The minister had last month said that the guidelines will be out by October 15.
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The inter-ministerial body will take the final decision on October 29 taking into account Trai's reply.
While the draft M&A policy for the telecom sector has been revised a few times over the past few months, DoT has not made any major changes to guidelines.
The Department of Telecom has put on block around 385 MHz of radiowaves in the 1800 MHz band, and 46 MHz in the 900 MHz band.
Raises cap of market share for merged entity to 50%, spectrum trading allowed, with riders.
Telecom subscriber base crossed the 95-crore mark in August, after a gap of more than two years, on the back of higher mobile users whose number touched 92.43 crore.
Telecom companies have put in bids worth Rs 58,332 crore (Rs 583.32 billion) in spectrum auction at the end of 49 rounds on the 7th day of bidding on Monday.
The auction started off with the 36th round this morning. At the end of 35 rounds on Friday, bids worth around Rs 54,600 crore had been received by the government.
Airtel, Vodafone, Idea, RCom, Reliance Jiosubmitted applications.
The S&P BSE Sensex ended the session at 25,342, up 3 points while the Nifty50 closed at 7,738 points.
The telephone subscriber base was 996.49 million at the end of March.
Also, the combination of a new entrant and new technology is not necessarily good.
The revival of feature phones in India is driven by low-cost access to the internet, but the 'dumb phones' are learning to get smart and create a niche, says Veer Arjun Singh.
Rahul Khullar, Trai chairman beleives politicians and corporates who own media houses should give freedom to editors.
In effect, companies which put their money in telecom in India would have done much better to keep the cash in bank and earn interest.
Call drops may end as govt allows telecom spectrum trading
Govt is set to garner Rs 1 lakh crore from sale of radiowaves.
In Air 2, Apple has upgraded main camera to 8 megapixel while camera in iPad mini 3 remains the same at 5 MP.
Jio's disruptive strategy, including free voice services and data at throwaway rates, apart from offering all services free for six months, triggered a consolidation in the telecom sector.
Indian Hotels, Tata Steel, Tata Teleservices, Tata Motors, Tata Power need some immediate attention of the Tata Group chairman
The telecom spectrum auction entered the 33rd round of bidding today after starting off from the Rs 52,689 crore (Rs 526. 89 billion) mark this morning.
Within a week of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India giving its final recommendations on the valuation and pricing of spectrum, Chairman Rahul Khullar speaks to Business Standard on the process the regulator followed in finalising the much-debated issue.
A year after Bharti Airtel launched 4G services, there are only 6.5 mn users in the country
RCom may get around Rs 4,500 crore by trading its radiowaves to Reliance Jio.
Regulator has suggested a lower reserve price even in service areas where spectrum was sold in November 2012.
Docomo is looking to expand its reach beyond Japan and sees India and Africa as key emerging markets.
The amount generated so far is about 86 per cent of what the 3G auction fetched in 2010.
Companies might have to shell out a fourth of the industry's annual net revenue to clear the obligation
Access spectrum is airwaves used for transmitting wireless signals on mobile devices from mobile towers.
Micromax's Canvas Selfie wants to make women 'more presentable'.
The company needs Rs 2,000 crore more in 2 years to repay debt.
The third round of spectrum auction continued to witness aggressive bidding even after completion of seventeen rounds on Wednesday with demands for both bands of airwaves on offer continuing to pour in.
Since August 2013, FIPB has approved two FDI proposals in the telecom sector.
Firm makes Rs 4,858-crore loss on Rs 10,799-crore income.
Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Reliance Jio Infocomm and five other telecom firms will battle it out at the spectrum auction tomorrow, from which the government expects to garner at least Rs 11,300 crore (Rs 113 billion).
For FY16, MTNL's standalone net loss was over Rs 2,000 crore.
Ahead of the pronouncement of the sentence, police have left nothing to chance and have taken important functionaries of the sect, who could gather followers, into preventive custody.
Spectrum auction took off on Wednesday from Rs 58,980.29 crore (Rs 589.80 billion) mark with demand for the premium 900 Mhz band seemingly tapering off at the end of 56 rounds.
To begin with, the Galaxy A8 is Samsung's slimmest smartphone yet...
Spectrum is critical for Tata Tele because in some circles, Rajasthan for example, it has spectrum only in 60 per cent of the geography, while allocation for the rest has yet to come from the government.
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