Call blocking is one facility that telecom service providers claim is only for the chosen few, for instance the celebrities. Not withstanding its niche appeal, service providers in the country are in various stages of implementing the technology.
A user can list certain numbers with the operator from which he does not want to receive calls, and calls from these numbers would be blocked. Around 10-15 numbers can be blocked, while the caller will get a "busy tone or a recorded message".
The department of telecommunications has referred the issue of using multiple technologies under a single unified access services licence to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
Last year, there was almost 16 per cent increase in hiring by the Global Capability Centres in India.
Reliance Globalcom, a leading global provider of international wholesale telecom services with a presence in high growth emerging and developed markets, on Tuesday announced that it is upgrading its European Network with coherent 100G technology.
While payments banks surely lose money, their operating ratios were looking better in 2017-18 compared to the year before. This implies that as customer volumes start picking up, the business models may perk up too, says R Jagannathan.
HR managers are resorting to innovative ways to harness and retain talent as the market is witnessing demand-supply constraints.
The government needs to make the right policies and further execute them properly if it wants to move towards this goal
'It is not that the H1B visa employees are coming in to displace jobs.'
Anil Ambani severely criticised the attitude of GSM operators and raised the issue of returning the extra spectrum again.
US telecom-equipment maker Lucent Technologies faces bribery allegations in a giant Saudi telecom project, according to a lawsuit filed in a district court in the southern district of New York by Saudi-based Silki-La-Silki National Telecom.
Government's resolution on the contentious issue of spectrum usage fee seems to have found favour with telecom operators with none of them withdrawing their application from airways auction on the last day on Monday.
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Taking the government head on, four GSM mobile operators -- Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Idea and Spice -- have decided to "unitedly" approach the Delhi High Court against telecom tribunal TDSAT's interim order not to stay the spectrum allocation process.
The company is in advanced stages of negotiations with four cellular operators and is expected to announce a couple of deals soon.
The 700-Mhz spectrum band ranges from 698 Mhz to 806 Mhz and has been identified by the International Telecommunication Union for telecom services.
Hyderabad-based Megasoft, a product-based technology company, announced on Tuesday that its business headquarters will be moved to the US while the global delivery, research and development, and back office support system will be run out of India.
Experts, however, are of the opinion that a world manned mostly by bots is still some time away. Also, new jobs -- of bot builders and supervisors -- will emerge with time.
Bringing to the limelight some of the brilliant ideas and innovative projects from campuses is a unique initiative by Startup Village, India's first telecom incubator.
It means a CDMA players like Reliance can also operate GSM services and get the required spectrum from the government within the same licence. Earlier, they were allowed spectrum either for CDMA or for GSM within the licence. However, now they have to pay an amount equal to the entry fee of a UASL licence (over Rs 1,680 crore for a pan-India licence) to get the spectrum as recommended by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
Tech Mahindra and IT infrastructure major Sun Microsystems announced on Monday a strategic alliance to provide systems and software for internet protocol television services to customers in India and Asia Pacific markets.
If Indian storytelling can deliver, it can make the entertainment industry an engine of economic growth and a substantial contributor to GDP, says Vanita Kohli-Khandekar.
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'If the RBI blesses us with a banking licence, we would like to launch a successful bank.'
FIPB panel to meet today, discuss telecom investments.
Bharti Telesoft, a supplier of value added services platforms to wireline and wireless carriers, has been ranked as one of the country's fast growing 50 technology companies by Deloitte Technology.
A Deloitte survey found that the CEOs in the Asia-Pacific region are optimistic about their company's growth over the next 12 months, despite the economic downturn.
Fund managers said they were now waiting for first-quarter results of IT firms, which begin with Infosys Technologies next Wednesday (July 11), to decide their investment strategy for the sector.
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has set the ball rolling for the second phase of telecom reforms with the issue of a consultation paper seeking the industry's views on review of key license conditions and capping the number of access providers.
Indian telecom czar Sunil Mittal and NRI businessman Anil Agarwal are among the four Indians featuring in the list of '48 Heroes of Philanthropy' compiled by business publication Forbes.
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Infosys already works with a communication services provider major in Western Europe in the digital TV space. The company has a solution called modular content accelerator which serves as an interface between stakeholders of consumer marketing and IT. The solution provides an operator the means to efficiently manage content catalogue, bundled offers and pricing, apart from providing interactive services through multi-media content storefront.
Eight telecom companies, including Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular, the biggest three in the country, bid a combined Rs 61,162 crore (Rs 611.62 billion) in the spectrum auction held earlier this month.
The government on Wednesday approved a Rs 7,350-crore scheme to boost production of laptops, tablets, all-in-one PCs and servers in the country, as it sought to woo global and domestic players to take advantage of India's manufacturing prowess. Production worth Rs 3.26 lakh crore and exports of Rs 2.45 lakh crore are estimated over the next four years under the new scheme, which is expected to create 1.80 lakh jobs. Briefing reporters after a meeting of the Cabinet, Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme has been approved for IT hardware products that would cover laptops, tablets, all-in-one PCs and servers.
During financial year 2011-12, MTNL was able to use only 14.66 per cent of the Budget estimate, while BSNL reported a better performance, according to a report by the standing committee on information technology.
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On all other issues, including the future of licences given to incumbents before 2008 on the controversial first-come-first-serve basis and dual technology licences, the status quo will be maintained, meaning there is no question of any cancellation, say experts and telecom companies.
The department of telecommunications is all set to urge the telecom companies to bring down domestic roaming charges between Re 1 to Rs 2 per minute.
Emphasising on the need for self-regulation on sharing information on the Internet, Sibal said that media needs to realise its role in sharing news, which should 'empower' people and not cause 'disruption'.
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