RCom may get around Rs 4,500 crore by trading its radiowaves to Reliance Jio.
Uninor added 8.53 lakh subscribers to take its base to 4.01 crore during the reported period.
Battleground shifts to rural and small towns, where user base aspires to upgrade to smartphones.
Top 5 losers include Infosys, TCS, ITC, M&M and HUL.
Income will be higher as spectrum in 2,100-MHz band will also be auctioned
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Reliance, Birla Group, Airtel eye small finance banks.
A liberalised spectrum allows operators to use any technology to deliver services like 3G and 4G.
Ambani's $15 bn bet will upend Indian telecom
Banks have Rs 10 trillion in stressed assets - Rs 7.8 trillion of bad loans and Rs 2.2 trillion of restructured ones.
This is the first time airwaves in 700 Mhz band will be put up for auction
The year gone by saw the high and mighty of the corporate world face the music in the Delhi High Court which held that the telecom majors are amenable to CAG audit and Mukesh Ambani's RIL struggling hard to get rid of an FIR lodged on gas pricing by the 49-day-old AAP regime.
BSE Bankex and Telecom indices led the fall.
The company has reportedly been in the process of shutting its CDMA business and shifting its subscribers to 2G, 3G and 4G networks.
In the broader markets, the BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices extended gains and were up over 1% each
Mukesh Ambani said the Digital India initiative has the potential to transform the lives of 1.2 billion Indians using the power of digital technology.
The big beneficiaries of this move will be the big three -- Bharti, Vodafone and Idea.
The S&P BSE Sensex surged 160 points to close at 25,262.
Unlike Reliance Jio's focus on 4G, it plans to segment the data market based on device prices and spectrum.
Of the two big players, while Bharti Airtel can leverage its existing subscriber base, newcomer Reliance Jio will have to wean away subscribers from the incumbents
Of the 11 licence holders, only eight remain in the fray as concerns about profitability and rising competition are making them think twice before jumping in.
From Rafale relief to heat on realtors, 10 landmark Supreme Court judgments in 2018.
A daily ceiling of Rs 3 translates into maximum annual penalty of Rs 1,095 for every subscriber.
In the not too distant future, you could see 5G technology being used for functions such as remotely-performed robotic surgeries, mine equipment operated remotely or cars driven by someone sitting hundreds of miles away. While these ideas will certainly find application globally, the urgent need for them in India could spur swifter adoption here than elsewhere.
With slower than expected growth in smartphone penetration, operators and OEMs are joining hands to provide affordable mobile devices with attractive offers.
Regulators will need to allow the model to evolve to allow profits to flow, says Una Gulani.
India Inc has few leaders who are likely to grab headlines in 2015.
'This novel format of diplomacy -- the informal summit -- will not only facilitate bilateral communication and reduce miscalculations at the very top level of the two governments, but possibly open the space for China and India to speak in one voice on various issues of mutual concern,' note Feng Renjie and Ding Kun Lei
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