India’s data center industry will lead to a trillion-dollar digital economic growth by 2025, and Chennai and Mumbai will be the effective accelerators of its capacity expansion, according to a study titled “Data Centers: The building blocks of the digital revolution in India” by JLL and Extra. The study stresses that India’s data center will […]
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COAI and GSMA signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Friday to improve mobile telecommunications in India. They announced their unification once again to work and collaborate on areas of mutual interest. As such, COAI is the industry association representing leading Internet, Telecom, and Technology and digital services companies in India. GSMA is a global […]
Satellite communication companies, OneWeb and Hughes, offered high-speed, low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite broadband connectivity across India. The agreement between OneWeb and Hughes Communications India Private Ltd. (HCIPL), a joint venture between Hughes and Bharti Airtel Limited, follows the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed by the companies in September 2021. “OneWeb’s constellation will cover the length and breadth of India, from […]
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) revealed that the country’s telecommunications subscriber base grew marginally to 1.19 billion by the end of November 2021. Reliance Jio also overthrew BSNL as the top provider of fixed broadband services and is leading the segment with 4.34 million customers, dominated by public telecommunications since its inception 20 […]
Vodafone Idea announced Tuesday it would accept the Indian government’s proposal to convert its spectrum and adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues to equity, making the government the company’s largest shareholder. Vodafone Idea, branded as VI, has outstanding payments for spectrum licenses and adjusted gross revenue. The operator values the net value of the interest on […]
The gross revenue (GR) of telecom service providers (TSP) declined by 1.36 percent on a year-on-year (YoY) basis to $900 in the July-September 2021 quarter, according to a Trai report released on Monday. TSPs posted gross revenue of $9 million in the same quarter a year ago, according to Trai’s performance indicator report for the […]
Telkom, a South African wireline and wireless telecommunications provider, announced that Telkom Kenya launched an app for its mobile money product, T-Kash. The aim of this app is to enable its customers to access a wider service offering on its digital financial services platform. Customers currently access T-Kash via USSD code *160# or from their […]
In what seems like a response to a rapid growth in connectivity, India has formed a Technology Innovation Group (TIG) to prepare a manufacturing and services ecosystem to capitalise on Sixth Generation or 6G opportunity in the telecom sector, the government said on Monday. As such, the country expects to be in a position to […]
Mafab Communications Ltd and MTN Nigeria emerged as the two successful winners of the 3.5 gigahertz (GHz) spectrum auction for the deployment of fifth generation (5G) technology to support the delivery of global broadband services in Nigeria. after 11 rounds of bidding that lasted eight hours. While the two operators qualified, earlier this month, to […]
Kenyan operator Safaricom announced, late last week, plans to invest an initial $600 million in Ethiopia, as the telecom company looks to begin moving in its operations within the country following the liberalization of its telecoms sector. Safaricom’s chief executive Peter Ndegwa has suggested an expense of between $1.5 billion and $2 billion will be […]