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.
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.
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.
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.
RCR Wireless has in the past reported that a Planning Commission working group on the telecommunication sector for the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-2017) had stated that a total investment of approximately $149 billion (both from private players and government) would be required during the plan period.
US-based Qualcomm Inc will be granted an Internet service license, India's Telecom Secretary R Chandrashekhar said. This paves the way for the US company to launch broadband services in the country.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, in its 21st report, has express concern over the inability of the DoT to notice any security threats due to import of telecom equipments from different countries, especially China.
India's Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Kapil Sibal, is set to unveil the draft of the country's new telecom policy, the National Telecom Policy 2011, on Monday.
India's Department of Telecom plans to issue notices to five leading mobile operators for allegedly misreporting of revenue in order to pay lower license fees to the government.
Times of India | August 22, 2011 |Â Manoj Mitta
NEW DELHI: Having burnt its fingers with 2G, the Department of Telecom ( DoT) is grappling with a policy anomaly that has arisen in 3G even after it had allotted that spectrum through the more transparent...
