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    • Chart of the day | Paying the AGR dues

      The Supreme Court’s order to pay up dues is a moment of reckoning for affected telcos

    • Nokia seeks to buy Comptel for $370 mn

      Nokia and its rivals, Sweden's Ericsson and China's Huawei have struggled recently as demand for faster 4G mobile broadband equipment has peaked and the move to the next-generation 5G networks are still years away.

    • Need fiscal relief for more cash to tackle debt, say telcos

      Overburdened with debt, the telecom companies are going through tough times and the only silver lining for them is if the government provides them with fiscal relief measures to increase cash flows.

    • Seven telcos submit Rs 15,000 cr earnest money for auction

      "In 2010, when Infotel Broadband, now Reliance Jio, applied for auction, no one was able to link their EMD with the pan-India bids that they placed. There were established players that were participating in that auction, but Infotel emerged as the pan-India winner of BWA spectrum," the official said.

    • TRAI starts overhaul of quality norms for mobile services

      Tightening the noose around mobile operators over call drops, telecom regulator Trai today proposed stricter quality norms for local areas and imposing graded (rpt) graded financial disincentives for poor services.

    • Call drops: Telcos performance worsens in July-September quarter

      The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has shared the performance data for July-September quarter of 2015 and compared it with preceding quarter of April-June.

    • GSM mobile operators add 64.9 lakh subscribers in Dec: COAI

      The GSM subscriber base stood at 74.91 crore at the end of November, Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) said.

    • Call drop rate rises to 24.59% for April-June period: TRAI

      Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said the performance has deteriorated during the quarter on sequential basis with regard to worst affected mobile sites or cells having more than 3 percent call drop rate.

    • DoT seeks bids from CA firms to conduct special audit

      According to an official, the last date to apply is November 24 and the selection of the firm is likely to be completed in two months.

    • Call drops problem is improving: Telecom Minister

      While naming telecom operators like Airtel, Aircel, Idea, Vodafone and Tata Tele among those having contained the problem, he said nearly half of the defective mobile sites have been fixed to address the menace.

    • Airtel ties with Liquid Telecom for fibre network in Africa

      "The framework agreement enables Airtel operations to leverage Liquid Telecom's existing 20,000km-long fibre network across east, central and southern Africa, as well as enjoy new purpose-built fibre infrastructure, to connect Airtel's mobile base stations and enterprise customers with fibre," Airtel said in a statement.

    • Wipro Partners with Maxicaster to Offer Over-The-Top Multicast & Multiscreen Solutions

      Wipro Ltd. (NYSE:WIT), a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company today announced a partnership with ...

    • Facebook eyes 4.5 bn users with Internet.org

      Facebook's project to spread Internet access to the developing world isn't just getting older - it's also targeting new telecommunications partners in hopes of connecting more people to the Web.

    • Google wants to make international roaming free

      In a bid to create a global network that will cost the same to use for calls, texts, and data, irrespective of where the user is located, the search giant is mulling a wholesale access agreement that could help it debut in the US mobile market with its own network.

    • Govt reaction to spectrum sale positive: UBS

      Data consumption is growing significantly and digital India is a priority for prime minister Narendra Modi and hence more spectrum is likely to come to the market, which is a positive, Suresh Mahadevan of UBS says.

    • Trai wants DoT to relax auction terms for telecom operators

      Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has written a letter to the Department of Telecom asking it to reduce performance bank guarantee (PBG) substantially to Rs 14 crore for each non-metro service area, and Rs 7 crore for Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata service areas.

    • 'Trai imposed Rs 50 lakh fine on 9 telcos for poor service'

      The regulator has imposed maximum penalty of Rs 14.5 lakh on state-run telecom company BSNL for failing to meet 13 quality of service parameters. Rs 3 lakh penalty has beeb imposed on Idea Cellular, Rs 2 lakh each Bharti Airtel and Vodafone, Rs 1.5 lakh each on Uninor and Vodafone

    • CCI verdict soon on probe of telecom players; cartelisation

      The Competition Commission of India (CCI) is looking into whether the mobile operators acted as a cartel during the recent airwave auction that had elicited tepid response.

    • Europe investigates Apple's iPhone tactics

      According to a questionnaire sent last week to several European mobile network operators, the Commission is focusing on distribution terms that might favour Apple by ensuring no rival can secure a better sales deal, said the newspaper.

    • Nokia, Vodafone, Flipkart top Nielsen consumer rankings

      Mobile handset maker Nokia, cellular services company Vodafone, online retailer Flipkart and WhatsApp messenger for smartphones figure among the top brands in consumer rankings published by Nielsen India on Wednesday.

    • Telcos' avg revenue per user down by 24% in 2008-11: Study

      The average revenue per user of mobile operators have declined by up to 24 per cent during the period between 2008 and 2011 due to increased cost to support customer service, said a study.

    • DoT to request for EGoM meeting in early Nov

      The Department of Telecom will seek time from Empowered Group of Ministers, headed by Finance Minister P Chidambaram, for a meeting in early November to consider the issue of reallocation of spectrum to mobile operators.

    • Recharge: Get your money‘s worth

      Everybody likes a good bargain. Call it the Indian psyche, but we are a bunch of bargain hunters and an extra something always makes us happy. Little wonder

    • TRAI recommendations to hike tariff by 90p in metros, says PwC

      Reports about the Telecom Regulatory Authority of Indias (TRAI) recommendations on spectrum pricing have ...

    • Facebook offers olive branch to mobile carriers

      Facebook said it could team up with mobile operators on payments, in an offer that would give them back part of the revenue and influence they have lost in recent years to Apple and Google.

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