Tata Tele Business Services (TTBS) has been in the Indian market for several years now and has been a leading player in offering security, IoT, Cloud, SaaS and a wide range of other such solutions. The company has been serving Indian businesses and helping them take their digital journey to the next level. In this decade, more and more businesses will board the digital train to serve their customers at... Read More
Tata Teleservices has announced that it won’t be going ahead with its plan of giving equity to the government against the dues. This is because the company had wrongly analysed its dues to be Rs 850 crore. The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) informed Tata Teleservices that its dues are only Rs 195.22 crore and not Rs 850 crore. Thus, after getting to know the actual amount, the board of directors,... Read More
The public sector units (PSU) in the telecom sector will be limited to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL), at least for the foreseeable future. Recently, Vodafone Idea and Tata Teleservices accepted the option of converting their statutory liabilities into equity for the government. With Vodafone Idea, the government is expected to become the largest equity shareholder in the company post equity conversion. This got... Read More
Vodafone Idea (Vi) investors would be slightly relieved as the telco’s stock has recovered by almost 7% on Wednesday after dipping 20% on Tuesday. The third-largest telco had decided to give its equity to the government, due to which the investor confidence in the company must have fallen a little. But with the government saying that it isn’t much interested in the business of Vodafone Idea, the stock seems to... Read More
Tata Teleservices has announced that it will be opting for the voluntary option of paying the interest on the deferred adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues by offering the government equity against it. The telecommunications company had earlier also opted for the four-year moratorium on the AGR dues. With this move, Tata Teleservices won’t have to worry about paying the interest on deferred dues anymore, which would have made for a... Read More
Tata Teleservices has partnered with Zoom to offer video conferencing solutions to enterprises in India. Zoom is a well known video-first platform that witnessed a surge in demand once the pandemic kicked in. The video conferencing solution will leverage Zoom’s highly secure platform for addressing the increasing collaboration requirements of the enterprises. It will allow multiple enterprises to communicate seamlessly if they have a strong internet connection. Because of the... Read More
One of the heaviest financial burdens which the telecom companies in India face right now includes the Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR). The Department of Telecommunications (DoT), after winning the fifteen-year long legal battle, had slapped these charges on the telecom companies. The older telecom companies now stand on the edge with regards to these dues as they are the ones to shoulder this burden. Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea, and Tata... Read More
The Supreme Court has today said that it wouldn’t allow re-computation or re-calculation of the adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues. However, if there’s any rectification that needs to be done, it might be allowed (this didn’t come directly from the SC). It is worth noting that the apex court had said that it wouldn’t allow reassessment of the dues; however, it didn’t say that if any errors are there, the... Read More
Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea (Vi) and Tata Teleservices had earlier sought the help of the Supreme Court (SC) for the reassessment of their adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues. The telcos had argued that the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had made several mistakes while calculating the total AGR dues. As pointed by the operators, the government made arithmetical mistakes including double counting of the dues on certain occasions. Now, according to... Read More
Tata Teleservices is making a comeback in the Indian market. The telecom operator went out of business when Reliance Jio came to the market, and the eventual tariff war broke out. Tatas then signed a pact that transferred the consumer mobile business to Bharti Airtel, excluding the transfer of debt. According to an ET Telecom report, Tata Teleservices is making a comeback in the Indian market with a new name... Read More
Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL) has approached the Supreme Court of India demanding a recalculation of adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues. As per the telco, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) hasn’t calculated the dues correctly. TTSL said that the telecom department made arithmetical errors in the calculation of dues, which resulted in a higher amount than how much it should have been according to the company lawyers. It is worthy to... Read More
Ailing telecom operator, Vodafone Idea, has approached the Supreme Court seeking a modification on the previous order as part of which the telco is required to pay Rs 58,400 crore towards AGR dues. Vodafone Idea urged there are 'arithmetical errors' in the Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) calculations by the government. Earlier today, we reported that Bharti Airtel also moved to the Supreme Court touting the same arithmetical errors made by... Read More
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where are the plans?no details , whats new whats changed?
Vi should decrease the tariff somewhere near to Jio's. So it can grab users from Airtel and Jio.
If out of 481, 108 is 5G customers. That means customer on Jio 4G network reduced from 452 million in…
In my nearest enodeB, Jio switches off b40 daily at around 1 am, restores around 6 am. b3 and b5…
If they already reached 482 million, I wonder in how many months it will reach 500 million customers. Their ARPU…
