Taxman has discovered that some telecom companies have deducted ‘lower’ than the actual amount of tax at source that they were supposed to deduct. This relates to the payments made to each other for interconnection [...]
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With 3G mobile phones becoming the trend of the time, the state-run Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited on Thursday formally announced the launch of its 3G platform in India. Sighting great opportunities ahead in the field [...]
The Indian telecom industry recently experienced a downfall in the number of new telecom subscribers in the month of April. During this month only 11.75 million connections were added while in March the number was [...]
A failed endeavour at raising the count of its third-generation (3G) service subscribers to 1 lakh within a period of two months could eventually prompt BSNL emulating its public sector cousin MTNL and calling on [...]
Indefinite strike commenced by more than 10,000 engineers of BSNL is heightened on Wednesday as it is joined by more than 2 lakh non-executive workers of the telecom industry. On the second day of the [...]
Indian Telecom major, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited reported on Wednesday that they had not taken a decision regarding the joining of consortium that is purchasing a 46% share in Zain, Kuwaiti [...]
With an eye on maximizing its investments Singapore Telecommunications has asserted that it will push up its stake in Bharti Airtel to 31.95 percent. Incidentally Singapore Telecommunications is the largest telecom firm in Southeast Asia [...]
Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) which is a state-run telecommunications company has signed an agreement with the SmarTV Group for launching pan-India IPTV services which will first have a test launch of its services that would [...]
Mukesh Ambani has re-entered in telecom and that too with a bang. At present, RIL has more spectrum than any other established telecom companies after it bought Infotel Broadband, winner of broadband wireless access (BWA) [...]
According to sources, the government has held back its decision to slash license fee by 33 percent from April 1, 2009 for telecom operators who hold 95 percent or more coverage in a particular circle. [...]
