Indian Communication Minister: New guidelines on spectrum allocation
The Communication Minister, A Raja has said that the Government of India will issue a new set of guidelines for telecoms licenses and allocation of spectrum in the next 10 days.
BSNL, TCIL to lay fibre cable across Myanmar
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) will lay fibre optic cables across Myanmar (Burma) in collaboration with Telecommunications Consultants India Ltd (TCIL). This would be the first step to set up a land link between India and South Asia, which will pass through Kuala Lampur and terminate in Singapore.
Government plans to provide mobile phone services to 2.5 lakh villages in India
India Government has taken the mobile services project under the Universal Services Obligation and it is expected to cover 2.5 lakh remote villages across the country.
DoT orders ISPs to block few bloggings
In India, millions of domestic Internet users cannot access some of the world
DoT has to think wire-line
Spectrum crunch is forcing the Department of Telecom (DoT) to think wire-line. The DoT has asked non commercial users of spectrum such as Defence agencies to shift their communication links from wireless to wire-line mode wherever optic fibre cable is available.
