✓ Vodafone-Idea merger to be approved soon
✓ Pan-India VoLTE availability a distant dream for the country: IDC.
✓ C-DOT signs 5G MoU with 3 UK academic institutions
✓ Tata Communications wins deal from BlaBla Connect.
✓ DoT may raise demand on dues from Idea for spectrum licence fee
✓ ED officer moves SC, claims attempt to derail 2G probe
✓ RIL Stock Hits a New High as Profitability Improves
✓ Sunil Bharti Mittal Appointed Honorary Chairman Of International Chamber Of Commerce
✓ Telecom stocks under pressure; RCom, Bharti Infratel down 2% each.
✓ Interchange Fee Row Puts Spanner in Aadhaar-based Payment Works
✓ SBI denies commissions on digital transactions to payment firms
✓ UPI hits new milestone with 10 mn transactions in a day
✓ Samsung smartphone user base still far higher than Xiaomi: CMR.
✓ NEC Corporation to set up NEC Laboratories India.
✓ Tata Communications, MyRepublic team up for new mobile offerings.
✓ TRAI announces name, logo design contest for public Wi-Fi networks
✓ AT&T to launch NB-IoT in US and Mexico
✓ Huawei and M1 Disclose Plans about Live Testing 5G in Singapore
✓ Zomato is reportedly in talks to raise $400 million, largely from existing investors Ant Financial and Temasek, at a valuation of as much as $2 billion.
✓ Xiaomi which has filed for an initial public offering in Hong Kong last month, is now aiming to raise only $6.1 billion and the valuation may now plummet to $53.9 billion in the IPO. The company was initially planning to raise around $10 billion that would increase its value to a high of $100 billion.
✓ The CEO of Malaysian government-owned Cradle Fund, Nazrin Hassan, has lost his life in a smartphone explosion. According to reports, two of his smartphones - BlackBerry and Huawei were kept on charge next to his bedside and one of them exploded.
✓ Nokia has inked a five-year global IT infrastructure and application services deal with Indian IT firm HCL Technologies.
✓ Intel CEO Brian Krzanich has resigned, effective immediately, after a probe revealed that a past consensual relationship with an Intel employee violated company policy.
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