| Vodafone seeks time till Jan for tax claim reply | 20-NOV-09 |
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| UK-based mobile major Vodafone has sought an extension until January 29 next year to reply to a tax claim notice issued last month by the Income-Tax department, the Lok Sabha was informed today. |
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| 'Do we need a new spectrum policy?' | 18-NOV-09 |
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| Telecom spectrum and licensing reform are key to India’s economic future. A recent research carried out by Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (Icrier) shows a 10 per cent increase in mobile penetration raises GDP growth by 1.2 percentage points. The spectrum and licensing policy will determine whether the industry can deliver a long-term growth or will die a “death by a thousand cuts” — uncertainty and fragmentation may cause higher costs which, in the end, must be passed on to consumers. The long-term future of the industry is at stake. There is no room for complacency, or giving way to vested interests. |
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| AT&T, Intel join telcos in pre-bid meet for 3G spectrum auction | 17-NOV-09 |
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| US telecom major AT&T and the world’s largest chip maker, Intel, were among the foreign players that showed interest today in the pre-bid conference for third generation (3G) spectrum, which kick-started the process for the 3G auction in the country. |
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| Essar takes 51% stake in Uganda, Congo telcos | 16-NOV-09 |
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| The Ruias’ Essar Group is to acquire a 51 per cent stake in the telecom operations of the Dhabi Group, an investment company led by Abu Dhabi’s royal family, in Uganda and Congo for around $150 million (Rs 692 crore). |
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| PM to take up BSNL's falling revenue | 14-NOV-09 |
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| Concerned over BSNL’s falling revenues, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to meet the brass of the telecom PSU and Communications and IT Minister A Raja to look into causes and find ways to improve performance.A senior BSNL official said the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has asked BSNL to be prepared for such a meeting with the prime minister. |
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| Vodafone H1 profit up 15% to $7.6 bn | 10-NOV-09 |
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| Telecommunications company Vodafone Group PLC today reported a 15 per cent increase in first-half net profit. Results were boosted by favourable currency movements, lower taxes and expansion at its Verizon Wireless venture in the US. |
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| SC notice to Trai, RCom, Tata Tele, Vodafone others | 09-NOV-09 |
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| The Supreme Court has issued notice to 11 parties, including Trai, Reliance Communications, Tata Teleservices, Vodafone Essar, on a petition by state-run BSNL challenging removal of Access Deficit Charge (ADC), a levy paid by private telecom operators for funding the PSU's operations in rural and remote areas. |
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| We did not start the tariff war: Airtel | 09-NOV-09 |
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| Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Mittal today said the company had not initiated any tariff war with the launch of per-second billing and was merely responding to the market needs. |
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| Vodafone tax saga (re)surfaces | 09-NOV-09 |
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| Early last week, the Mumbai revenue department issued show cause notices to Vodafone, proposing to tax offshore transaction, as a result of which Vodafone acquired a controlling interest in GSM licences from Hutch. |
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| Great Indian telecom boom begins to ring hollow | 08-NOV-09 |
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| When telecom executives went into a meeting with Communications Minister A Raja on Tuesday evening inside the peeling walls of Sanchar Bhawan in New Delhi, they may have believed that things were so bad they could not get any worse. They were wrong. The highlight of the meeting was Raja asking mobile telephony operators to reduce termination charges, the money that an operator pays another to whose network the call is made. |
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| Madhukar Sabnavis: Challenging time for challengers | 06-NOV-09 |
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| Pay-per-second billing has become the norm in mobile telephony today. However, this was stimulated by the launch of Tata DoCoMo — the nth entrant in a crowded category. Idea challenged the leaders — Airtel and Vodafone — with a very distinct brand advertising to stand out and get noticed in a cluttered market. DoCoMo used a pricing innovation to enter and make an impact. Though the jury is still out on whether it has worked and on what volume the brand has gathered, there is no doubt the brand has been noticed and the fact that competitors have followed — imitated — it is perhaps recognition that it has done things right. This will be a feature of brands and marketing in future. |
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