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“It is highest ever sale in the last four years of auctioning” Auction’s failure has been attributed to the high reserve price Total upfront payment due to the government is around Rs. 32,000 crores Trying to brush aside criticism about the just-concluded telecom spectrum auction, Communications Minister Manoj Sinha said on Friday the bidding process
Hitting back at Airtel’s allegations of being “under-prepared”, new player Reliance Jio on Wednesday said it had given projections of its required number of points of interconnection to the rival three months in advance. Reliance Jio said it has been consistently following up with Airtel and other incumbent operators over the last several months for
At Reliance AGM, Mukesh Ambani finally broke the silence on the tariffs for Reliance Jio. The company will not be charging for voice calls at all, and it will charge a tenth of what its competitors are charging for 4G data, Ambani said – it was announced that Jio will charge only 5 paise per
India is set to have more than half a billion (500 million) unique mobile subscribers by the end of the year, thanks to affordable devices, easy tariff and digital literacy drives, a study by GSMA said on Thursday. The report, “The Mobile Economy: India 2015”, said that 13 percent of the world’s mobile subscribers lived
Telecom operators are leaving no stone unturned to woo consumers at Diwali, popularly known as the festival of lights in India. Soon after Vodafone announced a special Diwali offer that will offer users 100MB of free data on November 11, Idea and Bharti Airtel have also come with offers for their subscribers. Idea Cellular has
India’s crowded telecoms sector is preparing for a long-awaited shake-up as highly indebted players jostle for access to costly airwaves and brace for the launch of a deep-pocketed new rival backed by India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani. Ambani owns oil-to-retail conglomerate Reliance Industries, which is expected to begin offering fast data services across India by
India’s leading private telecom service provider, Aircel, Thursday announced an aggressive expansion plan of its 3G network in Bihar by adding 61 new towns to its network by December this year, an official said. For expanding its 3G services, Aircel will set up 600 towers across Bihar to provide seamless connectivity to its constantly growing
Telecom operator Reliance Communications is planning to roll out a 3G ICR-like roaming agreement to continue 2G service in Bihar, West Bengal and Assam after its right to use 2G spectrum expires in December. “RCom already has existing and valid intra-circle roaming (ICR) agreements with other telecom operators, predominantly Tata Teleservices and Aircel, to offer
Vodafone on Thursday said there will be significant improvement in call drop problem in Delhi within 12-16 weeks as it plans to put up more sites as well as augment capacity of the existing ones. In the last six months, Vodafone has put up over 500 sites in Delhi NCR, while capacity of existing 550
A new policy allows the US Secret Service to use intrusive cellphone-trackingtechnology without a warrant if there’s believed to be a nonspecific threat to the president or another protected person. Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Seth M. Stodder described to a House of Representatives subcommittee Wednesday the department’s policy on the use of cell-site simulators. Civil
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