The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's (Trai) plan follows strong criticism by Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea that argued that main stakeholders like telemarketers and OTT players have been kept out of the ambit of its latest regulations to check spam.
As on December 2024, the outstanding debt from banks (including interest accrued but not due) of the group is Rs 2,345.1 crore and deferred payment obligation towards spectrum payable over the years till FY 2044 and AGR (including interest accrued but not due) payable over the years till FY 2031 of the group aggregates to over Rs 2.27 lakh crore.
The telecom companies then took the matter to the court again, claiming there were multiple errors in calculating the AGR dues, which exceeded Rs 1 lakh crore.
Agentic AI is poised to accelerate the industry's transformation into fully autonomous operations by empowering networks to make complex, real-time decisions across multivendor ecosystems.
Researchers at Incheon National University have developed the Multiple Spectrogram Fusion Network (MSF-Net), an Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) framework aimed at enhancing smart home security through WiFi-based human activity recognition.
Bharti Airtel’s annual capital expenditure will fall sharply in FY25 and FY26 compared with the record Rs 33,000 crore seen in FY24, as the nation’s second-largest telco has concluded its 5G rollout and won’t be spending extra cash on 4G capacity expansion going forward, its vice-chairman and managing director Gopal Vittal said.
In a statement released alongside its third quarter earnings results, the company noted that tariff revisions are crucial to sustaining growth in the sector and supporting future infrastructure investments.
Originally intended as a simple authentication device to enable basic communication functions, the SIM card has evolved into a sophisticated security tool, facilitating numerous modern applications, including mobile banking and connected vehicles.
From January 1, 2025 the core operational assets of MTNL such as telephone exchanges, power plant, batteries, various types of cables, software and hardware were merged with BSNL.
Indus Towers is set to acquire a 26% stake in Amplus Tungabhadra Pvt Ltd for Rs 27 crore to own and operate a 50 MW solar PV captive power plant.
Lately, Airtel’s Africa unit has been seeing strong business resurgence and is expected to pull ahead of rival telcos operating in the African continent, including MTN, Vodacom and Orange, by recording the highest revenue growth in 2025, say analysts and industry experts.
Telecom firms were not responsible for the delay in implementation of the regulations, including the DCA, the tribunal observed, adding: "Thus, it is unfair and arbitrary on the part of the respondent to impose financial disincentives on the appellants (telcos) for something which was beyond their control."
