Kochi Metro Rail Limited has commenced preparatory works, including geotechnical survey for Kochi Metro Rail Project-Phase II. Besides, the soil testing on the Palarivattom-Kakkanad stretch and land acquisition has also commenced. The project involves development […]
The central government inaugurated the Mumbai Metro Phase I Line 2A and Mumbai Metro Phase III Line 7 projects on January 19, 2023. The Mumbai Metro Phase-I Line 2A project involves the construction of a […]
Work on the Kasheli creek bridge on Line 5 of the Mumbai metro Phase II (Kalyan-Bhiwandi-Thane) has been completed. Line 5 of the Mumbai metro project involves the development of a 24.9 km long metro […]
The Commissioner of Railway Safety has granted safety clearance for the New Garia station-Ruby station stretch of the Kolkata metro expansion project. The project involves the expansion of the existing metro rail network in Kolkata, […]
The Central government has proposed the roll-out of high speed Vande Bharat Metro trains for short distances. They are expected to be rolled out by end 2023. Vande Bharat Metro is a scaled-down version of […]
The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) has received an allocation of Rs 764.32 billion in 2023-24. The allocation is 2.53 per cent higher than the revised estimate of Rs 745.46 billion for 2022-23. […]
Spectra has expanded the commercial deployment of the Telecom Infra Project OpenWiFi solutions for its residential and enterprise customers. The company has installed access points and a cloud controller from Inventum, a Delhi-based technology company.
Airtel has announced an investment of Rs 20 billion for setting up a large hyperscale data centre in Hyderabad. The facility will have a capacity of 60 MW of IT load for the first phase.
The Web Werks-Iron Mountain Data Centers JV has announced the inauguration of its first greenfield data centre in Navi Mumbai, MUM-2. Situated on a 120,000 square foot campus, the facility is a Tier III-designated data […]
RailTel Corporation of India Limited has secured a work order from the State Bank of India (SBI) to provide 4G long term evolution connectivity to 15,000 offsite ATMs. The project also entails the operations and […]
Vodafone Idea Limited (Vi) has deployed an additional 1800 MHz spectrum band on all 11,000 of its sites in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. As per the company, in the last one year it has added […]
Reliance Jio has announced the launch of its True 5G services across 10 cities, namely, Hindupur, Madanapalle, Proddatur, Raigarh, Talcher, Patiala, Alwar, Mancherial, Gorakhpur and Roorkee. With this, the total count of cities on the […]
Bharti Airtel has announced the launch of its 5G services in multiple cities across India. These include Itanagar in Arunachal Pradesh; Bhopal, Ujjain and Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh; Raipur and Durg-Bhilai in Chhattisgarh; Surat, Vadodara […]
The government has notified the formation of three grievance appellate committees (GACs) to address users’ complaints against social media and other internet-based platforms. The GACs have been established according to the recently amended Information Technology […]
DoT and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) have reportedly formed a joint committee to look into ways of safely deploying 5G telecom towers across India’s 137 airports. To this end, DoT has requested […]
The Ministry of Defence has revised its 2018 rulebook to allow the installation of telecom infrastructure on defence land, in a bid to align with the Indian Telegraph Right of Way Rules and improve communication […]
DoT has initiated an exercise to frame security standards around network function virtualisation (NFV), a key feature of 5G technology. The National Centre for Communication Security, a unit under DoT, has started work on framing […]
According to a gazette notification, the government has revised the definition of broadband connectivity, specifying a higher minimum download speed of 2 Mbps. The earlier definition notified by DoT in July 2013 had benchmarked the […]
In the Union Budget 2023, the government has allocated Rs 1.23 trillion for telecom and postal projects, including Rs 975.79 billion for the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). It has raised the non-tax revenue collection estimate […]
The Border Roads Organisation is expected to commence work on the Shinku La Pass Tunnel project by July 2023. The project is expected to be completed by 2025. The project involves the construction of the […]
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