Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has scheduled for Nov. 15 its open house discussion on the interconnect usage charges issue that has seen old and new...
State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has been receiving a good response to its Voluntary Retirement Scheme (VRS), with over 22,800 employees applying for it as...
The Committee of Secretaries to mitigate financial stress in telecom must act quickly on interim measures for the sector to survive. But is its mere survival...
Rating agency ICRA on Monday placed the ratings of Bharti Airtel under watch with negative implications following the judgment by Supreme Court pertaining to dispute regarding...
The government is looking to divest up to 25 percent stake in RailTel Corporation through initial public offering (IPO), and is scouting for advertising agencies to...
India won’t back down from collecting $13 billion of past dues from debt-laden telecom carriers because the industry is not under stress, a government official with...
Reliance Jio may have to shoulder the burden of around Rs 13,000 crore of past dues relating to licence fee and spectrum usage charge owed by...
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has started work on issuing demand notices seeking Rs 1.4 lakh crore in past dues from mobile-phone firms even as a...
The government panel considering relief for the telecom sector is looking at a repayment period of as much as 20 years for adjusted gross revenue (AGR)...
India ranked behind its neighbors Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Nepal at 128th spot in mobile broadband speed for September 2019, according to a report by broadband speed analysis firm...
Mounting debt and pending statutory dues are not the only bad news for Vodafone Idea Ltd. Since the Vodafone Group’s Indian unit agreed to merge with...
Indian lenders are meeting in the week starting November 4 to take a call on fresh funding that telecom companies have sought to pay the government their dues...
Recent developments in the telecom sector have further weakened this important infrastructure industry. There are three private service providers, and two nearly bankrupt PSUs. A combination...
Continuing its fight for a level-playing field, Reliance Jio has written to Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad saying a “financial windfall” for Bharti Airtel and Vodafone-Idea...
Amid concerns around how telecom operator Vodafone Idea (VIL) will cope with the Supreme Court ruling on adjusted gross revenue (AGR) payments, the company and its UK based...