The move will help telcos, including Reliance Jio, Vodafone, and Idea Cellular
In his new role, chief Chinnakannan Sivasankaran's son Saravana is likely to manage 60% of the group's revenues
The storm is India's strongest tropical cyclone to make landfall in 20 years.
Tamal Bandyopadhyay details HDFC Bank's digital journey.
If it happens, this would mean the largest spectrum auction in terms of amount with over 7,000 Mhz going up for sale across eight bands
Reliance Jio bought spectrum in the 1800 MHz band last February.
Nokia is one of the leading telecom equipment manufacturing companies in India
The United States has deployed surveillance aircraft over a remote area of Nigeria as part of a mounting international effort to find over 200 school girls abducted by the dreaded Boko Haram Islamist militants nearly a month ago.
'The service we are offering is for all telcos and not just Bharti.'
The recent alleged sabotage of BSNL's network in coastal Andhra Pradesh by a major Chinese telecom equipment maker has once again reminded Indian intelligence agencies that when it comes to hacking, China is India's biggest concern. Vicky Nanjappa explains why.
Hudhud leaves a trail of destruction in Visakhapatnam, home to a major naval base.
As the rescue operations in flood-hit Jammu and Kashmir are tapering off and the victims are being attended to in scores of relief camps, most of which have been set up by the locals, fear of an epidemic still looms in the affected areas.
If a feasible business model is worked out for cable operators, they will not only build the last-mile networks, but also market them among the local population telling people the benefits as well as how to utilise them
Investors are sceptical that the economy could have picked up so much steam.
At 89th, India is the lowest-ranked among the BRICS.
Thousands of Thai anti-government protesters marched through Bangkok on Sunday to demand Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's resignation and garner support for a planned "siege" of the capital to foil snap polls next month.
Over 20 years, connectivity has massively expanded. But 50,000 villages have been left behind.
Trai calls both Jio and incumbents for a meeting to discuss the issue
'It is in electronics that the gap between where we are and where we need to be is most obvious and most persistent.' 'It is not only a national security issue, but also a commercial issue,' argues Rajeev Srinivasan.
The unit of Reliance Communications may raise debt, equity
They can carry huge amounts of data, have a lot of bandwidth, but operate at short ranges, between 200 metres and 2-3 km reports Surajeet Das Gupta
Telecom Commission approves high base price of Rs 11,485 cr per Mhz for 700-Mhz frequency; no decision taken on proposed standard spectrum usage charges of 4.5%
DoT had raised the demand on December 22 and asked RCom to pay within a month.
No longer an in-house task; hiring legal eagles is now becoming norm for M&As, fundraising
Inflation is down, growth is headed for recovery. RIL and subsidiary Jio are on an upswing. However, stressed loans and impending job losses are the dark clouds, says Devangshu Datta.
DoT plans to initiate move that might lower the revenues telcos share with government.
To revive the two state-run telecom operators, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL), the government is likely to waive the one-time fee these telcos need to pay for retaining additional spectrum.
VCs have been especially bullish about India.
'Let me talk about young Indian startups with their hearts in the right place and how they are proving that innovations that represent 'affordable excellence' -- breaking the myth that 'affordability' and 'excellence' cannot go together -- is indeed possible!' says Dr R A Mashelkar, the eminent scientist, in this fascinating feature.
A DoT panel has backed net neutrality and made some recommendations to push the cause
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has given its recommendations on the much-awaited issue of spectrum sharing.
After a two year run-in with controversies, telecom sector now looks stable and seems back on its feet with initial investment proposal of over Rs 11,000 crore (Rs 110 billion) received in 2013.
The flood-ravaged city was on Saturday struggling to return to normalcy with partial restoration of telecommunication and train services.
Organisations are focusing on how they are going to be much more nimble, much more innovative and that is the ticket to success, Mark Goodburn tells Sangeeta Tanwar
The chief of America's Federal Communications Commission is not a fan of net neutrality. So what's his vision of communications and digital policy in these times?
Sources say companies will have to keep the market share of merged entities below 50% in all circles
Investors expect more investment-friendly policies opening up more sectors for foreign direct investment
With flood waters receding, the armed forces have stepped up its rescue operations in Jammu and Kashmir
In India, the angsting over net neutrality has been loud.
The Sensex ended above 27,000 for the first time while the Nifty topped 8,100.
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