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TopicTelecom Industry

Topic: Telecom Industry

Why Supreme Court’s AGR relief for Vodafone Idea can trigger questions of fair play in telecom

Uniformity of rules should be the playbook across sectors. Different rules, whether for telecom players, retail entities or online businesses, would invariably trigger the level-playing questions.

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.

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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India could lag in 5G race if govt doesn’t make airwaves cheaper, says telecom industry body

Lowering airwaves base price has been a longstanding industry demand. However, proceeds from 5G auction, likely next year, is an important revenue source that could help spur pandemic-hit economy.

On Camera

Why legal provisions are necessary to curb the power of trade unions: MH Mody

The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Embraer moves full throttle in pursuit of IAF contract, ties up with Hindalco after Adani

IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.