Telecom Ministry proposes revised structure for BharatNet project

July 2016

The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology will seek Cabinet approval for phase-II of the BharatNet project by September wherein it ha...

Tags: Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Cabinet, Ravi Shankar Prasad, BharatNet project, Telecom Ministry

Telecom Ministry proposes revised structure for BharatNet project

July 2016

The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology will seek Cabinet approval for phase-II of the BharatNet project by September wherein it ha...

Tags: Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Cabinet, Ravi Shankar Prasad, BharatNet project, Telecom Ministry

Make in India Exhibition extravaganza

March 2016

The first Make In India Week was held in Mumbai and was the biggest ever show of the country´s manufacturing prowess. With a business commitment of R...

Tags: Make In India, Amitabh Kant, Construction Machinery, Infrastructure, Stefan Lofven, Juha Sipila, Piotr Glinski, Yosuke Takagi, Cesar Fergozo, Ignasius Jonan, Som Prasad Pandey, Narendra Modi, Arun Jaitley, Manohar Parrikar, Nitin Gadkari

Govt to take stand on internet calls after TRAI submission

March 2016

Government is awaiting telecom regulator TRAI´s recommendations on voice-calling apps, called Over-the-Top players, to take a stand on internet-based...

Tags: TRAI, Ravi Shankar Prasad, VoIP

Telcos have arrears of Rs.49,988.44 cr: Min

January 2016

Telecom companies have arrears, including that from licence fee and spectrum charges, to the tune of Rs.49,988.44 crore....

Tags: Telcos, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Electro Magnetic Frequency, EMF, Supreme Court

COAI reiterates demand for review of pricing of CDMA airwaves

October 2015

GSM industry body Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has escalated a war of letters by writing to the Telecom minister, reiterating its d...

Tags: GSM Industry, Cellular Operators Association of India, Ravi Shankar Prasad, COAI, Rajan Mathews, M&A, Airwaves

Govt mulls penalty for call drops

September 2015

As the call drop menace refuses to subside, the government is now weighing the option of slapping a penalty on telecom operators. Individual letters ...

Tags: Telecom, Narendra Modi, Ravi Shankar Prasad, DoT, BSNL, MTNL, Public sector