Payments bank to promote digital transactions: Mukesh Ambani
Reliance Industries (RIL) chairman Mukesh Ambani on Friday said the payments bank license issued to its joint venture with the State Bank of India...
Uber users can now pay using Airtel Money
Bharti Airtel today announced its deal with Uber enabling its riders across India to make payment for their trips using Airtel Money.
Citizens in Mumbai...
GSMA starts mobile IoT initiative
Telecom industry body GSMA has kicked off the Mobile IoT Initiative to address the use of Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) solutions in licensed...
SwissCom invested $1.2 bn for Capex in H1
SwissCom has invested CHF 1,142 million or $1.2 billion towards Capex (capital spending) in the first half of 2015 – primarily in investments in...
MTN in talks with IHS to sell telecom towers in South Africa
MTN Group is in talks with telecom tower operator IHS Holding to sell its towers in South Africa in a deal valued at $2...
Globe Telecom invested $246 million in Capex in H1 2015
Globe Telecom has invested around PHP11.4 billion or $246 million in capital expenditures (Capex) in the first half of 2015.
The focus of Globe Telecom's...
Airtel, Vodafone, RIL get RBI nod for payment banks
Airtel M Commerce Services, Tech Mahindra, Vodafone m-pesa, Reliance Industries (RIL), Aditya Birla Nuvo, Department of Posts, Cholamandalam Distribtuion Services, Fino PayTech, National Securities...
Videocon Telecom in talks for spectrum sharing deal
Videocon Telecom, as part of reviving its 4G plans, has initiated talks with other telecom operators for spectrum sharing deal in Madhya Pradesh including...
Motorola Solutions in talks to acquire Airwave for $1.6 bn
Motorola Solutions is in talks to acquire Airwave Solutions, a U.K. communication services provider, for $1.6 billion, Bloomberg reported.
The strategy of Motorola Solutions is...
DoT suggests 7 strategies to telecoms to better QoS
Department of Telecommunications (DoT) Secretary Rakesh Garg wants Indian telecoms to adopt the following investment strategies to improve quality of services (QoS).
# deployment of...
Telecom industry writes to Govt on mobile tower sealing
As operators and the government trade charges over the call drops issue, three main associations of the telecom industry on Tuesday wrote to the...
Govt asks telecom operators to improve service quality
The government has asked the telecom service providers to improve quality of service by focusing on improving capital expenditure and optimising resource utilisation to...
Wi-Fi calling dials-in, but services must adapt to survive
Mark Windle, head of Marketing, OpenCloud, says Wi-Fi calling one year ago was a service offered by a small number of operators, available to...
UN to contact AT&T following spying report
The United Nations will contact US telecom giant AT&T following a report confirming that the company had helped the US National Security Agency (NSA)...
Ooredoo Maldives bags ISP license, targets biz customers
Ooredoo Maldives has received an Internet Service Provider (ISP) License from the Communication Authority of the Maldives (CAM).
The new license will enable Ooredoo Maldives...
Telenor CEO Sigve Brekke assumes charge
Telenor CEO Sigve Brekke on Monday assumed charge to take the telecom operator to the next level.
Brekke replaced Jon Fredrik Baksaas, president and CEO of...
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