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Spectrum auction bid dips again, reaches Rs 101,423 crore

The provisional bid during the ongoing spectrum auction decreased to Rs 101,423 crore on Friday from Rs 102,057 crore from Thursday. The NDA government has...

Orange Money in pact with Airtel for Cote d’Ivoire

Orange today announced its mobile money partnership with Airtel to send and receive money to or from people based in a country outside the...
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Spectrum auction bid remains at Rs 1 lakh crore on Friday

Spectrum auction, according to the Ministry of Communications and IT, fetched over Rs 1 lakh crore as per the provisional bidding on Friday. This indicates...
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Sprint wants more, ready to reimburse full costs to switch

American wireless carrier Sprint – in a direct bid to take on AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile – announced that it would reimburse all of...
BSNL NextGen network inaugurated

Telecom minister inaugurates BSNL next generation network

Communications and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday inaugurated the next generation network of BSNL by making a video call to BSNL officers in...
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Telecom towers no health threat: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Friday that fears of mobile towers being hazardous to health are not true, adding that reports from...
VimpelCom CEO Jean-Yves Charlier

VimpelCom names Jean-Yves Charlier as CEO, Jo Lunder resigned

VimpelCom Group Chief Executive Officer Jo Lunder has decided to step down. SFR veteran Jean-Yves Charlier will be the new group CEO, said VimpelCom. Before joining...
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Telecom spectrum auction day 9: bid crosses Rs 1 lakh crore

Spectrum auction – as per provisional bidding -- on Thursday touched Rs 102,000 crore, the ministry of Communications and IT said today. Telecom operators such...
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Ofcom to review telecom market in UK, after 10-year gap

British telecom regulator Ofcom today announced its plans to review Digital Communications that will examine competition, investment, innovation and the availability of products in...
Ericsson bags managed services deal from Warid Telecom

Ericsson bags managed services deal from Warid Telecom

Warid Telecom, a mobile service provider in Pakistan, today said it extended its managed services contract with Ericsson for another three years. Enhanced network performance,...
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Spectrum auction bid value touches Rs 96,000 crore

The provisional value of spectrum on Wednesday’s bidding reached Rs 96,000 crore against Rs 92,200 crore on Tuesday. Telecom operators such as Tata Teleservices, Idea...
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Shift to 1,800 and 800 MHz bands pulls down spectrum auction price

The Rs 1,800 crore drop in the total value of highest provisional bids on the seventh day of e-auction of spectrum for telecom services...
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Telecom spectrum auction day 7: bid value drops to Rs 92,200 crore

Ministry of Communications and IT today said the provisional bid value on Tuesday i.e. day seven of the spectrum auction reached Rs 92,200 crore...

TRAI gets two part-time members

The Government has appointed two part-time members at the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). These two part-time members of TRAI includes M Jagadesh Kumar, professor, IIT,...
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Globe Telecom signs P 7 bn loan with PNB to fund Capex

Globe Telecom has signed a 7-year, P 7 billion term loan with the Philippine National Bank to fund its Capex (capital expenditures) and general...
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Eastern Oregon Telecom taps Huawei for gigabit broadband in rural areas

Eastern Oregon Telecom has selected Huawei to launch a gigabit broadband network to rural homes and businesses in Hermiston, Ore. As part of the network...

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