Telecom industry has asked the government to continue its policy of allotting microwave access and backbone radio-frequency carriers without auction, besides pitching for uniform guidelines on providing permissions for laying optical fibre.
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Thursday suggested a new definition of revenue for Internet service providers (ISPs) on which the government should levy 8 percent annual fee. Industry officials
Old telecom operators are likely to get some relief in one-time spectrum charges, which is estimated at Rs. 23,197 crore at present, as the DoT is recalculating rates afresh based on February
A DoT wing has given its go ahead to Bharti Airtel-Qualcomm deal after it found that the multi-stage transaction did not violate the NIA norms, source said. The deal in which Airtel acquired 49
The Department of Telecom has constituted a five-member committee that will look into the segregation of revenues earned by telecom operators from the use of Broadband Wireless Access spectrum. According to sources, DoT has
GSM industry body COAI has asked the Department of Telecom (DoT) to allow reconfiguration of airwaves in the 1800MHz band in order to create contiguous blocks of spectrum. In a letter to
A special CBI court on Saturday fixed March 27 for pronouncing its order on a plea filed by Loop Telecom Limited seeking directions for referring the matter to Lok Adalat for “settlement”
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) may ask the CAG to drop objections raised against four telecom operators, whose entry fee was adjusted against the money they had to pay for spectrum won
The Telecom Commission, an inter-ministerial panel, is likely to meet at the end of March to discuss the issue of installing mobile towers in naxal-affected areas in nine states.”The DoT committee
Telecom minister Kapil Sibal on Monday said the low-cost tablet PC, the Aakash 4, will be available in the market in around one and a half months for Rs. 3,999. “Aakash 4 will
Inter-ministerial panel Telecom Commission (TC) is scheduled to meet on February 17 to discuss mergers and acquisitions (M&A) rules for the sector. “TC is scheduled for February 17,” said an official. The
Vodafone and Reliance Communications are learnt not to have applied for buying spectrum in some service areas, indicating the firms have opted out of these circles. According a source, the Department of
