Vodafone chief executive Arun Sarin on Saturday 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. Mr Sarin called for greater transparency in India’s merger approval process to defeat backroom efforts by vested interests to manipulate the political bureaucracy. “I really […]
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Department of Telecom is understood to be against allowing CDMA operators to offer GSM-based mobile services on the same licence since it will enable them to hold a large chunk of spectrum leading to market dominance. But the department would wait for TRAI recommendations before taking any decision. Sources said that although DoT has its
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Worried mothers with school going children, NRI’s with old, ailing parents back home, fleet owners with erring drivers or even housewives with philandering husbands will soon have a helping hand from mobile operators, BSNL and a leading CDMA operator, which are launching a ‘Locator Service’ for the first time in India. Wondering how does it
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