The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) managed to sell airwaves worth Rs 77,814 crore, which is about 20 per cent of the amount (Rs 3.9 lakh crore) that the department wanted to generate from these auctions

BSNL Rs 249 first recharge coupon is only available for a promotional period till March 31 and has a validity of 60 days. Airtel, Jio and Vi have regular prepaid plans priced at Rs 249.

Telecom companies Airtel, BSNL, Jio, and Vi are currently offering a range of plans from which users can select to dodge the inevitable tariff hikes as well as the hassle of short-term recharges.

Telcos say SC didn't allow them to raise any dispute against the Rs 1.69 lakh crore demand raised by DoT, but glaring errors can be easily verified by DoT

Airtel and Qualcomm will collaborate to enable a wide array of use cases, including 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA), which is designed to deliver broadband connectivity at Gigabit speeds to homes and businesses

Vi has expanded the availability of its Rs 148 prepaid plan on a pan-India basis. The plan is available in all circles of India. Airtel and Jio offer prepaid plans priced at Rs 149.

Over two million Airtel numbers along with users details like the address and Aadhaar numbers reportedly leaked in a data breach and were available on the web.

BSNL had revised the Rs 1999 prepaid plan in December to offer tweaked streaming benefits. Now, the same offer has been revised with rationalised data benefits applicable from February 1, 2021.

Union Budget 2021 Highlights: Congress leader P. Chidambaram said that the government had only marginally raised health funding, which when adjusted to inflation becomes nil

ccording to EY, the industry expects Budget to offer price support in the form of Goods and Service Tax (GST) exemption from regulatory payments such as license fee and spectrum usage charges (SUC)

Airtel, BSNL and Jio offer broadband plans with unlimited internet and calling. The mid-range broadband plans also offer streaming benefits. BSNL has extended the availability of its broadband plans starting at Rs 449 for 90 days.

The CCI study cites the example of Amazon in the US, where only 1 per cent Amazon Prime members are likely to consider competitor retail sites, while non-Prime members are eight times more likely than Prime members to shop between both Amazon and Target

 In terms of YTD, Nifty Pharma topped the rank among other sectors, growing 60%, followed by an almost 55% rise in the Nifty IT index. Nifty metal grew by 16%, while Nifty FMCG was up 15% since the start of the year 2020

A latest note by ICRA says that the sector can expect ARPU (average revenue per user) to touch Rs 220 in the medium term. ARPU is an important metric to track the performance of the telcos

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In the first half of FY21, smaller players added 75 per cent (or about 1.4 million) of the total subscribers, which is interesting given that both Jio and Airtel have chalked out plans to cover a large number of cities for wired broadband services

The fact that Indian vendors are unable to match the pricing of foreign peers shows that local equipment ecosystem needs to evolve a lot more rather than depending on the ambitious AatmaNirbhar Bharat mission

India Stock Market Highlights Today: Global equities were mostly buoyed today encouraged by news on the development of coronavirus vaccines and more assurance for a transition of power in the US to President-elect Joe Biden

Decision to impose fine on telcos is a big boost to campaign run by Paytm-led e-payment companies against spam calls and fake text messages

Financial disincentive of Rs 30 crore for failure to curb UCC on its network in April, May and June was imposed on state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) along with an additional Rs 10 lakh for non compliance of Code of Practices, told TRAI