Enforcement Directorate has claimed that A Raja, Former Telecom Minister illegally granted 2G spectrum license to the firms that were not eligible for it. The issue took a hype when Rs. 200 crore was allegedly transferred to DMK supremo M Karunanidhi's family owned Kalaignar TV. During the final arguments in the 2G scam case, Anand Grover, Special Public Prosecutor stated that a conspiracy was planned by A Raja and other... Read More
DoT panel for net neutrality has submitted its report to the telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. The 6 member panel was formed in last January to formulate government's policy on net neutrality. As per reports, the committee was of view that core principles of net neutrality must maintain and not to allow blocking, prioritization, throttling of content providers on a network. At the same time, some members of the committee were of the view that... Read More
Recently BSNL had introduced STV 54 & STV 88 exclusive for per second and per minute plan subscribers. BSNL has now reduced call rates on both STVs to 45p/min per minute plan subscribers. BSNL has also reduced cost of STV 54 to 42 and validity has been reduced to 28 days from existing 45 days. Both STVs now offer reduced call rates of 45p/min Local/STD for per minute plan subscribers and 0.8p/sec Local/STD for per seconds plan... Read More
The government has set up centres at Delhi and Bengaluru for interception of telephone and internet services for lawful purpose. The government has also installed servers at different locations of telecommunication companies as part of the centralised monitoring system (CMS) for interception and monitoring of communications like voice, data, SMS and internet. Sources said that 14 regional centres across the country will be established in future. According to a report... Read More
LG roped in Mr. Amitabh Bachchan when it launched the LG G3 smartphone in the country. The launch event was quite grand and it seems like that LG is all set to take things to the next level with the launch of the LG G4 Dual in the country. The Korean manufacturer has just announced the pre-orders for the LG G4 Dual which are being pegged at Rs 51,500. Pre-ordering the... Read More
Two weeks back we had initiated a survey to gauge customer sentiments about BSNL, India's national ISP and Mobile services provider. We received a total of 1411 responses to the survey. We must add that we had expected a much larger number but are certainly happy about the fact that the responses were fairly distributed. To give you a picture, responses came in from customers of every BSNL Circle including... Read More
Amidst of a range of brave decisions taken by NDA government during budget announcement, one that shook most was increased rate of service tax. The service tax rate has been revised from 12.36% to 14%, applicable from June 1, 2015. It simply means that eating at restaurants, paying insurance premiums and phone bills among others will become expensive all over India from June 1 onwards. The extra financial burden that... Read More
Bharti Airtel has become the first telecom service provider to kick off 4G service trials in Visakhapatnam, an imperative stepping stone towards making it a ‘smart city.’ From now onwards, all the Airtel customers in the city can upgrade to 4G data services at 3G prices. In order to take things forward, Venkatesh Vijayraghavan, CEO-Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, Bharti Airtel, and Mr. Chandrababu Naidu, The Hon'ble Chief Minister of Andhra... Read More
Vodafone has withdrawn from Bharti Airtel by selling its 4.2 per cent shares in the Indian telecom major to Bharti Enterprises (Holding) Private Limited, an arm of Bharti Group. Vodafone in a statement on Thursday confirmed that it has sold, its slaveholding in Bharti Infotel Private Limited, representing an approximate 4.2 per cent interest in Bharti Airtel Ltd for USD 200 million. The sale happened following new norms issued by... Read More
In a major move, the Reliance Communication has started compensating for the call drop phenomena experiencing by the customers. The service provider is giving 10 minutes free for customers experiencing call drop. However the free talk time is limited to reliance to reliance calls only. Call drop menace in India is posing trouble to the mobile phone subscribers and the regulatory body, TRAI has announced issuing new set of service... Read More
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to inaugurate the core switches of East Zone located at Bhubaneswar and Kolkata, and 100 NGN LMG switches in Patna on June 28, 2015. As per the reports, these 100 LGN LMG switches will be spread equally in North, East, South and West Zone. BSNL had recently disclosed that they will be partnering with Bharti Airtel for 2G roaming Pan India to improve... Read More
A committee that was set up by government to look after the NOFN project has estimated the cost of the project to hike three times more than the initial estimates. As per the reports, the government approved the budget of Rs. 20,000, but the NOFN Panel has suggested that the actual cost will surpass Rs. 72,778 crore. The information was made public by Telecom Ministry stating that the committee had... Read More
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