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A court in India has given the country’s taxman the green light to pursue Vodafone, the world’s largest mobile operator by revenue, for an estimated $2 billion (£1.4 billion) in capital gains tax.

Vodafone Essar today removed the mobile phone signal towers following dismissal of their petition against the Thane Municipal Corporation by the Bombay High Court. Vodafone Essar had challenged the order of the Thane Municipal Corporation to remove the towers in the vicinity of the Thane district court.

During these times of cutbacks there’s one thing which Indians are buying in abundance-mobile connections. During the month of October the country added the highest-ever addition to the mobile subscriber base at 10.42 million taking the total number of mobile users to over 325 million, according to the data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority [...]

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is planning a consultancy paper on mobile termination charges (MTC) even as it examines various methods and global practices on MTC. The move gains importance as telecom operators in the country are divided over the issue of MTC — with existing operators seeking a hike and the new [...]

India will allocate spectrum for next generation wireless networks to successful bidders by the end of January after holding an auction as planned earlier in the month, government officials said on Monday.

ZTE, the China-based sixth-largest mobile phone handsets maker, wants to enter the retail market in India by the end of this year. So far, its handsets were sold by telecom service providers such as Reliance Communications, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, Vodafone, Bharti and Tata Teleservices as their own —- that is, the phones carried the [...]

Reliance Communications today launched the country’s first prepaid Blackberry services on both GSM and CDMA models. This has extended the reach of Blackberry smart phones to over 200 million prepaid users in India, a RCom statement said here. So far, Blackberry is available only on the postpaid connections of Vodafone Essar and Bharti Airtel. The [...]

Well, if you use your mobile phone just to make calls, send text messages or click photographs — the iPhone 3G is not for you.But in case you are a tech freak who loves tinkering with gadgets, this Apple smartphone might be your dream come true. Downloadable GPS, games, AIM, Facebook on the go and [...]

The country’s largest telecom operator, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), will introduce Apple’s iPhone for its subscribers across the country by December along with the launch of the third generation network, according to SK Chakravarty, chief general manager of Calcutta Telephones. “On September 30, we will have a meeting of the circle heads where we [...]

Pulling the legs of telecom players who sneakily escape from the regulation for earning more profits, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Monday directed the players to improve transparency in tariff charges for providing better service.
The telecom regulator in this regard issued a Tariff Order and a Direction in the move of protecting [...]