Subscribers of wireless in local loop phones opting for full mobility should brace themselves for a change in numbering
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on Monday recommended 100 per cent foreign ownership in satellite radio services and no entry and licence fee for the time being.\n\n
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Indian telecom sector has at present around 13 mobile phone service providers with some of them expected to go for consolidation once the final guidelines are in place.
According to a senior CBI official, the agency has evidence to suggest the finance ministry's recommendations were overlooked while giving a licence to MCX-SX in 2008.
The niche banks - small finance and payments banks -have been set up to further the regulator's objective of deepening financial inclusion.
Blind categorisation of OTTs with TSPs is damaging as the two are fundamentally different. It is naive to claim 'same service, same rules' when the services are so utterly different, says T V Ramachandran.
Blind categorisation of OTTs with TSPs is damaging as the two are fundamentally different. It is naive to claim 'same service, same rules' when the services are so utterly different, says T V Ramachandran.
Even today, many MFIs already distribute pension and micro insurance products to low-income households.
HSBC Holdings plc on Thursday said it was keen to study the opportunities available in the Indian insurance sector, including pension fund.
The interim Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority on Friday said it will appoint a Central Record-keeping and Accounting Agency and give licence to six pension fund managers to start the new pension regime by December this year.
United Breweries says sales could fall by 40% following court ban.
The court allowed tips to performers but disallowed showering of currency on them.
Readying itself for a bank licence, Anil Ambani-led group's Reliance Capital on Wednesday said Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Bank and Nippon Life would become its strategic partners in the proposed banking venture, with each having 4-5 per cent stake.
Cellular operators on Monday asked the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India to consider a compensation to offset loss of 80 per cent of their businesses within a local area, which had been adversely affected with the introduction of WLL services.
Contending that the licence terms for cellular operators are far more lenient, the basic operators asked Trai to do a complete analysis of parameters such as entry fee, roll-out obligation and spectrum to arrive at a level playing field condition.
India does not feature in the top 100 countries on eight of the 10 indicators of the World Bank study.
Reliance Jio had proposed that besides satellite connectivity, In-Flight Connectivity can be provided using cellular network as well.
This October it would be three years since the first set of private companies were issued underwriting licences by the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority.
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Instead of tinkering with roaming, the circle system should be ended.
Raja said he had, in fact, brought a 'revolution' in the telecom sector.
They have agreed to include two major aspects of licence renewal and risk-informed regulation in the ambit of the ties.
Mishra, a 1967 batch Indian Administrative Service officer from the Uttar Pradesh cadre, has served in various administrative field positions.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will soon quiz Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Chairman U K Sinha as well as former head of the regulatory body M Damodaran in connection with a Preliminary Enquiry (PE) to probe granting sanction to Jignesh Shah-founded Financial Technologies (India) and MCX-SX.
Frontline healthcare staff, people over the age of 80 and care home workers will be among the first to get the vaccine as part of Phase 1 of the programme from Tuesday, which was approved for rollout by the UK's independent regulator earlier this week.
Tax exemption for donations to Greenpeace may be withdrawn.
Addressing a press briefing, Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan said healthcare workers and frontline workers need not register themselves as their database has been populated on to the Co-WIN vaccine delivery management system in a bulk manner.
Singapore is the favoured destination as it has traditionally had a stable fund management regime; also, its tax treaty with India is similar to that of Mauritius
