
South Indian Organised Retailers Association (ORA), in its April 10 letter to OnePlus India’s director of sales, Ranjeet Singh, threatened to discontinue the sale the brand’s products in 4,500 stores across Southern and Western states

Industries such as ports, manufacturing, logistics, and airports are still looking to digitalise their operations in India, which offers Nokia a great business opportunity, Raghav Sahgal, president, cloud and network services, has said

While the fund-raise should improve Vi’s near-term fortunes, analysts said they don’t expect Vodafone Idea to gain any meaningful market share from its peers.

India’s third largest telco plans to spend the Rs 18,000 crore capital raised from its follow-on public offering to set up new 5G sites, expand its 4G network, and defer spectrum payments

Eutelsat OneWeb, Starlink, Jio Satellite Communications and Amazon are vying for a portion of the burgeoning Indian market, which has significant growth prospects

Zetwerk is investing Rs 1,000 crore to expand its electronic manufacturing capacity for smartphones, TVs, hearing aids, wearables, wi-fi routers, PCBAs, and IT hardware like laptops and servers

The funds will be deployed towards scaling iBUS’ operations through organic and inorganic growth initiatives, the companies have said

The December 2019 tariff hike was the first one after Jio launched its service in 2016, and it was followed by another hike in December 2021.
The company employs more than 4,000 engineers at its sites in India, including Noida, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Pune

Qualcomm and MediaTek are increasing their focus on India’s automotive industry which is embracing the EV revolution. Both companies are strategically pivoting towards the sector and are lining up new investments to win more customers at a time when growth in smartphone market is stagnating.

This is the first time three spectrum bands in 37-37.5 Ghz, 37.5-40 Ghz and 42.5-43.5 Ghz are being proposed for the auction. The proposal will make available 4,000 Mhz spectrum for 5G services in the future.

The auction will now take place after two weeks on June 6, which is just two days after the election results are announced.

Analysts had anticipated a boost in smartphone sales ahead of the elections, as has been observed in previous election cycles and during festive seasons. That has not happened. However, industry experts hope to see reasonable growth later in the year, in keeping with normal market trends.

Sunil Mittal-led Bharti Airtel upped its wireless subscriber count by 7.52 lakh, taking its mobile tally to 38.24 crore in January. Vodafone Idea continued to bleed on the subscriber front

Direct-to-mobile (D2M) is a broadcasting technology that allows you to receive multimedia content on your phone without an internet connection. It works like FM radio, where signals are transmitted and picked up by a receiver in your device.

All existing subscribers who have activated USSD-based call forwarding service may be asked to reactivate call forwarding services through alternative methods to ensure that such services are not activated without their notice, the order said.

GSMA said the decision to use the 6 GHz band for IMT/mobile purposes will positively and enduringly affect India's aspirations of becoming a digital nation and significantly shape its technological landscape.

The company’s business in India has been growing, driven by the increasing demand for fiberisation from telecom operators and data centres and the expansion of subsea landing cables.

Vodafone Idea, which has more than 200 million subscribers, currently works with Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei and ZTE for its 4G network.

The move also aims to increase data consumption on its network, which will help increase average revenue per user (ARPU). Airtel, which had an ARPU of Rs 208 in the third quarter, aims to increase it to Rs 300.

For Juniper, India has been growing much faster than the rest of the markets in the APAC region in the last three years.

The Ericsson executive said that the recent developments related to Vodafone Idea’s fundraising plan are a positive change and will help the telecom ecosystem in the country.

In a letter to the DoT secretary Neeraj Mital dated March 14, COAI said that incidents of theft of telcos’ active equipment have increased multifold from October 2023.

The senior executive highlighted the need to protect investments in the telecom sector, saying telecom is an indispensable and critical pillar of the new economy

Vi has renewals for a total of 12MHz of spectrum in the 1800MHz and 900MHz bands in two circles. At reserve prices, this would have resulted in a spending of Rs 1,500 crore.