Gagandeep Kaur

2 weeks ago | lightreading.com | Gagandeep Kaur

India is exploring the option of replacing mobile subscriber identity modules (SIMs) after a security concern was raised by the country's top cybersecurity agency, the National Cyber Security Coordinator (NCSC) and the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), according to media reports. The security agency has discovered that some of the chipsets used in SIMs were of Chinese origin.

3 weeks ago | lightreading.com | Gagandeep Kaur

The Indian government is now the largest stakeholder in the country's third-largest private telco. The Indian government has again come to the rescue of the struggling Vodafone Idea, India's third-largest service provider. It will be converting an additional INR369.5 billion ($4.32 billion) of Vodafone Idea's dues into equity. According to the exchange filing, the government will purchase 36.95 billion equity shares with a face value of INR10 per share.

4 weeks ago | lightreading.com | Gagandeep Kaur

The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), which represents private Indian service providers Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio and Vodafone Idea, among others, has come out in support of merger of the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MEITy), the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) and the Department of Telecommunications (DoT).

1 month ago | lightreading.com | Gagandeep Kaur

Tata Communications, an IT services and connectivity provider, has launched Vayu Cloud, an umbrella AI-cloud offering, that brings together compute, storage, AI, security and cloud connectivity.  With Vayu (which means wind or air in Hindi) Cloud, the company seeks to address several challenges, including high cost, complexity and security, among others, faced by enterprises in cloud adoption.

1 month ago | lightreading.com | Gagandeep Kaur

Launch of Vodafone Idea's 5G services in Mumbai is likely to increase market competition. India's third-largest service provider, Vodafone Idea, has announced the launch of 5G services in Mumbai, the financial capital of the country. This comes two and a half years after its competitors, Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel, launched 5G in October 2022. According to media reports, Vodafone Idea plans to make 5G available to its subscribers in Delhi, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Patna and Mysore by next month.