The Telecom Commission on Tuesday decided to adopt the weighted average formula, operator-wise, to calculate the spectrum usage charge and include the 2300 (BWA) MHz spectrum acquired through auctions in 2010 in the weight.
Telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad may have got the telecom industry up in arms over his campaign against call drops, but he has also worked hard to address the industry’s biggest constraint, that of shortage of spectrum
The Department of Telecom (DoT) is likely to get around 202 Mhz spectrum in 1,800 Mhz band due to harmonisation of airwaves by early next month, which will be put for auction in July.
From greater autonomy to oil PSUs for crude procurement, highway construction and expansion to the National Hydrology Project and enhancing technical expertise for Indian Railways, the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister
The Department of Telecom is going to approach the Cabinet to seek its approval for change in policy to liberalise spectrum that were allocated to mobile service providers without auction.
The Telecom Commission's decision to charge a flat 3% spectrum usage charge (SUC) on mobile operators' adjusted gross revenue (AGR) in place of 5% with regard to spectrum acquired through auctions will be revenue-neutral for
Industry body COAI today said the proposal in Finance Bill 2016 to declare spectrum allocations as services will result in a tax burden of Rs 77,000 crore...
There is hardly any White Space spectrum in Band IV in lower UHF in India. Instead, there is a vast expanse of ‘non-white’ spectrum—one could call it regular spectrum
Going by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) latest consultation paper, the next auction – in FY16 or FY17 is not clear – will be the mother of all auctions.
The department of telecommunications (DoT) on Tuesday notified guidelines relating to spectrum trading, which will help mobile operators buy and sell spectrum from one another.
India's Department of Telecommunications will notify next week, the much-awaited rules to allow mobile phone companies to share spectrum among themselves, a top government official said on Friday.
Spectrum trading is expected to reduce the number of telecom operators leading to a higher market share as well as curb aggressive bids in the upcoming auction of mobile airwaves, Fitch and Ind-Ra said.
Call drops: Customers are not getting the services they should and one way to ameliorate situation is to compensate them, says TRAI Chairman RS Sharma.
Telecom secretary Rakesh Garg is right when he says the worsening call drops are not related only to the lack of telecom towers and that telcos need to fix their networks.
Combining spectrum across operators ensures greater spectral efficiency and download speeds, and also allows telcos with lower number of subscribers to make better use of it.
In a bid to ease telecom congestion, the government today allowed companies to share airwaves in the same band so as to reduce call drops but did not allow leasing of spectrum.
Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Sunday asked mobile operators to walk the extra mile to reinforce their systems as they have enough spectrum to provide telephony services without interruption.