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  Scindia says 'no to spectrum auction pitch from Ambani, Mittal | Why is it a win for Elon Musk?

  Business | November 07, 2024 19:41 IST

  India’s top telecom players, Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio and Sunil Mittal’s Bharti Airtel, had advocated for an auction to level the playing field with legacy operators. Scindia emphasized that the government-set pricing will ensure a transparent, fair allocation under the 2023 Telecom Act.

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  Telecom spectrum auctions for mobile phone services approved by cabinet

  Business | February 09, 2024 7:40 IST

  The Cabinet's nod comes just before the expiration of Bharti Airtel's spectrum in five circles, with another set to expire in March.

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  Telecom stocks gain after Delhi court exonerates all accused in 2G scam; RCom, Idea top gainers

  Business | December 21, 2017 16:14 IST

  Telecom stocks rose during post-noon trade session on Thursday after a Delhi court acquitted all the accused in the alleged multi-thousand crore rupee 2G spectrum scandal.

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  Bharti Airtel enters agreement with Tikona to acquire its 4G services

  March 23, 2017 18:04 IST

  The acquisition will be subject to the requisite regulatory approvals, Bharti Airtel said in a statement

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  Next round of India's telecom spectrum auction to begin on September 29

  August 08, 2016 21:26 IST

  Touted to be the largest-ever, the next round of India's spectrum auction is set to begin on September 29, Telecom Secretary J.S. Deepak announced today. A Notice Inviting Application (NIA) was today released by the

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  Cabinet clears norms for largest telecom spectrum auction

  June 22, 2016 18:47 IST

  India's cabinet on Wednesday cleared the base price for the country's largest spectrum auction to date, expected to fetch around Rs 5.5 lakh crore at the approved reserve price

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  Next telecom spectrum auction in 2-3 months: Ravi Shankar Prasad

  May 20, 2016 20:31 IST

  The next round of telecom spectrum auction, which is expected to mop up a whopping Rs.560,000 crore ($83 billion) will take place in another two-three months

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  Finance Ministry cuts down service tax on telecom spectrum licence fee

  April 14, 2016 22:21 IST

  New Delhi: In what should come as a relief just ahead of the next round of auction for telecom spectrum, the finance ministry today clarified that no service tax will be applicable for this fiscal

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  Government eyes Rs.28,872 crore by March 31 from telecom spectrum

  March 26, 2015 20:39 IST

  New Delhi: Idea Cellular emerged as the top bidder in the latest round of auctions for telecom spectrum with a total commitment of Rs.30,306 crore, the government announced on Thursday after the Supreme Court relaxed

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  Spectrum auction ends with bids about Rs 1.10 lakh cr

  March 25, 2015 20:13 IST

  New Delhi: India's biggest telecom spectrum auction ended today after 19 days of fierce bidding that fetched about Rs 1.10 lakh crore to the government.“The auction has concluded,” an official source told PTI.The auction for

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  Telecom spectrum auction: Bids of Rs.107,000 cr surpass recent high

  March 17, 2015 20:56 IST

  New Delhi: The money committed so far in the latest e-auctions of telecom spectrum crossed Rs.107,000 crore on Day 12 after 74 rounds of bidding, surpassing the previous high of Rs.106,200 crore in 2010, official

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  Swachh Bharat Cess can be levied on telecom services

  India | January 21, 2015 6:45 IST

  New Delhi: Phone and internet bills may go up as the government plans to levy a cess on telecom services to create a corpus for funding the 'Swachh Bharat' drive.In a legal advice given to

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  Cabinet okays largest ever spectrum auction to get Rs 64840 cr

  January 05, 2015 22:53 IST

  New Delhi: The Union Cabinet today approved the largest ever telecom spectrum auction that is targeted to fetch at least Rs 64,840 crore from the sale next month.The government will sell 380.75 megahertz of second

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  Bids worth Rs 59K cr pour in for spectrum by end of day 8

  February 11, 2014 22:12 IST

  New Delhi: The government has received about Rs 59,000 crore of bids in the ongoing auction of telecom spectrum at the end of the 8th day, with demand for the premium 900 Mhz band appearing

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  Five firms to bid for telecom spectrum on November 12

  November 07, 2012 12:21 IST

  New Delhi, Nov 7: Bharti Airtel, Idea, Vodafone, Videocon and Telenor-promoted Telewings are the five companies that will compete for the GSM spectrum in 1800 Mhz band in the auction slated to begin on November