Telecom
Micromax, BSNL team up for JioPhone challenger Bharat One
27 Sep 2017
Micromax has tentatively priced Bharat one at Rs1,999 and Bharat Two at Rs2,999 while BSNL has recently announced unlimited voice and data plans at Rs249 and Rs429 for its prepaid subscribers
Reliance Jio starts deliveries of JioPhones
25 Sep 2017
Telcos up in arms against Trai’s move to cut IUC
22 Sep 2017
Google inks $1.1 bn deal with Taiwan’s HTC to buy Pixel staff
21 Sep 2017
Google is buying the HTC team that built the Pixel smartphone for Google in a cash deal, plus getting a non-exclusive license for HTC's intellectual property to help support Pixel phones
Call rates to drop as Trai cuts mobile termination charges to 6 paise
20 Sep 2017
While the reduction is expected to give a Rs4,000-crore boost to Reliance Jio and leave a gaping hole in incumbent telcos’ annual revenues, the regulator decided to terminate mobile call termination charges altogether beginning 1 January 2020
Vodafone, BSNL tie up with feature phone makers
19 Sep 2017
Karti refuses to appear before CBI; ‘grill me’, says Chidambaram
15 Sep 2017
Former finance minister P Chidambaram said it was he who approved the deal after FIPB clearance and that the CBI should question him instead of harassing Karti Chidambaram
Airtel ties up with S Korea’s SK Telecom to develop new technology
13 Sep 2017
The two firms will work together to build advanced telecom networks and in developing 5G technology, Network Functions Virtualisation, Software-defined Networking and Internet of Things
BSNL to hive off tower assets as separate business
13 Sep 2017
BSNL owns 66,000 mobile towers, which is roughly 15 per cent of the 4,42,000 mobile towers in the country
Vodafone Group in pact software with VMware
13 Sep 2017
Mobile SIMs without Aadhaar linkage to go dead after February 2018
12 Sep 2017
The step is in line with the Supreme Court directive to link all mobile numbers with Aadhaar within a period of one year
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