The government is contemplating slapping penalty on four foreign telcos, including AT&T, MCI and BT, for allegedly circumventing licence norms that may have caused revenue loss to the government.
Tata Communications (formerly VSNL) has acquired a 50 per cent stake in Beijing-based telecom and IT services firm China Enterprise Communications for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition was done through its wholly owned subsidiary, Tata Communications International Pte.
The investment, which will be raised through internal accruals and various funding modes, is part of the company's $2 billion capex plans announced in 2008. The company had intended to make investments of $2 billion over the next three-year period.
The split second decisions that reigning world champions Mercedes take during a race are a result of real time data provided by Tata Communications, Formula One's connectivity partner since 2012 and now the only Indian presence in the paddock.
BPO and IT services across India remained largely unaffected.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's (Trai) decision to stop issuing new licences for district-level operators or category 'C' players has effectively shut the door on smaller Internet service providers (ISPs) interested in setting up shop. Those who have moved on to category 'B' or state-level operations, too, are feeling the heat as they have to compete with the likes of Reliance, Bharti Airtel, BSNL, VSNL and Sify.
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Indian Internet Service Providers are upbeat about Worldwide Inter-operability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) as a solution for the country's last-mile connectivity problems.
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India on Friday criticised the previous National Democratic Alliance government for undervaluation of a number of public sector units, including Balco and VSNL, where equity was divested.\n\n
The Comet Media Foundation, which conducts media-related events and workshops requires an event manager.
The candidate should be a qualified coach with minimum level III coaching accreditation from Cricket Australia, England or India or should have played at least First Class cricket.
The US stocks slumped on Thursday on signs of further weakness in the housing sector.
Reliance Communications-owned FLAG system has won a case against Tatas-owned Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited in the International Court of Arbitration, which makes it eligible for upgrading capacity of international bandwidth.
Movie clips, songs, comedy scenes and other Tamil film content would be offered to the telecom subscribers.
Suntel has a base of 3 lakh subscribers and holds both NLD and ILD licenses. The acquisition, would give MTNL leverage on data services, fixed line and a host of corporate and SME customers.
With that technological marvel called the Nokia 2210, I can reach people, and people can reach me, at any time, even when I'm driving. Recently, I was pulled over by a traffic policeman for doing just that.
Jagdish Malkani, member of the National Stock Exchange, says that cement as a sector is definitely attractive; and hotels too are doing extremely well.
India's largest telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam's dependence on routing its international long distance traffic through private players like Reliance, Videsh Sanchar Nigam
In a setback to Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd, telecom tribunal TDSAT on Monday upheld the TRAI order on reduction of bandwidth prices and asked the regulator to implement the order immediately while dismissing the petition of VSNL.
Three private operators - Bharti, Reliance and Tata-owned VSNL - had bid for carrying MTNL's STD traffic throughout the country.
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The last date for admission to undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the Institute of Distance Education, University of Madras has been extended to November 29.
Strengthening their presence in the international long distance telephony segment, state-run telecom companies BSNL and MTNL are likely to finalise the proposed joint venture company for setting up a submarine cable link before this fiscal.
American IT firm Speedera Networks said on Thursday that it was gearing up to double its workforce of 40 professionals at its Bangalore development centre.
Concerned over the health of their telecom business, the Tata group has planned an investment of Rs 5,000 crore (Rs 50 billion) over the next 2-3 years while expecting the telecom ventures to come to the big league by around 2008.
Telecom regulator TRAI feels that there is some scope for further reduction in the bandwidth prices, which has the potential to cause a fall in the cost of telecom and IT as well as IT-enabled services in the country.
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