A bench headed by Justice H S Kapadia, while dismissing Tata Teleservices and Reliance Communication's petitions, has upheld telecom tribunal TDSAT's order of September 2005 that held these services are not fixed lines telephones, but limited mobile. The Supreme Court had earlier reserved its judgement on a petition filed by Tata Teleservices challenging the telecom tribunal's order which classified the company's fixed wireless phone service 'Walky' as limited mobile.
Tata Indicom on Thursday launched a dual mode handset, Samsung Duo, which can run both GSM and CDMA based mobile connections.
Tata Teleservices on Wednesday became the second major CDMA operator, after Reliance Communications, to get GSM radio frequency under the dual technology along with other new telecom players.Tata Teleservices has been given start up 4.4 MHz GSM spectrum in Tamil Nadu along with five new telecom players, company officials said.
Tata Teleservices has accused Trai of favouring the GSM players in spectrum allocation.
The offer is applicable from September 25 to October 31 and qualifies new post-paid customers across all Tata Docomo brand stores to win iPhone 5S, Samsung and HCL tablets, data packages, powerbanks, discount coupons from Jabong, among others.
In a bid to spread its telecom footprint across the country at a time when the government has decided to unify basic and cellular licences, Tata Teleservices has applied for licences in 7 more circles, including Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan.
Newly-formed Tata Indicom Enterprise Business Unit, the sales and marketing initiative of the group's four telecom service providers, would soon have a new participant with VSAT provider -- Tata Net -- set to join the initiative.
Tata Teleservices and Reliance Communications have said that they had been denied extra spectrum even as the old GSM operators like Bharti, Vodafone and Idea were been allocated excess spectrum in many circles.
Continuing its pressure on wireless in local loop operators whose tariffs do not meet the criteria specified by it, telecom regulator TRAI has sought clarifications from Tata Teleservices though the company maintained that its WLL tariffs.
The Department of Telecom has issued a show cause notice to Tata Teleservices on their recently-launched Push-To-Talk services to verify the compliance with licence terms and conditions.
Tata Teleservices spokesperson confirmed the development, and said: "We have written to theDoT seeking clarity on the issue."
Tata Power Company, the largest private sector power player in the country, plans to divest part of its stake in group companies Tata Teleservices and Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) to raise about Rs 2,000 crore for funding its ongoing projects, said informed sources.
The petition seeking review was filed nearly a month after the apex court on February 2 had cancelled 122 2G licences granted to nine telecom companies including Tata Teleservices Ltd, based on the first-come-first served policy for 22 circles.
The group began to outperform the broader market only with the onset of the pandemic in March 2020 while earlier it was largely keeping pace with the Sensex. The group's market cap is up 164.4 per cent since the end of March 2020 against a 105 per cent rally in the Sensex.
In yet another instance of evasion of levy, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd has asked private operators Tata Teleservices and Reliance Infocomm to pay up the charges for positioning their fixed wireless phones as mobile services.
Tata Teleservices on Thursday offloaded another 8 per cent equity in favour of Sterling Infotech owned by C Sivasankaran, presumably for about Rs 1,200 crore (Rs 12 billion).
Global communications major Motorola said on Wednesday that it has bagged a $43 million contract from basic operator Tata Teleservices for deployment of Code Division Multiple Access network in Maharashtra, Mumbai and Goa.
Tata Teleservices on Thursday launched Push-to-Talk services offering customers the facility to make unlimited calls without any long distance or roaming charges within the network on a monthly rental of Rs 99.
Tata Teleservices on Saturday said it would invest $2 billion (over Rs 8,000 crore) in rolling out GSM-based mobile services in the country.
Concerned over the health of their telecom business, the Tata group has planned an investment of Rs 5,000 crore (Rs 50 billion) over the next 2-3 years while expecting the telecom ventures to come to the big league by around 2008.
Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Ltd said on Friday that Ratan N Tata has been elected as the company's chairman. \n
After Vodafone Idea, Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) on Tuesday said it will opt for conversion of the interest amount on AGR dues into equity and post conversion, the government's holding in the company is expected to be around 9.5 per cent. The announcement of Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) came within hours of Voda Idea also deciding to opt for converting the interest amount on AGR dues into government equity. In a filing to the BSE, Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) said Net Present Value or NPV of interest is expected to be nearly Rs 850 crore as per the company's estimates, subject to confirmation by the Department of Telecom (DoT).
Sources in the industry said Tata Teleservices had made an attempt to sale one-third stake to South Korean Telecom. But the deal did not materialise because of differences over valuation.
Looking to put money in aviation, infrastructure and also to reduce debt of group companies.
Tata Teleservices on Wednesday announced outsourcing of its entire IT infrastructure management to group company Tata Consultancy Services, a deal estimated at over Rs 1,000 crore (Rs10 billion) over five years.
RCom and Aircel have permits for 3G services in 13 out of 22 service areas while Tata Teleservices has permit in 9 circles.
Tata Teleservices is coming with a walkie-talkie like facility on its mobile phones for which it has tied up with the United States-based CDMA giant Qualcomm for acquiring technology.
Tata Indicom's CDMA, GSM, 3G and Photon platforms will now be available under the unified brand Tata Docomo.
Kishore A Chaukar has been appointed as non-executive director and chairman on the board of TTML, with effect from March 24, the filing said.
Tata Teleservices plans to invest Rs 3,500 crore (Rs 35 billion) in 2007-08 for expanding its footprint into new territories and launching 3G services.
Firm makes Rs 4,858-crore loss on Rs 10,799-crore income.
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