Topic: Telecom Industry

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.