State-owned MTNL and BSNL have sought full mobility licences for their CDMA-based mobile services. The PSUs have pointed out that their competitors in the private sector have migrated to Universal Access Service Licences (which allows them to offer any type of telecom services) while the government is yet to allow them to do so. The […]
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State-run telecom firm BSNL has placed the order for mobile equipment of 14 million GSM lines with Swedish vendor Ericsson at a cost of 80 dollar per line, much lower than the original cost of 107 dollar. Ericsson officials said they have received the advanced purchase order (APO) for 2G equipment and would start studying
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The government’s role in funding telecom infrastructure will be crucial to the growth and spread of telephony in rural India. This is because operators will increasingly look for support from the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) for setting up tens of thousands of telecom towers in rural India over the next three years, especially in
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