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TopicTelecom Industry

Topic: Telecom Industry

C-DOT, C R Rao AIMSCS join forces to bolster India’s telecom security

The project focuses on building infrastructure to capture side-channel data leakages. This involves monitoring power usage changes in real-time from Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) during cryptographic algorithm execution.

Net neutrality under threat? It’s OTTs vs telcos again over proposed internet usage fee

In submissions to TRAI, telecom service providers ask for OTTs to pay them a fair charge for the increased data use they generate. OTTs say this could raise internet cost for consumers.

Understatement to say financial health of telcos has improved: Cellular Operators Association of India

COAI chief S.P. Kochhar says average revenue per user (ARPU) for telcos has not increased how it should've for 'healthy industry' & insists spectrum prices be brought down further.

‘No indications yet that telecom sector will revert to 2-player market’ says COAI’s S.P. Kochhar

In an exclusive interview, the director general at Cellular Operators Association of India says govt has done 'a lot' but the telecom industry requires more financial support to prosper.

Why 5G phones are still priced too high for most Indians — ‘Democratisation yet to happen’

Unaffordable 5G phones are a product of macroeconomic conditions and poor marketing choices by phone makers, and the main losers are the economically weaker sections, say analysts.

Bharti Airtel stumbles on high income tax expense, misses quarterly profit estimate

India’s second-largest telecom carrier, helmed by billionaire Sunil Mittal, posted a 2.8% fall in net income to Rs 830 crores for the quarter ended 31 December 2021.

Air India chief Rajiv Bansal appointed as Civil Aviation Secretary

K Rajaraman, additional secretary in the Dept of Economic Affairs, was also appointed as Telecommunications Secretary during a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle Wednesday.

Global investors are afraid to look at Indian telecom market. Vodafone CEO can change that

A true revival of the Indian telecom sector will require an optimistic view of the future, which is a difficult ask given the industry’s chequered past.

Govt relief package for telecom sector should end the crisis, encourage entry of newer players

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4-year moratorium, 100% FDI via automatic route: Cabinet approves major telecom reforms

Union minister Ashwini Vaishnav said 9 structural reforms were approved in the sector, adding these measures are expected to ease the cash flow issues being faced by some people.

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In Great Game for Kabul, India plays a patient hand. Multi-alignment to compartmentalisation

Pakistan’s reported air strikes on Kabul last night, coinciding with Acting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi’s visit to India, seem intended to send...

Geomysore Services to begin full-scale production at private gold mine in Andhra Pradesh

The company said initial output will be around 500 kg a year, rising to nearly 1,000 kg annually once statutory clearances are secured. 

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

How Pakistan thinks: Army for hire, ideology of convenience

Pakistan’s army has been a rentier force available to a reasonable bidder. It has never come to the aid of any Muslims including Palestinians or the Gazans, except making noises here and there.