In a recent draft of security policy, the Department of Telecom asks telecom operators in India to play a role in ensuring the security of the country's telecom networks.
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.
the company has got a relief after TDSAT issued a reserve order, thereby relieving the company to pay the fine by October 20. The tribunal will look into the issue and decide the payment of the fine.
Times of India | August 22, 2011 |Â Shalini Singh
New Delhi: Close on the heels of PM Manmohan Singh's statement on Independence Day about streamlining and strengthening infrastructure regulators in India, the Department of Telecom(DoT) has informed Parliament that it is currently reviewing proposals for strengthening telecom regulator...
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...
The Hindu Business Line |Â July 26, 2011
Mobile operators fear that Internet calls will affect their revenues; given their competitive rates, though, this apprehension may be baseless.
After much dithering, and nine years after Internet telephony was introduced in India, the DoT is reportedly considering offering...
The Hindu Business Line |Â July 26, 2011
Mobile operators fear that Internet calls will affect their revenues; given their competitive rates, though, this apprehension may be baseless.
After much dithering, and nine years after Internet telephony was introduced in India, the DoT is reportedly considering offering...
The Hindu | July 20, 2011
NEW DELHI, INDIA: The Department of Telecom (DoT) Wednesday said it is working on auctioning the broadband spectrum following the Finance Ministry's directive to speed up the process, but it did not specify any time frame for the auction.
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Times of India | May 24, 2011
NEW DELHI: The communications ministry has sought legal opinion for the second time if it is duty bound to follow the industry regulator's advice on policy issues signaling the turf war between the telecom department and the Telecom...
Economic Times | April 20, 2011
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Ministry has received replies from all the operators who were issued show cause notices for not meeting the eligibility criteria for licences and will soon decide on action against errants, a top official said today.
"The...
Hindustan Times | April 14, 2011 | Abhishek Sharan
Former telecom minister A Raja allegedly wrongly granted an in-principle approval for the use of dual technology to a telecom licencee, a day before the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) announced the policy. This was disclosed by...
Hindustan Times | April 14, 2011 | Bhadra Sinha
The Department of Telecommunication (DoT) has taken a U-turn from its earlier stand on the 2G spectrum allocation policy and has decided to take a fresh look at Tata telecom’s claim regarding seniority in spectrum allocation....
The Hindu | April 7, 2011 | Sandeep Joshi
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued licence termination notices to three telecom operators — Aircel, Etisalat DB and Sistema Shyam Teleservices (SSTL) — for delays in roll out of services in circles allotted to them.
“We...
The Economic Times | March 27, 2011
NEW DELHI: Facing a huge penalty of over Rs 26 crore for not following guidelines on re-verification of pre-paid subscribers in the troubled Jammu and Kashmir, Bharti Airtel has asked the J&K division of DoT to take a...
The Economic Times | March 27, 2011
NEW DELHI: Facing a huge penalty of over Rs 26 crore for not following guidelines on re-verification of pre-paid subscribers in the troubled Jammu and Kashmir, Bharti Airtel has asked the J&K division of DoT to take a...
The Indian Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has rubbished state owned telco Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited’s (BSNL) employee union allegations that it favors private operators.
