As per Goldman Sachs, Airtel could potentially save Rs 4,100 crore annually and Vodafone Idea Rs 5,800 crore annually if Supreme Court lowers AGR liability to self-assessed levels

Bharti Airtel stock touched an intraday high of Rs 601.8, rising 6.37% against previous close of Rs 565.75 on BSE

Bharti Airtel further said it is initiating the process to revise its foreign investment limit, as notified to its depositories, to 100 per cent with immediate effect

The ongoing tussle between DoT, and DoS, ISRO and defence ministry has already delayed the launch of 5G in the country. Globally, radiowaves across sub-1 GHz (600 MHz, 700 MHz), mid-band (3.5 GHz), and millimeter-band (26, 28 GHz) are being used to deliver 5G services

Jio might also go for 700 MHz spectrum for which the reserve prices are 38 per cent higher than 800 MHz spectrum in 19 circles, and 56 per cent higher (than 800 MHz) in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata circles

Following a mock auction on February 26, the telecom department will start the auction from March 1, 2021. Successful bidders will have to pay the bid amount within 10 days of the issue of demand note

Telco demands its AGR dues payable to government should be reduced, saying DoT has mis-computed by including spectrum usage charges into total dues; says issue before SC on account of AGR dues was limited to licence fee only and not SUC

Justice Sudhir Mittal has issued a notice of motion for February 8; Reliance, in its petition, has made Union Home Ministry, Department of Telecommunications, and Director General of Police and Chief Secretary of Punjab as respondents

BSNL has started in operations Mumbai and Delhi following the telco's proposal to manage networks in twin circles on an outsourced basis that got acceptance by the telecom department in October 2020.

India has challenged Vodafone arbitration award in Singapore on Dec 21; Centre recently discussed Vodafone tax dispute award at highest level, including with Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Analysts are of the view that these renewals alone would cost Jio around Rs 28,000 crore, Airtel Rs 12,900 crore, and Vodafone Idea Rs 8,300 crore at the reserve price, totalling Rs 49,200 crore

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While Jio has reportedly asked Department of Telecommunications to auction 700 MHz spectrum recently; it asked DoT to auction 700 MHz in 2015 as well but didn't buy anything in 2016 auctions

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Bidders will have to comply with conditions such as block size, spectrum cap, maximum amount of spectrum that can be held, roll-out obligations, and payment terms

Commerce Department confirmed there was a breach at one of its agencies and that they asked the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI to investigate

While the agreement was signed on Thursday, the license has been granted starting from February 29 this year.

The network will connect Kochi and Lakshadweep; presently, the only medium of providing telecom connectivity to the latter is through satellites, but the bandwidth available is limited to 1 gbps

There will be no license fee for providing broadband internet through these public Wi-Fi access network interface, says Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad

In addition to 5G, the India-Japan Joint Working Group considers futuristic submarine optical fibre placements, smart cities and utilisation artificial intelligence in healthcare as some of the areas of mutual interest