Infrastructure service providers in the telecom sector such as tower companies and optical fibre cable providers on Monday strongly opposed the proposed licence fee on them.
The telecom ministry on Tuesday issued show-cause notices to five private operators, including Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Reliance Communication, for under reporting revenues, as per a special audit report, for assessment years starting from 2006 to 2008.
Telecommunications solutions provider Tata Communications has started offering a software solution as a service with its Internet-based human capital management application InstaHCM.
The Supreme Court ordered telecoms licences issued under a scandal-tainted 2008 sale be revoked, striking a decisive blow against corruption that plagues the country and roiling the world's number two cellular market.
Globally, 30 billion pieces of information are shared on Facebook every month, 350 billion tweets make their way into the online world every day, and more than 300 billion email conversations happen daily, as a norm.
Samsung Electronics on Friday posted a record operating profit of 5.3 trillion won ($4.72 billion) in the fourth quarter and a net profit of four trillion, thanks largely to booming smartphone sales.
AT&T Inc posted a $6.7 billion quarterly loss as it was weighed down by a hefty break-up fee for its failed T-Mobile USA merger and other big charges on top of costly subsidies for smartphones such as Apple Inc’s popular iPhone.
India’s digital data will grow 60-fold to 2.3 million petabytes by 2020, a study by IDC has found.
The Germany-based SAP, which provides business software and applications for enterprises, does not see global economic slowdown translating into IT expenditure cut by businesses in India.
In one of the biggest announcements related to job creation at the World Economic Forum (WEF), Indian IT major HCL Technologies on Thursday said the company will create 10,000 local jobs in Europe and the US over the next five years.
There were fireworks at a closed-door meeting between IT and communications minister Kapil Sibal and leaders of the telecom industry on Tuesday, as honchos were divided on the government's proposed spectrum allocation regime,
Manoj Gairola reports.
With efforts to usher in digitisation in the country, the government is mulling over a set of proposals including a 10-year tax holiday, duty exemptions, granting infrastructure status etc for the broadcasting industry.
The Telecom Department has sought shareholding pattern of the Tatas in the erstwhile BATATA (now Idea), between 2004 and 2006, from the Corporate Affairs Ministry to see if there was any violation of licence norms with regard to cross holding of equity.