Public Sector telecom major BSNL has added 55 lakh customers in the last seven months, taking the total number past the 9.1 crore mark, the Parliament was informed.
Telecom service providers have blacklisted 1,150 entities/individuals and disconnected more than 18.8 lakh resources, the government said on Wednesday, as it aims to further control the spread of spam calls and messages.
Underfire for not having its representative on the podium for the prize distribution ceremony after the Champions Trophy final, the Pakistan Cricket Board has lodged a protest with the International Cricket Council (ICC) for ignoring its representative during Sunday's event in Dubai.
The Centre on Tuesday warned miscreants against tampering or spoofing of telecom resources, like mobile numbers, IP address, IMEI and SMS headers, as such offences are punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, or up to Rs 50 lakh fine, or both.
Benchmark indices, on Monday, extended their fall to a fifth session in a row, taking the Nifty 50 to the lowest level in last eight months. The fall was led by selling in IT, Realty and Telecom shares.
On the first day of the monsoon session, members remembered former Union telecom minister Sukh Ram Sharma along with Mast Ram, Roop Singh Chauhan and Parveen Sharma who passed away.
Private 5G captive networks are about the deployment of high speed, enhanced data capacity, and ultra-low latency applications inside a closed manufacturing unit, hospital, airport and shipping port, among others.
"Today, 9 structural reforms and 5 process reforms in the telecom sector have been approved. These reforms will change the framework of the entire telecom sector."
According to people in the know, during the meeting on September 1, Birla and Vaishnaw discussed about the health of the sector and the urgent need for government intervention.
Harassed by tardy maintenance of the MTNL’s transmission lines and underground cable thefts, its subscribers migrated gradually to other telecom service providers.
