Telecom Secretary Hints At a New Telecom Policy
The communications ministry will set up working groups to deliberate on the new telecom policy and hopes it will become a reality in 2018, said Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan. The policy…
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China Orders Telecos to Bar Access to VPNs, Services
Beijing has ordered state-run telecommunications firms, which include China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom, to bar people from using VPNs, services that skirt censorship restrictions by routing web traffic…
Avenir Telecom plans to introduce products in Indian market
French firm Avenir Telecom– which holds the licence for ‘Energizer’ brand — will introduce its products in India as it looks to tap into the fragmented mobile accessories market in the country. ‘Energizer’,…
Nokia, Xiaomi sign licencing agreement
Telecoms network equipment maker Nokia and Chinese handset maker XiaomiTechnology have signed a patent licencing agreement, said the companies. The agreement includes a cross licence to each company’s cellular standard patents. Nokia will…
Jio eats up market shares of telecom majors
Leading telecom majors Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular saw their market shares shrinking in 2016, giving way to aggressive newcomer Reliance Jio that ended the year with 6.4% market share, as per data by telecom regulator Trai….
India’s wireless mobile user base up by 11.5% in 2016: TRAI
Total landline subscribers in India fell over four% year-on-year to 24 million, while mobile users rose 11.5% to over 1.12 billion as on December 2016, according to data by telecom regulator Trai. India’s…