The company had registered a net loss of Rs 1,823 crore during 2009-10. According to the unaudited results of the company, the loss for 2010-11 is Rs 5,997 crore.

Slowdown in the telecom sector continued last month, with GSM operators adding just about 5.33 million subscribers in August, compared to 7.65 million in the earlier month.

State-run PSU BSNL has said it will make staggered payments to equipment suppliers under its estimated Rs 6,000 crore, 15 million GSM lines contract upon achievement of fixed milestones.

The government may not renew the Rs 2,000 crore annual subsidy payout from the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) to BSNL, which the state-led telecom firm uses for its rural landline operations.

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd has decided to take on private operators to cough up carrier charge dues of over Rs 1,800 crore.

Within days of hiking mobile tariffs in some segments, Bharti airtel hints that charges may go up \"significantly\" in the near future in view of rising operating costs.

All those subscribers who have registered with the National Customer Preference Registry (earlier known as 'Do Not Call Registry') would get relief from all commercial communications, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) said.

Telecom firms are pushing tablet PCs at dirt cheap prices to their subscribers in the hope of cornering an increasing share of the data services market and help off-set stagnant revenues and declining profitability.

India's leading telecom operator Vodafone Essar will sell MTS's high speed EVDO (CDMA) dongles under its Net-Cruise brand name in a desperate attempt to fight stagnant revenues and declining profitability.

CBIon Thursday told the Supreme Court that probe in the 2G spectrum allocationscam has shown \"violation\" of norms during NDA regime when latePramod Mahajan and Arun Shourie were the telecom ministers.

A top government official said it could take a lenient viewon cancellations of licences. Those operators who have fulfilled the norms fornetwork rollouts may be given some consideration, which could mean they wouldbe monetarily penalised.

The National Consumer Helpline received 3,390 consumer complaints related to the telecom sector out of a total of 17,072 complaints in the first quarter this financial year.

Government said the amount includes Rs 36.57 crore dues towards licence fee and Rs 550.67 crore for spectrum charges from the various telecom companies

Slowdown seems to be setting in the telecom sector as GSM operators have been able to add merely 7.64 million subscribers in July compared to 8.58 million in the previous month.

The country's largest private telecom operator Bharti airtel paid Rs 1,177.48 crore to the government in the April-June quarter toward licence fees and spectrum usage charges, more than any other service provider.

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The Trai says it will take four to six weeks to put in place an effective filtering mechanism for unsolicited commercial calls and messages after security agencies and the DoT cleared the '140' number series for telemarketers.

After implementation of MNP, the number of BSNL subscribers as on June 30, who have switched over to other operators stood at 9.33 lakh and those who came in was 3.49 lakh.

Within days of hiking charges for pre-paid mobile services, Bharti airtel has said that tariffs have \"stabilised\" but raised concerns over regulatory uncertainties.