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'Street furniture' to be soon used in rolling-out 5G services in India

Electric poles, traffic lights, bus terminals, bus shelters, and government buildings are among the sites that are being monitored to be used as 5G carriers

Cisco's subsidiary Webex India gets licence to offer telecom connectivity

US telecom gear maker Cisco's subsidiary Webex India has received a telecom licence from the government that will enable it to provide enterprise grade national and international telecom connectivity. Webex has become the first Over-The-Top (OTT) player to get a telecom licence. At present, the company is a web-conferencing platform for enterprises. It has already procured a virtual network operator licence in July. "We can confirm that Cisco was granted a telecom licence. This licence will enable us to offer enhanced Webex collaboration services to our partners and customers in India," a Cisco spokesperson told PTI on Tuesday. Webex has obtained the Unified Licence for national long distance and international long distance services. A company official said the licence will enable it to connect with local and international data centre on its own and in a secured manner. The licence will be used to enhance Webex platform and not for competing with existing customers specially tel

Telecom firms divided over spectrum allocation, seek clarity from DoT

All telcos have commented on devising a new legal framework to govern India's telecommunications sector

DoT and TRAI to start consultation on regulating OTT communication apps

The telecom operators will welcome the move as they have long demanded that OTT communication apps that provide the same services as operators should be subjected to similar regulations

Mittal family increases stake in Airtel, group arm to buy 3.3% from Singtel

Transaction to cost around Rs 12,900 crore; family currently owns 24.13% stake in Airtel

New big telecom move: Trai sets the ball rolling on auction across 4 bands

The E band was recently offered by the DoT for 5G backhaul to operators in the interim at an administrative price, pending a final decision on how it will be allocated

Telecom user base grows to 1.17 bn with Jio taking lead in new addition

Telecom subscriber base in the country grew marginally to 117.29 crore in June with Reliance Jio adding maximum number of new customers, according to data released by sector regulator Trai on Wednesday. There were 117.07 crore subscribers in May 2022. "The number of telephone subscribers in India increased from 1,170.73 million at the end of May 2022 to 1,172.96 million at the end of June 2022, thereby showing a monthly growth rate of 0.19 per cent," Trai said in the report. The wireless subscriber base grew to 114.73 crore in June from 114.55 crore in May. Reliance Jio's wireless subscriber base grew to 41.3 crore with net addition of 42.23 lakh customers. It was followed by Bharti Airtel whose subscriber base increased to 36.29 crore with net addition of 7.93 lakh customers. Vodafone Idea continued to lose subscribers. Its subscriber base fell by 18 lakh to 25.66 crore. State-run BSNL and MTNL also lost 13.27 lakh and 3,038 wireless customers respectively. The wireline (fixed

Mission 2025: Telecom tower firms to invest Rs 2 trillion in 5G infra

Investment in fiberisation of towers etc could hit anything between Rs 5 trn-Rs 7 trn by 2025, says an industry body

Trai seeks views on AI, big data adoption to improve telecom services

Trai on Friday floated a consultation paper to seek public views on the adoption of artificial intelligence and big data to improve telecom services and enhance network securities and efficiencies.

No proposal in Trai to raise revenue share rate payable by tel operators

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is not considering any proposal at present to raise the revenue sharing rate payable by telecom operators, Parliament was informed on Wednesday

5G auction, flat subscriber growth may weigh on Airtel, Voda Idea stocks

With organic cash flow, ongoing rights issue, strategic stake sale, improved market structure in India wireless, and easier 5G spectrum payment terms, Bharti remains well-placed to compete with R-Jio

COAI writes to DoT, demands tough norms for captive private networks

It had written to DoT secretary K Rajaraman in this regard on June 18

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Jio adds 1.68 mn mobile subscribers in April; Airtel gains 810,000 users

Vodafone Idea lost about 15.7 lakh mobile subscribers during April 2022, the monthly subscriber data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Thursday showed.

Top Headlines: Battle for IPL rights, India's ties with Islamic nations

Two of the world's richet men, Jeff Bezos and Mukesh Ambani are set to clash over media rights of the Indian Premier League, which has a brand value of almost $6 billion

Remove price cap and channel bundling restrictions: Broadcasters tell TRAI

Industry lobby responds to regulator's consultation paper on the New Tariff Order (NTO 2.0) in the sector.

DoT in favour of 20-year validity for spectrum in upcoming auction: Reports

Sources told PTI that the Department of Telecom is going with Trai-recommended reserve prices to the Cabinet, which will ultimately take a call on these crucial issues related to 5G spectrum auctions

The 5G leapfrog to 6G: New technology needs a 'whole-of-govt' ecosystem

Digital changes are now a big deal in India, where a lot of the country's government-to-citizen services as well as a vast swathe of the payments business ride on technology platforms

Digital solution providers looking to enter India's 5G spectrum play

Tata Communications has said ISPs should be allowed to participate in the 5G auction as they were eligible to bid for BWA (4G) spectrum in the 2010 auction

DCC clears the 5G spectrum auctions as per Trai's recommendations

The Trai had recommended earlier that band between 27.5 GHz to 28.5 GHz should also be auctioned and given for mixed use to telecom operators as well as satellite operator