Policy

Telecom dept has told the finance ministry that revenue receipts in the Budget estimates for the fiscal year 2016-17 are higher than its calculations.

The process is also expected to reduce fake connections in the country.

According to sources, all states except Andhra Pradesh, Assam and Kerala, participated in a meeting called by the Department of Telecom (DoT) and chaired by Telecom Secretary J S Deepak over a uniform policy for rolling out telecom infrastructure.

“Airtel M Commerce Services Limited (AMSL), a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel Limited has been granted payments bank license from Reserve Bank of India on April 11, 2016,” the Sunil Mittal promoted company told Bombay Stock Exchange Monday.

In the past, there have been instances of people getting fake e-mails in the name of RBI or Governor promising high returns and winning lottery.

Some entities have been charging far more for simply laminating the downloaded version of Aadhaar.

A new emergency number, 112, is expected to function soon on the lines of 911 in the US.

TRAI has said the financial implications of non-interoperability of STBs are huge as in addition to DTH, numerous Cable TV STBs too are lying unused.

One of the priorities of IC4 will be to check attempts by international gangs to penetrate Indian government's official communication network and hack them.

Sharma has made recommendations to the Department of Telecom (DoT) to this effect and the latter has "apparently" accepted it.

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested two officers of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) in Unnao district for accepting bribes from a contractor in exchange for releasing a pending payment of Rs 4.60 lakh, on Friday.

"The notification imposes restrictions on installation of mobile towers thereby severely affecting proliferation of mobile services and impacting the quality of these services," the telecom department has written to the urban development ministry under which the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) falls.

In a letter dated April 7 to Telecom Secretary JS Deepak and to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Chairman RS Sharma, Cellular Operators Association of India’s (COAI) described as “an initial step in the right direction” the Telecom Commission’s proposal to levy spectrum usage charge (SUC) of 3% for airwaves bought in the next sale, lower than the 5% in last year’s auction.

C-DAC Director General Rajat Moona said the thrust this year will be on bringing internet to the common man and implementation of the National Supercomputing Mission (NSM).

Twenty four Indian scientists have come together including those from various Indian institutes of technologies in the country, saying that radio-frequency radiations from mobile towers are non-ionising electromagnetic radiations and they can’t break chemical bonds or cause ionization in the human body.

NITI Aayog has suggested that with a policy shift, India is poised to make a dent in the global market with high input costs in China but warns that this is ‘perhaps India’s last such opportunity’.

The previous government had decided that the operators should pay for holding spectrum above 6.2 MHz retrospectively, from July 2008 to January 1, 2013.

"The most recent recommended reserve price will be taken as the provisional price, where auction-determined price is not available," Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said after a meeting of the cabinet, presided over by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

American Tower CEO James D. Taiclet Jr made the commitment to invest more in India during their meeting on Tuesday, Prasad said.