Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries has posted a 21 per cent fall in fourthquarter net profit at Rs 4,236 crore. While RIL's total income rose 18.8 per cent to Rs 87,477 crore, its other income saw a jump of 150 per cent at Rs 2,295 crore.

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The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on Monday recommended based price of Rs 3,622 crore for a megahertz of spectrum at pan-India level.

Uninor Managing Director Sigve Brekke said Telenor is committed to continue the services with a new partner and has plans to invest another Rs 1,000 crore to Rs 2,000 crore.

4G meets the need for speed, but at what price? Airtel is pricing a 6GB package at Rs 999 (plus taxes) in Kolkata and a 18GB package at Rs 1,999 (plus taxes). At the speed it offers, those prices are rather crazy.

\"The IT and the electronics manufacturing policy will be announced formally this month. Hopefully the telecom policy will be announced in May,\" Sibal told reporters in Kolkata.

While launching Airtel's 4G services in Kolkata, the telecom minister said 3G services have not been as popular due to lack of liquidity in the market to invest in the infrastructure.

A successor to the 3G and 2G families, 4G is expected to be five times quicker than 3G services. It would offer services such as high-definition mobile TV and video conferencing.

The services on offer by Bharti Airtel would include those which can be intercepted by and made available in the required format to the security agencies.

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Google, which had first announced the application in May this year, said the application will initially be available only on the Nexus S 4G phone, with Sprint.

Indian telecom operators are desperately working with Chinese and western telecom gear makers to upgrade the current infrastructure from 3G to 4G.

Indian markets opened lower Wednesday, following a fall in Asian stocks. Metals were the worst hit, followed by weakness in realty, consumer durables, FMCG, banking, capital goods, oil & gas, power, and auto.

Though there is finally a deadline for the 3G auction, the timing, quality and speed of 3G service roll-out are still open to questions. Can New Delhi meet the deadline? Kushan Mitra tells more.

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