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Tanay Singh Thakur July 4th, 2022 2:24 PM 0 COMMENTS

Signal Boosters and Wireless Jammers Illegal in India

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has just issued a fresh public advisory on the use of signal boosters/repeaters and wireless jammers. The telecom department said that the use of wireless jammer or signal jammer, GPS blocker or other signal jamming devices is illegal in India except specifically permitted by the Government of India (GoI). Only authorised organisations such as police forces, state or union territory governments, and defence forces can... Read More

Sanjay November 18th, 2010 5:58 PM 113 COMMENTS

TRAI Asks DoT To Cancel Licences of Telcos That Missed Service Rollout

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) today asked Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to cancel CMTS/UAS licences given to telecom operators including Cheers Etisalat DB (Swan- Cheers Mobile), Loop Telecom, Uninor, Videocon, MTS (Sistema-Shyam) and Aircel that have not met network roll-out conditions set by the authority. TRAI has recommended cancellation of 20 licenses of Loop Telecom, 15 of Etisalat DB, 11 of MTS/Sistema Shyam, 10 licenses of Videocon, 8... Read More

Sanjay February 3rd, 2010 12:08 PM 57 COMMENTS

Datacom In Mumbai, GSM Mobile Service by 20 February

Datacom the GSM Mobile service brand of Videocon Telecommunications Ltd. (VTL) will starts its Mobile Services from Mumbai on February 20. The company aims to cover the entire country within eighteen months. According to the official statement by the operator “The Company is scheduled to launch its mobile services this month starting with Mumbai circle to be followed by Tamil Nadu and Punjab. It will complete the pan-India GSM roll... Read More

P K Tarun September 17th, 2009 3:59 PM 9 COMMENTS

AIRCEL AND DATACOM ENTER INTO TOWER SHARING AGREEMENT

Aircel and Datacom Solutions today announced that they have entered into a tower sharing agreement, under which Datacom will share a minimum of 5,000 towers across Aircel’s footprint, over a span of 16 months. The deal is valued at approximately USD 400 million. By leveraging Aircel’s tower infrastructure Datacom, a new entrant in the Indian telecom sector, will be able to reduce cost and gain time to market. Aircel, the... Read More

Sanjay March 13th, 2009 1:54 PM 0 COMMENTS

TRAI RECOMMEND 3YEAR LOCK-IN FOR NEW OPERTAOR

Amidst the controversial sale of stake by two new telecom operators, Swan and Unitech at a huge premium,TRAI has now recommended a 3 year lock-in period for stake sale by companies,which have recently got licences, in a bid to prevent them from making windfall gains overnight. Last year, DoT had suggested that existing telecom licensing norms be amended and a 3 to 5 year lock-in be imposed on the sale... Read More

Sanjay March 9th, 2009 6:43 PM 2 COMMENTS

MOBILE TARIFFS TO COME DOWN,TRAI CHOPS CALL TERMINATION CHARGES

Indian Telecom regulator TRAI today slashed call termination charges by 33 per cent, a move which would result in bringing down the mobile tariffs for consumers. Termination charges are paid by one operator to another on whose network the call ends.The regulator has reduced the termination charges on local calls to 20 paise a minute from existing 30 paise. The new operators such as Datacom, Unitech, Shyam-Sistema and Loop Telecom... Read More

Sanjay February 20th, 2009 1:17 PM 0 COMMENTS

DATACOM signs MoU with Huawei for GSM rollout

Datacom, which finds itself in the midst of management control problems between the Videocon group and the HFCL group has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Chinese equipment vendor, Huawei Technologies for the long pending rollout of its GSM network. The revelation of Datacom’s deal with Huawei incidentally comes a day after reports that the government may take action against new entrants who have failed in rolling out their... Read More