With over 21 lakh new telephone subscribers added in the month of February, the teledensity has improved to 8.98 per cent, up from seven per cent at the end of March 2004.
In a major blow to Tata Tele Services, telecom tribunal TDSAT on Friday said the company's fixed wireless service Walky would be treated as WLL (mobile) service and ordered it to pay a fee called access deficit charge to state-run BSNL.
To ensure level playing field between service providers, the telecom regulator has said that direct connectivity should be made between basic and mobile service providers.\n\n\n\n
Cellular industry is on the brink of financial crisis with the accumulated losses at over Rs 7,100 crore.
The department had initiated proceedings against Vodafone and TTSL in 2011 on the ground that the companies had allegedly failed to deduct tax deducted at source (TDS) for those assessment years.
Even as the policy on spectrum for 3G services is yet to come, State-run BSNL has sought additional spectrum for introducing the advanced third generation mobile services in the country.
The Supreme Court on Friday deferred till Monday (November 10) the hearing on the appeals filed by Cellular Operators' Association of India against a telecom tribunal verdict allowing WLL.
The Union Cabinet on Friday decided to unify the licenses of basic and cellular telecom services, paving the way for WLL operators like Reliance to offer full mobility services.
Both protesters and the authorities in Hong Kong are using complex combinations of technology, reports Devangshu Datta.
California-based telecommunications equipment provider UTStarcom Inc is making major inroads into the Indian market with an unannounced sales deal worth more than $100 million with Reliance Infocomm
The group of ministers on telecom will hold its first meeting on Thursday to resolve the contentious issues in the sector, including the prolonged fight between the cellular and basic operators over WLL mobile services.
The ED said that Chidambaram has remained evasive and therefore grant of pre-arrest bail at this stage would be highly detrimental to the investigation.
The much-awaited mobile services in Jammu and Kashmir were launched on Wednesday with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee receiving the first call from the state chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed in Srinagar.
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on Wednesday issued another directive to Bharti, Spice and Hutchison-Essar following blocking of calls originating from the basic telecom players offering limited mobile services.
The Telecom Dispute Settlement and Appellate Tribunal on Friday, by a majority judgement of 2:1, dismissed the petition filed by cellular operators challenging government's decision.
India's fixed line subscriber base, including WLL (fixed) services, crossed the 42 million mark in January 2004, while mobiles exceeded 30 million users taking the total subscriber base to 72 million, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.
Airtel, in a tie-up with RecruitGuru, has launched a 'Job Alert on Mobile' service in Mumbai that would alert jobseekers of vacancies through SMS.
Even before the telecom regulator made its recommendations over spectrum required to launch the 3G mobile service, LG on Tuesday became the first vendor to introduce 3G mobile handsets in India on expectation that the service will be launched by the
A day after total shutdown in Assam to protest against the CAB, fresh protests erupted in the state and neighbouring Tripura and other parts of the nation.
The government on Thursday announced fresh concessions for telecom players while singling out cellular operators for additional benefits in view of the heavy licence fee paid by them.
The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal has wrapped up hearings on the government policy allowing fixed-line telephone firms to offer cheaper limited mobility services and will rule later on the issue.
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