Says, Jio unlikely to gain 2% revenue market share in 2017
Aadhaar authentication is an online real-time service and only responds with a yes or no.
The network has been built by six telcos to handle high bandwidth demands of emerging technologies and applications.
Even media persons covering the agitation manage to reach the protest sites with difficulty as they first have to pass through checking and then cross multiple layers of barricading. A Bharatiya Kisan Union office-bearer at Ghazipur border, which now resembles a highly-secured fortress, said despite the odds, supporters from far-off places are reaching the site to express solidarity with farmers.
It may be the season for corporate matchmaking but India Inc's record of managing partnerships is far from impressive, says Shailesh Dobhal.
Seeking to assuage fears of big four mobile service providers, including Bharti, of huge payout for excess spectrum telecom regulator TRAI on Thursday said their outgo would be only about Rs 120 billion (Rs 12,000 crore).
India has average monthly spends of $4 per user; it is over $20 in other Asian markets
Government is close to finalising the guidelines for new entrants in the telecom sector, with a possibility of existing players getting priority in allocation of radio waves. The department of telecommunication has received about 300 applications from 30 companies for starting telecom services.
At present, Tamil Nadu circle has maximum of 9,350 BTSs for 3G services, followed by Delhi with 8,405 BTSs.
Railway services across city on the Western Railway and Central Railway came to a grinding halt at 10.05 am, as a result of the power outage.
In a setback to telecom service providers, the Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Centre's plea to recover adjusted gross revenue (AGR) of about Rs 92,000 crore from them.
Nivedita Mookerji explains why a timely rollout of 5G may not be easy in India.
Operators say no option but to challenge it in court, decision on refarming deferred
Mukesh Ambani is stringing in new partnerships within the Reliance ecosystem with the best in global business -- from Facebook, Google and Microsoft to umpteen sovereign wealth funds and a soon-to-be-declared strategic partner in a big global retailer, notes Shailesh Dobhal.
Tata Engineering & Locomotive Company Ltd has posted a net profit of Rs 757.10 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2002 as compared to a net loss of Rs 555.40 million in the quarter ended December 31, 2001.
Vodafone can mitigate risks of money-laundering through M-Pesa by making sure the funds are being traced.
Almost four years after savage tariff cuts, the telecom sector is slowly limping back to normalcy.
PM has been regularly seeking people's inputs through mygov.in and his app, to assess the mood of the nation.
Move comes in view of big debt overhang in two sectors; companies unwilling.
Move comes in view of big debt overhang in two sectors; companies unwilling.
Globally China, Japan, Russia and South Korea and the US are the top FTTH markets.
The department of telecommunications, in the draft universal licence guidelines to be signed with telcos which recently won spectrum in the 1800 MHz auction of November, has included a new clause for foreign companies.
The recognition that content - video in particular - will be the next big thing in the telecom wars requires no rocket science.
In its communication to DoT, the DGA said the department had granted new unified access service licences to certain companies without proper verification of their eligibility and other credentials.
The social impact of this could be worse as 300 million subscribers may face the annoyance of network shutdown and churn.
Defence deal, other key trade and investment pacts also likely.
India is today the second-largest telecom market in the world with over a billion customers and close to 600 million Internet users. New connections are available on the tap, calls are virtually free and it's hard to imagine anyone without a mobile phone today. Globally, there would be few parallels to this success story that truly democratised telephony and empowered a billion-plus people, observes Airtel's Sunil Bharti Mittal.
DoT's proposal to impact many, including Vodafone
Group of ministers to discuss proposal to split companies into three entities, move seen as precursor to merger.
Block closure planned keeping in mind the weak demand of commercial vehicles.
The money constitutes nearly 26 per cent of the total domestic borrowing of the Indian corporate sector in 2008-09.
For Vittal, who will take over from the current CEO, Sanjay Kapoor, in March, reversing the telco's shrinking revenues and market share will be among the first of the challenges.
'The recent incident in the US has no bearing in India.' 'We are not aware of any request from the US to India about 5G.'
According to daily The National, Batelco chief executive officer Sheikh Mohamed bin Isa Al Khalifa stated that the company is not interested in participating in the upcoming 2G spectrum auctions in India to secure licences and set up a new joint venture in India.
Block closure in the Jamshedpur plant is the second in a fortnight.
Bharti Global is planning to put up more satellites and has set a stiff deadline to launch commercial Internet services by October in the UK, Alaska, northern Russia and northern Europe.
According to software company Mavernir, the new virtualised networks would lead to a saving of 40 per cent in capex and 34 per cent in terms of lower operations cost for operators.
Telcos likely to get to switch from 2,300-MHz band for 4G services.
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