Page 29 - Telecom Sector

Birla flags liquidity, spectrum payment issue at meet with telecom minister

Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman of Vodafone Idea, also expressed concern over Rs 300 bn that is locked up on account of GST payment under 'reverse charge mechanism'

DoT to meet telcos this month over service quality, calls it a big concern

Railway routes between Allahabad to Gorakhpur, Delhi to Mumbai and Jabalpur to Singrauli were covered

Video experience, 4G availability improves substantially in India: Report

The report notes that mobile networks in India are getting faster and faster, consumer habits are changing, and the thirst for video content is now shaping operator strategy

Committees set up to sort issues telcos raised at India Mobile Congress

Bharti Airtel Chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal, at the India Mobile Congress had said that the telecom sector remains highly taxed just like the tobacco industry

Expect 3 more qtrs of losses for telcos due to unsustainable tariffs: COAI

Industry's financial metrics have taken a hit since the entry of Reliance Jio in 2016 which set off a brutal tariff war, forcing older players such as Airtel, Vodafone Idea to cut tariffs

FDI in telecom sector jumped five times in three years: Manoj Sinha

FDI would be the key to unleash the full potential of upcoming technologies like M2M, machine learning, artificial intelligence and internet of things, he says

No endgame to the telecom face-off yet

In terms of revenue market share, Vodafone-Idea holds about 34 per cent, with Airtel at 31 per cent and RJio at 22 per cent

Ringing in change

The Telecom Commission swings from revenue maximisation to universal coverage in poll season

Govt should grow up, Indian telecom sector can't be treated as piggy bank

Government should have the courage to make decisions that benefit companies investing in a struggling sector

Letter to BS: Cut-throat competition among telcos is fair, may the best win

There is still enough head room in the domain

India needs 100,000 telecom towers to cater to the rising data demand

The upcoming National Telecom Policy aims to garner an investment of $100 billion in the telecom sector in five years

Telecom: Where is the money?

Jio's reported capital expenditure was Rs 140 billion in Q4, double its Q3 capex of Rs 70 billion

Idea worst hit in Q4 among telcos, to report a five fold increase in losses

While ARPU decline will impact all the operators, the sector given RJio's revenues could post a sequential uptick in revenue

Things will soon improve for telecom sector, says Manoj Sinha

Due to the decline in revenue, licence fee and spectrum charges paid to the government also fell in the quarter

Nokia, Ericsson spot huge biz potential in telecom sector consolidation

With three private players dominating the sector soon, equipment providers feel they need will to ramp with infra to tackle 40% growth in data traffic

Statsguru: Telecom sector is going through a tumultuous period

The sector's gross revenues contracted by 7% in the quarter ended September, over the same period in the previous year

Telecom sector needs over 4.7 mn extra manpower by 2022: Telecom Minister

Sinha said the government is implementing programmes to improve connectivity through BharatNet

Telecom Commission to discuss relief measures for stressed telcos on Friday

Some relief is in the offing for telecom operators as the Telecom Commission (TC) will meet tomorrow to consider the measures proposed by inter-ministerial group for easing the financial stress in the sector.The Commission, which is also the highest decision making body of Department of Telecommunications (DoT), has already approved increasing the timeframe for deferred spectrum payments to 16 years as well as a change in calculating interest for delayed payments. In the meeting tomorrow, a decision will be taken regarding the spectrum caps. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has recommended raising the 25 per cent overall spectrum limit to 35 per cent whereas the 50 per cent intra-band cap has been removed. In place of it, the regulator has proposed having a cap of 50 per cent on the combined spectrum holding in the sub-1 GHz bands (700, 800 and 900 MHz). The move for relaxing caps will benefit operators such as Vodafone and Idea Cellular to retain their airwaves after .

Trai proposes ways to ease doing of business in telecom sector

To improve ease of doing business, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has proposed some new measures.These include approval to a merged entity within 30 days of a go-ahead from the National Company Law Tribuunal (NCLT), giving telcos up to a year to surrender or trade excess airwaves in the case of a merger, permitting trading in all bands which have been put on auction, plus easier penalty norms.If the department of telecommunications (DoT) agrees, the proposed mergers of Bharti Airtel-Telenor, Vodafone-Idea Cellular and Bharti Airtel-Tata Teleservice's mobile business would all get approval in a short span. In the past, DoT had taken several months for approving mergers between companies even after a NCLT okay.For instance, after NCLT approval, the Airtel-Qualcomm merger approval from DoT took six to seven months. That of Reliance Communications and Sistema Shyam Teleservices took around four months. Industry representatives say this delay increases the uncertainty ...

On eve of 2G judgment, telecom sector looks to 5G

How the fifth generation mobile telephony pans out will be determined by the revenue model the government offers the industry