Once Reliance Jio starts operations later this year, the telecom sector is expected to see some serious disruption. For now, the three big boys of the sector - Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea - are growing at a blistering pace, and at the expense of smaller rivals. In the first quarter, the three accounted for 91 per cent of the sector´s incremental revenue.
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Spectrum auctions likely in early 2016
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is planning another bumper auction of telecom spectrum that may even surpass record sales in March.
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Bharti, Soft Bank plan renewable energy foray
Telecom major Bharti has tied up with Japan´s Soft Bank and JBIC for foraying into renewable energy.
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Probe order against Ericsson
The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has ordered probe against the telecom major Ericsson
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Vodafone expands its wing
Telecom operator Vodafone announced expansion of mobile network in two more districts in Arunachal Pradesh, taking its coverage to 11 out of 18 districts.
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Govt gets Rs.10k cr on spectrum auction
The telecom operators that have won spectrum in March auction paid a sum of their dues to the government. Till now, the Government had received a total of around Rs 10,000 crore. However, it was not immediately clear, which telecom firms had paid the full amount or made partial payments.
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Optimising Diesel Generator sets
Telecom today has penetrated much deeper into India in comparison to electricity. Network availability is of prime importance to any telecom operator. However this is quite challenging owing primarily to non availability of good quality grid power supply at remote locations.
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Alstom bags 65 mn euro contracts from DMRC
Alstom has been awarded two contracts worth over 65 million euro (over Rs 465 crore) from Delhi Metro Rail Corporation to supply signalling, telecom and electrification solutions for the new Kochi Metro line.
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Growth in Store
Over the past couple of decades, the warehousing industry in India has evolved from the traditional concept of a ´godown´ - a small structure with four walls and shed - to a modern-day automated set-up which offers efficient inventory management and value-added services.
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Government to connect 55,000 villages with phones by December 2016
The telecom department plans to take mobile networks by December 2016 to nearly 10 per cent of Indian villages that are still unconnected, to make the government´s ambitious Digital India programme more pervasive.