France Telecom is close to buying the IT business of communication infrastructure provider GTL in the next few days for about $70 million, intended to enter the fast growing Indian telecom space.
The robust earnings, shown by corporate India in the first half of this year, may not sustain the momentum due to slowdown in performance of IT and telecom sectors, making it difficult to match the forecasted growth for the entire fiscal.
The country's largest private telecom operator, Bharti Airtel, paid the highest revenue, both in terms of spectrum charges and licence fees, to the government for the quarter ending December 2009.
Former telecom secretary Siddharth Behura, arrested for his alleged role in the 2G spectrum allocation scam along with former telecom minister A Raja on February 2, was denied bail by the Delhi high court on Friday.
The public issue of 39,56,808 equity shares would open on December 4 and close on December 7. The company has fixed a price band of Rs 125 to Rs 150 per equity shares to be decided through book building.
Asserting that leading international consultancy firm A T Kearney had rated India as the third hottest FDI destination, India on Thursday sought investment from Taiwan in telecom and ICT ventures.
Every defaulter is not a wilful defaulter who has the capability of paying back and is yet not servicing the bank loan, observes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Reports that the government is considering seeking a review of that judgment are worrying.
The broader Nifty of National Stock Exchange scaled the 10,200 mark intra day before closing at 10,184.85, showing a sizeable gain of 38.30 points, or 0.38 per cent.
The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the extension by four months, the deadline for telecom companies to comply with guidelines on Foreign Direct Investment.
DoT, has decided that it will not cancel the GSM licences of dual-technology companies.
The absence of a transparent telecom regulatory environment not only makes life difficult for service providers, but also impacts investors' confidence in the sector, a senior Bharti Airtel official said.
The Indian telecom market size of over Rs 400 billion is expected to treble itself by year 2011-2012, according to Ernst & Young.\n\n\n\n
The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal has decided to charge commission on the petitions, claims and suits for recovery of money or an outstanding amount.
Reliance Jio has suggested an alternative plan to the The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) under which spectrum required by non-geostationary orbit satellite (NGSO) operators to run their gateway terminals should be auctioned geographically, based on districts, rather than circles as done for mobile services. For spectrum which would be required to connect user terminals (like individual homes), Jio has suggested it should be auctioned frequency-wise and exclusively to an operator at a pan-India level. The move is significant as the auctioning of satellite space spectrum has been vehemently opposed by low earth orbit satellite operators (satellites which circle at low altitudes of 200-2000 km).
Among the businesses that need consolidation are retail and defence
The penetration levels in rural and semi urban areas can be significantly enhanced, and government can help in this mission through reduction and rationalization of levies.
'We suggest an equity strategy of 5% to 10% exposure to cash, 5% to Gold ETF, close to 50% to Sensex/Nifty/large mid-cap stocks.'
The industry expects faster finalisation of 2G spectrum bidding process, more clarity on the spectrum prices and related issues.
Indian IT services sector's revenue growth will slow down to 3 per cent in the current fiscal from 9.2 per cent in the previous financial year, a domestic ratings company said on Tuesday. Icra Ratings said the profitability will also take a beating in this financial year and the operating profit margin will narrow by up to 1 percentage point to 20-21 per cent. The topline growth will come down to 3-5 per cent in FY24 from the 9.2 per cent posted in FY23, the agency said, attributing the slowdown to softening demand.
This will be the first time BJP's prime ministerial candidate holds a discussion with IT, telecom czars.
There are 10 million new subscribers each month, but they're not adding much value - telecom revenues are flat as a chapatti.
The policy was earlier expected to be unveiled by December this year, but delays in receiving recommendations have pushed the date to next year.
Operators say 10-paisa, 25-paisa calls not possible.
One reason why mobile subscribers haven't shifted companies is that the service is uniformly bad. But now, with new players coming in, the picture could be different, says Sunil Jain.
Tower Tube is a self-contained fully-encapsulated site with a five-metre diameter room at the base to house all equipment. Ericsson claims that Tower Tube consumes 40 per cent less electricity and produces 30 per cent less carbon emission when compared with traditional towers.
Sun Microsystems India Pvt Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of US-based Sun Microsystems Inc., is eyeing the telecom and banking sectors for driving growth in the high-end server market in the country.
The department is planning a complete overhaul of the archaic Indian Telegraph Act.
Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty buckled under selling pressure after a nine-session rally on Monday, as massive sell-off in IT, tech and telecom counters unnerved investors.
Telecom regulator TRAI on Thursday announced a substantial cut in levy accrued to state-owned BSNL at Rs 3,200 crore (Rs 32 billion) from over Rs 5,000 crore (Rs 50 billion) and shifted to revenue share regime from per call basis.
In the quarter ending June 2022, the growth of Internet subscribers was less than one per cent of all of 2021.
The Supreme Court has asked the CBI to place before it the "files and notings" which purportedly suggest that its Director Ranjit Sinha wants stopping of whole trial against Reliance Telecom Ltd (RTL) and three top executives of the Reliance ADAG, who are accused in the 2G spectrum scam case.
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