In the summer, we tend to eat less and drink more. Avoid large portions of food, as they will be difficult to digest and may cause you to feel tired and lazy. Instead, have frequent and small portions of meals, which will keep them fresh and light, suggests Dr Shoaib Sangatti, emergency physician, Ruby Hall clinic, Wanowire.
The partially convertible rupee closed at 61.5350/5450 per dollar compared to 61.54/55 on Wednesday.
Telecom regulator TRAI has imposed cumulative penalty of Rs 50 lakh on nine mobile operators for failing to meet quality of service benchmarks in the second quarter ended June 2013, official sources said.
The government has suffered a loss of Rs 12,488.93 crore (Rs 124.88 billion) due to under-invoicing of gross revenue by six telecom companies including Reliance Communications, Vodafone and Bharti Airtel, the CAG said in a damning report on Friday.
Mittal said that overall, he expected that by March 2018, the "dust will settle down" for the entire industry.
The Mukesh Ambani-owned company had complained to Trai about incumbents offering segmented offers to different customers
Revenue decline has left the operators with little money to service their mostly 3G and partly 4G infrastructure leading to poor data and voice quality.
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.
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SBI will hold 30 per cent in RIL joint venture
Sachin Bansal, who had co-founded Flipkart with Binny Bansal in 2007, would exit the company
However, the number of transactions declined to 76 in January-March this year from 110 in the year-ago quarter.
Reliance Jio Infocomm has announced that it would launch commercial 4G services in 6 to 8 weeks.
Telecom tower companies likely to invest around Rs 500 crore (Rs 50 billion) to enhance network.
Falling revenues, increased capex, and first full year of spectrum debt may make things worse
Customers may lose freebies or have to pay a little more for mobile services in the days ahead as operators try to make up for Rs 61,100 crore they have committed to government in the latest spectrum auction.
Despite low tariffs, voice usage is not growing.
The call failure rate, Jio said, has been worsening rapidly in the last few days, while augmentation of interconnection capacity is still awaited
High spectrum charges would lead to rise in mobile services rates and adversely impact government's Digital India initiative by impeding telecom network expansion.
Reports by CAG earlier on the 2008 telecom licence scam had resulted in the cancellation of 122 licences.
Under another plan, it will offer unlimited voice calling along with 100 SMS per day, 5GB 3G/4G data and free subscription to Wynk Music and Wynk Movies for Rs 1,599
Bharti Airtel made part payment of Rs 4,725 crore.
Although the industry is disappointed with the government decision not to lower spectrum prices at a time telcos are saddled with over Rs 4-trillion debt and an estimated Rs 1.43-trillion licence fee dues, the DCC has relaxed the payment structure to offer some relief to the financially stressed sector.
'Spectrum payment to push up telcos' debt to Rs 3.5 lakh cr'
The latest ad, done by O&M again, Vodafone's ad agency, shows two engineers tinkering away in a dimly-lit highway tunnel.
Revenues of Airtel and Idea have been hit by falling realisation and analysts said margins would be affected by higher costs.
The uniform SUC, if implemented as per recommendations made by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, will provide relief for mobile operators such as Airtel, Vodafone and Idea, but will increase rates for broadband wireless access spectrum holders like RJIL.
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The DoT estimates that it will receive Rs 29,524 cr in revenue from the telecom industry in FY18, which is 38% less than the Budget revenue target of Rs 47,300 cr for FY18
Trai had asked the Attorney General for views on Jio's free voice and data offering till March 2017, that rivals have termed predatory.
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.
After their merger Vodafone Group CEO, Vittorio Colao says India is not a Jio market alone. Aditya Birla Group CEO, Kumar Mangalam Birla says Vodafone is dominant in metro cities, while Idea is a big player in urban, semi-urban markets.
Reliance Communications could become a much more formidable opponent.
Broader market underperformed the headline indices
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has recommended up 62 per cent reduction in base price of premium 2G spectrum and up to 37 per cent in case of radiowaves freed from the cancellation of 122 licences, compared to the amount fixed for previous auction.
Says, Jio unlikely to gain 2% revenue market share in 2017
Typically these are high-beta stocks and earnings are volatile
Jio makes data on call drops public, says 121 mn calls failed in a day
Reliance Jio submitted the highest pre-auction deposit.
At present 100% FDI is allowed, of which up to 49% investment in a company can be done through the automatic route
The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has bluntly told the government there is no reason for its members to roll out 5G networks as they will be unviable if 'captive private wireless networks' are allowed to be run by enterprises. The COAI, which has Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea as its key members, has written to Communications Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw saying there is 'no business case for the roll out of 5G networks'. Permitting such captive networks will 'diminish the revenue so much that there will be no viable business case left for the telecom service providers and there will not remain any need for 5G network roll out by telecom service providers (TSPs)'.
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