The ban had been imposed by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting after one of its radio jockeys allegedly made a derogatory remark against Indian Idol winner Prashant Tamanag.
To support its huge expansion plans, BSNL might have to resort to an initial public offer (IPO) in three years' time. The public sector telecom service provider will require around Rs 60,000 crore (Rs by 2010 to fund the expansions.
Speaking at a press conference in Kolkata organised by TDSAT, N K Mangla, head of the regulatory department of Reliance Communication, said, "We plan to have a customer capacity of 8 million or 55 per cent of the population in 2008." Reliance also plans to cover 95 per cent of highways, 93 per cent of railways, 6,000 towns and five lakh villages in 2008. Currently, the company has 22,000 towers.
Cable operators and MSOs in the city were happy with today's developments.
Telecom regulator TRAI has said private GSM operators were acting as a "cartel" against MTNL and BSNL and charging higher tariffs from customers for calls terminating in the networks of the two state-run companies.
"Respondent (Zee-Turner) would supply all its 32 channels from all bouquets to the petitioner (Tata Sky) within 48 hours," said TDSAT chairman Justice Arun Kumar, admitting the prayer of Tata Sky, an 80:20 Tata-Star venture, in this regard.\n\n
From banks and credit card firms to mobile operators, everyone is using the power of SMS to reach out to potential customers and now, even Telecom Disputes Settlement And Appellate Tribunal has jumped the SMS bandwagon.
In a 'goodwill gesture', Tata Teleservices on Tuesday withdrew a petition it had filed against Reliance Infocomm before TDSAT.
In a setback to Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd, telecom tribunal TDSAT on Monday upheld the TRAI order on reduction of bandwidth prices and asked the regulator to implement the order immediately while dismissing the petition of VSNL.
Bharti Group chairman Sunil Mittal on Tuesday said the unified licensing regime proposed by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India could not be pursued in its present form, as it was in contradiction of the TDSAT judgement.
In a major setback to Bharti Group which offers telecom services under AirTel brand, the Supreme Court has turned down its plea seeking refund of Rs 135 crore (Rs 1.35 billion) for surrendering five basic licences.
Protesting against imposition of levy on roaming calls to be paid to state owned BSNL as announced by TRAI, cellular operators have challenged the order in TDSAT saying "the order is arbitrary and anti-consumer."
State-run BSNL on Tuesday moved TDSAT against the regulator's order, asking the company to reduce carriage charges from 65 paise to 20 paise a minute irrespective of the distance.
VSNL on Wednesday got a temporary relief after telecom regulator TRAI decided to keep its earlier order of announcing up to 64 per cent reduction in international bandwidth prices in abeyance till October 3.
In a setback to the telecom regulator, the Telecom Dispute Settlement and Appellate Tribunal has barred TRAI from intervening in any dispute arising between two operators on the terms and conditions of interconnection.
Taking cognizance of cellular operators' complaint, Telecom Regulatory of India has asked Reliance Infocomm to explain about roaming services being promised by them on their WLL phones.
Cellular operators on Monday moved Telecom Dispute Settlement and Appellate Tribunal against limited mobility operators accusing them of violating licence conditions and judicial orders of the tribunal.
Reliance Infocomm on Monday paid Rs 150 crore (Rs 1.50 billion) penalty to government following dismissal of its petition by telecom tribunal TDSAT on illegal routing of international calls.
The CPI(M) on Friday renewed its demand for sacking of TRAI chief Pradeep Baijal and a full-scale probe into the entire 'scam.'\n
Internet service providers will have to pay a nominal entry fee of Rs 30 lakh and no licence fee to offer corporate networking services, TRAI said in its recommendations on Tuesday.
Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal order directing the Government to refund the interest on licence fee collected by it from four operators
Telecom operators owe government a huge amount of Rs 17,980.77 crore in licence fee and spectrum charges, but the outstandings are under litigations, Parliament was informed on Wednesday.
TDSAT has adjourned for a day the hearing on a petition filed on interconnect filed by cellular operators against basic players offering WLL.
Telecom tribunal TDSAT on Monday directed TRAI to file a reply by January 26 on a petition by MTNL challenging the regulator's new levy regime, which could result in a loss of about Rs 550 crore (Rs 5.5 billion) to the public sector undertaking, whil
State-run MTNL will approach the telecom tribunal TDSAT against the TRAI order that brings new access deficit charge regime from February 1, within two days .
The cellular operators criticised the majority judgement of the TDSAT, which had permitted the WLL services, saying there was no reason given by the two judges to justify their views which were contrary to those of the TDSAT chairman.
The Telecom Dispute Settlement and Appellate Tribunal on Monday adjourned its hearing on the limited mobility issue, and will hear the appeal on March 17.
Lawyers representing govt point out that telcos, because of the large money they can save if they get a favourable judgement, prefer to fight till all legal options are exhausted
Vodafone's operating loss from India business jumped to 692 million euros in April-September from 133 million euros in the same period last year.
Supreme Court had on October 24 upheld government contention that non-core revenue in telecoms groups should be included in adjusted gross revenue. According to DoT's calculations, Bharti Airtel faces a liability of around Rs 42,000 crore after including licence fees and spectrum usage charges while Vodafone-Idea may have to pay about Rs 40,000 crore.
Former Telecom Minister A Raja on Tuesday told a Delhi court that former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Cabinet members were "completely under confusion" created by "vested interests" about policy and procedure of Department of Telecommunication in allocating the 2G spectrum.
'Tinkering will not do. Merely staggering spectrum dues comes nowhere near solving the problem,' cautions Rahul Khullar.
TRAI today made it mandatory for telecom operators to compensate consumers by one rupee for call drops with effect from January 1, 2016.
Agreement between Bharti Airtel and Loop Mobile, which offers mobile services in Mumbai, expired on October 31
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