The world is home to a record number of 2,089 billionaires.
A Public Interest Litigation seeking a directive to the government to establish guidelines to safeguard the health of the public from radiation emitting out of cell phone towers will be heard by the Supreme Court on Thursday. Vicky Nanjappa reports
DoT's proposal to impact many, including Vodafone
The number of billionaires has reached a record high of 1,426 with a record net worth $5.4 trillion, says Forbes.
The recommendations of the commission will now be put before the empowered group of ministers headed by Finance Minister P Chidambaram for a final decision.
The IT spending in India is projected to total $71.5 billion in 2013, a 7.7 percent increase from the $66.4 billion forecasted for 2012, according to Gartner, Inc.
Patni Computer Systems, through its wholly owned subsidiary in the United States, has entered into an agreement to acquire Cymbal Corporation for a total consideration of approximately $68 million 'in cash to be paid over a period of time.'
About 57,271 villages in the country are yet to be connected with mobile services, Parliament was informed.
The government has 97 blocks of 1.25 MHz spectrum each, which DoT can put on the block in the third round.
Investors including units of Morgan Stanley and Citigroup have agreed to buy 28.3 million shares of Bharti Infratel at Rs 230 apiece.
India's advanced communication satellite GSAT-10, the heaviest built by the country, was launched in the early hours of Saturday on board Ariane-5 rocket from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana.
"The decision of whether or not to grant you permission to depose before the Joint Parliamentary Committee will be taken on the basis of the members' opinion."
RCom is looking at listing Flag Telecom through a Singapore business trust, Global Telecommunications Infrastructure Trust on the Singapore stock exchange.
Bharatiya Janata Party member in Joint Parliamentary Committee Yashwant Sinha on April 1 wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking him to appear before the panel to clear his name following allegations levelled against him.
Alarmed by the recent terror attacks on Shia processions by Taliban, Pakistan on Friday shut down the mobile phone network in Karachi, Quetta and some other cities as a part of security measures for this weekend, which is the climax of the holy month of Muharram.
The comments by a former official of the Comptroller and Auditor General over the report on 2G spectrum allocation on Friday kicked up a row with Congress President Sonia Gandhi suggesting that the Bharatiya Janata Party had been exposed while the government demanded answers from Parliament's PAC chief M M Joshi over his alleged role.
It challenged the Delhi High Court's order giving its nod to the Centre's decision holding the 3G roaming pact of the telecom major as illegal.
DoT's data is based on inputs from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India and service providers.
FIPB panel to meet today, discuss telecom investments.
India will remain the highest growth market for telecommunications in the Asia-Pacific region with around 35 million new subscribers in 2005, marking a 18 per cent increase from 2004.
According to daily The National, Batelco chief executive officer Sheikh Mohamed bin Isa Al Khalifa stated that the company is not interested in participating in the upcoming 2G spectrum auctions in India to secure licences and set up a new joint venture in India.
Pakistan's new IT minister has warned that Google could be blocked in the country if the company fails to remove blasphemous and objectionable material from its video-sharing website YouTube.
Telco moves Delhi High Court against order; Vodafone expected to get notice too
In two other changes, young MP Milind Deora, MoS in telecommunication and information technology ministry, got additional the portfolio of Shipping in the same rank and Panabaka Laxmi, who was made MoS in textile ministry on Sunday, was reallocated petroleum and gas department.
At least 150 people were killed and dozens injured when a powerful 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck southwest China's Yunnan province on Sunday.
Telecom Commission has recommended that existing mobile operators vacate airwaves in the 900 MHz band at the time of renewal of licences in 2014 -- a move that GSM players say would cost them over Rs 66,000 crore (Rs 660 billion) in replacing infrastructure.
The biggest players in the country's telecom industry had all managed to secure more than their authorized share of spectrum and would have to pay for it, has been in the public domain for some time now.
The government cannot force mobile operators to go beyond their roll-out obligation and give phone coverage to fishermen venturing into the deep sea, the Department of Telecommunications has informed the naval authorities.
In a statement on Tuesday, DoT said, "1,800 and 900 MHz bands were to be auctioned simultaneously, starting March 11, and the 800 MHz band auction was to commence two days after the conclusion of the auction of the 1,800 and 900 MHz spectrum.
Telcos likely to get to switch from 2,300-MHz band for 4G services.
Bharti Airtel has sought quashing of the government's September 28 decision directing the service providers to stop providing intra-circle roaming services.
Limited monopoly period to airline bidding for least subsidy to connect any of 80 Tier-III cities.
The high-powered panel, headed by Finance Minister P Chidambaram, which was to discuss the roadmap for auction of unsold GSM spectrum in Delhi, Mumbai, Rajasthan and Karnataka, has been deferred twice last month.
France on Wednesday said it would soon initiate steps to forge stronger trade and economic ties with India, with focus on small and medium enterprises, transport and telecommunications sectors.
The Finance Ministry had last month also asked for the details but DoT has still not replied.
Only the Supreme Court can rectify spectrum management in line with other resources, but all stakeholders can contribute, writes Shyam Ponappa.
Bangladesh has enforced a ban on video sharing website YouTube to block an anti-Islam film that angered Muslims across the globe, a senior official said on Tuesday.
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