Bharti Telecom holds around 41 per cent stake in Bharti Airtel while foreign promoter entities hold 21.46 per cent stake in the telecom firm

Swedish mobile telecom company said it had reviewed its anti-corruption program and taken measures to improve its ethics and compliance

The delays in salary payment in the public sector unit is expected to continue till January or February

Vodafone entered India in 2007 with the hope to make big gains in a growing telecom market, but 12 years later that hope stands crushed due to tax hurdles and aggressive competitors

The company will raise raise $2 billion through qualified institutions placement or private offerings of equity shares, compulsory convertible debentures. It will raise another $1 billion via Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds or other similar security denominated in foreign currencies

As part of revival efforts, VRS was introduced for the staff of the two telecom firms and December 3 was the last date for submitting the applications

Experts have come to believe that the tariff hikes would be in two stages - one by the operators themselves, which will be followed by TRAI setting up floor prices for both voice and data services

According to GSTN data, 20.75 lakh GSTINs have not filed September and October GSTR-3B, thus their facility to generate e-way bill is required to be blocked

Out of the three private players, Airtel and Vodafone Idea have already announced their new tariff plans, and Reliance Jio will declare its new rates on December 6

Telecom regulator TRAI has recommended auction of about 8,644 megahertz (MHz) of radio frequencies in nine bands for sale at a base price of Rs 4.93 lakh crore

All regular and permanent employees of BSNL who attended the age of 50 years or above are eligible to seek voluntary retirement under the VRS scheme

Indian telecom operators continue to be in a fix despite the centres relief

Bharti Airtel share price jumped 5.86 per cent to touch an intraday high of Rs 445.70 apiece compared to Friday's close level of Rs 421 on the BSE. Vodafone Idea share price soared 6.55 per cent to touch a day's high of Rs 6.99

The Internet Service Providers Association of India said the Department of Telecommunications has unnecessarily imposed the order on internet service providers, many of which are run by entrepreneurs in smaller cities and towns

Airtel has to pay Rs 35,586 crore to the government, of which Rs 21,682 crore is licence fee and another Rs 13,904 crore is the spectrum usage charges (not including the dues of Telenor and Tata Teleservices)

Telcos, who earlier had to pay statutory dues to the government over 3 months period following SC order, have been given a period of 2 years by the Cabinet.

For Vodafone Idea, the shortfall is about Rs 10,050 crore since DoT has reportedly pegged its dues at Rs 54,200 crore

The move to defer payments for 2020-21 and 2021-22 will give Rs 42,000 crore relief to Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea and Reliance Jio

The Indian telecom operators owe the government nearly Rs 1.47 lakh crore in license fee (LF) and spectrum usage charges (SUC). Of this, license fee amounts to Rs 92,642 crore as of July this year, while SUC stood at Rs 55,054 crore as of October end this year

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