The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India received the award at the Frost & Sullivan Technology awards in Singapore.
The infrastructure sector received a huge facelift in the last nine years with improvement in road and railway networks, power generation and teledensity, among others, says the UPA government's report card.
The lack of bandwidth and content means it will be a long time before online streaming services take off in India.
India will have 100 million Internet users and 20 million broadband connections by 2008-2010, Brajesh kumar, secretary, department of information technology, said on Monday.
Do you agree with RGV's view that watching porn is 'harmless fun' or do you think it should be banned?
The services in Delhi will start from November 1, with a basic monthly rental of Rs 125 for more than 30 free-to-air channels and Rs 500 as security deposit.
The licensee will have to ensure that at least half the areas under rural telecom exchanges gets the required street level coverage.
BSNL would shortly sign memoranda of understanding with Korea Telecom and Microsoft for rolling out broadband services under the National Internet Backbone phase two project in the country, its chairman and managing director V P Sinha said.
Telecom regulator TRAI has raised the need to look at the option of auctioning, as followed in Europe, to price the 3G spectrum -- a move that has been opposed by the operators as it could cost a mind-boggling Rs 10,000 crore.
The latest deal would give Facebook deeper access to India, the second largest internet market after China.
"We are studying the possibility of launching X-Box in India. We are exploring the market and the launch could be sometime in near future," Yolanda Chan, Regional Sales Director, Asia and Greater China, Microsoft Home and Entertainment Division said.
Sunil Mittal promoted Bharti Televentures has signed an agreement to join the South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe-4
Railway Budget is the first indicator of possibly better days
A year after Bharti Airtel launched 4G services, there are only 6.5 mn users in the country
However, it was not clear on what basis most of the people were being held.
Google boss's absence at US-China internet forum meet raises eyebrows.
DoT and the company have not done anything that breached the guidelines mentioned in the notice inviting applications for the auction of the BWA spectrum in 2010, it stated in a reply to CAG's draft audit report.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on Tuesday proposed a 63 per cent reduction in the tariffs for a 2 mbps bandwidth capacity for domestic leased lines at Rs 820,000 annually, to promote Internet and broadband usage.
Tencent reinforces India's consumer internet story. Ranju Sarkar reports.
Netflix is offering a freebie of one month's free service.
The Chinese billionaire and founder of Alibaba is said to be planning a significant investment in business to business e-tailing as well as payment services and logistics companies.
This would be the first visit to India as Google CEO.
Earlier, a youth injured during clashes last week succumbed at a hospital in Srinagar on Monday morning.
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Though the party's pre-poll promises include increasing the focus on technology, this isn't a new idea.
Govt announces slew of schemes for rural India
Curfew continued on Tuesday in Kishtwar for the sixth day running, even as restrictions were partially lifted in Samba district and other areas of Jammu region, which were witness to recent incidents of communal clashes.
A data plan currently priced at Rs 100 should not cost more than Rs 34, if India has to make the Internet affordable for 80 per cent of its population.
After initial success, data use is stagnating and getting consumers to spend additional money for high-speed internet is proving to be difficult for telcos.
Tax demands and regulatory hassles, coupled with low internet density and sundry other problems, would have kept Mr Ma awfully busy - and small.
Availability of Wi-Fi is also expected to provide local airlines an additional source of revenues amid stiff competition in the fast growing Indian aviation market.
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