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Topic: Telecom

Telecom regulator tells service providers to curb spam messages within 45 days

TRAI has told service providers that use of more than three variable parts in the contents would be permitted only with proper justification and additional checks.

Budget 2023: Coming up, 100 5G labs to develop applications — smart classrooms to healthcare

Labs will be set up in engineering institutions, says FM. She also announces relief in customs duty on import of certain phone components.

Telcos asked to halt 5G near airports over safety concerns, but experts say ‘don’t worry’

DoT says that 5G sites up to 2.1 km away from airports should be avoided at least till DGCA ensures tech upgrade. Experts, however, assert advanced tech is there to ensure safety.

‘New India will not remain a mere consumer of technology’ says PM Modi while launching 5G in India

5G was launched at India Mobile Congress, the country’s flagship telecom event. Telecom giants praised the new tech, announced timelines for implementation as early as March 2023

Licence for call, video apps, easing insolvency issues — what’s in Modi govt’s draft telecom bill

Draft bill released Wednesday continues to reserve for govt the right to intercept calls and take control of telecom services during a war or whenever national security is invoked.

Why OTTs, telcos mustn’t lock horns over infra cost-sharing

There is no evidence to suggest that the increased penetration of OTT services has adversely affected the revenues and profits of telecom operators.

How Gati Shakti master plan has pulled ministries out of silos, is helping plan projects better

PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan, a Rs 100 lakh-crore project for developing infra, is increasing synergy across ministries, which is expected to speed up implementation.

India doesn’t need speed breakers. Modi govt right to help automobile, telecom

Ease of business and industrial output should not remain shackled to constantly changing political processes and rigid bureaucracy.

Retrospective tax is a start, Modi govt needs to do more to make India’s playing field fairer

Retrospective taxes are just one facet of arbitrary state action. MNCs that have committed billions of dollars have many other legal minefields awaiting them.

Reliance Jio emerges biggest bidder for telecom spectrum as it buys 73% of airwaves sold

Of the total Rs 778.2 billion raised in the latest spectrum auction, rival Bharti Airtel spent Rs 186.99 billion while Vodafone India unit acquired spectrum worth Rs 19.9 billion.

On Camera

Game on in Gujarat — Ahmedabad is building India’s new sports economy

The massive success of the IPL is a watershed moment in Indian sports. It proved that sports could be an incredibly profitable commercial venture. The glamour, the glitz, and the spectacle of it didn’t go unnoticed.

Consumer Price Index gets up to date. Airfare, OTT plans, e-commerce prices in new basket—MoSPI secy

New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.

Joint production, closer ties, emerging tech: The foundation of new defence pact between India & US

The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.