On Thursday, the Supreme Court of India, which is monitoring the investigations in to the 2G spectrum scandal, sought response from the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Enforcement Directorate over accusations that they were going soft on Loop Telecom, the Essar Group and their promoters by not filing charges under the Prevention of Corruption Act in the 2G case.
The growth in the Indian telecom industry will be fueled by rising foreign direct investment, according to a report from market research and analysis firm RNCOS.
The Telecom Ministry will ask for nearly $300 million from Tata Teleservices, Vodafone, Reliance Communications, Airtel and Idea Cellular for underreporting revenues, India's Press Trust of India has reported, quoting unidentified sources.
The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal of India has allowed some mobile operators to continue offering 3G services in areas for which they don't have licenses until Jan. 9.
The new telecom operators have argued that since the established players have already cornered maximum spectrum and subscriber bases, the new players should be given more concessions in view of the limited market.
The number of social media users in India will reach 45 million in 2012, up from about 30 million in 2010, according to market research firm Research and Markets.
India's telecom sector has seen an increase of 17% investment in 2010-11 over the previous fiscal year, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said in its annual report. Capital employed in the sector increased from $53.5 billion in 2009-10 to nearly $63 billion in 2010-11.
While referring to media reports that nearly 3,000 mobile towers operating in India's capital of Delhi were set up without the required approvals, the parliamentary standing committee on information technology expressed serious doubts over the efficacy of the telecom authority's vigilance and monitoring mechanism.
GSM telephony, a popular communication technology spanning most countries and connecting more than 4 billion devices, is vulnerable to widespread attack, a German security expert said today.
Hailing the country's telecom sector as an international success story, the Indian government said that with an overall subscriber base of 914.6 million and teledensity of 76%, the sector continues to grow from strength to strength.
Micromax, an Indian mobile brand, in its endeavor to further firm up its leadership position in the market, Tuesday announced appointment of key positions to further strengthen its management team in India.
India's Telecom Commission has accepted the recommendations of industry regulator TRAI to relax mergers and acquisitions rules in the sector. The decision paves the way for spectrum-sharing among telecom operators. This will lead to consolidation in market with over a dozen telecom companies.
Indian telecom regulator Monday released a consultation paper on Allocation of Spectrum Resources for Residential and Enterprise Intratelecommunication Requirements/ cordless telecommunications system (CTS).
India's Telecom Disputes Settlement & Appellate Tribunal has restrained the telecom ministry from taking any "coercive" steps until January 3 next year against the telecom companies for entering into 3G roaming pacts.
Terming the 3G roaming deals illegal, India's Telecom Ministry has asked the telecom operators to discontinue their agreements. No decision has been made yet on whether to penalize the telcos for those deals.
The Indian government has collected $1.95 billion as telecom license fees for 2010-11, an increase of about 1% compared with the previous year. The annual license fees are collected from licensees as a percentage of their adjusted gross revenues.
India's total GSM mobile subscriber base stood at 632.1 million as telecom operators added 6.7 million new subscribers in the month of November, an increase of 1.1% from the previous month.
India's telecom ministry has said that complaints relating to unsolicited calls have come down significantly, but unsuspecting telecom subscribers continue to receive pesky text messages.
The security impasse between the Canadian maker of BlackBerry handsets, Research in Motion, and India's security agencies remains unresolved, as the agencies still have no way of decrypting the 256-bit encryption technology embedded in BlackBerry Messenger and email (sent using Blackberry Enterprise Solutions).
Competition among telecom companies in emerging Asia is showing signs of easing in some markets such as India, but competition is likely to remain intense in many of those markets, S&P said in a report today.
In its second edition, Ericsson's Networked Society City Index ranked 25 of the world's largest cities according to their ability to use ICT for social, economic and environmental benefits. The top three cities in the index -- Seoul, Singapore and Stockholm -- have successfully met many social, economic and environmental targets by making extensive investments in ICT, Ericsson noted.
Indian attorney Prashant Bhushan told the country's Supreme Court that India's investigating agencies have overlooked the role of Shyam Telelink in the 2G spectrum scam because it has links to Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
