Telecom operator Bharti Airtel will start rolling out 5G services this month and cover all towns and key rural areas of the country by March 2024, a senior company official said on Tuesday. Bharti Airtel managing director and CEO Gopal Vittal also said that the price of mobile services in India is very low and needs to go up. "We intend to launch 5G starting August and extend to a Pan India roll out very soon.
A massive data breach that has implications for national security was unearthed by the Cyberabad Police in Hyderabad, who arrested seven people of a gang allegedly involved in the theft and sale of sensitive data of the government and important organisations, including details of defence personnel as well as the personal and confidential data of about 16.8 crore citizens.
The government said on Wednesday that the Telegraph Act would be amended to incorporate cellular service providers to get a share from the Universal Service Obligation Fund to connect all villages, highways and rail network.\n\n
"If we are not getting anything then I think it is end of story for Vodafone Idea," Kumar Mangalam Birla said at the HT Leadership Summit when asked about the future of Vodafone Idea in absence of a government relief on payment of Rs 53,038 crore dues.
Narendra Modi's vision to see Gujarat being counted a major IT hub of the country received a boost as 19 companies signed MoUs to total an investment of Rs 11,067 crore (Rs 110.67 billion) on Friday.
State-owned BSNL has rationalised the call charges from its public call office booths under which local and intra-circle calls to any network will be Re 1 per minute for a 60-second pulse, while STD calls will be cheaper by 50 paise.
The mobile user base is expected to grow to 815 million this year, from 755 million connections in 2013.
Leading telecom service provider, Bharti Airtel Ltd on Friday posted a 79 per cent increase in net profit at Rs 934 crore (Rs 9. 34 billion) for the quarter ended September 30 as compared to the corresponding quarter last year.
The Army on Tuesday said it was prepared to give an appropriate response to any adverse aggressive designs of China in the Ladakh sector, maintaining that the integrity of the country was being ensured through physical patrolling and technical means.
The telecom services provider had a net profit of Rs 1,395.14 crore (Rs 13.95 billion) in the third quarter of FY'08, RCom said in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange. RCom's total income rose by 18.75 per cent to Rs 5,671.82 crore (Rs 56.71 billion) for the quarter under review from Rs 4,776.26 crore (rs 47.76 billion) in the corresponding period last fiscal.
Promoter Vodafone plans to infuse up to Rs 3,375 crore into debt-ridden Vodafone Idea Ltd as part of the company's proposed raising of funds worth Rs 14,200 crore. Besides Vodafone, Aditya Birla Group plans to pump in up to Rs 1,125 crore, according to a regulatory filing on Friday. The telecom operator will seek shareholders' approval for raising up to Rs 14,500 crore as well as increase its authorised share capital to Rs 75,000 crore at its the Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) to be held on March 26.
The main thrust of the policy is on the multiplier effect and transformational impact of such services on the overall economy.
Telecom major Jio will start the beta trial of 5G services in four cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Varanasi from October 5 with a select set of customers, the company said on Tuesday. The company will send invites to customers under 'Jio True 5G Welcome Offer' to try its 5G services and the subscribers will get Unlimited 5G data with up to 1 gigabit per second speed. "Post the successful demonstration of its True-5G services at the India Mobile Congress 2022, Jio is announcing the Beta trial of its True-5G services on the auspicious occasion of Dussehra, for Jio users in four cities - Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Varanasi," Jio said in the statement.
The CDMA-based mobile subscriber base of private operators touched 80.68 lakh (8.06 million), adding 343,000 customers in June this year.
Shareholders of industry giants Adani Enterprises, Reliance Industries, and Tata Motors - the latter two are part of the Sensex - will decide on combined related-party transactions of more than Rs 2.68 trillion proposed for this financial year and later. Related-party transactions for BSE 500 companies touched at least a six-year high of Rs 42.1 trillion in FY23, the Capitaline data shows. The Rs 42.1 trillion includes related-party transactions both at balance-sheet and profit-and-loss levels.
Having created businesses ranging from world's largest single-location oil refining complex to nation's largest mobile network operators in just few years, billionaire Mukesh Ambani says his group Reliance Industries Ltd will never be complacent and will grow to be among the top 10 business conglomerates of the world. Addressing employees on Reliance Family Day - the birthday of the group's founder Dhirubhai Ambani, he said Reliance is now aiming to consolidate a place among global leaders in digital data platforms and AI adoption. "Today, the domestic and global environments for business are changing very fast.
Vodafone Idea (Vi) is in continuous talks with network vendors to finalise its 5G rollout plans, Vodafone Idea CEO Akshaya Moondra said. "We are in early stages of 5G deployment. "5G is an important development and we are keeping our eyes on it," Moondra said on Wednesday in a post-result analyst call. Already five months behind rivals Jio and Airtel in the 5G race, Vi's efforts will be on the deployment of 5G in target geographies.
18% cent GST on iPhones continues to weigh heavily on the final cost to Indian consumers, limiting the impact of price cuts.
Telecom service provider BPL Mobile on Monday launched 'Project Rapid Growth' and said it will invest Rs 625 crore (Rs 6.25 billion) during the current fiscal to add 1.5 million wirefree consumers and capture 35 per cent market share in new customer
BSNL, MTNL launch free night calling to win back consumers lost to mobile boom
A government panel on Net neutrality has proposed to regulate domestic calls made using Internet-based calling applications such as Skype, WhatsApp and Viber at par with phone call services offered by telecom operators.
Call rates to be reduced by 35%, text charges by 80%.
The weather system over the South Andaman Sea and the adjoining southeast Bay of Bengal is very likely to move north-westwards and strengthen into a depression by Saturday, the Met Department said.
India's leading private sector telecom services provider, Bharti Airtel on Friday reported a whopping 98 per cent net profit at Rs 1,353 crore (Rs 13.53 billion) for the fourth quarter ended March 31, compared to the same period last year.
Issuing its recommendations on Net neutrality, Trai has also suggested a multi-stakeholder body comprising telecom and Internet service providers, content providers, civil society organisation and consumer representatives for monitoring and investigation of violations.
UK-based Vodafone Group has ruled out selling its around 5 per cent stake in the holding company of Bharti Airtel in the near future as there is no buyer.
TouchTel, the private fixed line telecom service provider in Delhi and Haryana announced up to 70 per cent reduction in international long distance tariffs for calls to the UK, US and Europe.
BSNL is to invest around Rs 932 crore for infrastructure development in Maharashtra circle, even as the telecom services provider is expecting a 17.4% increase in revenue to post Rs 3,075 crore by March 2004 from the circle.
Nasscom recommended that there should be 'no double dipping'.
Bharti Airtel on Thursday said its 5G services have gone live in eight cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Siliguri, Nagpur and Varanasi. The customer availing 5G services will have to pay as per their existing 4G plan, it said. "Airtel has been at the forefront of India's telecom revolution for the last 27 years.
Trai has invited comments till January 7 on its paper on differential data pricing.
Delhi High Court says it can do so under the TRAI Act, rejects petitions filed by telecom associations.
Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had told Parliament in November that Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and other telecom companies owe the government as much as Rs 1.47 lakh crore in past statutory dues.
A DoT panel has backed net neutrality and made some recommendations to push the cause
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