Get ready to allocate more budget for your mobile phone bills! The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) expects to hike the call charges by 12-15 percent in order to incur Rs. 1,09,874.91 (Rs. 1.1 lakh crore) spectrum price telecom service providers need to pay the Government. COAI feels this price hike to be inevitable owing to the scenario where the industry faces a hike not only in spectrum cost,... Read More
Prepaid mobile services in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), North East, and Assam will run for another two more years, with the Government granting the extension to its license. The existing service license was about to expire on March 31st. While granting the extension, the high-level committee headed by Union Home Secretary L. C. Goyal warned the telecom providers to remain alert when issuing new SIM cards. High-security verification is ordered... Read More
The trial on the extension of telecom licenses to use 900MHz spectrum was held today at Supreme Court. However, the court reserved its decision on the same to a later date. The verdict will decide if prominent telecom service providers, including Bharti Airtel Ltd, Vodafone India, Idea Cellular and Reliance Telecom will receive a 10 year extension to their existing licenses, which will come to an end by December 2015.... Read More
Adding to the worry of missing the deadline for rolling out full Mobile Number Portability (MNP), is the new warning from the Government, which says that it will take legal actions against the service providers who fail to meet the deadline of May 3. MNP allows the subscribers to port their mobile networks from one service provider to another within the same telecom circle, without altering their existing mobile number.... Read More
Sistema Sham Teleservices LTD (SSTL) will be resubmitting its application to the government by mid-April for increasing its foreign holding in the company beyond 74%. The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) had last September turned down SSTL's proposal to raise foreign holding beyond the current 74 per cent. The initial proposal had hit a hurdle over confusion about the proposed mode of investment. The Department of Telecommunications had said that the... Read More
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) wants to have a new and more rational approach to penalty norms for telecom operators, where penalty for violations will not be automatic and financial penalty will be dealt on a case-to-case basis with technical and financial checks. The DoT wants new norms before the commencement of next spectrum auction. The DoT has been come under criticism from the industry for imposing maximum penalties of... Read More
The Narendra Modi government has issued details for auctioning 5 Mhz of the 2100 MHz spectrum across 17 out of 22 service areas at a pan-India base price of Rs 3,705 crore per megahertz for the auctions scheduled for March 4, 2015. "Amendment No.2 (including details of 2100 MHz band) to Notice Inviting Applications (NIA) for Auction of Spectrum in 2100MHz, 1800MHz, 900MHz and 800MHz bands has been issued by... Read More
The auction for 2G and 3G telecom spectrum will be deferred to March 4 from February 25 said Department of Telecommunications (DoT) today. Earlier, it was scheduled on February 25 for 2G and 3G networks , according to notification issued by the Department of Telecom (DoT).The last date for submission of applications is February 6, according to the timeline mentioned in the Notice Inviting Applications (NIA). "The reserve price approved... Read More
Indian telecom sector is going through a crunch phase. India has a new government which promises to deliver some landmark decisions to revive the telecom sector from doldrums. India’s broadband penetration is dismal 4% while government is falling flat on its policy decision to connect 2.5 lakh gram panchayats by optical fibres has made National Telecom Policy’s (NTP 2012) vision for “right to broadband” a distant dream. India’s mobile data... Read More
The Telecom Commission (TC) has recommended an audit of the spectrum usage by the telecom operators in their respective circles. In its recommendation, TC has mentioned that if any operator is found with unused spectrum in their network during the audit, the government would take penal action against them. The government has taken this step after Wireless Planning and Coordination (WPC) wing of the Department of Telecommunications complained that the... Read More
Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication refers to communication between computers, embedded processors, smart sensors, actuators and mobile devices with limited human intervention. M2M is a convergence of various technologies, such as IP, RFID, sensor networks, home networks, smart metering, etc. M2M enables machines to communicate with companies’ information systems and other machines or with people’s mobile handsets and provide real-time data. In M2M, a wireless data link is used for monitoring and... Read More
BSNL has revised the tariffs for calls to Nepal for prepaid connections. BSNL offers an STV of Rs.18 which is used as an ISD cost cutter for Nepal. Initially, the STV lets BSNL users call Nepal at a discounted tariff of Rs.6.50 a day and this voucher was valid for 30 days. The revised STV offers the same benefits but at a higher tariff of Rs.8.50. Recently Department of Telecommunications... Read More
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