Telecom Ministry

Vodafone CEO Nick Read blames media for misrepresenting his statement; says telecom firm to stay invested in India

Vodafone Group CEO Nick Read is learnt to have written back to Prime Minister Narendra Modi promising that the company will remain invested and blamed the media for distorting his remarks made around telecom business in India

SC ruling on AGR: Telecom industry body COAI ignores Jio's protest; seeks waiver of all past statutory dues for Airtel, Vodafone Idea

Jio says COAI shot off the first representation to the government on 30 October without waiting for its comments.

Govt spend on telecom infra, service up six-fold in 5 years to Rs 60,000 cr; average mobile data usage grows 51 times

During the five years, government funded installation for 2335 mobile towers in Left-wing extremism-affected areas in phase 1 with outlay of Rs 4,781 crore.

CAG finds shortcomings in spectrum allocations in 2015 on first-cum-first-service basis, losses to exchequer

The auditor found that a set of the spectrum was allocated to a telecom operator in 2015 on the first-cum-first-service (FCFS) basis in contravention to the recommendations of a committee

ISRO, telecom ministry in talks to set up new network of communications satellites

ISRO's GSATs, located 36,000 kms away, cause a time-lag between transmission & reception of signals.

Telecom relief package 'difficult' as companies not speaking in unison on financial stress: Govt official

Telecom sector has been battered by falling tariffs, eroding profitability, and mounting debt, in the face of stiff competition triggered by disruptive offerings of Reliance Jio, owned by Mukesh Ambani.

Rules of in-flight mobile connectivity to be notified soon; awaiting law ministry's nod: Telecom minister Manoj Sinha

Telecom Ministry is currently awaiting the views of Law Ministry on in-flight connectivity rules and is hopeful of notifying the norms soon thereafter, Manoj Sinha said.

Personal Data Protection Bill: Right step, but fighting fraud will be a tight rope walk for most companies

Consent becomes a critical point here if one were to attempt to access individual data as part of a routine fraud risk management activity

Govt approves Idea-Vodafone merger, companies need to complete some formalities: Telecom minister Manoj Sinha

The combined operations of Idea and Vodafone will create the country's largest telecom operator worth over Rs 1.5 lakh crore, with a 35 percent market share

5G panel says around 6,000 Mhz of spectrum can be ready for next gen mobile services

Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha has set the target for commercial roll out of 5G services in India by 2020.