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Telcos want free 5G bandwidth to beef up wireline connectivityTelecom companies have urged the government to allot necessary 5G bandwidth for free to augment wireline connectivity in the wake of a surg...
Trai chief RS Sharma bats for rapid fiberisation for broadband penetrationA key reason, the regulator, said are "the dismal levels of wireline broadband connectivity in India," which at 7% is way below the 46% wor...
Subscriber base of broadband to grow 44%: StudyBharti Airtel, India’s largest telco, has more than two million broadband (DSL) customers. It has seen a 5.5% year-on-year growth in its br...
India to get $421 million from US for solar, internet projectsIndia will get $421 million from an American financial institution for its solar and broadband projects to enable it to become a low carbon...
Department of Telecom mulls new ISP permit for cable TV broadband servicesThe Universal Services Obligation Fund informed Ravi Shankar Prasad that the broadband coverage target for 2014-15 will be halved to 50,000...
BSNL overhauling its operations to become more competitive: Anupam Shrivastava, CMD-designate, BSNL"We looking at convergence of our wireless and wire-line networks to provide high speed data 4G services by March 2015."
Protect internet users from DoT's licence fee on broadband servicesDoT is evaluating an 8% licence fee on broadband services, even on those that do not involve the use of spectrum.This is bad tax policy.
Vodafone bullish on wireline services growth in IndiaFixed data was currently witnessing explosive growth, Naveen Chopra, Director of VBS, which is the enterprise arm of Vodafone India, told r...
RCOM inks Rs 5.3k-crore, 8-year outsourcing deal with EricssonReliance Communications outsources its network operations and management in northern and western India to Ericsson for about Rs 5,385 crore.
RCom and Ericsson sign $1 billion network management pactThe eight-year agreement is valued at $ 1 billion, it said adding 5,000 employees of RCom will join Ericsson in this regard.
BSNL set to buy Rs 400-crore telecom gear from China's HuaweiHuawei has emerged the lowest bidder for supplying both core and access equipment for transforming BSNL's wireline infrastructure.
- Connect ties up with CtrlS to launch cloud services
Data and voice services provider Connect today entered into an agreement with data centre company CtrlS to launch cloud computing services ...
- BSNL plans to lease infrastructure to private players: Govt
BSNL plans to lease out spare capacity of its about 60K-strong network of towers to private players to unlock the value of infrastructure, ...
- Govt looking into USOF complaints against Tata Teleservices, Reliance Communications
Government is looking into complaints over alleged misuse of the Universal Service Obligation Fund by private telecom firms.
- Telecom sector to provide 1 crore jobs by 2012: Study
The telecom industry will provide about 28 lakh direct jobs and around 70 lakh indirect jobs, the study done by PwC said.
- Govt invites bids for rural broadband link
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...
- Tata Tele to log Rs 2k cr in revenues this fiscal
Tata Teleservices Maharashtra is expected to close this fiscal with the highest-ever revenues of Rs 2,000 crore.
- DoT invites bids to set up broadband infrastructure in rural areas
The Department of Telecom (DoT) has invited bids from the private telecom operators to set up wireless broadband infrastruture in rural and...
- DoT ties up with BSNL for rural telephony
The Department of Telecom has inked an agreement with BSNL to provide 8.61 lakh connections to individual users and government Institutions...
- BSNL says no to request for infrastructure sharing
BSNL has slammed all private operators for demanding that the government allow them to use the PSU’s infrastructure for a price.