MUMBAI: On Wednesday, the five judge bench of Supreme Court struck down Section 57 of the Aadhaar Act while upholding the constitutional validity of the scheme....
MUMBAI: New telecom policy branded as the National Digital Communications Policy (http://www.indiantelevision.com/iworld/telecom/new-telecom-policy-may-go-to-cabinet-in-2-weeks-dots-sundararajan-180905) (NDCP) 2018 finally got an approval from the cabinet. The new policy aims to...
MUMBAI: During the last three years, the Indian telecom sector has not only witnessed major disruptions but also nearly five times jump in foreign direct investment...
MUMBAI: Despite India gaining momentum for video streaming on smartphones, the country still lags far behind on global standards — falling in the poor territory characterised...
MUMBAI: BSNL, a mobile service provider, has tied up with two top telecom operators of Japan, Softbank and NTT Communications, to roll out 5G and internet...
MUMBAI: A recent move from the Department of telecommunications (DoT) may push telecom players in the country deeper into trouble. According to a report from Economic...
MUMBAI: A report by 5G Americas states that 5G is expected to accumulate connections starting in late 2018 and by 2022, it is forecast to have...
MUMBAI: Leading telecom players Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio both have bid to separately purchase assets of bankrupt telecom operator Aircel. According to a Mint report,...
MUMBAI: The 14th AGM of Reliance Communications, promoted by Anil Ambani, saw confirmed talks of Anil Ambani’s exit from the telecom business. He said that Reliance...
MUMBAI: The board of Vodafone Idea Ltd has approved the merger of Aditya Birla Telecom Ltd (ABTL) with itself while the latter holds an 11.15 per cent...
MUMBAI: The streaming giant Netflix has released its monthly ISP Speed index data where India’s BSNL saw a noteworthy speed jump. The state-owned telco company’s average...
NEW DELHI: The new telecom policy — branded as the National Digital Communications Policy (http://www.indiantelevision.com/iworld/telecom/comment-indias-ntp-2018-gets-digital-makeover-but-needs-complimentary-policies-180508) — is expected to be placed before the Indian Cabinet for...
MUMBAI: The mega Vodafone-Idea merger in the Indian telecom sector finally comes to closure creating India’s largest telecom operator with the most subscribers and revenue share....
MUMBAI: Reliance Communications has completed the sale of its fibre assets worth Rs 3000 crore to Reliance Jio Infocomm on Monday. After the completion of the...
MUMBAI: Reliance Communications has completed the sale of its media convergence nodes (MCNs) and related infrastructure assets worth RS 2000 crore to Reliance Jio Infocomm (Jio). The...
MUMBAI: Bharti Airtel is forming a new independent fibre company and has appointed chief technology officer Abhay Savargaonkar as the new venture’s chief executive officer, The...
MUMBAI: Four weeks ahead of telecom tribunal’s deadline, Reliance Communications (RCom) and its subsidiaries have reinstated bank guarantees (BGs) aggregating Rs 774 crore with the Department...
MUMBAI: The Apex court had recently permitted Reliance Communications Ltd to sell its assets to Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. On Friday, the Supreme Court cleared a...
MUMBAI: SBI and Reliance Jio have entered into a collaboration to increase SBI’s digital customer base multi-fold. SBI’s Yono app will integrate with MyJio platform. Yono’s...
MUMBAI: In the 1st quarter of FY 2018, Reliance Jio’s operating revenue increased 14.6 per cent quarter-on-quarter (q-o-q). On the back of its strong earnings number, the...
BENGALURU: When Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani’s biggest startup in the world Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd (Jio) started operations it had startled the Indian telecom industry ecosystem in...
MUMBAI: Columbus India, the data-driven digital marketing agency from Dentsu Aegis Network, has been appointed as the digital agency for Gas-O-Fast, a product of Mankind Pharma. The account was won following...
MUMBAI: Two top executives from the Indian telecom behemoths, Airtel and Jio, have resigned. Jagbir Singh and Shyam Mardikar were working as chief technology officers in...
MUMBAI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has come out with its recommendations on ‘Privacy, security and ownership of data in the telecom sector’. It...
MUMBAI: Reliance Industries becomes the second company to hit $100 billion market capitalisation after TCS in 2018. Previously, in 2008 too, the company has hit the...
MUMBAI: The US Department of Justice (DOJ) will appeal the AT&T-Time Warner merger approval which was cleared last month by a lower court. Following the announcement,...
MUMBAI: Indian business tycoon Mukesh Ambani overtook Alibaba group founder Jack Ma on Friday to become richest person in Asia. As Reliance Industry Ltd (RIL) share...
NEW DELHI: India’s Telecom Commission, the second highest decision-making body regarding telecom policies, yesterday late evening approved the National Digital Communication Policy 2018 and also net...
MUMBAI: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has conditionally approved the merger of Vodafone India with Idea Cellular, the largest M&A deal in the sector, which will...
MUMBAI: The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has finally approved the proposed merger of Bharti Infratel and Indus Towers, two large infrastructure providers. The merger will...
MUMBAI: India’s largest private sector company Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has entered into an agreement with Radisys Corporation, US-based open telecom platform solutions provider, to acquire...
MUMBAI: The entry of Reliance Jio in the telecom market disrupted mobile data pricing. Now, as the Mukesh Ambani-owned venture is set to enter the broadband...
MUMBAI: Within two years of its launch, Reliance Jio has crossed the 200 million subscriber mark. The Mukesh Ambani-owned telco reached this milestone in the shortest...
MUMBAI: The mega-merger deal of Idea Cellular and Vodafone India may not meet the expected 30 June timeline as the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is looking...
MUMBAI: Tata Communications has inked a deal with Singaporean TelcoTech MyRepublic as it looks to expand its services portfolio from broadband to mobile. While MyRepublic’s new...
MUMBAI: DoT (Department of Telecommunications) is seeking for legal opinion on the Vodafone-Idea merger in respect to Vodafone’s administratively allocated spectrum holdings. It is also seeking...
MUMBAI: Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Jio has upped the ante yet again. In the ongoing data pricing war, Jio’s latest move is bound to leave its rivals...
MUMBAI: After Reliance Jio took lead in revolutionising how people access the internet with 4G network, it is now preparing to upgrade to lightning speed 5G...
MUMBAI: Patience, they say, is a virtue. And sometimes, patience pays . Just ask Time Warner’s top five executives who will will walk away with combined...
MUMBAI: 20 months after AT&T’s announced its potential deal for Time Warner, the US District Court for the District of Columbia has cleared the merger between...
NEW DELHI: The India government is hopeful that the New Telcom Policy 2018, which has been rechristened as National Digital Communication Policy 2018 incorporating TRAI’s suggestions...
MUMBAI: According to Reliance Industries Limited’s annual report, Jio had 186.6 million subscribers at the end of March, up 16.5% from the 160.1 million at the end...
MUMBAI: Reliance Industries (RIL) chairman and India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani kept his annual salary capped at Rs 15 crore for the tenth year running. RIL’s...
MUMBAI : Airtel India and digital agency Dentsu Webchutney gave avid Instagrammers a makeover after they converted them into detectives with the launch of the telecom...
MUMBAI: Bharti Airtel is creating a new way to increase its average revenue per user (ARPU) that involves an integrated payment solution combining the bills of...
MUMBAI: A swadeshi SIM card! Well, that was just waiting to happen, if we discount the other telecom services in India. So, after a slew of...
MUMBAI: Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), India’s largest telecommunications service provider, today announced that it has begun selling Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS +Cellular), which adds...
MUMBAI: The Tower and Infrastructure Providers Association (TAIPA) has commented on the government’s proposed telecom policy by saying that though it addresses issues of all players,...
Criticism notwithstanding, Indian bureaucratic mandarins—babus as they are referred to in local lingo—do come up with draft policies that are contemporaneous, and at times when it’s...
MUMBAI: Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), according to a Mint report, is likely to invest Rs 60,000 crore in Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd (Reliance Jio), its telecom...

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