Telecom News June Edition 1

ATC closes 4,000 crore deal to acquire 9,900 telecom towers from Idea

ACT Fibernet Providing Free Live TV Content to Existing Broadband Customers Over Official Android App

Airtel to launch bundled billing for postpaid mobile, broadband, DTH

India becoming a major mobile manufacturing hub: Ravi Shankar Prasad 

Telcos Peeved at Proposed Penalties for Pesky Calls

Flipkart`s digital payments arm PhonePe crosses 100-million user mark

Mobikwik bets big on UPI, gets 5 million signups

PhonePe Hits $20b Annualised Gross Transaction Run Rate

SBI may join WhatsApp Pay by August

Samsung is a 50,000-cr Business in India

Coolpad Open to Taking Xiaomi to Court in India

Voda India deploys 43,000 Km 200G long-haul network

FreeCharge co-founder Kunal Shah raises $30 million, to launch new venture Temasek.

PayPal buy minority stake in Pine Labs for $125 million

BSNL ties up to create mobile advertising ecosystem

Trai launches portal on network coverage

French hacker claims Baba Ramdev`s new messaging app Kimbho a `security disaster`

Telecom News May Edition 13

✓ ITI bags Rs. 1,600 Cr BharatNeT Phase 2 Gujarat project

✓ Former Reliance Jio exec Tareq Amin joins Rakuten as telecom CTO.

✓ Apple switch to all OLED iPhone lineup seen unlikely by 2019

✓ Global IoT market to reach $1.1 tn by 2025

✓ New policy on electronics likely in two months: IT secretary.

✓ AI to double global digital economy to $23 bn by 2025

✓ Reliance Digital partners Motorola to launch Moto Hubs across India, ‘online-exclusive’ phones to be showcased

✓ Power Grid to offer up to 20% of tower assets to telecom firms.

✓ Baba Ramdev takes on Whatsapp! After Patanjali SIM, launches Kimbho – Desi messaging app.

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Telecom News May Edition 12

✓ RCom offers Rs 500-cr upfront payment to Ericsson, NCLAT for amicable settlement

✓ Jio’s next salvo: calls, broadband, videos at under 1,000 per month

✓ Centre planning to lay OFC in border areas : Nirmala Sitharaman.

✓ Jio tops brand recall charts for IPL for second straight year.

✓ Rcom unit to pay Rs232 crore to settle with minority investors, shares spike.

✓ Telecom index up; Idea Cellular, Bharti Airtel among gainers.

✓ Paytm trims losses by 39% to Rs 900 cr in FY17

✓ ToneTag raises up to $10 million from Amazon, Mastercard, others

✓ WhatsApp is said to hasten payments push for 200 million Indians.

✓ BSNL to Launch Next-Gen Landlines With Smartphone Like Functionalities

✓ Alcatel evaluates local assembly of smartphones in India.

✓ Apple decides to use OLED screens in all three new iPhone models

✓ Hero Electronix buys Zenatix, forays into Internet of Things space  

✓ Trai for more power to customers on pesky calls, ups fine to Rs 76 lakh for violators

✓ TRAI proposes use of blockchain technology to curb telemarketing menace

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Telecom News, May Edition 11

✓ Govt push for merger of Vodafone-Idea: new entity can pay all dues

✓ ZTE ban may affect Indian telcos’

✓ 4G plans Wired Broadband Subscriber Base in India Declined by 0.67% in March

✓ NEC bags BSNL contract for undersea cable between Chennai & Port Blair

✓ Airtel Payments Bank appoints Anubrata Biswas as MD, CEO

✓ Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular boost telecom index.

✓ Huawei to begin smartphone PCB assembling in two months; says heavily impacted by PCB duty, INR depreciation.

✓ Reliance JioPhone is the Top-Selling Feature Phone Globally: Counterpoint

✓ Apple Shipped 3.8 Million Apple Watches in Q1 2018: Canalys

✓ As EU’s new data privacy norms go live, Indian firms will need to watch their step

✓ Sony plans raising local sourcing to offset import duty hike. 

✓ DoT Clears Idea’s Sale of 9k Towers to ATC Govt. approves Rs. 3,911 Cr additional fund for Meghalaya mobile services

✓ Rules on telecom data privacy, security & ownership in two weeks: RS Sharma.

✓ Hotstar likely to close IPL season with 60%-70% rise in ad revenue

✓ Airlines may bundle Wi­Fi with tickets

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Telecom News - May Edition 10

✓ Telecom subscriber base again crosses 1.2 bn mark in March.

✓ Idea Cellular 4G Services Now Live in Delhi Via ICR With Vodafone

✓ One Third of Total 4G Subscribers in India are from Rural Regions: CMR 

✓ Telcos add 70 m subscribers in Jan-Mar

✓ Digital India: India to have 700 digital villages by the year-end

✓ MobiKwik becomes first wallet to launch UPI through own virtual payment address

✓ Refurbished smartphones market set to grow by 27% in 2 years as new players join the segment.

✓ Centre Steps up Focus on Electronics Exports Apple partner TSMC is said to start making chips for new iPhones

✓ Paytm buys TicketNew

✓ Red Hat Bags Cloud Solutions Deal From Tata Communications

✓ ATC set to get final approval for acquiring Idea Cellular tower assets

✓ Cabinet approves Rs 14,025 cr for improving mobile networks in North East.

✓ DoT includes tower cos in right of way rules, industry welcomes move. 

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Telecom News May Edition 9

•Bharti Airtel and Micromax Launches Bharat Go Smartphone at an Effective Price of Rs 2399/-

•5G to offer USD 27 bn business opportunity for India, says Ericsson

•Sectors like energy, health to spur demand for 5G: Sundararajan

•HMD Global raises $100 mn through Ginko, DMJ and Wonderful Stars

•Samsung eyes sub-14,000 range for new smartphone launches.

•MediaTek unveils Helio P22 chipset to power mid-range smartphones

•Equalisation levy: 'Google tax' revenue goes past Rs 1,000 crore

•Paytm acquires Chennai-based TicketNew for $40 million

•Apeejay Stya Inks Deal With Jio For 4G Campuses And Other Tech

•Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg apologises to EU lawmakers over data leak