Jatin Grover

The companies have echoed the government's call for administrative allocation of satellite spectrum, but said the pricing should be affordable so that affordable services be provided through satellite broadband.

MeitY officials attributed the poor strike rate to many startups being basically into designing and the fact that their designs have not been approved by companies which are making products.

DoT has been holding discussions on the changes in EMF radiation norms and by how much the tower radiation limit can be increased.

On Monday, Airtel reported a net profit at Rs 3,593 crore, which was down 13.6% quarter-on-quarter, and much below Bloomberg's consensus estimate of Rs 4,398 crore.

Going by last year's festive season sales, the smartphone sales in volume grew 6%, while that in value terms grew 23%, according to Counterpoint data.

Today, we are a B2B player, mainly satcom, and some part is managed services. That's our mandate and with that we can double in five years.

Evaluates surrendering spectrum bought in July 2022

In the B2C space, today, MapmyIndia, counts 24 million downloads of the Mappls app. However, the B2C space has seen limited monetisation opportunities largely because of Google’s dominance in the space and its earnings from advertising. Google, which dominates the Android eco-system in India, will probably always have an advantage in the maps space especially since, it pre-bundles its apps in smart phones.

In the second phase, BSNL will look at implementing the recommendations in a phased manner subject to the availability of resources, primarily capital expenditure funds.

Bids for the tender can be submitted by November 22. The bidder is also required to furnish a bid security for an amount of Rs 50 lakh.