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

He echoed Vodafone Global CEO Nick Read who had said Vodafone Idea would head for liquidation if the government did not offer relief to the telcos.

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

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

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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

Bharti Airtel's announcement comes after Vodafone-Idea also said that it will raise the mobile calls and data charges across its pre-paid services from December 3

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

Auto Slowdown: In lieu of the slowdown in the domestic automobile industry, the worst in the history, HMSI had on November 5 barred some contractual workers from entering the factory premises, which immediately snowballed into a major crisis

The Nest Mini continues to have the same design as the Home Mini with a fabric covering. However, the fabric covering on the new Nest Mini is made from 100 per cent post-consumer recycled plastic bottles

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)

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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