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BSNL employees come out in support of farmers' organisations

Thousands of farmers, mostly from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, are protesting at various border points of Delhi against the new farm ...

Bharti Airtel gains as co pips Jio in monthly mobile subscriber addition after 4 years

Bharti Airtel led mobile subscriber growth in September 2020 with a net addition of 3.77 million new customers. It was followed by Reliance...

5G lab trials: Telcos seek removal of gear & vendor restrictions

People familiar with the matter said that the latest letter is aimed mainly at pushing the government to clarify its official stance over t...

Kanhaiya Kumar joins Left parties stir against agri bills

Kanhaiya Kumar, a former JNU students union president, appealed to people from all walks of life to lend their support to the movement laun...

India's corporate captains commit infrastructure investments to UP CM

Adityanath had a meeting with the youngest scion of the Adani family, said people close to the development. Adani committed investments in ...

View: India's goal of being Atmanirbhar will require a pound of flesh

As part of its atmanirbhar strategy the government wants domestic producers and vendors to supply 4G equipment, and hence it is nudging BSN...

ITI in talks with Indian companies to provide complete 4G, 5G network gears

"Our company with its efficient and innovative state-of-art facilities and capabilities for manufacturing telecom equipment plans to manufa...

Dept of Telecom feels BSNL deliberately delaying 4G

The loss-making telco, which has struggled to keep pace with private operators, has opposed the suggestions, saying it still gets 60% of it...

Govt seeks financial bids from property consultancy firms for monetising MTNL assets

DIPAM added that the consultancy firms empanelled will be required to prepare the 'Feasibility Report' in about three weeks for each of the...

Fibre broadband underserved market, renewed efforts to help firms gain wallet share: Report

India's wireline broadband market is seeing a pickup with one million new connections in year to date - more than FY17-20 combined - crossi...

Centre mandates all ministries, public departments, CPSUs to use BSNL, MTNL services

"The government of India has, inter-alia, approved the mandatory utilisation of capacities of BSNL and MTNL by all ministries/departments o...

Bharti Airtel narrowing gap with Reliance Jio on 4G in India: Report

While the average proportion of time that Jio users spent connected to 4G has increased by 0.5 of a percentage point since the last report ...

Telcos stay clear of Chinese gear makers for 5G trials

Vodafone Idea has joined Reliance Jio Infocomm, Bharti Airtel and state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) in naming European and American...

BSNL to retrench another 20,000 contract workers: Employees' union

The union in a letter to BSNL Chairman and Managing Director P K Purwar said the financial condition of the company has deteriorated after ...

Trai asks telcos to act to speed up the mobile number portability process

MNP refers to a facility that allows a mobile user to switch telco operators without changing the mobile number.

Telecom subscriber base falls to 116.3 crore in May; Jio, BSNL continues to grow

"The number of telephone subscribers in India decreased from 1,169.44 million at the end of April 2020 to 1,163.67 million at the end of Ma...

Nokia warns of sacking staff working on BSNL project over outstanding payments

Nokia said it has a large number of employees dedicated to BSNL projects and for the last four months it has been retaining them in an atte...