To spread awareness on Mobile Phone With Genuine IMEI, The Indian Cellular Association (ICA) and leading mobile phone giant Nokia India jointly start the campaign in the interest of Peoples of India. As a part of this campaign ICA and Nokia India announced with media advertisements that Mobile Phone users can check the IMEI Number by dialing “*#06# from their mobile phone and to check that IMEI number is Genuine... Read More
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has recommended that the Department of Telecom (DoT) should make it mandatory for Broadband speeds to be at least 2 mbps. That means any of Broadband service offered in India to customers in the market would have to be 2 mbps and more. If the DoT accepts the recommendation than the Telecom Operators or Internet Service Provider would not offer Internet packages of 256 kbps labeled as Broadband.... Read More
The legal battle between the Department of Telecom (DoT) and S Tel the privately owned telecom company has now finished with the Delhi High courts new judgment on the disputed DoT notifications on cut-off date for granting telecom licenses with 2G Spectrum. The Delhi high court has quashed the DoT notification fixing 25 September, 2007 as cut-off date for granting telecom licenses bundled with startup 2G spectrum. The High Court... Read More
The Department of Telecom has imposed a penalty on mobile operators, including Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications, Tata Teleservices, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd and Idea Cellular for not verifying the details of all their mobile subscribers. The move comes after the DoT’s vigilance cell found subscribers on the operator’s network without proper documents for example, in the case of Bharti Airtel, the vigilance officers found 2,373 subscribers, out of a sample... Read More
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
Swan Telecom (Etisalat-Swan) has bought out Allianz Infratech, marking the first acquisition among the new companies who were given telecom licenses last year. Etisalat-Swan has also got a ‘no-objection certificate’ from Department of Telecom (DoT) for the deal, which is estimated to be worth a few hundred crores. Allianz had applied for telecom licenses on a pan-India level, but was given permission to launch services in only two circles —... Read More
MTNL Mumbai withdrawn the 95 dialing service from its Landline and CDMA Garuda Network from today. Now MTNL landline, FIX Wireless Garuda and PCO subscribers could dial Zero with STD code for even making calls to MTNL Delhi and the neighbouring towns of Maharashta and Goa also.It is to be noted that the call charges will remain unchanged if a customer is dialing Maharashtra and Goa and MTNL Delhi phones... Read More
The Department of Telecom has sought clarification from Reliance Communications as to why the company has started its GSM based mobile services in Jammu and Kashmir without taking clearances from security agencies. DoT has told the company to comply with the security requirements by demonstrating that its network can be monitored by the intelligence agencies. According to the conditions specified in the telecom license, operators are required to set up... Read More
In a bid to encourage efficient use of numbering resources, DoT has been asked to charge a special levy for numbers allocated to telecom operators. A special research team (SRT) formed by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has recommended that DoT “earn revenue’’ and reasonably charge for each number.The SRT has said in its report that service providers may be asked to pay the licensor a one-time charge... Read More
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