2g Licenses Cancelled

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  A Raja In Court For 2G Verdict, 500 DMK Men Crowd Outside: 10 Facts

  Former telecom minister A Raja, DMK leader Kanimozhi and all other accused acquitted in 2G case The verdict was delayed as hundreds of supporters of A Raja from his hometown Nilgiris in Tamil Nadu have arrived at a Delhi court, causing security problems. The courtroom had to be cordoned off with ropes and a metal detector was heard cracking because...

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  2G Verdict On A Raja, Kanimozhi Still Not Ready, Says Judge: 10 Facts

  The verdict on whether former Telecom Minister A Raja masterminded India's biggest ever telecom scam is still not ready, the judge handling his trial said, adding that he needs three more weeks to write up his decision. Mr Raja is accused by the country's premier investigating agency, the CBI, of misallocating airwaves and licenses for cellphone ne...

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  'Tata Teleservices' licenses not covered in Supreme Court cancellation order'

  legal counsel representing government in the case said that court only cancelled 122 2G licences.

• 2G case: CBI asks Supreme Court to cancel bail for Unitech's Sanjay Chandra

  Sanjay Chandra, the Managing Director of Unitech, should be jailed again for attempting to interfere with the investigation against him, the CBI has said in the Supreme Court. Mr Chandra is one of five corporate executives accused in the telecom scam, worth Rs 1.76 lakh crore according to the government's auditor. He has been charged with conspirac...

• Why is only some spectrum, not all, being auctioned: Supreme Court to government

  The Supreme Court has asked the government to explain why it is not auctioning all the spectrum that was linked to 122 mobile network licenses cancelled in February this year. The auction is scheduled for November 12.

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  Supreme Court directs government to complete 2G spectrum auction by Jan 11

  The Supreme Court today directed the Government to complete fresh auction of cancelled 122 2G spectrum licences by January 11, 2013.

• Supreme Court extends deadline for auction of new 2G licenses till August 31

  The Supreme Court has extended the deadline for auction and issue of new licenses for the 2G spectrum till August 31, 2012 in lieu of the 122 telecom licenses cancelled. The cancelled licenses, however, will stay in operation till September 7, 2012 for a smooth transition and to avoid any inconvenience for the customers of the telecom companies.

• 2G case: Review petitions filed by govt, telecom companies in Supreme Court today

  The Supreme Court will today hear review petitions filed by the Centre and various telecom companies in the 2G judgements it delivered earlier this year. These review petitions will, however, not be heard in the open court as a convention, but will be decided in the chambers of Judges Justice GS Singhvi and Justice KS Radhakrishnan.

• 2G verdict: Govt wants presidential reference on auction of resources

  When the Supreme Court cancelled 122 licenses granted in 2008 for mobile network licenses and accompanying spectrum, the two judges who delivered the verdict said all national resources must be distributed only through an auction. The licenses revoked by Justices AK Ganguly and GS Singhvi had been allocated on a first-come-first-serve basis by then...

• PM's meet to consider whether to cancel pre-2008 2G licenses

  The Prime Minister will meet with senior ministers tomorrow to review the rules that will apply for an auction of 2G spectrum. 122 licenses for mobile networks issued in 2008 were cancelled by the Supreme Court earlier this month because spectrum or air-waves had not been auctioned. That verdict caused spasms in corporate India, with several forei...

• 2G verdicts: 122 licenses cancelled; Chidambaram verdict with trial court

  2G case: The Supreme Court this morning cancelled 122 telecom licenses issued by A Raja in 2008, a decision that will trigger powerful changes in the telecom sector, and eventually in how much India pays for cell-phone services. The court said using a first-come-first-serve policy to allocate national resources like airwaves is "fundamentally flawe...

• 2G verdict: This government is shameless, says BJP

  The Supreme Court's decision to cancel 122 telecom licenses issued in 2008 by A Raja has shattered "the entire credibility of the decision-making process of this government," said the BJP today.

• We repeat PM, Chidambaram are in no way responsible: Kapil Sibal on 2G verdicts

  After the Supreme Court cancelled 122 telecom licenses issued by A Raja in 2008, the government has said that the verdict is not an indictment of either its governance or the Prime Minister and then Finance Minister P Chidambaram. Instead, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal argued that the first-come-first-serve policy used by Mr Raja has been faulted by...

• 2G verdicts: 122 licenses cancelled, auction to follow; Chidambaram verdict with trial court

  Chidambaram, telecom scam, 2G, Supreme Court

• Cancelled telecom licenses: Impact on consumers, economy

  India is the world's second-largest telecom market in terms of subscribers - it has 900 million subscribers. So far, the telecom sector has been crowded with more than a dozen players. Call rates in India among the lowest in the world. Now that the Supreme Court has cancelled 122 licenses, we take quick look at the likely impact.