November 17th, 2012 2:04 PM 33 COMMENTS

MTS India Says Will Not Exit Indian Telecom Market

MTS India the CDMA Mobile service of Sistema Shyam TeleServices Ltd (SSTL) with over 16 million customers today said that it will not exit the Indian telecom market as it is hopeful of a positive response on its curative petition from the apex court.   MTS India has stayed away from the recent spectrum auction and its 21 licences are valid till 18th January 2013 as per Supreme Court's order.... Read More

November 14th, 2012 10:01 PM 136 COMMENTS

India’s 2G Spectrum Auction Ends, Operator And Circle-Wise List of Winners

India's auction of 2G GSM spectrum (1800 Mhz) ended today after 14 rounds, according to preliminary reports by DoT, Norwegian telecommunications group Telenor  (known as Uninor / Telewings) won 2G Spectrum in six telecom circles and Videocon won in six telecom circles. Idea Cellular won in all seven telecom circles in which it was set to lose its licence after the court order while Bharti Airtel won spectrum in one... Read More

November 6th, 2012 8:43 PM 19 COMMENTS

DoT Issues Final List Of Bidders For 1800 MHz GSM Spectrum Auction

India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) today issues final list of bidders for 1800 MHz GSM Spectrum Auction. There are only five players Airtel, Vodafone, Videocon, Idea Cellular and Telewings (Telenor -Uninor) left in the race for GSM spectrum. There are no bidders left for 800 Mhz CDMA spectrum as Tata Teleservices (Tata Docomo CDMA) and Videocon Telecomminications withdrawing thier application as earlier we shared on TelecomTalk. Tata Teleservices had applied... Read More

November 2nd, 2012 10:51 PM 34 COMMENTS

Videocon Telecommunications Withdraws Bid for CDMA Spectrum

Videocon Telecommunications today withdrawn its bid for the 800 Mhz band - CDMA Spectrum in the upcoming 2G Spectrum Auction of India. On October 29 Videocon has announced as a pre-qualifier in bidding process by Department of Telecommunications (DoT). The last date for withdrawing applications is 5 November. Videocon which has also applied for GSM spectrum, had got the 2G licenses for 21 telecom circles in 2008 which has been... Read More

October 19th, 2012 5:44 PM 66 COMMENTS

MTS India (SSTL) Will Not Participate In the 2G Spectrum Auction

MTS India the CDMA Mobile service of Sistema Shyam TeleServices Ltd (SSTL) with over 16 million customers today said that it has decided NOT to participate in the 2G spectrum auction. The company said that “Sistema Shyam TeleServices Ltd (SSTL) has consistently maintained that it has been unfairly penalised in the February ruling of the Supreme Court and has filed a Curative Petition seeking to restore its licences. SSTL was... Read More

October 19th, 2012 5:21 PM 17 COMMENTS

Telenor Submits Application for Pre-qualification in India’s Spectrum Auction

Telenor Group today said that it will bid in an upcoming auction of 2G spectrum and it has submitted its application for pre-qualification in the 1800 MHz band spectrum auction to the Indian Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on 19 October. However company said that a final decision on whether or not to participate will be made before the auction starts.  Currently Telenor is opearting GSM services in India brand name... Read More

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