Telecom Market

In 2022, India registered "a double-digit revenue growth in the same period over the previous year including smartphones, core wearables and TWS mobile headsets

Govt plans to include fund in upcoming telecom Bill despite telcos' opposition, officials said

It intends to improve telecom services at a time when the country is quickly adopting 5G technology

He said the government's Telecom Technology Development Fund (TTDF) would be slowly enlarged to Rs 3,000-4,000 crore over a number of years, from the current Rs 500 crore per year

Abu Dhabi's Emirates Telecommunications Group Co., also known as Etisalat, said it now owns 11% of Vodafone, up from 10% earlier

The government will come up with a methodology to check imports from neighbouring nations, which are non-compliant to trusted source rules of the telecom sector, Union minister for communications and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday. The minister had a meeting with over 40 CEOs of telecom gear makers that have qualified for production linked incentive scheme and decided to set up 4-5 task forces to provide market support to them as well as streamline their business for value addition in the economy. Telecom gear makers expressed concern around import of network gear from China, which is being routed through other neighbouring countries. When asked about concerns around such imports, the minister said, "This issue was discussed. Representatives from customs department, finance ministry and other ministries... work will be done on it to devise how to check it in a methodical manner." The minister said that the companies under telecom PLI are close to start export of their gears a

Telcos point out that based on global estimates 56% of telco bandwidth is used by OTT communication platforms and in India it is even higher due to the proliferation of users which are over 400 mn

Also ranked 6th among 26 countries in data usage growth over same period

The body's latest achievement is designing a fully indigenous non-standalone 5G core in record time

Any equity infusion cannot be below par value, says Indus Towers in its Q2 report

Development comes on the heels of Indus Towers warning the financially stressed telecom company of disconnection of services over non-payment of dues

Overall, the country added 0.7 million new telecom subscribers in July, lower than the 2.22 million new subscribers in June

The telecom industry body was responding to a DOT consultation paper, which aims at reviewing the existing legal and regulatory provisions governing telecommunications

'Where the licensee proposes establishment of overground telegraph infrastructure over any private property, the licensee shall not require any permission from authority'

Now that the bidding for spectrum is over, the next big battle lies in standalone versus non-standalone networks

Reliance Jio announced the Independence Day Prepaid Plan at Rs 2,999 per year, with benefits worth Rs 3,000. Read this article to know what to expect and how you can avail yourself of these benefits

India is likely to deploy indigenously developed and manufactured 5G telecom gears by end of this year

DoT and MeitY to issue blocking order for domain names identified by Meesho in suit

Group says policy announcement gives no predictability to industry about 'way forward'

The auction related pre-bid conference was attended by telecom operators Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea