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
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
There is some good news for Tata DOCOMO GSM Mobile services users, Govt of India has decided that Tata Teleservices will be given 4.4 mhz 2G spectrum for GSM services (in the 1800 MHz band) in Delhi circle after the completion of the current 2G spectrum auction process. With this new development, Tata Teleservices will get 4.4 mhz of spectrum in Delhi & NCR circle, four years after having paid... Read More
Videocon Telecommunications today withdrawn its bid for the 800 Mhz band - CDMA Spectrum in the upcoming 2G Spectrum Auction of India.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
India's Supreme Court today extends 2G Spectrum auction deadline till January 11, 2013 and allowed mobile service operators whose current licences are set to be revoked to operate their mobile services until January 18, 2013. It will be the big relief for the operators like MTS India (SSTL) and Uninor (as their current licenses are valid till September 7) which are serious to continue the services among all new operators... Read More
Uninor, the joint venture of Unitech and Norway telecom major Telenor today said that it will scale down GSM operations in Four circles out of the total 13 telecom circles where it is commercially active to focus resources on the remaining areas. Uninor India management has decided to prioritise its focus on Mumbai, Maharashtra & Goa and seven other best performing circles of UP East, UP West, Bihar and Jharkhand,... Read More
DOT, after a fortnight's delay, is all set to finalise an agency to conduct the e-auction of spectrum in 22 telecom service areas which will be held latest by July 10. As per a Supreme Court order the DoT was supposed to complete the auction before August 31, 2012. Once the auctioneer is finalized the DoT will have to finalise various terms of the auction and give time to telecom... Read More
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