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Sanjay February 24th, 2012 4:28 PM 19 COMMENTS

Dual Tech Telcos Responsible For Losses of Over Rs.51977 Crore : COAI

India's GSM industry body COAI - The Cellular operators Association of India, today said that the Government has suffered a loss of Rs.51977 crore due to owing to license and related violations by the Dual-Technology operators (Tata Docomo and Reliance) in the country. COAI claims that Dual-Technology operators (GSM-CDMA) are in fact beneficiaries of a decision taken by DOT during the period September 2007 to March 2008. Decisions taken during... Read More

Sanjay February 22nd, 2012 9:00 PM 49 COMMENTS

Etisalat DB To Shut Down GSM Operations in India

Cheers Mobile GSM service of Etisalat DB is all set to windup its India operations according to our sources Cheers Mobile will give 30 days time to its customers to PORT OUT from its service and PORT IN to another operator using Mobile Number Portability (MNP). Cheers Mobile / Etisalat DB whose mobile service licenses has been canceled by the Supreme Court under 2G verdict is a joint venture with... Read More

Sanjay February 22nd, 2012 4:03 PM 36 COMMENTS

S Tel Closer To Leave Market, Launches Online MNP Portal To Generate UPC Code For Its Customers

S Tel whose mobile service licenses has been canceled by the Supreme Court under 2G verdict has decided to wind-up its operations in all the six circles where it won licences in 2008. S Tel today launched "Online Portal" to help-out its customers to generate UPC code to port out from its network and swicth to any other operator using Mobile Number Potablity (MNP). The company said in a statement... Read More

Sanjay February 21st, 2012 8:38 PM 28 COMMENTS

Idea Cellular Seek Clarification From Supreme Court on 2G Licence Cancellation

Idea Cellular today filed clarificatory petitions in the Supreme Court regarding the apex court’s decision earlier this month canceling the 122 UAS licences. In an official statement,The operator said "Arising from the Supreme Court Order of 2nd February, 2012, Idea Cellular has today filed a ‘clarificatory application’ with the Registrar, restricted only to the UASL applications made by Idea in June 2006." Idea further states that "As noted by the... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas February 2nd, 2012 11:38 AM 132 COMMENTS

Supreme Court Cancels 122 Licences Given in 2008, Confuses People

What come as a shocker for many operator is the judgment passed by the Supreme Court today which has cancelled all 122 2G licences. As per ET the licenses of 11 companies have been cancelled the penalties have been imposed on Tata Teleservices, Unitech and DB Realty. The Mobile Service providers (GSM/CDMA) that are set to lose on account of the cancellation of the licences are Uninor (joint venture between... Read More

Sanjay October 9th, 2011 12:10 PM 35 COMMENTS

India’s New Telecom Policy To Be Announced On Monday

India's Minister for Telecommunications and IT, Kapil Sibal would release the draft of the National Telecommunications Policy-2011 on Monday. Mr. Sible will hold a press conference at 2 P.M on Monday, 10th October, 2011. The new National Telecommunications Policy-2011 is expected to include rules on pricing of second-generation radio airwaves (2G Spectrum) and mergers and acquisitions in the sector and a proposal of Single Pan-India license for telecom operators. This... Read More

Sanjay May 13th, 2010 7:12 PM 17 COMMENTS

Vodafone, TTSL and Airtel Opposed TRAI’s 2G Spectrum Recommendations

India's GSM and CDMA operators including Tata Teleservices (TTSL), Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Essar strongly opposed and slammed Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)'s recommendation to charge incumbents telecom operators a one time fee for holding 2G spectrum beyond 6.2 Mhz. TRAI has proposed introducing a uniform rate of 6% as annual licence fee component of total adjusted gross revenues from 2014.Presently operators pay in the range of 6 %... Read More

Sanjay June 8th, 2009 2:21 PM 1 COMMENTS

DEFENCE MINISTRY AGREES TO RELEASE 45 MHz OF SPECTRUM

After the successful launch of next generation 3G mobile service in India by state operators MTNL and BSNL, the customers of the private operators are very eager for 3G services by their own operator. A critical battle has been won for the Indian telecommunications industry as the defense ministry has agreed to release 45 mega hertz (MHz) of spectrum, the radio frequency on which mobile phone signals travel. Out of... Read More