auction is sold at the revised starting price, then estimated auction proceeds will be Rs 9,497.15 cror...

The Cabinet Thursday endorsed the recent decision by an inter-ministerial panel to impose a one-time airwaves charge on GSM-based operators...

The EGoM on Spectrum, headed by FM P Chidambaram, is likely to decide on the issue of on one-time spectrum fee in its meeting on Monday.

Govt is likely to take a decision on one-time fee for spectrum before October 19, the deadline for operators to submit applications to part...

Cabinet today referred to an EGoM the proposal to levy a one-time, auction-determined fee for all airwaves held by existing telecom operato...

COAI, the main telecom industry lobby group has recommended tax treatment of upfront 3G auction price and also various proposals on fee pay...

BSNL and MTNL today said they have not sought exemption from payment for 3G spectrum auction fees.

This is a neater arrangement that puts a scarcity premium on spectrum.

Telecom regulator TRAI on Friday endorsed Communication Minister A Raja's view that spectrum for existing 2G services cannot be auctioned s...