The 50 million customers span mobile, broadband and fixed telephone services, with wireless segment estimated to be contributing as much as 96 per cent (47.99 million) of the total base.
Curfew remained in force in entire Srinagar district and Anantnag town on Saturday to thwart the separatists' plan to stage a two-day sit-in in the city centre even as the death toll in the ongoing unrest climbed to 56 in the Valley with the death of a youth injured in firing.
The products and content would be available to MTNL's broadband customers through a co-branded portal called mtnl.aol.in, MTNL Executive Director J Gopal told reporters on Tuesday.
The 2016 upstart, called Jio, dislodged rivals and has emerged as the nation's No. 4 carrier by offering call services free for life and data transmission at dirt cheap rates.
Although BSNL's profits would come under severe pressure as subsidy on rural operations has been withdrawn and the levy charged from private players (known as access deficit charge) would also be phased out from next year, yet Goyal was hopeful of meeting the requirement internally.
Homegrown microblogging platform Koo said the new guidelines will help clarify the responsibilities of intermediaries.
India is now getting ready for the next step, using broadband connectivity to take education and healthcare to the villages, says IT and Telecommmunications Minister Shakeel Ahmad.
Foreign cable companies like Liberty Global Inc, Macquarie Media Group and Star Group want the prime minister to intervene in the digital broadband policy initiatives for the cable industry.
A next-gen wireless broadband network will allow Koreans to use high-speed apps on their mobile handsets. And it's sure to power big growth.
The liquidity-fuelled rally will continue for some time, however, fundamentals are getting stretched.
Bharti Airtel on Thursday announced the commercial launch of 4G services in 296 towns across India after testing the market in select cities.
Broadband service provider YOU Telecom will invest around Rs 428 crore (Rs 4.28 billion) in the next two years.
The funny thing is that the government has the money - but it is going into subsidies that Mr Jaitley has chosen to leave untouched.
A VSNL statement at the Bombay Stock Exchange said that the completion of the transaction is subject to a number of conditions precedent and is expected to be over in next few weeks.
Total revenue came in at Rs 20,422 crore for the September quarter, which was 6.2 per cent lower than Rs 21,777 crore notched in the year-ago period.
Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd is preparing to apply for permission to set up a nation-wide broadband telecom network for internal (non-commercial) use.
It's time the government accepts that Digital India is too distant.
After initial success, data use is stagnating and getting consumers to spend additional money for high-speed internet is proving to be difficult for telcos.
Having access to high-speed internet reduces sleep duration.
Shravin Mittal's venture capital firm, Unbound Advisors, has made investments worth over $500 million so far
Let's take a look at what happens on the Internet every minute of every single day.
The Customer Complaints Council pulled up Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) for advertisement of its water purifier product 'Pureit Ultima'.
Telecommunication services provider Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd and global microprocessor manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday launched personal Internet communicator, a consumer device that offers managed Internet access to end-users.
But the service can only be used to access 301 websites approved by the administration. The approved sites include search engines and those associated with banking, education, news, travel, utilities and employment.
Google Inc opened two data centres in Asia to cater to the world's fastest growing consumer technology markets.
The prime minister said if the villages could be connected with broadband, education could be provided to children in even the last school and telemedicine facilities could greatly help the poor.
The operators say that the move to have an India-specific standard will raise the costs not only of telecom networks but of chipsets for mobile devices because they will have to be made for the local market and, as such, will not enjoy global economies of scale.
Reliance WebWorld on Thursday launched a post-graduate certificate course in Logistics Supply Chain Managment programme on a virtual classroom platform to be conducted by management institute
The number of Internet users in China touched 123 million on June 30 this year, an increase of 19.4 per cent from last year.
In terms of market capitalisation, Zee alone has a market cap of Rs 24,000 crore compared to Rs 15,000 crore of the merged Reliance entity.
Diversified private telecom operator Bharti Televentures on Wednesday unveiled a unified branding strategy for all telecom services with Airtel as the flagship brand.
With public sector telecom giants MTNL and BSNL planning to cut their broadband tariffs to nearly half, a move expected to be followed by a host of private operators offering similar services, the number of net surfers will leap-frog to 8 million.
Iqara Broadband is recruiting Sales Executives.
State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd is planning to set up 1,00,000 information kiosks covering 48 per cent of rural population by 2007 in an effort to provide broadband and connectivity in these areas.
Bucking the overall downtrend, shares of RIL rallied nearly 10 per cent, capping the Sensex loss to a large extent.
Company now plans to use 1800 MHz band spectrum as the primary wave while the 2300 Mhz wave will be supplementary for enterprise customers.
Soon, Bharat Sanchar Nigam subscribers will be able to buy a branded PC on equated monthly installments, which can either be paid directly to the bank or can form a part of the telephone bill.
