Economic Times | April 7, 2011
NEW DELHI: Stepping up the pace of its inquiry into the 2G telecom scam , the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament has summoned cabinet secretary K M Chandrasekhar and principal secretary to the Prime Minister T K A Nair...
Wall Street Journal | April 5, 2011 | R. Jai Krishna
NEW DELHI -- Vodafone International Holdings B.V., the Netherlands-based holding company of Vodafone-Essar Ltd., Tuesday said it has filed a petition in India's Supreme Court challenging the country's tax authority notice imposing penalties on...
The Korea Herald | April 5, 2011 | Cho Ji-hyun
Regulator to sell rights to 2.1 GHz spectrum this year; major firms keen on acquiring
Korean telecom carriers are engaged in a high-stake competition to win a new wireless broadband spectrum which the state media regulator Korea...
Malaya Business Insight | April 1, 2011 | Myla Iglesias
<!---->The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) said it will review the acquisition by Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. of JG Summit Inc’s mobile unit Digital Telecommunication Inc to protect consumers against monopoly and a sudden spike...
Bangkok Post | March 31, 2011 | Komsan Tortermvasana
The Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Ministry has abandoned its proposal to build two satellites in order to retain the country's orbital slot rights.
The plan cannot go ahead until the new industry regulator, the National Broadcasting and...
The Daily Star | March 30, 2011 | Abdullah Mamun
BTRC makes the move as deadline looms for licence renewal
The telecom regulator will open audits into mobile phone operators next week and has already appointed two firms for the task, said officials yesterday.
Initially, top two operators...
Economic Times | March 29, 2011 | Joji Thomas Philip
NEW DELHI: The United States government will seek changes in India's policies on telecom security and encryption in its next meeting with the telecoms department officials here, an executive aware of the development told ET.
Also on...
Economic Times | March 29, 2011 | Joji Thomas Philip
NEW DELHI: The United States government will seek changes in India's policies on telecom security and encryption in its next meeting with the telecoms department officials here, an executive aware of the development told ET.
Also on...
Wall Street Journal | March 28, 2011 | Ray Brindal
CANBERRA—Australia's parliament has agreed on legislation that sets out the regulatory framework for the National Broadband Network, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Stephen Conroy said Monday.
The legislation passed the House of Representatives...
Wall Street Journal | March 28, 2011 | Ray Brindal
CANBERRA—Australia's parliament has agreed on legislation that sets out the regulatory framework for the National Broadband Network, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy Stephen Conroy said Monday.
The legislation passed the House of Representatives...
The New York Times | March 27, 2011 | Heather Timmons
NEW DELHI — When the British mobile phone giant Vodafone bought an Indian wireless company for $11 billion in 2007, the chief executive at the time, Arun Sarin, praised the new “tremendously exciting, fast-moving market.”
But...
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...
TeleGeography | March 25, 2011
Brazil’s antitrust regulator Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Economica (Administrative Council for Economic Defense, or Cade) approved on Wednesday, without limitation, Vivendi’s acquisition of GVT Holding, controller of local telco Global Village Telecom (GVT). The French telecoms and entertainment group originally...
Herald Sun | March 25, 2011 | Jordan Chong
THE head of Australia's No. 2 telco says proposed legislative amendments for the National Broadband Network will fail to create the desired level playing field for all industry players.
Optus chief executive Paul O'Sullivan says he is...
The Star | March 25, 2011 | Leong Hung Yee
PETALING JAYA: Both Axiata Group Bhd and Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM) have barred Alcatel-Lucent from participating in tenders, contracts or joint ventures for a year following the call from Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC).
“Alcatel-Lucent welcomes the MACC recommendation...
SKN Vibes | March 23, 2011
BASSETERRE St. Kitts, March 23rd, 2011 (SKNIS) - Government’s effort to provide greater e-services and boost efficiency within the public sector is being assisted by a team from the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) who are undertaking a three month...
Nasdaq | March 24, 2011 | R. Jai Krishna
NEW DELHI -(Dow Jones)- India's telecommunications regulator will send its proposals to formulate a single country policy on setting up tower infrastructure to the government next week, Chairman J.S. Sarma said Thursday.
Sarma, however, didn't elaborate on...
The Jamaica Observer | March 20, 2011
LIME Jamaica has said that given the significance of the Digicel/Claro merger to the Jamaican telecommunications industry, the Government, the Office of Utilities Regulations (OUR) and the Fair Trading Commission (FTC) should carefully assess the deal, before approval...
The Economic Times | March 22, 2011 | Deepshikha Sikarwar
NEW DELHI: The income tax authorities will need to go through another layer of scrutiny before they are allowed permission to listen to private phone conversation.
All requests for phone tapping of tax offenders or those...
Wall Street Journal | March 22, 2011 | Loretta Chao
BEIJING—Weeks of government disruption of Google Inc.'s email service and of services used to circumvent Web censorship is fueling frustration among Internet users in China and raising concerns the curbs may be long-lasting.
Google, after getting...
Wall Street Journal | March 22, 2011 | Loretta Chao
BEIJING—Weeks of government disruption of Google Inc.'s email service and of services used to circumvent Web censorship is fueling frustration among Internet users in China and raising concerns the curbs may be long-lasting.
Google, after getting...
Wall Street Journal| March 16, 2011 | Anthony Harrup
MEXICO CITY (Dow Jones)--Mexico's telecommunications regulator said Wednesday that it has settled a dispute on interconnection rates between Mexico's leading mobile phone operator, America Movil SAB (AMX, AMX.MX) unit Telcel, and fixed-line phone company Alestra, setting...
