At present, telcos pay different levies such as spectrum usage charge (SUC), licence fees and Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF). On top of this, telcos charge 18 per cent GST from consumers that goes to the government's kitty.

The decision on net neutrality ensures that internet for Indians will continue to remain non-discriminatory and unrestricted.

The demand by DoT is unjustifiable on two grounds. Firstly, the telcos have got stay orders from various high courts against the payment of OTSC to DoT. Since the telcos are still contesting the matter, the demand for spectrum charges is untenable.

The telecom operators are facing the heat after Reliance Jio's entry as the competition has increased within a short frame of time. Consumers, however, stand to benefit the most as they are getting the best of telecom services at dirt cheap prices.

Early in the year, in a bid to provide internet connectivity beyond railway stations, it had partnered with Larsen & Toubro (L&T) to bring 150 Google Station hotspots to Pune, which was part of the Pune Smart City Project.

With the introduction of Virtual ID, Aadhaar number holders will have an option of not sharing their unique identity number and instead they can generate a virtual ID and share it with authentication user agencies to perform Aadhaar-based authentication.

The reports of the Department of Telecom (DoT) asking for Rs 4,700 crore from Vodafone India on account of one-time spectrum charges (OTSC) dues are expected to hurt India's ambitions.

The telco may be listed on Indian bourses after Reliance Industries' consumer businesses overtake its energy business in terms of revenue, according to a report.

The demand will be raised from Vodafone India before its merger with Idea Cellular. This is more than likely to keep the mega-merger of the two telecom operators from being completed by the intended deadline of June 30.

The department of telecom (DoT) has recently amended the regulations on internet telephony that will henceforth allow the telecom service providers like Airtel, Vodafone India, Idea Cellular and others, to provide voice and video calls over the internet.

In India, telcos and financial institutions like Airtel, ICICI Bank and Wipro use specialized BPM (business process management) agencies to sort out issues of their customers.

The Department of Telecom (DoT) released a circular on Tuesday asking all telecom operators to work on a mechanism that employs Virtual IDs instead of the sensitive biometric data.

The scale of value destruction in the telecom sector has been huge. Only sensible policies and practices can save it now.

Discussions on a bundled tariff are still going on, but current talks suggest it could be under Rs 1,000 a month, another person privy to the development added.

TRAI has proposed draft norms to use the distributed ledger technology or blockchain technology to ensure that only authorised entities are able to send commercial messages to users who have subscribed to them.

The draft national telecom policy has stirred up debate on the overambitious targets of the government outlined in the policy document.

Days after releasing the draft national telecom policy, the government seems to have gone into defensive mode.

Reliance Jio owned by industrialist Mukesh Ambani on Thursday announced its unlimited India postpaid plan at Rs 199 per month offering 25 GB data, bringing another disruptive pricing scheme in the telecom market with effect from May 15, 2018.