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Maran was called on Monday but he skipped the scheduled meeting.
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The policy will be announced shortly, Minister of State for Communications and IT Milind Deora said on Monday.
The service will cover areas where no network is available and will be provided by INMARSAT, which has 14 satellites.
The public sector firm has launched STVs in the range for Rs 23 to Rs 41 for prepaid customers whereas postpaid users have to pay a fixed monthly charge of Rs 20 to Rs 40 to avail the cheaper rates.
'The announcement has come too late. This should have been done years ago.'
Sabarimala Karma Samithi on Tuesday organised a protest march to the Palarivattom BSNL office, seeking her expulsion.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday night arrested three people, including V Gowthaman, the then additional private secretary of Dayanidhi Maran, in connection with alleged allotment of more than 300 high-speed telephone lines to the then telecom minister's residence in Chennai which were extended to his brother's TV channel.
Three employees of a BSNL franchise were seriously wounded in a militant attack in Kashmir's Sopore town on Monday morning.
There were reports of a mobile tower being impacted a few months ago in coastal area of Andhra Pradesh that was attributed to hacking by the company's engineers.
Earlier, a youth injured during clashes last week succumbed at a hospital in Srinagar on Monday morning.
To revive BSNL and MTNL, DoT is taking various initiatives.
The government has set a total revenue target of Rs 40,874.5 crore (Rs 408.74 billion) this fiscal from spectrum, including auction amount, one-time spectrum charge and annual regular licence fee.
In this interesting case filed by the petitioner against the Taj Hotels, the National Commission gave an equally interesting judgment.
This is probably for the first time that curfew is in place on the day of Eid festival ever since militancy broke out in the state in 1990.
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At present MTNL and BSNL do not impose roaming charges for mobile internet services on each others customers.
Restoration of road and tele-communication network in the Kashmir Valley, ravaged by floods, will take three to five days. The Centre has directed free flow of transport via Manali and Leh to Srinagar, the only available surface network, a top central government official said on Monday.
Through Wi-Fi, mobile phone users will be able to access Internet.
Prasad asked private operators to play a role in skill development.
Though India is a low-bandwidth geography with relatively low Internet penetration, it has a very large number of sophisticated surfers and skilled computer users
To revive the two state-run telecom operators, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL), the government is likely to waive the one-time fee these telcos need to pay for retaining additional spectrum.
Gandhi accused Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik of being remote-controlled by Modi
The telecom industry is moving towards a five-plus one model.
No successive government thought of reviving the idea of an exit policy.
The company is to act as an ISP across rural areas for local entrepreneurs.
In the stone-pelting, SSP Doda, one SHO, one sub-inspector and two other police personnel were injured.
The recent alleged sabotage of BSNL's network in coastal Andhra Pradesh by a major Chinese telecom equipment maker has once again reminded Indian intelligence agencies that when it comes to hacking, China is India's biggest concern. Vicky Nanjappa explains why.
The suspension of mobile communication for the past 12 days in Kashmir amid strict curfew has put citizens in a desperate situation, says Athar Parvaiz.
Mukund Rajan, who worked closely with Ratan Tata, recalls the unique experience of working with the corporate titan.
Jayapur, with a population of a little over 4,200, was like most other villages before Prime Minister Narendra Modi adopted it on November 7.
P Murugesan has been sending telegrams for 33 years in rural Tamil Nadu. He remembers hectic marriage seasons, many moons ago, when everyone sent telegrams. And days when even 15 Morse machines could not handle the load...
Ministers in the Narendra Modi government have been busy making presentations on their 100 days of work. But what these presentations do not mention is that decisions by ministers have been few, with plenty of papers and files moving to the Prime Minister's Office, which is increasingly emerging as a centralised clearance point, even for routine and ordinary issues. Though policy paralysis was a term used freely for the United Progressive Alliance regime, questions are now being raised about pending decisions across ministries and whether at least some ministers have turned redundant.
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