Telecom

NTT GDC has landed the Myanmar/Malaysia India Singapore Transit (MIST) subsea cable in Chennai. The MIST cable is India’s first 12 fibre pair capacity system with a bandwidth of 200 terabytes per second.

The government has launched the Sanchar Saathi portal to enable users to trace and block their lost or stolen phones and prevent telecom fraud. The portal has four modules: “Central Equipment Identity Register” for blocking […]

The government has announced that the first version of the National Cybersecurity Reference Framework document has been finalised and is ready for public release. The framework will be a guiding document for the critical sector […]

Airtel has launched its 5G services along the route of the Kerala Water Metro. The services are available between the High Court-Vypin and Vyttila-Kakkanad terminals.

The Union Cabinethas approved the third revival package for Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited with a total outlay of Rs 890.47 billion. It includes an allotment of 4G/5G spectrum for the telco through equity infusion. The […]

The government has notified the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme 2.0 for IT hardware with a budgetary outlay of Rs 170 billion. The Mi­nistry of Electronics and Information Technology has invited applications for incentives starting June […]

The government has launched the open radio access network (RAN) test bed for conformity, certification and interoperability testing of open RAN-based solutions. The test bed, developed by the Centre for Development of Telematics, aims at […]

The government has launched a pilot project on electronics repair services outsourcing (ERSO) to make India a global hub for electronics repair. The pilot is being conducted in Bengaluru and will run for three months […]

The 5G network in India has crossed the 200,000 mobile sites mark with the launch of the latest 5G site at Gangotri, Uttarakhand. The first 100,000 5G sites were rolled out within the first five […]

The Kerala government has launched the Kerala Fibre Optic Network project, which seeks to provide free internet connectivity to the economically weaker sections of the state. In its initial phase, the project will provide internet […]

Xiaomi has partnered with Dixon Technologies to manufacture smartphones in the country for export and the domestic market. As per the companies, the partnership will also work on improving the component ecosystem in India through […]

HFCL has secured an order worth Rs 2.21 billion for providing 700 Mbps and 1 Gbps point-to-point unlicensed band radios (UBRs) and optical fibre cables (OFCs). As part of the purchase order, HFCL will be […]

Apollo Multispeciality Hospitals, Kolkata, has launched India’s first comprehensively connected 5G ambulance. The integrated connected care technology solution is provided by HealthNet Global Limited, an affiliate of Apollo Hospitals

Reliance Jio has launched its True 5G services in 41 additional cities across 16 states and UTs. The operator’s 5G network is now present in every state in India.

Bharti Airtel has announced the launch of its 5G Plus services in 235 cities, including Cuddapah, Ongole, Jorhat, Tezpur, Fatwah, Araria and Je­hanabad. The operator’s 5G services are now available in 500 cities across India.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has unveiled the Bharat 6G vision document along with a 6G test bed to provide industry, academic institutions and others a platform to test and validate the evolving technology. He also […]

The union cabinet has approved the Indian Space Policy, 2023, which seeks to boost private sector participation in the space sector. According to the government, the policy will allow the private sector to take part […]

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has decided to allocate 10 MHz spectrum in the 806-824 MHz band to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) for its connectivity requirements. The MHA requires specific spectrums for its […]

The government has cleared another tranche of financial incentives worth Rs 7.65 billion under the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for the large-scale electronics manufacturing (LSEM) sector. According to data provided by the India Cellular and […]

The Himachal Pradesh government has signed an MoU with Bharat San­char Nigam Limited (BSNL) for laying optical fibre cable to provide 4G coverage in unconnected, remote and far-flung areas of the state. The project is […]