DoT gets TRAI's nod on free roaming

19 Mar, 2012, 2:40 pm IST Anuradha Shetty General 5 Comments

One of telecom sector’s crucial moments, what the nation refers to as the National Telecom Policy (NTP) is ... More

Airtel chief predicts rising mobile tariffs, if spectrum is charged

02 Mar, 2012, 5:57 pm IST Naina Khedekar Mobile services

TRAI's decision about one-time fee for additional spectrum consumed by operators has been making rounds ... More

Qualcomm to get wireless broadband services permit in India

25 Feb, 2012, 1:04 pm IST Naina Khedekar Services

Last year, we saw that India had agreed to grant an Internet service license to Qualcomm. The U.S chip making ... More

Intelligence Bureau asks telcos to keep a tab on mobile Internet traffic

24 Feb, 2012, 10:43 am IST Naina Khedekar Services 1 Comments

The Intelligence Bureau now demands that the telecom ministry must ask phone companies to implement ... More

DoT to impose one-time fee on a prospective basis

18 Feb, 2012, 1:46 pm IST Naina Khedekar Services

The telecom commission had decided to charge a one-time fee for the additional spectrum that goes beyond 6.2MHz ... More

Next from Sibal: Mobile user tracking in latitudes and longitudes

16 Feb, 2012, 3:50 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Services 7 Comments

If you're still seething over social media censorship, you may just have to brace yourself for something more.... More

Government introduces new policy for telcos

16 Feb, 2012, 11:52 am IST Naina Khedekar Services

After an array of changes enforced upon telcos, the government has finally announced new telecom policy (NTP) ... More

No entry fee to migrate to Unified License, proposes TRAI

11 Feb, 2012, 9:08 am IST Naina Khedekar Services 1 Comments

TRAI who has initiated several regulations starting the second half of last year has now proposed to operators that they need not pay entry fee for migrating More

DoT to charge one-time fee for spectrum beyond 6.2MHz

28 Jan, 2012, 2:37 pm IST Naina Khedekar Services 1 Comments

Telecom commission has now declared that it will charge a one-time fee for extra spectrum that goes beyond ... More

India may get Rs. 450 crore worth secure network

09 Jan, 2012, 6:26 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Services

If the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) makes up its mind on it, there would be a secure network ... More

Telcos illegally adding 3G roaming subscribers, says BSNL

04 Jan, 2012, 10:59 am IST Naina Khedekar Services

Worries for private telcos over 3G services just don’t seem to end. The telcos had earlier approached The Telecom ... More

Airtel, like Vodafone to remove inactive numbers from network

23 Dec, 2011, 10:38 am IST Naina Khedekar Services 2 Comments

The telecom department's decision to allocate phone numbers of users who's numbers were inactive for over ... More

60 days' SIM inactivity will get you kicked off Vodafone

20 Dec, 2011, 10:30 am IST Naina Khedekar Services 3 Comments

The latest announcement from Vodafone reveals that it would discontinue prepaid phone numbers which are inactive at a stretch of 60 days. This decision comes More

Complaints against pesky calls decrease

26 Nov, 2011, 10:57 am IST Naina Khedekar Services

Over the past few months, TRAI has been adopting several means to keep pesky calls by telemarketers, at bay. More

Spectrum price revision may add to mobile tariffs

04 Nov, 2011, 4:41 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Services

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), has according to a report in the Times of India sought for a jump in the ... More

A third of purchased mobile numbers are unused in India

02 Nov, 2011, 2:41 pm IST Padmini Harchandrai Mobile phones

The Indian government says that officially there are approximately 900 million mobile subscribers in India, of which as many ... More

UPDATE: DoT blinks first, grants Qualcomm ISP license

20 Oct, 2011, 11:54 am IST Anuradha Shetty Mobile phones

An earlier report in this respect had pointed out at U.S.-based chipmaker, Qualcomm's failed attempt at seeking licenses from DoT. More

DoT calls complete ban on BBM 'undesirable', if RIM complies

10 Oct, 2011, 12:43 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Smartphones

Popular smartphone manufacturer, RIM did have to face rough waters in India over security issues pertaining to its... More

DoT seeks to empower TRAI, approaches Parliament

23 Aug, 2011, 1:00 pm IST Anuradha Shetty Smartphones

In a bid to make TRAI a force to reckon with, the Department of Telecom has informed the Parliament of its plans to make TRAI more accountable to the government, More

Airtel Unblocks All FileSharing Sites

22 Jul, 2011, 4:59 pm IST Shayne Rana ISPs 6 Comments

Update: Airtel’s official twitter ID has tweeted that all filesharing sites are accessible using its network and none of them are blocked. More