Verdicts paving the way for construction of a Ram Temple at Ayodhya and India's multi-billion dollar Rafale fighter jet deal with France were 2019's landmark imprints of the Supreme Court, which also found itself at the centre of a controversy with then Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi being accused of sexual harassment before getting the clean chit.
India's telecom sector has been through dizzying peaks, troughs, policy U-turns, court battles, brutal competition, and daily controversies. India could go back to a private sector duopoly with just Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel surviving the mayhem. The third player, Vodafone Idea, could be history.
Under the UASL norms, spectrum is linked to licences, and a particular band of radio wave is restricted to be used in a particular technology
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).
The company is to act as an ISP across rural areas for local entrepreneurs.
Facebook on Thursday announced that it has shut down Free Basics in India.
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Thomas Ninad's bank account was defrauded of Rs 14 lakh under mysterious circumstances.
Internet.org is a Facebook-led initiative
The circular says even a day's delay in servicing loans would be now taken as a 'default'. And once in default, for loans above Rs 2,000 crore, the banks will have to arrive at a resolution within 180 days, else lenders will have to file an application under the IBC within 15 days.
Banks have Rs 10 trillion in stressed assets - Rs 7.8 trillion of bad loans and Rs 2.2 trillion of restructured ones.
New Delhi is also set to top its target of raising at least $13 billion.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch and JP Morgan are bankers for the bonds
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The company will wait for sizeable user base for better valuation.
According to a Deutsche Bank report, the Idea-Vodafone combine will have to pay a 30 per cent lower annual installment on spectrum due to the longer duration of the payment tenure.
DoT though failed to implement TRAI's recommendations to levy spectrum usage charge
Market breadth turned negative with 1,779 declines over 884 advances on the BSE
Reliance Jio Infocomm is the only company which had in 2010 won a pan-India spectrum for 4G services but is yet to start commercial services.
Fresh buying by domestic institutional investors and better-than-expected June quarter results from some blue-chip companies boosted investor sentiment
With Airtel and RCom already having launched their special offers for post-paid customers, and RJio around the corner, Vodafone makes its move with Red.
Voice calling will be free on Jio phones for life and post December 31, 10 data plans will be offered
India's third largest telecom operator Idea Cellular joined the data tariff war by slashing 2G mobile internet rates by 90 per cent and 3G tariffs by 30 per cent for six months from November 15.
Global rating agency Fitch on Tuesday said the imminent entry of Reliance Jio into the telecom space will see a likely 20 per cent fall in data tariffs, but will not have any impact on the credit profile of the top four incumbents in the medium term as their revenue is on an uptick on rising voice tariffs and improving regulatory environment.
This puts an end to Facebook's Free Basics and Airtel's zero rating plans in India.
This will be in line with government's vision of Digital India.
Airtel, Vodafone, Idea, RCom, Reliance Jiosubmitted applications.
When it comes to the number of phone bill disputes, Vodafone, Idea Cellular, BSNL and Aircel were high on the list in several service areas during the quarter ended June.
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Bharti Airtel made part payment of Rs 4,725 crore.
The interconnection charge has been reduced.
Ford said it had also shut its plant, with an annual capacity of 340,000 engines and 200,000 vehicles.
Investors brace up ahead of the key macrodata- IIP and CPI numbers due to be unveiled tomorrow.
Mobile phone service providers alone jointly reported gross revenue of Rs 55,164.18 crore (RS 551.64 billion).
It may be the season for corporate matchmaking but India Inc's record of managing partnerships is far from impressive, says Shailesh Dobhal.
Bharti Airtel , RCom and Tata Communications ended down between 0.1-1%.
But the road map of telecom will be decided by one thing: Whether Jio sticks to its ambitious plan and whether incumbents have enough financial muscle or ability to raise money every year to ensure that Jio does not reach its target, says Surajeet Das Gupta.
Trai has invited comments till January 7 on its paper on differential data pricing.
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