New Delhi: India’s largest telecom service provider, Bharti Airtel Ltd, is looking at raising as much as $1 billion by selling bonds to European investors to shore up its coffers before the much-awaited spectrum auction in January, The Economic Times reported on Tuesday. The bond issue will be the third such for the world’s fifth […]

Nokia has asked an Indian court to release one of its factories which have been seized by the tax authorities while they argue over a tax dispute. Nokia told the Delhi High Court that the seizure of the assets while the tax issue is still being argued was unwarranted behaviour. Nokia said it wanted the […]

Norwegian carrier Telenor has teamed up with DNB, the country’s largest bank, and identity management specialist Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) to introduce Norway’s first commercial NFC project. Munich-based G&D is providing an NFC platform for the mobile network operator that supports remote management of the SIM-based secure element over the air (OTA), to enable contactless […]

BSNL To Roll Out Rs 4,771 Crore Cable Network For Defence Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd will roll out an 4,771-crore optic fibre cable network for the army and navy by February next year. A 60,000-km optic fibre network is at the heart of the 13,334-crore alternate communications backbone that BSNL will build for the army […]

With its upcoming acquisition of Nokia, Microsoft is set to become one of the world’s Top 10 original equipment manufacturer (OEM) semiconductor buyers, and will rank among the leading purchasers of microchips for wireless applications. Microsoft in 2014 is expected to become the eighth-largest OEM chip buyer, according to IHS. This is up from No. […]

The Kenyan government has given Airtel a further three years to comply with local shareholder limits. The mobile network is required to have at least 20% of its shares owned by local residents, but only 5% of its shares are owned by Kenyans at the moment. The rest is owned by the Indian company. The […]

DHAKA, Nov. 17 (nsnewswire) —  Mobile phone operator Robi Axiata Ltd will organize ‘Robi 3.5G Internet Mela’ at the Government Azimuddin College at Sadar upazila of Gazipur district on Tuesday (November 19). Robi in partnership with multiple government ministries launched ‘3.5G Internet Mela’ on Saturday, (November 16, 2013) at Tongi Govt. College of Tongi upazila […]