Newsmakers: OnePlus 2 to launch 'no invite' sale in India and more

The Supreme Court on November 24 asked the Vodafone Mobile Services to deposit with the government Rs 2,000 crore under various heads, including one-time spectrum charge and licence fees, for the merger of its four entities Vodafone East, Vodafone South and Vodafone Cellular and Vodafone Digilink into it.

Chinese handset company OnePlus is going to launch an open sale, without invite, in India of its flagship handset device OnePlus 2 from November 25-27. The sale will be a part of the Black Friday (November 27) deals.

Promising more reforms to make India more attractive for foreign investments, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 24 assured investors that he would "carefully hold" their hands and expressed hope that the GST regime would be rolled out in 2016.

Social networking giant Facebook has chosen Reliance Communications Network to offer Free Basics - its free internet sharing platform - now to everyone in the country.

Idea Cellular has agreed to buy radio airwaves in two services areas from smaller rival Videocon Telecommunications for $499 million to boost its high-speed data services.