Category: Policy & Regulation

The government set up panel for data protection regulations has proposed the creation of a regulatory authority for data business. The panel has said that this regulatory authority should provide centralised regulation for all...

The government has moved the Supreme Court (SC) against a Delhi High Court order allowing Bharti Airtel to claim Rs 9.23 billion in tax refunds by rectifying its goods and services tax (GST) returns filed earlier. The petition...

The Information and Broadcasting (I&B) ministry has proposed bringing the contents being streamed on the over-the-top (OTT) platforms under its ambit. At present, OTT platforms that are digitally streamed falls under the...

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) in partnership with Atal Innovation Mission – NITI Aayog has launched a Digital India AatmaNirbhar Bharat App Innovation Challenge for Indian tech entrepreneurs and...

The Chennai-Andaman and Nicobar Islands (CANI) submarine cable system project has got clearance of the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL). The project got its final clearance in the recent meeting held by NBWL’s standing...

The Common Service Centres (CSC) is reportedly aiming to deploy around 500,000 fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) connections for facilitating high-speed internet access in rural India by September 2020. The centres have so far provided...

The United States (US) Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has designated China-based telecom equipment vendors Huawei and ZTE as national security threats and cut them off from billions of dollars in federal broadband...

The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has directed the Tamil Nadu FiberNet Corporation (TANFINET) to cancel and re-tender the BharatNet project in Tamil Nadu following allegations of restrictive...

The government is aiming to strengthen telecom connectivity in Ladakh and Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and will be soon providing telecom connectivity to 87 uncovered villages in J&K and 57 in Ladakh. The Universal Service...

The Telecom Engineering Centre (TEC) has notified some telecom products to be put under mandatory testing regime under phase – II, starting October 1, 2020. Such telecom products include transmission terminal gear including...

The government is planning to approve a proposal to slash the licence fee on wired broadband services to a token Re 1 per year per circle. The move is likely to cut home broadband costs and drive telcos to aggressively expand...

According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the plea moved by Paytm in the Delhi High Court is misconceived. The TRAI has made the submission in an affidavit filed in the High Court in response to the petition...

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is setting up an eight-member committee to recommend technical specifications for 4G tender of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL). The move follows BSNL’s cancellation of its previous...

The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) has scheduled a meeting with officials from the Tamil Nadu government to discuss grievances pertaining to the Tamil Nadu fibrenet tender worth Rs 19 billion....

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has directed telcos to ensure a time-bound registration of entities that send out bulk commercial messages to consumers. To this end, the regulator has directed the telecom...