DoT Mulls Viability Gap Funding for Tower Firms Renewable Ener...

Telecom operators have told the government that they will miss the target for 2015 on using renewable energy in cellular towers unless they are given a subsidy or viability funding.At an inter-ministerial meeting with the department of telecom ...

Telecom operators began sharing their passive infrastructure in 2005 in the wake of falling tariffs and low ARPUs. This paved the way for the emergence of the telecom tower industry. Following a period of strong growth, this segment is facing the ...

BRUSSELS ( ) - Canada lost an appeal at the World Trade Organization on Monday in a ruling on incentives offered to local companies, a case that has already led to legal challenges over suspicions of similar perks elsewhere. Japan and the European ...

Taking ahead Jamshetji Tata's vision of clean, cheap and abundant power, Tata Power has aggressive plans of generating 26,000 MW by 2020 of which 20 - 25% maybe contributed by clean energy sources. Tata Power MD, Anil Sardana accentuates the ...

Prodipto Ghosh, former secretary of ministry of environment and forest and expert with The Energy and Resource Institute talks about how solar energy use can be maximised. Excerpts from an interview: India gets lots of sunlight, but we are hardly ...

The Committee of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on unified Licensing (UL) has opposed the de-linking of licenses of networks from delivery of services in the first phase, and has proposed that the de-linking could be addressed in the ...

The Indian telecom industry has grown at an unprecedented rate over the past few years. As of January 2013, the country's subscriber base stood at 895 million. This growth has been supported through a robust telecom backbone comprising over 400,000 ...

Nawaz Sharief's election for an unprecedented third time as Pakistan's prime minister has been welcomed by the Afghan government. Afghan President Hamid Karzai congratulating Sharief called upon the new Pakistani government to enhance cooperation in ...

According to reports, telecom mast operator Indus Towers on Wednesday said 20,000 of its sites across 15 circles or 20 percent of its network is diesel free and it aims to make another 10,000 sites diesel free in the current fiscal. Indus Towers is ...