This will be the country's largest order for telecom equipment and one of the world's biggest. The installed production capacity of GSM electronics worldwide is 250 to 300 million lines annually, suggesting that the order could account for more than 10 per cent of global production over the next three years.
RIL, however, remains miles ahead of TCS in other financial parameters such as total revenue, operating profit, net worth, assets, and market capitalisation.
A DoT panel has backed net neutrality and made some recommendations to push the cause
Rediff.com gives you a lowdown on the net neutrality issue that is today part of the national discourse.
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It is the most potent symbol of India's soft power -- more perhaps than the IT industry and our managerial skill, notes Vanita Kohli-Khandekar
The talent gap in the industry is huge, says N Chandrasekaran, MD & CEO, TCS.
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".
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.
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.
HR managers are resorting to innovative ways to harness and retain talent as the market is witnessing demand-supply constraints.
A study shows that Facebook and Twitter could have an influence in at least 160 Lok Sabha seats triggering a debate but two senior Union ministers -- Manish Tewari (information and broadcasting) and Kapil Sibal (information technology and telecom) -- disagree.
'A lack of strategic trust and the 'persistent security dilemma' prevails between India and China,' points out Dr Rup Narayan Das.
Anil Ambani severely criticised the attitude of GSM operators and raised the issue of returning the extra spectrum again.
India's huge digital prowess and potential will play a huge role in enabling digital lending, says Romita Majumdar.
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.
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The company is in advanced stages of negotiations with four cellular operators and is expected to announce a couple of deals soon.
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.
'We always believe that if you focus on the goal, you will overcome all obstacles. If you focus on the obstacles, you will never achieve your goal.'
Ambani brothers on Wednesday showered lavish praises on Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying, India has now got a decisive and visionary leader.
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.
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.
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.
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.
M Muneer recommends segmenting the population on the basis of their propensity to embrace new technologies is the key to driving digitisation.
Major carmakers in the country are loading barrels for the coming battle in the field, reports Arnab Dutta.
The 700-Mhz spectrum band ranges from 698 Mhz to 806 Mhz and has been identified by the International Telecommunication Union for telecom services.
Revenue jumped 54.5 per cent to Rs 156,291 crore.
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.
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.
The deal between Bharti group and Tata Teleservices is yet another example of how swiftly things can change in business.
This is the second investment by General Atlantic in a subsidiary of Reliance Industries, following a Rs 6,598.38 crore investment in Jio Platforms announced earlier this year.
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.
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.
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.
That's because India does not have a serious venture capital industry with an appetite for risk, observes T N Ninan.
