The Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group is setting up TowerX, a tower tenancy exchange platform, through which mobile operators
Some 74 applications for these licences for mobile services are pending with the Department of Telecom.
Mumbai airport, which has limited capacity for expansion, is being expanded to handle 40 million passengers annually by 2010.
Indian telecom companies are investing over Rs 60,000 crore (Rs 600 billion) in 2007-08 to finance a massive expansion of their mobile networks, infrastructure and subscriber numbers.
Reliance Communications is in advanced negotiations with three top US-based telecom tower companies for divesting a strategic 26 per cent equity stake in Reliance Telecom Infrastructure.
The Department of Telecommunications has suggested forfeiture of the performance bank guarantee given by Hutchison-Essar and imposed a penalty of Rs 50 crore
Also looks at creating a level-playing field for GSM and CDMA players.
The Department of Telecommunications is set to issue guidelines for telemarketers in order to check unsolicited commercial calls.
If he implements former minister Dayanadhi Maran's plan to abolish domestic roaming charges, subscribers will cheer him, but he will also earn the ire of telecom companies.
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