In a major crackdown on Chinese mobile companies, the Income Tax department is conducting searches on leading Chinese mobile companies across the country. Mobile companies including Oppo, Xiaomi and One Plus are being covered in this search, sources told ANI on Wednesday. More than two dozen premises are covered in the search which started on Tuesday. "Raids are ongoing in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Greater Noida, Kolkata, Guwahati, Indore and some other places," sources told ANI.
A Collection of Services Trade Statistics Act is being thought of.
TRAI to soon put in place a new set of 'service quality benchmarks' to monitor call drop
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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.
In May, Trai had gave its recommendations on a 'Spectrum Management and Licencing Framework', in which it had said that consequent to the merger of licences in a service area, the total spectrum held by the resultant entity post-merger shall not exceed 12.4 MHz for GSM technology, or 10 MHz in case of CDMA technology.
Payments and banking transactions through mobile phones in India are expected to touch $350 billion (Rs 1,560 crore) by 2015, according to The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a global management consulting firm.
Tech Mahindra has bagged a five-year contract from British Telecom, under which the Indian company will provide strategic sourcing services to the global communications solutions and services provider.
CanvasM, a joint venture between Tech Mahindra and Motorola, is planning to launch 6,000 new indigenously developed applications for mobile phones.
Invests $1.1 billion in 6 months, against $3.7 billion in 20 years
Beset by falling profit from voice traffic, the company is getting into new fields like managed services and white label ATMs.
WiMax is a telecommunications technology that provides broadband speed without the need for cables. "The subscriber equipment cost or the cost of the instrument that facilitates WiMax is still priced at about $ 175-200 (Rs 8,225-Rs 9,400). So ways and means have to be worked out to offer a feasible tariff," explained a senior BSNL executive.
The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice on a petition filed by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India challenging an order of TDSAT holding that the regulatory body had no authority to adjudicate on disputes raised by a service provider.
Shares of CDMA technology pioneer Qualcomm have come under tremendous pressure over the past one month, losing a market cap of $11.7 billion on the back of Reliance Communication, one of its major customers, mulling the option of switching to GSM.
'The money is safe with the payment services solutions provider'.
A panel said BSNL can claim tax breaks if it merges with a loss-making ITI and suggested BSNL can also merge MTNL with itself.
Over the past one-and-half years, the number of stocks trading below their respective face value has increased 29 per cent after a sharp correction in stocks of small-cap companies.
The officials said that the recently developed SH-15, a 155 mm truck-mounted howitzer gun, has also been spotted at some places along the Line of Control after it was displayed on Pakistan Day last year.
Initiative aims to encourage more people to use the Internet.
Loop Telecom has been looking for a strategic investor for some time now and people close to the development said the telecom operator was willing to sell up to 45 per cent stake in the firm.
Trai on Monday recommended imposing penalty on India's largest private sector basic telephony service provider, Reliance Infocomm, for offering mobility services almost similar to cellular phones, to its wireless phone subscribers.
Bangalore-based OnMobile, a telecom value-added services provider, has acquired France-based Voxmobili, a software solutions provider, for an undisclosed amount.
Google said the numbers can be manually deleted from the phones. It also promised to fix the same in future editions of its setup wizard.
'Hackers from China and UK were involved in the October 12 power outage,' Maharashtra power minister tells Rediff.com.
The economic slowdown may have raised the spectre of job losses in most industries, but telecom is a notable exception. Far from cutting back, telecom companies expect to hire over 16,000 people, 15 to 20 per cent more than last year, to meet the unprecedented expansion in subscriber numbers, according to the Cellular Operators Association of India, the association for GSM service providers.
Supreme Court had on October 24 upheld government contention that non-core revenue in telecoms groups should be included in adjusted gross revenue. According to DoT's calculations, Bharti Airtel faces a liability of around Rs 42,000 crore after including licence fees and spectrum usage charges while Vodafone-Idea may have to pay about Rs 40,000 crore.
Every telecom service provider, who does not comply with the provisions of the regulations will be fined up to Rs 5,000 for the first instance. The operator could be fined up to Rs 20,000 every time the offence is repeated, Trai said in a release on Monday.
In a jolt to Internet service providers, telecom tribunal TDSAT on Tuesday upheld the government decision that virtual private network offered by them was not part of their ISP licence
The department of telecom has issued guidelines for Internet service providers proposing to offer virtual private network under which the ISP is permitted to provide such services restricted to its licensed service areas.
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved revision in guidelines for providing direct to home (DTH) services in the country under which licenses would be issued for 20 years, Union minister Prakash Javadekar said. The Union Cabinet has also approved 100 per cent FDI in the DTH broadcasting services sector, Javadekar said, adding that while the commerce ministry had spoken of 100 per cent FDI in the DTH sector, the guidelines of the information and broadcasting ministry needed to be changed.
The department of telecom (DoT) on Friday announced a set of rules for granting telecom licences and allocating spectrum that is likely to impact GSM-technology service providers like Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Essar, among others.
Firms come out with detailed communiqu for consumers that counter Jio's claims of cheap data
The telecom regulator has been in the hot seat for many decisions that have fundamentally changed the country's telecom business.
In a setback to the Internet Service Providers, telecom tribunal TDSAT on Friday refused to grant any interim stay on the government order asking the ISPs to stop offering corporate network services unless they have the licence to offer the service.
Telecom major Alcatel-Lucent on Wednesday said they are in talks with various service providers, including Reliance Industries and Tikona Digital Networks for deploying infrastructure for mobile broadband services.
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