Category: Miscellaneous

An international arbitration tribunal has dismissed all the claims filed against India by Tenoch Holdings Limited (Cyprus) and two other entities in relation to cancellation of letters of intent for the provision of 2G telecom...

Samsung is setting up a new plant in Delhi for manufacturing of smartphone displays. To this end, the company is reportedly undertaking an investment of $500 million. Earlier in 2018, Samsung had invested $700 million towards...

As per ICRA, the Supreme Court’s (SC) dismissal of telcos’ review petition on adjusted gross revenue (AGR) payouts is credit negative for the telecom sector. According to the credit rating agency, government intervention would...

Xiaomi has spun off Poco, its sub-brand, as an independent entity. Following this Poco will now operate as a standalone brand with its own team and go to market strategy, independent of the parent company. The company now has...

According to Gartner, the global software market will observe a double digit growth of 10.5 per cent. Further, the global IT spending is expected to go up to $3.9 trillion, recording growth of 3.4 per cent in 2020. As per...

As per ICICI Securities, Reliance Jio will be hit if the spectrum assets of Reliance Communications (RCOM) are bought by another company. In case Jio loses access to 850MHz spectrum, it will no more be offering L-800 in seven...

The meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, has been rescheduled to January 16, 2020, as per industry sources. Earlier, the meeting was scheduled to be held on January 14,...

Common Service Centres (CSC) has partnered with NEC Corporation and IIT Delhi to empower rural students by providing them quality education. Further, CSC and NEC Corporation will be jointly designing and developing tools and...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has launched a customer experience centre (CEC) in Bengaluru. The centre has been launched to offer internet of things (IoT) solutions to customers and partners across industries. The CEC is part...

Industries minister Subhash Desai has said that Foxconn will not be setting up its unit in Maharashtra. This statement by the government has cleared the air around Foxconn’s proposed $5 billion investment in the state to set up...

As per industry sources, mobile handset brands and third-party manufacturers are putting their investment and hiring decisions on hold following the government’s recent move to reduce export incentives. Recently, the government...

As per GlobalData, India is expected to witness remarkable growth in its overall spending on information and communications technology (ICT). As per the firm, the ICT spending in India is estimated to rise to $144 billion by...

As per a recent study by Accenture, around 80 per cent of C-level Indian executives believe that failing to aggressively deploy artificial intelligence (AI) across their organisations can risk them going out of business by 2025....

Cyient has set up a new development centre at Warangal. The centre will provide design and engineering solutions for mobile and fixed-line networks of Cyient’s telecom customers globally. Initially, the centre will employ 200...

According to a study by Juniper Research, voice services revenue of mobile operators can potentially reduce from $381 billion in 2019 to $208 billion by 2024. This drop in revenue would most likely be triggered by users’...

Common Service Centre (CSC) has signed an MoU with Paytm Payments Bank Limited (PPBL) for the sale of PPBL FASTags across the country. These will be sold through the last-mile network of 360,000 CSC outlets. Under the MoU, CSC...

The government of Telangana has signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Intel, Adobe, Tech Mahindra, Nvidia, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), IIT Khargapur and IIT Hyderabad, in an effort to develop a robust...

The PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry has reportedly sought immediate intervention from the telecom, IT and law minister, Ravi Shankar Prasad to prevent Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) from awarding the undersea telecom...