The telecom sector has the potential to play a tremendous role in bringing about inclusive growth In the country as it marches onwards to become, as predicted by many international organizations, the world’s biggest economic power, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Chairman Dr J S Sarma has said.
The draft National Telecom Policy 2011 needs a clear roadmap specifying timetables and clarifying issues related to spectrum management and pricing, according to industry leaders who spoke at the National Telecom Summit 2011 on Friday.
The Estimates Committee of India's lower house of the Parliament has reprimanded the Department of Telecom for "illegal operations of telecom networks in the country".
India's nationally owned and six smallest private telecom companies will continue to suffer operating losses in 2012, according to a report released Thursday by global ratings agency Fitch Ratings.
The Foreign Investment Promotion Board has cleared a proposal from Unitech Wireless for a rights issue of $1.62 billion amid an ongoing dispute with Telenor Group over the company's Uninor joint venture.
Leading professional networking website LinkedIn has opened a research and development unit in Bangalore, the first center of its kind outside its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.
Private equity firm Aditya Birla Capital Advisors has invested U.S. $18.7 million in Alphion India Private Ltd., the principal subsidiary of Alphion Corp, a global provider of optical networks.
Laboring under a debt load of nearly $7 billion, Reliance Communications, one of the leading telecom operators in India, is in the midst of exclusive negotiations with a consortium of private equity players, including Blackstone and Carlyle, to sell its tower unit, according to media reports in India.
Austin, TX. (November 14, 2011)— Arden Operating Company, owner of RCR Wireless News and TelecomCareers.com announced that is has named former Kiplinger Washington Editors’s head of digital business development, Wallace Ryland, as executive in residence, and Marshall Kirkpatrick, former lead writer at Tech Crunch...
Reliance Communication, whose net profit is declining and has one of the lowest average revenue per user (ARPU) in the industry, has witnessed a further decline in its ARPU in Q2 of the current financial year.
While taking steps toward a financial restructuring, GTL Infrastructure Ltd., the pioneer in shared passive telecom infrastructure in India, saw its net loss increase 28.9% in its fiscal second quarter compared with the same period last year, even as consolidated revenue from operations rose 35%, the company said.
Bharti Airtel said that it has implemented a customer experience management platform in its network to optimize and enrich user experience of its customers. The operator has chosen Nokia Siemens Networks to provide and deploy its CEM platform and services across India. The CEM platform will maintain and store real-time experience metrics for every subscriber in the network enabling Bharti Airtel to proactively cater to customer needs.
The second quarter saw quite some momentum in the telecom space with companies restructuring and rejiggering its top management. From major restructuring of its operations to new hires, companies like Bharti Airtel and Reliance sought out to bring fresher perspectives from top leaders into...
Rajeev Chandrasekhar, a member of India's Parliament, has raised several issues for improving the transparency of the country's Department of Telecom, including suggested revisions to rules on spectrum allocation and M&A activity.
The combined desktop and mobile PC market in India grew 13% in the third quarter, driven by a number of festivals, technology research firm Gartner Inc. reported.
Bangalore-based OnMobile Global Ltd., one of India's largest value-added services companies, has launched its KaraoPhone application with Jet Multimedia Morocco, a leading provider in all-in-one products and services for all media in Morocco.
Revised recommendations by India's telecom regulator on spectrum management and licensing framework are expected to facilitate consolidation in the industry, credit rating agency ICRA said.
TRAI Chairman J.S. Sarma recently urged the telecom industry to increase the manufacturing of mobile equipment in India; a trial on India's 2G spectrum scandal case will begin today in a lower court.
As a whole, India's telecom sector collected $9.45 billion in gross revenue and $6.58 billion in adjusted gross revenue during this year's second quarter, representing increases of 13.3% and 6.9%, respectively, over the same period last year, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India reported Wednesday.
RIL-owned subsidiary Infotel Broadband has acquired a 38.5% stake in digital learning company Extramarks Education for an undisclosed amount. The investment was carried out by an affiliate of RIL, Reliance Strategic Investments.
Extramarks Education, which also focuses on school education, has its content distributed digitally,...
The Indian telecom service business of Vodafone Group PLC has reported an adjusted operating loss of $15 million on total revenue of $3.53 billion in the first half of its 2011-12 financial year, despite a double-digit increase in revenue compared with the same period last year.
