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Wasted spectrum

Telecom auction fails price discovery test

Half of telecom spectrum sold goes to Reliance Jio at Rs 57,122 crore

DoT may garner Rs 20,000 crore as upfront payment in FY21

Spectrum auction: Telcos place bids worth Rs 77,000 crore on Day 1

Revenue garnered from 4G auction may be much lower than reserve price set at Rs 3.92 trillion

Cabinet approves over Rs 12,000-crore PLI scheme for telecom sector

Scheme on telecom products will be implemented from April 1

Bharti Airtel back in black after 18 months with Rs 854 cr net profit in Q3

Robust addition in user base a key driver; highlight of the quarter was 13 million 4G customers added in Wireless business, say firm

OTT platforms tying up with telecom companies to expand their market

According to industry estimates, the number of screens in the country would hit 1 billion to 1.1 billion by 2025

Telecom companies' key revenue metric improves June to Sept: Regulator.

Vodafone Idea's monthly average revenue per user jumped 9.73 per cent to Rs 6,435.79 crore

Bharti Airtel initiates process to revise foreign investment limit to 100%

Higher foreign investment limit can lead to an increase in Airtel's weight in the global indices, say analysts

DoT says BSNL and MTNL turned Ebitda-positive in first half of FY21

BSNL and MTNL turned EBITDA positive in the first half of financial year 2020-21, demonstrating a marked improvement in performance within a year of approval of their revival plan

AGR case: Some payments to DoT not factored in, says Vodafone Idea

In petition to SC, telco cites errors in AGR calculations; estimates dues at Rs 21,533 cr against DoT's Rs 58,254 cr

After telecom companies, Chinese oil majors may face US delisting

China's largest offshore oil producer CNOOC could be most at risk as it's on the Pentagon's list of companies it says are owned or controlled by Chinese military

New York Stock Exchange starts delisting 3 Chinese telecom giants

The NYSE has started proceedings to delist the securities of three Chinese companies, China Telecom Corp, China Mobile and China Unicom

India to name 'trusted telecom sources', may blacklist Chinese vendors

The committee will declare a list of trusted sources and products for telecom service providers

Top headlines: SBI raises FY21 GDP estimate, SC proposes govt-farmer panel

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Jio accuses Airtel, Vodafone Idea of fanning farmers' ire against it

While Vodafone Idea did not immediately react to charges, Airtel called complaint baseless and asked govt to dismiss it

DoT considering two spectrum bids in 2021, may include 5G in second half

The licences for some of the 4G spectrum held by telecom companies (telcos) expire next year

Vodafone Idea bites the bullet on tariff hike as firm struggles to pay dues

The latest move, even if it is symbolic, is the first rate hike after the one announced end of 2019

Telecom to oil firms: Q2 results give no clear sign of broad revival

The economy is on the mend but sustained recovery will take time: that's the picture you get by studying the July-September quarter results of 1,286 listed companies. Devangshu Datta reads the numbers

PLI scheme: Telecom eligibility criteria for companies may be raised

The incentive for companies that achieve these targets will remain 4-6 per cent

Will not shy away from tariff hike: Vodafone Idea CEO Ravinder Takkar

While the telecom company's second-quarter loss narrowed to Rs 7,218 crore, its operational performance was weaker compared to its peers.