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Voda Idea's loss jumps 4 times to Rs 25,460 cr in Q1; revenue falls 5.4%

The result indicated the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown, but its overall performance was weighed down by financial stress

To convert 2G to 4G, telecom companies need to invest $8 billion

Availability of low-cost smartphones and tariffs also key to make the country 2G-free

25 years of mobile telephony: PM Modi congratulates telecom industry

Telecom Secretary Anshu Prakash indicated how telecom services had kept it all going during the Covid-19 crisis

Time to make 2G telecom services part of history, says Mukesh Ambani

Reliance Jio shares platform with Bharti Airtel to ring in 25 years of mobile telephony

25 years of telecom: Boon for India's business tycoons, bane for MNCs

Big business houses such as the Tatas, Anil Ambani, multinationals like Malaysian tycoon T Ananda Krishna of Maxis failed to create viable businesses

Reliance Jio pre-tax profit zooms 147% in June quarter, revenue up 33.7%

Ebitda for the June quarter grew 55.4 per cent to Rs 7,281 crore

Bharti Infratel Q1 profit before tax declines 15% to Rs 943 crore

The consolidated profit after tax for the quarter was down 21 per cent at Rs 704 crore from Rs 887 crore in the same period last year.

Vodafone, Airtel defend premium plans; say no impact on other network users

They said the subscribers of the plans constitute only a small portion of overall customer base

We are all charged up for the next 25 years: Bharti Airtel chairman

Telecom sector has spent years fighting regulatory and legal battles. They could have been better spent on serving the customers and strengthening the network, writes Sunil Bharti Mittal

ATC India's Umang Das recalls the day India's mobile revolution began

India's telecom revolution started with then West Bengal CM Jyoti Basu saying the first 'hello' to then Union communications minister Sukh Ram in a Kolkata hotel

From Sukh Ram to Mukesh Ambani, here're the men who changed telecom

With a charge of Rs 18/min for voice calls to free voice calls now, and a burgeoning subscriber base, India's telecom sector has come a long way. We look at the men who made all of this possible

25 years since the first mobile call: Roller-coaster ride for telecom

It's been through dizzying peaks, troughs, policy U-turns, court battles, brutal competition, and daily controversies

Missed call to free call: The 25-year journey of India's telecom industry

On July 31, 1995, mobile telephony began in India at Rs 16.80 a minute peak tariff. Now, most local voice calls are free, a market which has the largest subscriber base in the world after China

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Centre likely to reduce AGR licence fee for wireless broadband to Re 1

Cabinet likely to take up the issue in its next meeting

SC reserves verdict on time frame for staggered payment of telcos AGR dues

The Centre had earlier urged the top court that up to 20 years be given to telecom companies for the payment of dues in staggered manner

Data surge, 4G transition lift telecom firms out of Covid-19 blues

The last of the five-part series looks at the sector that was relatively unaffected by the Covid-induced lockdown

Vodafone Idea gets TDSAT relief, allowed to offer premium tariff plans

Says Trai move to freeze schemes without reason, merit

TDSAT reserves order on premium tariff; verdict on plans expected today

Verdict on plans expected today

Jio adds 4.7 million users, Vodafone Idea loses 6.4 million, says Trai

The number of telephone subscribers in India decreased from 1,180.84 million at the end of February to 1,177.97 million at the end of March, thereby showing a monthly decline rate of 0.24 per cent.