Category: Miscellaneous

India is reportedly planning to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Japan in the field of ICT to counter China’s growing influence on telecom and digital infrastructure. Under the MoU, the two governments will...

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has constituted working groups that will explore the implementation of 5G across eight different sectors such as agriculture, fintech, transportation and education. The concerned...

According to a new report by Bain & Company, India is fast emerging as a software as a service (SaaS) powerhouse, driven by a massive shift from on-premise to the cloud and growing investor appetite. As per the report,...

Internet service providers (ISPs) in the sector are reportedly planning to approach the Supreme Court (SC) to seek relief in the adjusted gross revenue (AGR) matter. The ISPs have requested for relief on the lines ofnon-telecom...

According to a recent report by Fitch Ratings, Vodafone Idea (Vi) is expected to lose 50-70 million subscribers in the next 12 months, after losing about 155 million subscribers in the last nine quarters already. Fitch expects...

According to Gartner, the total global smartphone sales in third quarter (Q3) of 2020 stood at 366 million units, down 5.7 per cent from the same period last year. According to Gartner, global smartphone sales experienced...

Telecom Standards Development Society of India (TSDSI) 5Gi has completed the evaluation phase of ITU’s International Mobile Telecommunications 2020 (IMT-2020) vision. With this, TSDSI 5Gi, India’s own 5G technology,...

National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) has onboarded 19 new entities as shareholders as part of a private placement exercise which saw non-profit dilution of 4.63 per cent stake for Rs 816.4 million. Among the new...

According to TRAI, there is a need to put in collaborative efforts and initiate field trials for India-relevant use cases in order to make 5G a success in the country. As per TRAI, the development of India-specific use cases...

Day-two of ‘India SatCom 2020’, recognised as the largest and most comprehensive conference for satellite communications in the country, was digitally organised today by Broadband India Forum – the leading independent...

According to a recent study by IDC, the IT and business services market in India is expected to reach $13 billion by the end of 2020, growing at a rate of 5.4 per cent per annum. As per IDC, during the first half of 2020, the...

According to CLSA, the Bharti Infratel – Indus Towers merger will offer limited synergies in operating expenditure due to limited overlap in operations. As per the brokerage firm, only four out of 22 circles pan-India...

According to a recent report by cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, cyber fraud incidents are likely to increase in 2021 as more users get connected to the internet and entering the digital payments ecosystem. The report highlighted...

IT spending in India is projected to total $81.9 billion in 2021, an increase of 6 per cent from 2020, according to the latest forecast by Gartner. IT spending in 2020 is expected to total $79.3 billion, down 8.4 per cent from...

According to a report by IoT Analytics, there will be around 21.7 billion active connected devices globally at the end of 2020. Of this, around 54 per cent, i.e, 11.7 billion devices will be internet of things (IoT) device...

According to a recent report by ANAROCK-Mace, the Indian data centre industry has attracted around $ 977 million in private equity and strategic investments since 2008, of which nearly 40 percent or approximately $396 million...

According to a recent report by Motilal Oswal Financial Services, a 20 per cent tariff hike could drive up Vodafone Idea’s (Vi) average revenue per user (ARPU) to Rs 140 in FY22E. This can be expected as the economy has started...

According to a new study by Ericsson, the 5G consumer market could be worth $31 trillion by 2030 globally. The report estimates that communications service providers (CSPs) could earn $3.7 trillion of that total, a figure that...

Telecom operators have opposed the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) proposal to revamp the existing system to deal with consumer complaints related to billing. To this end, telcos including Reliance Jio, Airtel and...