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Digital India Act: Unravelling regulatory tangles in e-commerce space

Ambitious proposal for an overarching Digital India Act that aims to improve ease of doing business for rapidly expanding sector likely to face challenges of overlapping ministerial responsibilities

Govt pays PLI incentives worth Rs 2,874 crore towards 8 sectors in FY23

Empowered group of secretaries, Aayog review some sectors to bring them to 'acceptable levels'

Airlines must get new altimeters to ensure no interference from 5G: Telcos

The DGCA had mandated a complete blackout of 5G services in airports across the country and areas within 2.1 kilometres radius due to safety concerns

Railways dials Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel for 1.1 million connections

Due to the expansion in size of subscribers, the tariffs finalised under the latest policy are about 10 per cent lower than the previous rates charged by Jio

Telecom sector to face slower mobile revenue growth in Q4: Analysts

Continuing churn in customer addition to hold back ARPU growth

Decoded: How quantum communication can become the future of data encryption

India's first quantum communication line is operational. Here's what this technology is

Quantum computing-based telecom network link now operational: Vaishnaw

A quantum network transmits quantum bits (qubits) that can simultaneously take the value of zeros and ones thus making it more difficult to break end-to-end encryption

Telecom milestone: At 50 million, India has 5% of world's 5G subscribers

India is closing in on western Europe which has 63 million 5G subscribers; it is already ahead of Latin America and the GCC

C-DOT, Reliance Jio set to power India's global telecom gear ambition

C-DOT, which has tied up with TCS, is expected to export telecom equipment by 2024

Next-generation tech

Govt's focus on 6G will enable R&D

Bharat 6G Mission: PM Modi launches India's 6G project, official testbed

The new 6G testbed is being co-developed by a consortium of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), including Guwahati and Madras

Indians acquire 100 patents for 6G technology, says Ashwini Vaishnaw

Indian scientists, engineers and academicians have acquired 100 patents for 6G technology, IT and Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday. While speaking at the Bharat Startup Summit organised by the PHD Chamber of Commerce, the minister said India is taking a leap in 5G technology with the fastest rollout of networks in the world. "Electronics is very complex, but despite the complexity, our scientists, engineers and academicians have together acquired 100 patents in 6G," Vaishnaw said. The minister shared that the 5G network rollout has far exceeded the government of 200 cities by March 31, 2023, with coverage in 397 cities at present. He said India has become USD 3.5 trillion, and it can become the world's largest economy with transformation across governance, infrastructure and businesses. "When a country or economy has to reach this level then thousands of systems are required to be changed. Governance systems, logistics systems, banking systems and change in the o

CARE upgrades outlook on Vodafone Idea to positive; reaffirms ratings

The ratings, however, remains underpinned by VIL's deteriorated financial risk profile, wherein, the tangible net-worth has eroded

India likely to overtake America in 5G roll-out by year-end: Ericsson CEO

'We are the biggest contributor to the standards of O-RAN', said Börje Ekholm

Indian cricket: Where Mukesh Ambani might pull ahead of Gautam Adani

The two billionaires have adopted different playbooks. While Adani went headlong into public utilities, Ambani has focused on private wants

Can Vodafone Idea survive?

The biggest hurdle in the way of its long-term survival will be 5G, which has changed the telecom landscape and made it the weakest player in the sector

Make digital infra mandatory in building plans, Trai tells govt

Trai will bring out a consultation paper to further strengthen digital inclusion, looking at three key aspects of devices, connectivity and literacy

Cybercrime menace: 500,000 Sim cards blocked in Mewat since January 2022

The fraudsters were making a call using a Sim card, then switching off the phone, removing the Sim and putting a new Sim in the same phone to place the next call

Mobile user base dips for fourth month in a row, shows Trai data

Users have reduced by 0.6 million,1.82 million and 3.66 million in the three months since September

Telecom subscriber base rose marginally to 1.17 bn in December 2022

Telecom subscriber base rose marginally to 1,170.38 million in December 2022 on account of an increase in fixed line connections, according to official data. The total subscriber base in the country was at 1,170.17 million in November last year. "The number of telephone subscribers in India increased from 1,170.18 million at the end of November to 1,170.38 million at the end of December, thereby showing a monthly growth rate of 0.02 per cent," telecom regulator TRAI said in its monthly subscriber report for December 2022 released on Thursday. Wireline subscribers increased to 27.45 million in December from 27.13 million in November, with a net increase of 0.32 million in the wireline subscriber base. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) report showed that the growth in the wireline segment was driven by Reliance Jio with an addition of 2,92,411 new customers. Bharti Airtel added 1,46,643 new landline customers, BSNL (13,189) and Quadrant (6,355). State-owned MTNL lost