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Jan 12, 2021 08:14 PM IST Bharti Airtel further said it is initiating the process to revise its foreign investment limit, as notified to its depositories, to 100 percent with immediate effect.
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Jan 11, 2021 06:20 PM IST The Department of Telecom (DoT) also said that the process for spectrum allocation for 4G services to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) on pan-India basis, including Delhi and Mumbai, has been initiated and funds have been provisioned in FY2020-21.
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Jan 06, 2021 05:08 PM IST The Union Cabinet had approved a proposal for the auction of 2,251.25 Megahertz (MHz) of spectrum worth Rs 3.92 lakh crore at the base price on December 17, 2020.
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Jan 05, 2021 08:49 PM IST The Digital Communications Commission, the apex decision making body of the DoT, in May last year approved the spectrum auction plan worth Rs 5.22 lakh crore which included radiowaves for 5G services as well.
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Dec 10, 2020 09:26 PM IST The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has recommended base price of proposed 5G spectrum in 3,300-3,600 Mhz band at about Rs 492 crore per Mhz unpaired spectrum on all India basis.
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Dec 09, 2020 03:12 PM IST Department of Telecom Member (Services) Bharat Kumar Jog said forward looking policies are needed to derive benefits from the emerging technologies.
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Sep 21, 2020 05:13 PM IST Operational telecom operators are expected to pay Rs 12,921 crore by March 31, of which close to 80 percent has to be paid by Vodafone Idea and Bharti Airtel.
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Jul 20, 2020 10:52 PM IST The company has sought spectrum frequencies between 26.5 - 29.5 Ghz and 24.25-27.5 Ghz band. The auction for these high frequency bands is expected to be held next year.
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Jul 16, 2020 04:56 PM IST The withdrawal follows the Supreme Court ruling last month, terming the adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues raised on non-telecom PSUs 'wholly and totally impermissible'.
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Apr 30, 2020 10:35 PM IST The industry has unanimously raised the issue of high spectrum price. However, the Department of Telecom (DoT) adopted the spectrum rate as recommended by the sector regulator TRAI.
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Apr 08, 2020 08:25 PM IST Telecom operators are required to submit a self-certificate before commissioning of new mobile towers for which their representatives have to make field-visits and conduct outdoor surveys for radiation measurements, panoramic photographs etc.
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Mar 20, 2020 09:00 PM IST The industry has urged DoT to issue directions to states that telecom be treated under essential services and, accordingly, staff and engineers have access to network operations centres, data centres and other critical sites in the event of any lockdown.
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Mar 19, 2020 05:25 PM IST The Supreme Court will hear the government's rescue plan of giving telcos a 20-year repayment period for AGR dues during the next hearing scheduled after two weeks.
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Mar 18, 2020 10:45 PM IST The DoT claimed that call data records of subscribers who enter in a given coverage area where there are incidences of call drops or subscribers facing the problem is collected without infringing their privacy.
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Feb 19, 2020 07:15 PM IST The letter was a follow up to a previous note sent by the licence finance wing on December 4 and a follow-up on December 13 to the circles for re-verification of debit voucher reports (DVR).
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Feb 18, 2020 03:20 PM IST Vodafone Idea paid Rs 2,500 crore to the Department of Telecom (DoT) on February 17 and promised to pay another Rs 1,000 crore before the end of the week.
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Jan 02, 2020 07:25 PM IST The telecom department plans to formally write to the Ministry of Finance in the first half of January, post the meeting.
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Nov 13, 2019 09:22 PM IST The SC had on October 24 upheld the definition of Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) calculation as stipulated by the DoT.
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Nov 05, 2019 09:07 PM IST Parallelly, a Committee of Secretaries, headed by Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba, has begun work on a financial bailout package sought by the debt-laden telecom carriers.
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Jul 02, 2019 09:16 PM IST A bench of Justices R F Nariman and Surya Kant said that there was no merit in the DoT plea against the TDSAT order.
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Jun 25, 2019 08:03 PM IST The finance department of BSNL issued order in this regard on June 2, directing all its circle head to take prior approval of corporate officer located in Delhi before floating any new tenders for capital expenditure, according to official sources.
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Jun 20, 2019 09:00 PM IST The DoT has set up a panel to examine issues related to Huawei's participation in the Indian telecom network.
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Apr 22, 2019 06:55 PM IST BSNL is among the two telecom companies that have been consistently gaining customers. All competitors of BSNL have 4G spectrum and invested heavily in building their network while the PSU has only 3G network.
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Apr 04, 2019 08:04 PM IST The troubled PSUs have been seeking these three measures to stay afloat amid cut throat competition in the telecom sector.
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Apr 03, 2019 08:02 PM IST The Department of Telecom (DoT) is preparing a Cabinet note recommending voluntary retirement scheme (VRS) for BSNL and MTNL employees above 50 years of age.