The government plans to come out with a relief package for the telecom sector, burdened by huge dues in adjusted gross revenues that threaten to turn the industry into a duopoly even as a relief packa...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the department of telecommunications (DoT) not to invoke the bank guarantees (BGs) of Bharti Airtel for three weeks for recovering Rs 1,376 crore in AGR-related d...

India is in informal discussions with Cairn Energy and Vodafone Plc to settle the long pending retrospective tax dispute, a senior finance ministry official said on Monday. “There are some info...

The department of telecommunications (DoT) has initiated discussions with banks to address financial stress in the telecom sector, particularly Vodafone Idea Ltd (VIL) which urgently requires fund inf...

The Narendra Modi-government has maintained a studied silence on Kumar Mangalam Birla’s letter that became public on Monday in which the Vodafone Idea chairman offered to hand over his stake in ...

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Telecom operator Bharti Airtel recorded a speed of over 1 Gigabit per second during a 5G field trial in Mumbai using Finnish firm Nokia’s network gear, according to sources.  The company i...

The telecom department has allotted spectrum for six months to the telecom players for 5G trials even as there is little clarity on spectrum pricing and whether the 26Ghz millimeter wave (mmWave) band...

The commercial viability of 5G services would depend on the number of users willing to switch to 5G from 4G/2G and the incremental average revenue per user (ARPU) that they are willing to pay needs to...

The COAI, a telecom operators’ association, has urged the government to revisit the 5G spectrum pricing issue as the department of telecom rolled out a six-month trial run for use and applicatio...