Ambani said, in the telecom space, the focus will be on debt reduction, and the virtual merger did away with the need for major capex and will help towards this
Your nearest grocery shop might soon become a one-stop shop for depositing and withdrawing money.
'The recent incident in the US has no bearing in India.' 'We are not aware of any request from the US to India about 5G.'
Sachin Bansal, who had co-founded Flipkart with Binny Bansal in 2007, would exit the company
Prayas Jain has been arrested for allegedly buying secret documents.
The lobby group of CDMA mobile players like the Reliance Communications and the Tatas has accused that the government was favouring the GSM players while deciding the criteria for spectrum allocation and in its pricing.
Reliance Jio Infocomm has announced that it would launch commercial 4G services in 6 to 8 weeks.
The Indian government has emerged as the biggest winner.
After a long wait, Tata Teleservices on Thursday launched the premium Blackberry mobile services that offers customers e-mail, SMS messaging and Internet-based applications.
Global sales made via mobile devices are expected to top $638 billion.
Spectrum was sold at about 68 per cent premium.
Bharti will have to deal with 15 different regulatory regimes in Africa as opposed to just one in India.
Ambani says nation on the cusp of a digital revolution
New telecom operators such as Swan, Unitech, Datacom and Loop, and Reliance Communications have asked regulator Trai to reduce the termination charges, while existing GSM players, led by Bharti, want the 30 paise per minute charge to continue.
Commercial services may start in Mar-Apr next year
The government has ruled out banning Blackberry services in India. This was stated by the telecom secretary in New Delhi on Friday.Security agencies had said that they should have access to data that are being encrypted by services like BlackBerry on mobile phones and then decrypted when the phone reaches its destination. The government had cited security concerns as it could not monitor the content on RIM's servers, which were located in Canada and other foreign locations.
When on October 24, the Supreme Court, on a petition moved by the government, ordered payment of past dues according to its new definition of AGR, the country's second-biggest carrier Vodafone-Idea Ltd warned of shut down if no relief is given. The total dues for the industry ran into a whopping Rs 1.47 lakh crore. For an industry that has come from 7-8 operators to just three private players and state-owned fourth operator, the warning by Vodafone-Idea sounded like a death knell.
Feedback from telecom members indicated a 10 per cent increase in traffic, but no fears of choked networks. Telcos currently use 65-70 per cent of the network capacity. In other words, they have enough additional capacity to handle the new pressure without clogging the system.
