With its plans to launch pan-India GSM operations being delayed, Reliance Communications (RCOM) is now embarking on a Rs 3,000-crore ($740 million) plan to add 17 million new lines to its existing GSM networks in eight telecom circles. Over the next nine months, RCOM proposes to beef up the total capacity of its eight GSM […]

BSNL employees and executives across the country will go on a strike on July 11 to press the government to immediately place the purchase order for the 45.5 million GSM contract to the selected vendors. In case the issue was not settled soon, the strike would be indefinite, the Joint Forum of BSNL and MTNL

The Department of Telecom will soon write to companies including Idea Cellular and Airtel, which have recently received the Unified Access Services license for cellular operations but are awaiting spectrum release, to start offering fixed line services. Official sources said the Unified Access Services (UAS) licensing condition provides that once issued, the operators must start