DEPARTMENT OF TELECOM
DoT looking at telcos’ pleas on notice period for new serviceCurrently, telcos can offer services based on any technology on any airwave but need to intimate the DoT a year in advance if they plan to ...
- Input Tax Credit must be paid on towers: TAIPA
"Currently, the telecom infrastructure providers can not avail of the Input Tax credit against GST paid by them on telecom towers, which ac...
- DoT Explores ‘fair’ alternative to spectrum auction
DoT believes clarity on the broader spectrum allocation issue will encompass E and V bands. Telcos want these to be auctioned, thus keeping...
- DoT pares telecom revenue estimate by 70% to Rs 40,000 cr
The govet expects to net around Rs 40,000 crore from telecom sector this fiscal, less than a third of the budget estimate of Rs 1.33 lakh c...
- That 30-second Covid message is taking hours of our time
Consumer groups say those pre-call covid messages are hugely problematic. They say the message being played across networks is estimated to...
- Optic fibre contributes major part of telecom carriers' infrastructure spend: Sterlite Tech
Following the demand triggered by service providers' aggressive Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) strategy, and upcoming fifth generation (5G) netwo...
- Telcos remind users to prefix '0' for landline to mobile calls from January 15
Reliance Jio, too, has sent messages to fixed line users urging them to ensure that they prefix 0 when dialling any mobile number from a fi...
- Spectrum auction: Telcos attend pre-bid conference; DoT asks companies to submit queries by Jan 15
The Department of Telecom (DoT) sources said telcos, including Jio, Airtel and Vodafone Idea, attended the pre-bid conference on Tuesday. T...
- Indian taxman goes after Chinese telecom major Huawei
This ruling would also bring more discussions around the concept of permanent establishment or a PE. As per tax regulations PE is broadly a...
- Telecom, Big Tech firms spar over access to 5G spectrum in India
Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio say that any move to give non-telecom companies access to 5G spectrum bands without auction would put at ris...
- Telecom tower damage: HC issues notice to Punjab, Centre on Reliance Jio plea
Reliance Jio, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Ltd, on Monday, submitted in its plea that "vested" interests are engaged in spreading "f...
- Tower damage case: Airtel, VIL say Jio's charges against them baseless, false
Airtel in a letter to Department of Telecom (DoT) said Jio's allegations against it did not demonstrate any evidence that Bharti had any ha...
- Tower damage case: Airtel writes to DoT, says Jio's charges against it baseless, outrageous
The letter by Airtel to Telecom Secretary Anshu Prakash said the company is aware of a complaint made by Reliance Jio to the department dat...
- DoT asks e-commerce websites to pull down listings of mobile signal boosters
Installation, possession or selling of illegal repeater is a punishable offence as per the Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1933 and Indian ...
- Cabinet approves next round of telecom spectrum auction
The minister said that the cabinet has approved relief for sugarcane farmers, improvement in electricity infrastructure in North Eastern st...
- India to come up with list of trusted sources to improve telecom network security
Telecom Service Providers (TSP) are required to connect new devices which are designated ‘Trusted Products”, the government said. The Desig...
- Department of Telecom grants BSNL 20 year permit to provide services in Delhi, Mumbai
The extension of the licence allows BSNL to continue nationwide services such as local, long distance and international calls, very small a...
- Department of Telecom to seek Cabinet nod on PLI scheme guidelines for telecom gear
The product lines that have been specified include core transmission equipment; 4G/5G, next-generation radio access network and wireless eq...
- Callers may have to prefix '0' for making calls from landlines to mobile phones from Jan 1
"Following may be implemented...Fixed-to-mobile calls shall be dialled with prefix '0'. Suitable announcement may be fed in the fixed line ...
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