Employees of Wireless Monitoring Organisation (WMO) check mobile signals before removing a mobile signal booster from a house as they conduct a raid on its unauthorized usage durin...
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A woman talks to her relatives in Srinagar. Mobile phone services on postpaid connections were restored in Kashmir after remaining suspended for 70 days following abrogation of Art...
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People stand in a queue at a telecom office to restore their mobile phones, in Srinagar. Mobile phone services on postpaid connections were restored in Kashmir after remaining susp...
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A man talks to his relatives as he walks in Srinagar. Mobile phone services on postpaid connections were restored in Kashmir after remaining suspended for 70 days following abrogat...
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A Kashmiri man talks on his cellphone as he crosses the Dal Lake in Srinagar. Postpaid cellphone services were restored in Kashmir on Monday, more than two months after government ...
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A Kashmiri boatman talks on his cellphone as he sits on the banks of the Dal Lake in Srinagar. Postpaid cellphone services were restored in Kashmir on Monday, more than two months ...
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Policeman makes a call from his cellphones as he guards a closed market in Srinagar. Postpaid cellphone services were restored in Kashmir on Monday, more than two months after gov...
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Union Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad with Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla during the inauguration of India Mobile Congress in New Delhi
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Union Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad inaugurates India Mobile Congress with a remote as Telecom Secretary Anshu Prakash, Aditya Birla Group Chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla, Vic...
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A resident talks on the phone after authorities in Kashmir restored 19 more telephone exchanges, a month after telephone services were snapped following abrogation of provisions of...
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(L-R) Adarsh Nair, chief product officer, Bharti Airtel, Head, content and apps, Sameer Batra, and CEO Airtel DTH Sunil Taldar during the launch of Airtel Xstream, a digital ente...
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MTNL employees stage a demonstration against over non-payment of their salaries for the past two months, at Sanchar Bhawan, in New Delhi.
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Union Minister of Law & Justice and Electronics & IT Ravi Shankar Prasad with Secretary, Law and Justice, Alok Srivastava releases a brochure during the launch of Tele-Law, a mobil...
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Of 190 Million
A customer signs up at a Reliance Jio store in Delhi
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DMK MP Kanimozhi along her husband G Aravindan after she was acquitted by a special court in the 2G scam case, in New Delhi
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DMK MP Kanimozhi leaving court premises after being acquitted in the 2G scam case, outside Patiala House courts in New Delhi
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Supporters celebrate outside Patiala court after verdict on 2G spectrum case in New Delhi
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Former Telecom minister A Raja celebrates along with his supporters after he was acquitted by a special court in the 2G scam case, in New Delhi
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Former Telecom minister A Raja celebrates along with his supporters after he was acquitted by a special court in the 2G scam case, in New Delhi
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Finance minister Arun Jaitley addresses media on 2G scam verdict at Parliament in New Delhi
Under the provisions of the directive, the government will declare a list of trusted sources and trusted products for installation in the country's telecom network.
The Supreme Court cautioned the telecom firms and said that failure to pay installments of AGR-related dues would incur penalty, interest and contempt of court.
The decline in subscriber base during April was preceded by a loss of 28 lakh connections in March, which saw the lockdown being imposed towards the end, India Ratings and Research said.
Official sources said that the government had told BSNL not to use Chinese equipment in 4G upgrade, and that implementation of the direction meant that the company had to issue a new tender.
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Saddled with huge losses and even higher debts, the telecom companies have no option but to shore up incomes and margins. Mobile data charges are one of the cheapest in India