Page 10 - Telecom Industry

VIL gets shareholders' nod to raise borrowing limit, issuance of securities

Shareholders of the company, which was earlier listed as Idea Cellular, had approved a borrowing limit of Rs 25,000 crore at its AGM in September 2014

Vi starts upgrading 3G subscribers to 4G, to continue 2G voice services

This will allow it to offer faster 4G data speeds to its 3G users

TEC providing free access to technical documents, industry lauds move

Domestic telecom gear maker body TEMA appreciated the development, saying this was a long-pending demand of the players

Trai chief calls for creating shareable telecom infra in buildings

Trai Chairman R S Sharma said that contrary to general perception that availability of mobile towers will solve all problems, in-building connectivity still remains a challenge.

Top headlines: Delhi, Mumbai slide in ARPU ranking; MSP raised amid protest

From Delhi, Mumbai sliding in ARPU ranking to govt raising MSP amid farmer protests, here are top headlines this morning

Trai chief advocates robust broadband, open systems, local manufacturing

Sharma exuded confidence that "right environment and incentives" can propel domestic manufacturing in India

Tariffs unsustainable at present, raising important: Vodafone Idea CEO

Vodafone Idea CEO Ravinder Takkar, in a short Q&A session with the media, was emphatic that tariff rise was inevitable to sustain the telecom business. Edited excerpts

10 years to pay AGR dues puts a question mark on Vodafone Idea's survival

Indian telecom sector moving to a virtual duopoly is not a desirable development

How the SC order on use of natural resources could muffle investments

If a resource has become useful only because someone has improved it through an investment, there should be no reason not to let that addition be counted and the valuation determined accordingly

Telecom industry lost over 5.6 million wireless users in May: Trai

Reliance Jio bucks trend, adds 3.65 million users during the month, taking overall number to 392.7 million

Sunil Mittal hints at mobile services price hike, low rates not sustainable

Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal on Monday hinted at an increase in mobile services prices in the next six months, saying that data at low rates is not sustainable for the telecom industry.

Accelerating domestic output of telecom gear in strategic interest: Trai

India is evaluating whether Huawei and ZTE should be kept out of upcoming 5G trials, though a final decision on the issue is yet to come

Digital offerings growing area of investment for every telco: Report

Digital offerings represent a "growing area of investment" for every telecom company, with Reliance Jio leading the way, according to an analyst report

Vodafone-Idea's fate hinges on the Supreme Court's AGR verdict today

The company's future as a going concern, as it has admitted in its results for the June quarter of 2020-21, will be crucially dependent on the SC decision on repayment tenure

Telcos defy Covid-19, see strong revenue growth on higher data usage: Fitch

Revenue market share continues to consolidate with Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel as Vodafone Idea loses 10 million users per quarter

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

Telecom Secretary Anshu Prakash asks industry to boost rural connectivity

Telecom services have grown in leaps and bounds becoming "a basic requirement in list of essentials" but the path ahead is fraught with "challenges" for the industry

Airtel renews pan-India managed services partnership with Ericsson

Bharti Airtel has renewed its agreement with Swedish telecom gear maker Ericsson to manage pan-India network operations, the companies said in a joint statement

Airtel to pay May salaries of 30,000 staffers of retail, distribution firms

The company has, accordingly, urged the partners to pass the base monthly pay to all their staff for May

SC questions DoT's AGR demand on PSUs, says it is 'totally impermissible'

A Bench of Justices Arun Mishra, S Abdul Nazeer and M R Shah raised questions on the demand raised by the government from PSUs and said its verdict in the case had been misinterpreted