If the deal between Airtel and Dish TV comes through, the combined entity will become world's largest TV distribution company with over 38 million subscribers and 61 per cent DTH market share in India

Last month, the Supreme Court had held Ambani in contempt for not following its order to pay back Rs 550 crore to Ericsson for its services to now-defunct Reliance Communications.

This would be the first set of bids that will be opened under the asset monetisation process as part of the resolution process by Uday Kotak-led new board of IL&FS group.

At a time when telecom companies, like Reliance Jio and Airtel, are set to launch 5G services in India, the government is yet to allot 4G spectrum license to the miniratna company which it had sought in 2017.

Performance of Bharti Airtel and Vodafone remained almost flat at 9.4 mbps and 6.7 mbps compared to their performance in January.

The BSNL CMD had stressed that with the telecom department's support, there would be no delay in salary disbursement in coming months.

The report by Kotak Institutional Equities (KIE) also underscored a bleak picture of the entire industry which is already ailing due to low tariffs and predicted not enough earnings from the upcoming spectrum auction if it happens.

K-Vision provides network services for mobile communications to telecom operators in Japan.

Vodafone CEO Nick Read, however, has broke silence at the annual Mobile World Congress event at Barcelona.

The business of 5G will be dominated by the data-related business which is expected to blur differences between services provided by Internet companies and telecom service providers.

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