Telecom companies have to pay dues of Rs 1.47 lakh crore as SC dismisses review petition

Airtel owed the government Rs 21,682.13 crore as licence fee and Vodafone Idea owed Rs 19,823.71 crore.

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· Jan 16, 2020 · 08:06 pm

Vodafone Idea will have to shut shop if it doesn’t get government relief: Kumar Mangalam Birla

Shares of Vodafone Idea dropped to an intraday low of Rs 6.66 each after Kumar Mangalam Birla’s remarks.

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· Dec 06, 2019 · 02:05 pm

Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea raise mobile and data charges by up to 40%

The move is expected to affect around 90 crore customers.

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· Dec 02, 2019 · 09:22 am

Telecom companies to get two-year relief in spectrum payments: Cabinet

However, the financially-stressed companies will have to pay applicable interest on deferred spectrum payments.

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· Nov 21, 2019 · 07:56 am

Reliance Jio set to increase mobile and data charges in next few weeks following Airtel and Vodafone

Telecom companies have posted huge quarterly losses following an adverse Supreme Court judgement that upheld the Centre’s broader definition of revenue.

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· Nov 19, 2019 · 08:07 pm

Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Idea to raise tariffs from next month, first time in over a decade

The decision comes as a result of an adverse Supreme Court judgement that upheld the Centre’s broader definition of the telecom firms’ revenue.

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· Nov 19, 2019 · 08:01 am

BSNL and MTNL to be merged, says Centre, will offer employees ‘attractive VRS package’

Union Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad reassured the workers of the two telecom majors that the firms were not being shut down or disinvested.

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· Oct 23, 2019 · 05:47 pm

MTNL employees plan protests in Delhi, Mumbai against non-payment of salaries

They announced a lunch-hour demonstration on October 10 and October 16.

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· Oct 09, 2019 · 06:18 pm

State-owned BSNL once dominated India’s telecom sector. Now it’s broke

Fierce competition from private companies and a failure to update technology has dealt the telecom firm a heavy blow.

Niharika Sharma, qz.com

· Jun 28, 2019 · 09:30 pm

BSNL chairman says no lay offs or cut in retirement age

A report published on April 2 said the telecom company’s board had accepted a proposal to lay off around 54,000 employees.

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· Apr 04, 2019 · 03:22 pm

Data race: Reliance Jio has the best 4G coverage in India but Airtel is the fastest, finds study

Jio has also done better on general availability of cellular service.

Aria Thaker, qz.com

· Feb 14, 2019 · 08:30 pm

Factcheck: No, phones of users who provided only Aadhaar as proof of identity won’t be disconnected

Department of Telecom, UIDAI say a mobile application to verify identities in place of Aadhaar for issuing SIMs coming soon.

Kanishk Karan

· Oct 18, 2018 · 07:55 pm