The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released recommendations on ‘traffic management practices and multi stakeholder body for net neutrality’. Earlier in January 2020, TRAI had issued a consultation paper on the...
Read MoreThe Department of Space (DoS) has objected to any airwaves allocation in the coveted 26 GHz millimeter wave band for 5G services. According to the DoS, it can cause interference between satellite and 5G mobile networks and...
Read MoreUnion minister of state for home G Kishan Reddy informed the parliament that there is no restriction on accessing any website, including social media sites, in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K). According to him, mobile data...
Read MoreThe government has undertaken ‘Ghar tak Fibre’ project to extend optical fibre connectivity to villages across India under BharatNet initiative. Initially, the government will be inaugurating the project in Bihar, followed by...
Read MoreThe timeline for completion of BharatNet Phase II will now be extended as its pace was affected by the lockdown and restrictions on movement imposed amid Covid-19 crisis. The announcement was made by the minister of state for...
Read MoreVodafone Idea Limited now known by the brand name ‘Vi’ has launched its integrated 4G network, GIGAnet. With the recent launch, the telco aims to stem the loss of customers and attract new ones. GIGAnet is built on principles of...
Read MoreAccording to the Department of Telecommunications’ (DoT) Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand have lead the Broadband Readiness Index (BRI). Out of 21 states which were analysed, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Puducherry, Uttarakhand and...
Read MoreAccording to the Tamil Nadu government, over 12,500 villages in the state will be connected through broadband internetin the next 18 months as part of the BharatNet project. In addition, the government has distributed around 5.4...
Read MoreRavi Shankar Prasad, Minister for Telecommunications and Electronics and Information Technology has inaugurated next generation network telephone exchange at New Bihar Vidhan Mandal and Bharat AirFibre service at Danapur...
Read MoreAccording to UNICEF’s Remote Learning Reachability report, just 24 per cent of Indian households have internet connections to access e-education. Further, there is a large rural-urban and gender divide that is likely to widen...
Read MoreThe joint bidding entity of Bharti Global, the overseas arm of Bharti Enterprises, and the British government, which recently won the bid to take over UK’s OneWeb is planning to put in an application to the Indian National Space...
Read MoreBharati Enterprises has said that a low earth orbit (LEO) constellation of satellites is the best way to connect rural India. To this end, the company has sought a partnership with ISRO to build user terminals that will enable...
Read MoreThe Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) administration has restored 4G high-speed mobile internet services on trial basis in Ganderbal and Udhampur districts, one each in Kashmir and Jammu divisions, with immediate effect. The order...
Read MoreThe central government has told the Supreme Court (SC) that a special committee is looking into the issue of internet restoration in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and is considering allowing 4G internet access on a trial basis in...
Read MoreAccording to Ravi Shankar Prasad, Minister for Telecommunications and Electronics and Information Technology, work for Rs 3,370 million project to provide mobile services in 354 uncovered villages in remote and border areas of...
Read MoreBharti Airtel has launched 4G services in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. This move was enabled by the recent commissioning of the Chennai and Andaman and Nicobar Islands submarine optical fibre cable project by the government...
Read MoreAccording to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), it will be offering faster broadband speed and enhanced data download limit for its customers in Andaman and Nicobar Islands from August 10, 2020. For BSNL wireline segment,...
Read MoreBharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has launched Bharat Air Fibre, a radio-based last mile telecom connectivity solution, for Akola and Washim districts in Maharashtra. This will enable residents of Akola and Washim districts to...
Read MoreAccording to a recent data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI),Reliance Jio has led the 4G speed chart with an average download speed of 16.5 megabits per second (mbps) in June 2020. Further, Vodafone...
Read MoreTata Communications has secured a Type B telecom license in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). The license entitles Tata Communications to provide Internet Service Provider (ISP) and related telecom services to enterprises in a...
Read MoreExcitel has begun operations in the city of Kanpur and Lucknow. With an effort to meet the growing demand for broadband services, Excitel has commenced operations and rolled out affordable robust plans without FUP limits in the...
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