Kishore A Chaukar has been appointed as non-executive director and chairman on the board of TTML, with effect from March 24, the filing said.
The department of telecommunications is planning to seek details from four operators - Bharti-Airtel, Hutchison-Essar, Tata Teleservices Ltd and Reliance Communications - on the fulfillment of rollout obligations under the mobile telephony licence.
Electronics major has tied up with Reliance Comm and Tata Tele.
Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) on Friday said Japanese telecom major NTT DoCoMo's open offer for a 20 per cent stake in the company has been deferred following a delay in approval from market regulator Securities and Exchange Board of India.
Concerned over mobile signals crossing the international border, the department of telecom is planning to take action against telecom operators
Days after NTT DoCoMo of Japan announced that it will buy 26 per cent in Tata Teleservices for $2.7 billion, NRI businessman C Sivasankaran has decided to put on the block his eight per cent stake in the company.
The company is also bringing in a regime of 'getting paid for receiving calls,' while offering local calls at 50 paise per minute.
TTSL-Virgin customers can now call any number, mobile or landline, across networks at only 50 paise per minute after the initial three minutes of the day. The first three minutes of a STD call each day would cost Rs 1.50 paise per minute while for rest of the day the long distance tariff would drop to just 50 paise per minute for maximum up to 30 minutes.
"The government has imposed a lot of regulations, and is not permitting major technological upgrade," Tata said.
The parties have jointly applied to the Delhi high court, requesting that it accept their agreed terms of settlement, subject to such further orders as the court sees fit, it said.
In a blow to Tata Teleservices, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has asked the company to refund the excess amount charged from customers under its Walky plan.
DoT decides not to scrap dual-technology telecom licences
MSN India, with over 360 million users worldwide, said its new partners were Reliance IndiaMobile (RIM), Reliance GSM, Tata Teleservices, Spice Punjab and Spice Karnataka.
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The home ministry has turned down a proposal submitted by all mobile operators, except Tele Teleservices, to undertake only 10 per cent verification.
A slow starter, the telecom company is way behind its peers and needs to scale up fast to become a profitable operation.
Bharti Airtel has paid Rs 11,374.7 cr while upfront amount due from it was Rs 7,832.20 cr
The company will charge around Rs 100 per month for its services, the lowest in the country for browsing the Net over mobile phones, compared with the existing tariffs of around Rs 500 per month charged by other service providers.
According to the data compiled by Apex Advisory Council for Telecom in India, as on January 19, 2007, Reliance Telecom follows TTSL with 84.78 per cent verification and Bharti Airtel in third position with 75.26 per cent.
Group firms working on sound footing
Tata Teleservices along with Samsung recently launched a dual phone called Samsung Duo that supports a CDMA and a GSM SIM connection. Spice, too, has introduced its own rendition with the Spice D88 model that supports both GSM & CDMA connections.
The monopoly of state-owned service providers Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd in the public call office business is fast eroding.
This is the last lot of payments that telcos will make towards deferred spectrum liabilities, as the Union Cabinet had late last year approved a two-year moratorium on such spectrum payment dues.
Siva group defaulted on payment in 2016 and is also facing CBI investigation
The new card is priced at Rs 1,000.
Khusrokhan has been with Tata Chemicals as its executive director. Prior to which, he was managing director at Tata Tea from 2001-04.
The company plans to set up Wi-Fi spots in hotels, retail cafes, airports, stadiums, malls and government and education complexes.
In CDMA, we did not have legacy carriers, a second hand market of handsets, or even people understanding the technology
As a step to protect its interest as a lender, SBI will look at the financial stability and corporate governance practices in companies where it has exposure.
In line with its target to ramp up its subscriber base to 8 to 10 million in the next fiscal and provide better customer care service, Tata Teleservices has inducted three key management personnel from the Tata Group and one from Telstra, Australia,
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