Leading mobile phone companies including Bharti Airtel,Idea Cellular,Vodafone,Tata Teleservices and Aircel have started a new round of reducing freebies and slashing talktime on prepaid discount vouchers.They had warned of an invetable tariff hike as the current rates were not sustainable for the industry
Supreme Court on Monday asked the Centre why it had not auctiond the entire spectrum vacated after the cancellation of 122 licences in February.The court has told the govt in uncertain terms that it will not be allowed to withhold even 0.1 per cent spectrum from not being auctioned
Com.M.B.Chaniyara who had been nominated as the Gujarat Circle Co ordinator is making all out efforts to see that the Circle Formation Convention on 1st and 2nd December at Nadiad be a resounding success.Open and inaugural session will held at 11 AM on 1st December.A seminar on “BSNL viablity and National Telecom Policy 2012” also to be held.Com.V A N Namboodiri will participate
Circle Conference of Assam is sheduled to be held on 30th November and 1st December at Nagoan.Com.K.G.Jayaraj,General Secretary will participate.
President Hugo Chavez has been reelected a record 4th consecutive time in Venezula securing 55% of votes in the election to the President.With this he can continue in power upto 2019 and proceed with his anti- imperialist policies and more welfare measures for the common people
It has been decided to hold the Kolkata Circle Conference on 26th and 27th November so also the West Bengal Circle Conference on 27th and 28th November at Kolkata.A joint open session of both the circles will be held on 27th November.Com.V A N Namboodiri,Com.A K Bhattacharjee and Com.K G Jayaraj will attend among other leaders.
There is strong allegation that the 2G auction failed to garner the targeted revenue due to match fixing between the government and big privat telecom companies.The UPA govt was compelled to go for 2G spectrum auction only after the intervention of Supreme court which cancelled 122 licences of the big Telcos.
Xi Jinping has been elected General Secretary of Communist Party of China.18th Party Congress of CPC which concluded on 14th November had elected a 205 member Central Committee.The challenges before the new leadership are mainly corruption and social ineqality.
Exports recorded a 1.63 per cent fall in October on a year-on-year basis,as the trade deficit widened to a vernment,today evening. @ by 7.37 per cent to $44.2 billion.
On day one of the 2G spectrum auction,the response was not enthusiastic,the reason attributed to high base price and the govt received bids worth only Rs.9200 cr.Out of the 22 circles,bids were got for 18,with Delhi,Mumbai,Rajasthan and Karnataka which had the highest base price drawing a blank.However the demand and the reserve price crossed in UP(E) and UP(W)