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Bharti Airtel Pays $1 Billion to Partly Clear 2016 Spectrum Dues
Airtel has partly settled its outstanding spectrum fees from a 2016 auction. This is the first payment the country's second-largest telecom operator is making for the phone spectrum it acquired for $2.13 billion (roughly Rs. 17,852 crore) in 2016.
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Spectrum Auctions See Sale Worth Rs 11,340 Crore, Bharti Airtel Top Buyer
Telecom czar Sunil Bharti Mittal's Airtel on Wednesday emerged as the biggest bidder for radio waves used to transmit mobile phone voice and data signals, cornering about 60 per cent of the Rs 11,341 crore worth of spectrum sold in an auction.
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Government to Auction Airwaves Valued at $11.6 Billion to Boost Phone Networks
The government has approved a plan to auction $11.6 billion worth of airwaves at reserve price, as per a statement from the Ministry of Communications. The upcoming spectrum auction will help major carriers Jio, Airtel, and Vi to boost services in the country.
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iPhone 7 Launch in India, Google Pixel Phones, and More News This Week
iPhone 7 and 7 Plus are here in India, Google Pixel phones get a price tag, and a whole lot more.
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Spectrum Trading Cleared, But Call Drops May Continue. Here's Why.
India has gained the dubious distinction of having more cellphones than toilets for its billion-plus population. But the rising level of call drops is making using those phones practically impossible.
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Opinion: Will Your Cellphone Bills Increase? The Impact of Spectrum Auction
The importance of telecom services in the consumption basket of over half a billion Indians is generally underestimated. Ask the largely self-employed migrant workers in big cities or small towns, and they will tell you how mobile bills constitute around 6% to 8% of their monthly consumption expenditure.
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Is Your Cell Phone Harming Your Health? Centre Asks for In-Depth Research
In the backdrop of the recently concluded spectrum auctions, the science and technology ministry has commissioned research studies on health aspects of mobile phone radiations from 16 scientific institutions.
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Government Can Collect Cash From Record Spectrum Auction, Rules Supreme Court
The sale of mobile phone airwaves, which has collected a record $17.6 billion or Rs. 1,09,874 crores in a spectrum auction stretching over 19 days of fierce bidding can be treated as final, the Supreme Court said today, which means the government can collect initial payments from operators, and show the revenue as earned in this financial year, ...
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TRAI suggests lowered pan-India reserve price in 900, 1800 MHz band auctions
TRAI has recommended a sharp 60 to 80 percent cut in the floor price of mobile phone airwaves for an upcoming auction.
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Bangladesh 3G spectrum auction: Airtel bags 5MHz for $105 million
Bangladesh's top four mobile phone companies have bid $525 million to obtain spectrum for high-speed third-generation mobile services.
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18 lakh phones in Mumbai go silent
On Saturday, more than 18 lakh customers were left in the lurch after their phones went silent after telecom operator Uninor closed its services in the city following the Supreme Court's order on Friday, which said that "telecom firms which were unsuccessful in availing fresh 2G spectrum, and those which did not participate in the auction process, ...
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2G spectrum: Cabinet approves cut in reserve price of unsold airwaves
The cabinet approved a 30 percent cut in the reserve price of mobile phone airwaves in four telecommunication zones, a minister said on Thursday, after carriers shunned last month's auction in those zones saying the prices were too high.
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No change in policy to auction spectrum: Kapil Sibal
Government does not intend to change the policy to auction spectrum for mobile phone operators, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal told the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
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Sensationalism killed telecom, another auction by March: Sibal
Indian government said it plans to auction by March-end the circles that were not taken in the flopped sale of mobile phone spectrum this week.
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After flop 2G auction, government challenges its auditor (CAG)
The government may have raised just over 9,000 cores from its auction of second-generation (2G) mobile phone airwaves, but the poor sales help to make a politically expedient point - the revenue raised now is at par with what the government earned in 2008, when licenses were sold to cellphone operators in a process allegedly manipulated by corrupti...
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Bharti Airtel Pays $1 Billion to Partly Clear 2016 Spectrum Dues
Airtel has partly settled its outstanding spectrum fees from a 2016 auction. This is the first payment the country's second-largest telecom operator is making for the phone spectrum it acquired for $2.13 billion (roughly Rs. 17,852 crore) in 2016.
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Spectrum Auctions See Sale Worth Rs 11,340 Crore, Bharti Airtel Top Buyer
Telecom czar Sunil Bharti Mittal's Airtel on Wednesday emerged as the biggest bidder for radio waves used to transmit mobile phone voice and data signals, cornering about 60 per cent of the Rs 11,341 crore worth of spectrum sold in an auction.
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Government to Auction Airwaves Valued at $11.6 Billion to Boost Phone Networks
The government has approved a plan to auction $11.6 billion worth of airwaves at reserve price, as per a statement from the Ministry of Communications. The upcoming spectrum auction will help major carriers Jio, Airtel, and Vi to boost services in the country.
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iPhone 7 Launch in India, Google Pixel Phones, and More News This Week
iPhone 7 and 7 Plus are here in India, Google Pixel phones get a price tag, and a whole lot more.
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Spectrum Trading Cleared, But Call Drops May Continue. Here's Why.
India has gained the dubious distinction of having more cellphones than toilets for its billion-plus population. But the rising level of call drops is making using those phones practically impossible.
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Opinion: Will Your Cellphone Bills Increase? The Impact of Spectrum Auction
The importance of telecom services in the consumption basket of over half a billion Indians is generally underestimated. Ask the largely self-employed migrant workers in big cities or small towns, and they will tell you how mobile bills constitute around 6% to 8% of their monthly consumption expenditure.
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Is Your Cell Phone Harming Your Health? Centre Asks for In-Depth Research
In the backdrop of the recently concluded spectrum auctions, the science and technology ministry has commissioned research studies on health aspects of mobile phone radiations from 16 scientific institutions.
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Government Can Collect Cash From Record Spectrum Auction, Rules Supreme Court
The sale of mobile phone airwaves, which has collected a record $17.6 billion or Rs. 1,09,874 crores in a spectrum auction stretching over 19 days of fierce bidding can be treated as final, the Supreme Court said today, which means the government can collect initial payments from operators, and show the revenue as earned in this financial year, ...
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TRAI suggests lowered pan-India reserve price in 900, 1800 MHz band auctions
TRAI has recommended a sharp 60 to 80 percent cut in the floor price of mobile phone airwaves for an upcoming auction.
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Bangladesh 3G spectrum auction: Airtel bags 5MHz for $105 million
Bangladesh's top four mobile phone companies have bid $525 million to obtain spectrum for high-speed third-generation mobile services.
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18 lakh phones in Mumbai go silent
On Saturday, more than 18 lakh customers were left in the lurch after their phones went silent after telecom operator Uninor closed its services in the city following the Supreme Court's order on Friday, which said that "telecom firms which were unsuccessful in availing fresh 2G spectrum, and those which did not participate in the auction process, ...
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2G spectrum: Cabinet approves cut in reserve price of unsold airwaves
The cabinet approved a 30 percent cut in the reserve price of mobile phone airwaves in four telecommunication zones, a minister said on Thursday, after carriers shunned last month's auction in those zones saying the prices were too high.
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No change in policy to auction spectrum: Kapil Sibal
Government does not intend to change the policy to auction spectrum for mobile phone operators, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal told the Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
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Sensationalism killed telecom, another auction by March: Sibal
Indian government said it plans to auction by March-end the circles that were not taken in the flopped sale of mobile phone spectrum this week.
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After flop 2G auction, government challenges its auditor (CAG)
The government may have raised just over 9,000 cores from its auction of second-generation (2G) mobile phone airwaves, but the poor sales help to make a politically expedient point - the revenue raised now is at par with what the government earned in 2008, when licenses were sold to cellphone operators in a process allegedly manipulated by corrupti...
