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MTNL chairman and MD Praveen Kumar Purwar.

CCI, Trai must check predatory pricing, unhealthy competition in...

CCI has to decide the relevant market for 4G and the dominant player in that market.

4 Dec 2018 12:30 PM IST

Reliance Jio will start offering cashback and benefits totalling Rs 2,599 from Friday to its Jio Prime members opting for recharge of Rs 399 and above. (Photo: AFP)

Rivals need to close data capacity gap with Jio: Kotak report

Bharti Airtel, with around 21 per cent share of the composite capacity is ahead of Idea and Vodafone's combined 17 per...

22 March 2018 2:24 PM IST

Union Minister Manoj Sinha (Photo: PTI)

Govt hopes to bring new telecom policy in next Parliament session

Telecom companies will have an 'option' to either go for new payment schedule for spectrum or continue under existing...

20 March 2018 3:35 PM IST

Telecom Commission on Tuesday approved a proposal for allowing mobile phone calls and internet services in domestic and international flights in India.

Draft telecom policy aims 40 lakh jobs, USD 100 bn investment

Under the new policy, the government aims to enable fixed line broadband access to 50 per cent of households.

2 May 2018 1:23 PM IST

At the end of the five-day auction, nearly 60 per cent of the spectrum had remained unsold.

Telcos' pre-tax losses widen to Rs 38,153 crore in 2016-17

Also, 24 out of 50 companies reported losses before tax during 2016-17

28 March 2018 5:59 PM IST

At the end of the five-day auction, nearly 60 per cent of the spectrum had remained unsold.

Telecom sector revenue dips 8 pc, licence fee by 16 pc in Oct-Dec

Revenue of access service providers fell by 22.3 per cent during the period under review to Rs 28,967.93 crore.

27 March 2018 4:15 PM IST

At the end of the five-day auction, nearly 60 per cent of the spectrum had remained unsold.

Telcos' revenue dip 8.6 per cent to Rs 2.55 lakh crore

Total collections for the government from licence fee came down by 18.78 per cent in 2017.

4 May 2018 4:43 PM IST

Citing the use of 5G in areas like smart transportation, smart cities and agriculture, Sharma said that individual domains will have to come forward and explore the application scenarios.

COAI favours 5G auctions only around second half of 2019

As per some reports, the panel is said to have recommended making available around 6,000 MHz of spectrum in nearly a...

22 Jun 2018 11:58 AM IST

Telecom Commission on Tuesday approved a proposal for allowing mobile phone calls and internet services in domestic and international flights in India.

Cabinet approves new telecom policy

It will provide broadband access to all with 50 megabit per second speed, 5G services and create 40 lakh new jobs by...

26 Sept 2018 3:21 PM IST

At the end of the five-day auction, nearly 60 per cent of the spectrum had remained unsold.

IMG may favour more time to telcos for spectrum payment

IMG is also considering a proposal to shift from PLR to MCLR for interest and penalty payments.

22 Aug 2017 1:44 PM IST

Aruna Sundararajan

IMG on telecom to submit report by Thursday: DoT Secretary

The next meeting of the Telecom Commission is on September 8.

30 Aug 2017 1:13 PM IST

Jio attracted over 72 million subscribers in just four months of its launch.

Jio tactics will have telcos' revenues falling 10 per cent this fiscal

Jio's entry has wrecked financials of all the telcos as they are forced to lower prices on offerings.

1 Aug 2017 7:17 PM IST