COAI for revoking 19 GSM licences of Tata Teleservices

DoT's proposal to impact many, including Vodafone The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is working on a proposal to disallow crossholding by one telecom firm in a competing one in the same circle. Under the current rules, a promoter in a telco can acquire up to 9.9 per cent stake in another in the same circle. The scrapping of the clause could have a far-reaching impact on many equity investments made by foreign companies, such as Vodafone, which has a stake in Bharti Airtel. It would also ...

(UNI) The Delhi High Court issued notice to the Centre on petitions filed by major Telecom companies against the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) order saying it will not extend their 2G licences beyond November 2014 on the existing terms.

Vodafone India has filed a petition in the Delhi High Court against the Department of Telecommunication's rejection of its applications for licence extension in Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata circles. The mobile operator said it's taking all required ...

The Directorate-General of Signals at the Army headquarters has approached the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) regarding the delays in laying the defence optical fibre cable network. In 2009, DoT and the Ministry of Defence had signed an ...

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has made it clear that 100 per cent domestic sourcing is mandatory for the NOFN project. All foreign telecom equipment vendors, including Chinas Huawei and ZTE, have been barred from supplying gear to the ...

The government PSUs are back in focus with the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) again suggesting the merger of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited. DoT has raised the issue of merging the two PSUs several times in ...

The Department of Telecommunications has granted a six month-extension to MTNL for installing a system that will enable lawful real-time interception of BlackBerry services, as required by security agencies, reports confirm. The state-run telco had ...

BSNL is opposed to Bharti Airtel's plea against the order of the Department of Telecommunication (DoT) asking the private firm to stop providing 3G services by entering into intra-circle roaming (ICR) pacts with other telecom companies.

The JPC draft report has said that the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) was entirely responsible for not implementing the Unified Licensing Regime.