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3 weeks ago | 
htsyndication.com | Devina Sengupta |Jatin Grover
New Delhi, April 2 -- Vodafone Idea Ltd, India's third-largest telecom operator that just received a second lifeline from the government, is scouting for a chief executive officer (CEO) as incumbent Akshaya Moondra's term expires in August this year, according to two senior telecom executives aware of the development.
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3 weeks ago | 
livemint.com | Devina Sengupta |Jatin Grover
“The search for the new CEO has started and the telco may look at CXOs from industries like consumer and technology (sectors) who have a strong understanding of distribution," said one of the sector executives on the condition of anonymity. Also Read | You may soon be able to identify spam callers Mint's emailed queries to Vi remained unanswered at the time of publishing.
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1 month ago | 
financialexpress.com | Jatin Grover |Rishi Raj
With Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio forming strategic partnerships with Starlink, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is now expected to expedite its recommendations on satellite spectrum pricing. Sources said that the regulator will likely recommend that satellite companies initially focus on providing services in mobile dark areas — regions where terrestrial networks are unavailable.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
financialexpress.com | Jatin Grover
Communications minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Friday said the Cabinet has approved the refarming of 687 MHz of spectrum from various government ministries for the deployment of 5G and future 6G services. The total worth of the spectrum that has been approved for refarming so far is estimated to be Rs 2 lakh crore, officials said. The spectrum will now be brought for auctions.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
financialexpress.com | Jatin Grover
Jio Platforms, the parent company of telecom operator Reliance Jio, on Thursday reported a 4.9% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) growth in its net profit to Rs 6,861 crore for the October-December quarter. Consolidated revenue from operations during the period rose 4.3% QoQ to Rs 33,074 crore on the back of the impact of tariff hikes, subscriber additions, growth in data and voice consumption.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
financialexpress.com | Jatin Grover
On Monday, the US government announced restrictions on advanced AI chip exports. Jatin Grover explains that the procurement cap of 50,000 GPUs till 2027 will not impact India as it is looking to initially build a 10,000-GPU AI compute infrastructure under the IndiaAI MissionThe US Interim Final Rule on Artificial Intelligence Diffusion requires countries interesting in purchasing advanced AI chips to obtain a license for this.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
financialexpress.com | Jatin Grover
Companies such as Snap, the parent company behind Snapchat, on Tuesday told the government that the draft rules for implementing the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act could place smaller platforms at a disadvantage compared to established tech players when it comes to securing verifiable parental consent for processing children’s data and verifying the identity of parents.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
financialexpress.com | Jatin Grover
Hiranandani-backed Yotta, Tata Communications, Jio, CtrlS and E2E Networks were among 13 companies that presented their technical presentations before the ministry of electronics and information technology (MeitY) on Monday, to make available the AI compute infrastructure in the country, sources said. These companies have submitted their bids under the Rs 10,000 crore IndiaAI mission to provide graphic processing units (GPUs) and cloud services to startups, academia and researchers.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
financialexpress.com | Jatin Grover
Global companies such as Truecaller, Amazon and Uber are likely to urge the department of telecommunications (DoT) to not expedite approval to recommendations by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) on international SMS traffic. The tech firms claim that even if they are global companies, their servers are hosted in India. Therefore, the SMSes are sent from domestic servers and do not have international origin. This is yet another bone of contention between tech firms and telcos.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
financialexpress.com | Jatin Grover
Meta is ending its third-party fact-checking programme and moving to a Community Notes model, wherein users add facts and context below a post. While India is out of the ambit for now, Jatin Grover points out it is not against the law but the final test is whether quality vetting of facts will happenIn 2016, Meta , then Facebook, launched its independent fact-checking programme to curb misinformation on its platforms — Facebook and Instagram — by users.
