A special court Tuesday directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to give Subramanian Swamy a copy of a file which contains all the correspondence between India's Home Minister P Chidambaram and former Telecom Minister A Raja.
India's Department of Telecommunications has asked Airtel, Vodafone, Aircel, BSNL, Idea, RCL and RTL to explain why action should not be taken against them for failing to submit auditors reports for 2009-10.
M'Loyal, the customer loyalty product of enterprise mobility solutions provider MobiQuest, hopes to have 7.5 million customers onboard its platform by March, says MobiQuest CEO Vineet Narang. The platform currently boasts 5 million customers across top brands in the country.
In an interview with RCR...
The income before taxes for Q2 of FY12 was $306 million as against $451 million in Q2 of the previous year. According to the company, the resultant net income for the quarter was at $208 million as against $336 million in the same quarter of the previous year.
India, the world’s second-largest telecom market after China, will have a projected handset demand of 350 million a year by 2020, with an estimated 505 million handsets to be manufactured in India during the same year, says a latest study.
Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited has showed a 7% growth in year-on-year revenues at $126 million for the quarter ended September 30, 2011, compared to $118 million in the corresponding quarter of the previous year.
The banking sector has traditionally been one of the more lucrative sectors for the information technology industry. India's IT giants have been catering to the technological needs of many of the world's top banks, and the same trend will be seen in the Indian...
More than 100 representatives from India's leading mobile operators are expected to converge on Jaipur to discuss some of the hottest topics in the mobile industry.
Australian telecom major Telstra Tuesday announced that its joint venture with Bangalore-based Microland, Telstra Telecommunications Private Limited (TTPL), has been awarded three new licenses to provide international and national long-distance telecommunications and ISP services in India.
Vodafone India has launched VStore, Vodafone's mobile application store, which is powered by Appia. Targeted at Vodafone India's nearly 145 million subscribers, VStore offers more than 10,000 free and paid applications for GPRS-enabled handsets across major mobile operating systems, including Android, Java, Symbian and...
Brazil and India followed telecom regulatory policies with an objective to bring in privatization and competition, but the variations in models followed by the two has led to different sectoral outcomes.
The controversial 2G note, dated March 25, 2011, sent by India's Finance Ministry to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) is again in news with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday clarifying that the note was prepared at the behest of the PMO.
After almost a month of disrupting its connectivity to private operators Airtel, Vodafone, Tata Teleservices, Reliance Communications and Idea Cellular in the state of Punjab, the state-owned operator BSNL today resumed its services between its landline connections and the mobile operators.
BSNLÂ restored the services following...
Lava Mobiles launched S12 - their very first Android-driven smartphone. Power by Android 2.2 - Froyo, it is priced at an affordable INR 9,999 (approx. USD 200).
“At Lava Mobiles our mission is to bring great experiences to our users. The Android platform has the...
The Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) limit on equity for the telecom services sector will remain at 74% according to India's Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion's (DIPP) recently released consolidated Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) policy.
The Nigerian Communications Commission has threatened to sanction the three major telecom operators -- MTN Nigeria, Globacom, and Airtel Nigeria - if the quality of their services don't improve by November 30.
Indian operator Uninor reported a 22% sequential increase in Q3 revenues and showed consistent earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization improvement. The company, which is owned by Norwegian-based Telenor Group, said it added 2.8 million customers during the quarter.
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The company reported revenues of...
The Indian Cabinet on Tuesday approved the National Manufacturing Policy, which has identified telecommunications as one of the "industries with strategic significance".
Indian telecom sector still has some bottlenecks which is preventing it from growing to its full potential, according to a special report by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and Ernst & Young.
The Indian telecom sector is again in news for the wrong reasons after a national daily reported about a '3G roaming scam' wherein some telecom operators are "offering 3G services and earning money from areas which they never bid during the 3G auctions".
The survey also found that towns with less than 2 lakh population collectively returned a much higher number of internet users that the top four metros put together.
