S&P Global Ratings on Wednesday said Bharti Airtel’s proposed rights issue of up to Rs. 25,000 crore is not enough to stabilize its credit rating. The...
As fifth-generation internet services inch closer to reality, India’s indebted telecommunication companies are stepping up fund-raising efforts to take on Reliance Jio Infocomm, which has the...
Indian operators are calling for the establishment of a fund to help incentivize deployments of fiber across the country ahead of the introduction of 5G. The...
The spectrum meant for non-commercial use, mainly for defence, police, railways and public broadcaster, will be allocated at the “market-determined price”, according to the new telecom...
The Union Cabinet approved the National Policy on Software Products 2019 that aims to help the industry grow at CAGR of 40 percent to reach USD...
Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan said the government will carefully study before taking any decision on allowing Chinese equipment companies to participate in 5G field trials. The...
Sunil Mittal, chairman of Bharti Enterprises, spoke to reporters on a wide range of issues around India’s telecom industry, including its health and future. Speaking on the...
Chinese companies have been facing a lot of heat since the US banned Huawei over security concerns. But the CEO of Nokia, Rajeev Suri, maintains that regardless of...
What do Google, Facebook and Apple have in common? Other than that these are large corporations with a digital presence globally, they have all been criticized for paying...
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology has asked the top bosses at Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram to appear before it on March 6. Last week, the same panel had...
India’sSupreme Court on Wednesday found Anil Ambani, chairman of debt-laden Reliance Communications (RCom), guilty of contempt of court for willfully failing to pay 5.5 billion rupees...
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has expressed reservations over increasing the duration for allocating 5G spectrum for trials, as companies in the past sat on lowly priced airwaves, which otherwise...
To address the issue of deficiency of telecom coverage in remote areas, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has allowed state-owned power transmission firm Power Grid...
Global technology giants such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon may soon have to pay a ‘digital tax’ in India. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has...
The tortuous sale of RCom’s spectrum to RJio, whenever it happens, or the recently concluded acquisition by Bharti Airtel of Tata Teleservices should make one thing...
