The numbers paint a rosy picture of the towers division and highlight the bleak situation at the core telecom business at the same time. For the financial year 2017/18, Bharti Infratel registered 8 per cent annual growth in revenues to Rs 14,490 crore.

Gaurav Bhatia says that over the past five years the number of bidders from India has doubled.

In an interview with Business Today's Manu Kaushik, Shaikh discusses his plans to expand the luxury travel market in India.

The adverse policies from the telecom department and telecom regulator TRAI have further dealt a body blow. If this wasn't enough, the legacy operators are now facing another big challenge: the steady loss of high-value postpaid subscribers.

Business confidence jumps for the second consecutive quarter despite business leaders' scepticism about future economic reforms, finds the latest Business Today-C fore Business Confidence Survey.

With occupancy hitting a decade high, hoteliers believe an upturn is in sight; but the early signs are far from conclusive.

\"My view is that there will be a lot of focus on the agri sector over the next one year. And it's coming from the prime minister's vision of doubling the farmers' income,\" said newly appointed CII chief and Bharti Enterprises Vice Chairman Rakesh Mittal.

The sale document invites bids without any major discrimination and though nothing can be ruled out, the chances of getting bids from unknown entities at this point look improbable.

COAI has raised objections on the discrepancies with the TRAI's MySpeed app and its IDT results, the locations at which speed tests are conducted and the sample collection process on the MySpeed app.

In the coming years, growth in India's domestic BPO market would be the biggest change maker. Parallel to the growth in the domestic BPO market, there has been a surge in demand for speech analytics in regional languages, says Ady Meretz.

Intense competition among the telcos is hurting the government's earnings from the sector.

Air India's disinvestment process has finally kicked off with the government inviting bids from potential buyers for a 76 per cent stake sale.

By transferring the management control of loss-making hotels to state governments, who will perhaps run them as individual entities, these hotels will lack the distribution strength that nearly all the branded hotel chains - foreign and domestic - have been building.

Within five years of the rollout of 4G, the world is already gearing up for the launch of 5G technology by next year. India is expected to join the fray by 2020. Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan said that the roadmap for 5G will be ready by June this year. Watch Manu Kaushik, Senior Editor, Business Today talk about 5G technology and its benefits.

The government has floated Express of Interest (EoI) document asking potential buyers of Air India to submit their bids for 76 per cent stake in the national carrier. Nearly 10 months after the finance minister Arun Jaitley publicly spoke about the intention of the government to sell its stake in Air India.

In the middle of a gloomy employment scenario in the telecom sector, the Telecom Sector Skills Council (TSSC), the skill development body formed by the National Skill Development Corporation and telecom players, says that the sector is expected to add over 10 million jobs over the next five years.

The officials in the Idea and Vodafone were expecting the deal to materialize in the last quarter of 2017-18. They now hope to conclude it in the first quarter of 2018-19.

The digital advancements in the travel space revolve around five areas - mobile, social media, big data, Artificial Intelligence and virtual/augmented reality, says the latest KPMG-FICCI report titled 'Expedition 3.0: Travel and Hospitality Gone Digital'.

Unless there's a big miracle waiting to happen, the 2G case will unlikely come to an end at least in the lifetimes of those who are part of this alleged scam.

The privately-owned airline rose to fame in 2011 when its ad campaigns featured women dressed in bikinis.