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Lacklustre budget for telecom industry

The Indian budget for 2008-09 was expected to rationalise the taxes and duties applicable on the telecom sector. But the industry is dissatisfied with the proposals.
Business paper Mint, has a sectoral analysis of telecom.
Proposals: Customs duty on project imports attracting 7.5% proposed to be reduced to 5%; Customs duty on specified raw materials and [...]

Sarin says losers tried to derail deal

Speaking to IIT alumni in Silicon Valley, Vodafone chief executive Arun Sarin said his hopes that India’s regulatory bureaucracy had modernised were shaken by last-minute moves to derail his company’s $11-billion takeover of Hutchison Essar.
“I really did not expect people

Rs 500 penalty for mobile spam

TRAI has decided to levy a fine of Rs 500 for every unsolicited call or SMS sent by a telemarketer. Further, the telemarketer could face disconnection of services.
The regulator has exempted messages relating to financial transactions under specific contracts (between the caller and a party), charities, national campaigns, natural calamities transmitted under government directions, among [...]

Telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran resigns

High-profile Communication and IT Minister Dayananidhi Maran has resigned.
His resignation is a fallout of political turmoil after Dinakaran, a daily owned by the union minister’s elder brother Kalanidhi Maran, carried a survey that exposed chinks in the family of Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister M Karunanidhi. Dayanidhi Maran is from Tamil Nadu’s ruling DMK party.
Lets hope [...]

Hutch-Vodafone deal gets clearance

Vodafone cleared its last hurdle in acquiring a controlling stake in Hutch Essar with finance minister P Chidambaram giving his go-ahead on Friday. His approval comes within a week of the Foreign Investment Promotion Board giving its nod for the acquisition.
The approval comes as a welcome reprieve to Analjit Singh and Asim Ghosh, whose 12.26% [...]

The Re-verification

The March 31 deadline for subscriber re-verification process is past.
DoT had strictly instructed operators to complete the re-verification by March 31. Failure of operators to verify would mean disconnection of the mobile numbers or the operator will face a penalty of Rs 1,000 for each unverified subscriber.
DoT took up the subscriber verification issue after it [...]

GSMA honours Indian Government

The GSM Association (GSMA), the global trade association representing more than 700 mobile operators, presented its Government Leadership Award 2007 to India for exceptional achievement in the field of mobile communications policy.
India has been selected because of its success in establishing a framework of policies and regulations, which have enabled and stimulated the growth of [...]

Post offices to verify user identity

CIOL reports that the Indian Government is looking at asking post offices to validate the identification of the mobile subscriber, which can be used as an authentication system for the telecom service providers.
The post offices may charge about Rs 30 for every identification.
“The Department of Posts has been roped-in along with the Department of Telecommunications, [...]

DoT sets April 2007 deadline for number portability

Mobile number portability is on the horizon in India. The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has set April, 2007 as the deadline for the implementation of mobile phone number portability.
The deadline had been recommended by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) and submitted to the DoT in March this year.
Telecom operators have opposed the move [...]

TRAI issues fresh recommendations on AGR

Following a TDSAT directive, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has come out with recommendations on activities to be taken into account for calculation of an operators’ Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR).
What is AGR?
Telecom operators calculate their revenue and pay revenue share to the government on the basis of AGR.
Activities of an operator included in [...]

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