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Micromax is one of the reasons China figured out that there is a huge market for cheap Chinese phones. Micromax used to import Chinese phones full of bloatware and put their sticker on them. They never went on to do anything substantial to start production or innovate and then the Chinese came with their own cheap phones and brand and the rest is history.
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This is for hoping that rebadgers are heading in different direction with stock Android and no back channels to china. Hopefully they have reincarnated themselves into something similar to HMD and are headed towards OnePlus. May be Jio can acquire ASUS or LG like phone manufacturer and go from there. While in short term anyone beating out chinese is welcomed, there needs to be a long term solution that's all made in India.
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Competition Commission approves Google-Jio deal
NEW DELHI: The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Wednesday said it has approved internet major Google's proposed purchase of 7.73 per cent stake in Jio Platforms Ltd (JPL) to develop and launch a new smartphone in the country.
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Internet Connections Across India Surpass 75 Crore Milestone Mark; More Than Double In Last Four Years Alone
In a positive development, the total number of internet connections in India has surpassed 75 crore milestone mark as of 31 August 2020, which is 25 years after the internet services had first been thrown open to public usage on 15 August 1995, reports Times of India.

It should be noted that the total number of connections have more than doubled in the last four alone, marking a significant jump from 34 crore internet connections in March of 2016. This comes as the Government had given a fillip to such connections under its Digital India programme which had been launched in 2015.
Before this, India had crossed the 50 crore connections milestone mark in September of 2018. Since then, the nation has added more than 86 lakh new connections each month.

Meanwhile, it is also significant that just six States account for 26 crore, or 35 per cent of all the internet connections in the nation. these are Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Gujarat and Maharashtra.

Also, as of 30 June 2020, Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Jio had the largest market share, followed by Sunil Mittal backed Bharti Airtel and then Vodafone Idea.
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You’ll get high-speed net via app as govt clears national Wi-Fi grid
Pankaj Doval | TNN | Updated: Dec 10, 2020, 11:19 IST

NEW DELHI: Soon, you will be able to latch on to a high-speed Wi-Fi network in any part of the country, including remote areas or high-density areas in big cities where signal is generally patchy, and connection to the hotspot will be as easy as opening an app on your smartphone.
The government on Wednesday gave permission to setting up of lakhs of public Wi-Fi hotspots, and anyone — from an individual in a residential area (with commercial broadband connection) to a kirana shop owner in your neighborhood to a tea shop vendor — can provide the facility. The Public Wi-Fi Access Network Interface (WANI), approved by the Union Cabinet, is being seen as revolutionary as the PCO movement of 1990s that enabled millions to get access to easy and seamless public-phone connectivity at minimal cost. And, the method to latch on to public Wi-Fi will be as easy as checking into a WANI-authorised app on your phone.

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BSNL Unveils World's First Narrowband-IoT Network To Aid Indian Railways Agriculture And Fishery Sector
BSNL, in partnership with Skylotech India, announced today a breakthrough in satellite-based NB-IoT (Narrow Band-Internet of Things).

With this solution, India will now have access to a ubiquitous fabric of connectivity for millions of yet unconnected machines, sensors and industrial IoT devices.

This new Made in India Solution, which is indigenously developed by Skylo, will connect with BSNLs satellite- ground infrastructure and provide PAN-India coverage, including Indian seas.

He further added, "Skylo would also help provide critical data for the logistics sector to enable effective distribution of COVID-19 vaccine in 2021 and will be a big contributor in service to the nation.”
Startup Skylo seeks to connect millions of devices, vehicles, vessels via satellite
SAN FRANCISCO – Startup Skylo emerged from stealth mode Jan. 21 with $116 million in the bank and plans to connect devices by transferring data over existing geostationary communications satellites.

“The key challenge we wanted to address was how data was going to be moved from machines and sensors outside of the areas where traditionally connectivity has existed,” Parthsarathi “Parth” Trivedi, Skylo co-founder and CEO, told SpaceNews. “If we could lower the cost of providing ubiquitous, affordable and reliable connectivity, there would be a phenomenal number of applications.”

Skylo raised $13 million in a Series A investment round led by DCM Ventures and Innovation Endeavors with participation by Boeing HorizonX and Moore Strategic Ventures. In its latest Series B round led by SoftBank with participation by all the firm’s previous investors, Skylo raised $103 million, according to the firm’s Jan. 21 news release.

The firm developed the Skylo Hub, a compact satellite terminal to connect machines to the Skylo Network. The Hub, which includes geolocation and acceleration sensors, operates like a wireless hotspot for nearby sensors.

Skylo opted to send data over geostationary satellites because “waiting an hour or two for communications wasn’t a viable solution for more than half of the applications that we were considering,” Trivedi said. “For fleets of trucks or fleets of fishing vessels, customers needed connectivity every five to 10 minutes.”

Trivedi declined to say which geostationary satellites carry Skylo communications. The news release said Skylo developed “a proprietary method of efficiently transmitting data” which reduces satellite usage costs. Skylo plans to attract customers by offering data plans starting at $1 per month.

Skylo created its own data platform and Application Programming Interface because “we couldn’t assume that customers would already have an end-to-end solution,” Trivedi said.

Skylo has been testing its technology in devices, vehicles and vessels in emerging markets for six to nine months, Trivedi said. For example, the firm has connected Indian fishing boats with the Indian Coast Guard. Trivedi sees promising applications for the firms technology in railways, trucking, agriculture, emergency notification and financial transactions.

“Skylo’s satellite technology creates an affordable way to connect more of the physical world to the internet, even in remote areas,” Yoshi Segawa, SoftBank Group International vice president, said in a statement. “Skylo’s antenna technology and use of the narrowband internet-of-things protocol is revolutionary, and we look forward to working with the company in developing new use cases.”

Skylo was founded in 2017 by Trivedi, Andrew Nuttall and Andrew Kalman, who also founded Pumpkin Inc. Skylo has offices in San Mateo, California, Bangalore, India, and Tel Aviv, Israel. The firm has about 30 employees and is growing rapidly, Trivedi said.
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Tangential, yet, relevant (and very interesting):

SpaceX internet competitor OneWeb is back in action after bankruptcy
OneWeb, a UK-based company racing to build a constellation of satellites to beam internet service to people back on Earth, completed its first launch since being bought out of bankruptcy earlier this year.

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The British government and India-based Bharti Global became OneWeb's primary shareholders after they put $1 billion into the venture during bankruptcy proceedings.

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Do we know what we are doing or are we just too chicken to sort out these guys for good

looks like it's back to regular programming onlee




Huawei bags Rs 300 crore network contract from Bharti Airtel
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NRao wrote:Tangential, yet, relevant (and very interesting):

SpaceX internet competitor OneWeb is back in action after bankruptcy
OneWeb, a UK-based company racing to build a constellation of satellites to beam internet service to people back on Earth, completed its first launch since being bought out of bankruptcy earlier this year.

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The British government and India-based Bharti Global became OneWeb's primary shareholders after they put $1 billion into the venture during bankruptcy proceedings.

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are we enamored of an ex colonial BIF and a has been power selling internet services in India
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chetak wrote:Do we know what we are doing or are we just too chicken to sort out these guys for good

looks like it's back to regular programming onlee




Huawei bags Rs 300 crore network contract from Bharti Airtel

well, the congis have been taken out of the equation once again by defanging airtel's options for direct purchase from huawei.

the management have been darbaris to the mafia family for decades

so much for any secret memoranda of understanding signed directly with the hans


Modi Govt Amends Telecom Operating Norms/License, Now Telecom companies to install only govt approved telecom gear from June 15

No direct purchases from chinese vendors
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Huawei effectively shut out of 4G & 5G in India following new government rules to restrict procurement of telecom equipment only from “trusted” vendors — which Huawei is not.⁦⁩ @airtelindia ⁩must comply. via@MinhazMerchant




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Tejas to expand telecom gear portfolio, take on global biggies after Tata sale
Tejas Networks will use the Tata group’s backing and financial resources to expand its telecom products-portfolio and locally design/manufacture the gamut of 4G and 5G wireless gear, moves that would directly pit it against the likes of global vendors Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei and Samsung.
Some hope? This sounds different from the Reliance deal...
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Central government has approved a 4 year moratorium on AGR dues.

Also it would not include non telecom revenue.

Hindustan Times reporting.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-ne ... 17930.html
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Excellent interview with Dr Bhaskar Ramamoorthi, Director, IIT Madras.

It's heartening to know Meity is funding development of 6G technologies by a consortium of 8 institutes. This time we will hopefully have more standards essentials patents. I think we had only a few for 5G.

He brings out an important point. World over, its the telecom companies that participate in research and defining the standards. In India, because of the lack of a big telecom vendor, it's our universities doing the research. In the next 10 years hopefully we will have our companies too doing 6G, 7G research.

Something to cheer about during the last few days of horrible news. Remember, those are temporary, this is permanent and define our future.
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Amid standoff with China, connectivity takes a leap along LAC in Ladakh
NEW DELHI: Amid continued border faceoff with China, the Ladakh administration took a leap in expanding reliable voice and data connectivity along the LAC (Line of Actual Control) by launching 4G services in four forward villages on Sunday.
Jamyang Tsering Namgyal, who represents Ladakh in the Lok Sabha, inaugurated the Reliance-Jio voice and data services in Demchok, Chushul, Nyoma and Durbuk. The projects are being financed by the Centre’s Universal Service Obligation Fund, district officials said.
The launch of a reliable telecom service is expected to bring about a qualitative change in the lives of the border inhabitants in terms of security, health and education, especially when these areas become practically inaccessible during harsh winters. It will also help soldiers stay in touch (within the rules of using personal phones) with family without having to walk up a hill to catch BSNL signal (if available) or avoid Chinese telecom towers.
It also marks the Army’s new approach towards civil constructions in border areas. The telecom plan for Demchok, for one, has been hanging fire for more than a year because of the Army’s objections. Faced with the district administration’s persistence, the RR (Rashtriya Rifles) unit, which replaced the earlier regiment, took a positive view and cleared the plan at a meeting with district officials on June 20. The 14 Corps is also expediting permission for laying of cables and erection of towers.
Demchok, a ‘zero-km’ village in eastern Ladakh, about 353 km from Leh by road, is one of the locations – the other being Depsang in the western part – where Indian and Chinese troops are still facing each other.
Chushul, south of Pangong Tso about 250 km from Leh, last year saw massive military mobilisation by both sides during the peak of border tension after the June skirmish in the Galwan valley in which both sides took casualties.
Durbuk and Nyoma are used by the Army as staging areas for moving troops, armour and supplies in the Galwan-Shyok and Chushul-Demchok axes.
The Centre has approved 70 towers for launching telecom services in isolated villages of Ladakh. Services have started in many identified villages, including Tangtse – the seat of the Army’s 114 Brigade that guards the LAC in Ladakh – Diskit in the Nubra valley and Sarchu in Kargil district.
While many of these villages did not have telecom connectivity, the service from state-run BSNL was – and still is – patchy at best. While BSNL is hamstrung due to various reasons, the government decided to take the USOF route to connect the land of high passes after it became a federal territory.
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hanumadu wrote:World over, its the telecom companies that participate in research and defining the standards.
Standards bodies were always dominated by and will be dominated by big companies. Every standards body is political and cut-throat. One never knows which company prevails. For example, HTML/XML all came from IBM's GML - Generalized Markup Language and SGML.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_ ... ge#History
SGML descended from IBM's Generalized Markup Language (GML), which Charles Goldfarb, Edward Mosher, and Raymond Lorie developed in the 1960s. Goldfarb, editor of the international standard, coined the "GML" term using their surname initials.[5] Goldfarb also wrote the definitive work on SGML syntax in "The SGML Handbook".[6] The syntax of SGML is closer to the COCOA format.[clarification needed] As a document markup language, SGML was originally designed to enable the sharing of machine-readable large-project documents in government, law, and industry. Many such documents must remain readable for several decades—a long time in the information technology field. SGML also was extensively applied by the military, and the aerospace, technical reference, and industrial publishing industries. The advent of the XML profile has made SGML suitable for widespread application for small-scale, general-purpose use.
(NB: Off topic. We do not have a ComputerSci thread similar to Math or Physics)
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Indians spent 69,000 crore hours on their mobile phones in 2021.

In mobile usage, India ranks second in the world, spend 69,000 crore hours on phone in 2021. The Covid-19 pandemic propelled India and the world into a new digital age. Office meetings are now conducted on mobile phones instead of conference rooms, movies do not release in cinema halls but OTT, and cash has been replaced by UPI.

As per app data analytics firm App Annie’s State of Mobile 2022 report, Indians spent over 69,000 crore hours on their mobile phones, ranking second globally. Chinese people ranked first with 1,11,000 crore hours of mobile usage. The US came third with 11,000 hours of mobile time.

As per the report’s data, each Indian spent an average 4.7 hours on their mobile phones daily in 2021. In mobile usage per day, India ranked on the fourth spot, behind Brazil and Indonesia (5.4 hours), South Korea (5 hours) and Mexico (4.8 hours).

Indians downloaded mobile applications 2600 crore times out of which 100 crore downloads were only financial apps like UPI, Bank apps, Stocks, Loan apps. The most downloaded app was Instagram whereas the app on which most time was spent was Disney-Hotstar. WhatsApp had the most monthly users.

The most downloaded mobile game in India was Ludo King. Most times was spent playing Free Fire game. Most searched keywords in app store were Whatsapp+, Zoom, Google Meet , Scanner, Team.
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^^^ The CAG report (pdf) into the Devas deal is quite readable and insightful.
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Wow !!! What a daylight steal ! Such massive and repeated flouting of rules and procedures cannot go unnoticed by sister organisations and concerned ministries. While Madhavan Nair and a few others seem to be neck deep and driving it, there must have been clear directives from political bosses pushing and protecting them.

Coming to the arbitration case, if the Govt can demonstrate one or several among wilful misconduct, misrepresentation, intention to defraud or actual fraud, bribery etc on the part of Devas, it will be on a strong foot to get the case dismissed. Because any contract signed by fraudulent means, bribery etc can be canceled without any compensation due in most legal systems and jurisprudence.

Going by the press reports, I wonder if the babudom is trying to take FM N Seetharaman for a ride by telling her selective stuff like MoD & IA folks did in the past when she was RM. There have to be a lot more people involved for a scam of this scale to operate.

All the named DoS people and others with proven involvement must get jail terms for at least a decade, and GoI must put some serious pressure on Mauritius and get details of who are the shareholders of the Mauritius based shell companies, to track down and pursue the puppeteers who ran the whole scam.

I'm not familiar with ICC arbitration processes and its functioning, but even they can be bribed/pressured can't they ?

I do not buy this "GoI fighting this case will harm India's image as an investment destination" crap. If anything, genuine investors will be reassured that established rules are being applied consistently and no one can come in tomorrow into their market segment by fraudulent means and create unfair competition. The GoI MUST unravel the whole scam and put involved Indian officials, businessmen and politicians in jail and also pursue the foreign fraudsters behind Devas.
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BSNL to install 112,000 towers for rolling out 4G across India.

The indigenous 4G telecom network will soon be rolled out across India with the BSNL planning to install about 1.12 lakh towers throughout the country, Telecom Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said in Lok Sabha on Wednesday.

The minister also said the internet connection inside trains can be available only when the 5G network will be rolled out as communications get disrupted with 4G technology in trains running with the speed of 100 km per hour.

I am happy to inform you that the 4G telecom network is ready for roll out soon and it is developed in India by Indian engineers and scientists. Our development of 4G network is being appreciated worldwide and it has a core network, radio network with full telecom equipment, he said during Question Hour.

The minister said the BSNL is in the process of ordering 6,000 towers immediately and then 6,000 more and finally 1 lakh to be installed all over the country for the 4G network.

He said the development of 5G technology is going on in parallel and will be ready in a few months.

Asked about the availability of 4G internet service in trains, he said if a train is running more than 100 km speed, we need a 5G network.There is disruption in the 4G network. But this is a time of technological evaluation and as the 5G is getting ready, 5G will also be available, he said.

Vaishnaw said the Telecom Service Providers fiberise their Base Transceiver Stations (BTSs) installed on mobile towers and 7,93,551 BTSs have been connected by optical fibre in the country as on February 1, 2022.

He said the BTS used to provide mobile communications belong to the Telecom Service Providers (TSPs) and the decisions to connect them through fibre or other means including microwave is taken by TSPs based on various techno-commercial considerations including network capacity required at that particular location.

The major obstacle in fiberisation of Telecom Towers, as reported by TSPs, are high charges, complex process and delay involved in getting Right of Way (ROW) permissions due to non-alignment of ROW Policy of States with Indian Telegraph Right of Way Rules, 2016 notified by the central government, he said.
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I thought BSNL is slowly shutting down! why this 4G rollout??
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Can be also used for 5G and nG in future.or rent platform to private players.
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V_Raman wrote:I thought BSNL is slowly shutting down! why this 4G rollout??
Mark my words , BSNL will rule market in coming years , their fibre net roll out is a template with installation and maintenance, outsourced , the most crucial part and their weak link . Only thing missing now is their marketing .
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Customer care is not BSNL's strengths (that's putting it mildly) or priority. Given the attitudes of the employees towards customers, they will rule nothing.

BSNL should focus on the backend services and outsource all customer services.

Added later: Air India style divestment would be ideal. Failing that, public listing and professional management would be the bare minimum that is needed for BSNL to survive on its own. I don't have too much hopes though.
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shaun wrote:
V_Raman wrote:I thought BSNL is slowly shutting down! why this 4G rollout??
Mark my words , BSNL will rule market in coming years , their fibre net roll out is a template with installation and maintenance, outsourced , the most crucial part and their weak link . Only thing missing now is their marketing .
You couldn't be further from the truth. As a former BSNL broadband user, the whole experience starting from ordering, installation, support, uptime, quality, and decommissioning and getting back one's deposit, is absolutely pathetic. If the BSNL guys are bad, the people to whom they have outsourced to are even worse. The only thing that they can offer anyone is a time capsule experience of the 80s. They are a drain on the taxpayer and the sooner they are killed or privatized the better it is for the country. The only useful thing that they have is massive amounts of real estate, and the govt should be looking to monetize that.
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BharatNet plan to set up rural fibre networks slowed down in pandemic.

It has been over two decades since the cabinet cleared the BharatNet project, earlier known as National Optical Fibre Network. However, progress of the programme has been slow.

While the government had set the target of connecting 100,000 gram panchayats by 2013, it took another four years to achieve this target in December 2017.

Progress under the current administration has improved, but the government has again missed its targets. It would take another two years to cover all gram panchayats in the country at the current pace. The government had set the target to connect all 262,825 gram panchayats by March 2019.

It has now set the target of covering all villages by 2025 (see chart 1).

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Considering all villages in the country, the completion rate has been less than a third. As per the statement by the min­i­ster in Rajya Sabha, until March 1, the government was able to connect just 27 per cent of the villages. A state-wise progress report shows that of the 33 states/UTs for which data is available, 15 had a connectivity rate of less than 20 per cent.

Connectivity ratio is defined as the proportion of villages made service ready under the Bharat Net programme and the total number of villages in the state (see chart 2).

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Only two states/UTs — Chandigarh and Punjab — had achieved over 90 per cent coverage, and only eight had been able to make over 60 per cent of their villages service ready. Most of the larger states had lower connectivity ratios. Uttar Pradesh had a connectivity ratio of 35 per cent, whereas Bihar had been able to make 20.3 per cent of its villages service ready. Himachal Pradesh had covered just 2.1 per cent of its villages, and West Bengal had covered 5.9 per cent. Assam had a connectivity ratio of 5.4 per cent.

Besides most states not achieving even half of the connectivity ratio, another issue is the dip in coverage during Covid. Data shows that the growth rate in the number of villages connected had declined bet­ween 2020-21 and 2021-22.

While the government had added 16.8 per cent more villages between 2018-19 and 2019-20, it was only able to add 14.2 per cent and 9 per cent villages for the next two years.

In terms of laying down optical fibre, the progress is about a third of what was achieved prior to the pandemic. Between 2018-19 and 2019-20, the government had added 35.6 per cent more optical fibre network, but the progress in 2020-21 was just 19.8 per cent and further declined to 10 per cent in 2021-22 (see chart 3).

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Moreover, a comparison of villages added with Budget data shows that the cost of adding mo­re villages has been rising. While the government has constantly been missing its budget targets and spending lower than the budgeted amount each year, it has also been paying more for coverage.

In 2020-21, it paid Rs 6.9 lakh to lay one kilometre of optic fibre cable; the cost increased to Rs 13.6 lakh in 2021-22.

The average cost of laying a kilometre of optic fibre was Rs 6.3 lakh per km between 2016-17 and 2019-20 (see chart 4).

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Ashwini Vaishnaw successfully tests made-in-India 5G call at IIT Madras
NEW DELHI: Telecom and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday visited the 5G test-bed at IIT Madras and successfully tested a 5G call on an indigenously-developed network.
The test-bed had been inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday.
“This is the first step towards making the solution feasible commercially. Over the next few months, Made-in-India solution has the potential of going from local to global. It also meets India’s needs indigenously and securely,” the minister said.
At a time when concerns around cyber security are at their peak, India has been developing its local 5G network solution that it promises will be more efficient in cost as well as productivity.
Vaishnaw has said that the government will be deploying the solution, once its ready for commercialisation, on the network of state-owned BSNL, and thereafter it will also be pitched to other private operators. “We are confident that a more efficient solution which is also cost-effective will appeal to companies not only in India, but even those who are abroad. We feel that the India-made 5G stack will have a huge export potential.”
For BSNL, the 4G and 5G stack is being developed by a consortium that has C-Dot working on the core, while the Tata group comes in with TCS and Tejas. The government will deploy this solution for BSNL’s upgradation to 4G and thereafter to 5G.
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Telecom dept has amended license agreement, mandating telecom companies NOT to buy from Chinese Cos even for Expansion, besides Upgradation.

Operators are mandated to use equipment ONLY from ‘Trusted Sources’.

the cheenis are out


https://www.cnbctv18.com/telecom/not-ch ... 098242.htm
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Explained: Three reasons why a revival package for BSNL was cleared.

The government Wednesday cleared a Rs 1.64 lakh crore booster shot for state-owned loss-making telecom company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), with an aim to upgrade the operator’s network to 4G while de-stressing its balance sheet. The four-year turnaround plan includes both a cash component and a non-cash component.

What are the key aspects of BSNL’s revival package?
The package has three main focus areas. The government will focus on upgrading BSNL services, wherein the company will be administratively allocated spectrum in the 900 MHz and 1800 MHz frequencies at the cost of Rs 44,993 crore through equity infusion. The government will fund capital expenditure of Rs 22,471 crore for deployment of indigenous 4G stack by the operator, while also providing Rs 13,789 crore as viability gap funding for operating commercially unviable rural wireline operations done between FY15 and FY20.

How does the government plan to de-stress BSNL’s balance sheet?
The telecom department said the Centre will provide sovereign guarantee to BSNL and MTNL for raising long-term loans. They will be able to raise long-term bonds for an amount of Rs 40,399 crore.

To further improve the balance sheet, AGR dues of BSNL amounting to Rs 33,404 crore will be settled by conversion into equity, and the government will provide funds to BSNL for settling the AGR/GST dues.

In addition to these measures, the Cabinet has also approved BSNL’s merger with Bharat Broadband Nigam Ltd — the nodal agency for BharatNet rollout — that will augment BSNL’s finer network.

Why has the government decided to infuse money into a loss-making company?

While the move to further support BSNL and not monetise it like Air India is in deviation from the government’s laid down privatisation policy, the case to keep the telecom company afloat has its genesis in three main strategies of the government.

One, with BSNL, the government is able to push forward with its rural broadband agenda. Nearly 36 per cent of BSNL’s optical fibre customers are in rural areas, and the operator assists the government in expanding to far-flung areas with low-income consumers for operations that are typically non-viable commercially.

Two, unlike private telecom operators, BSNL has had a heavy dependence on domestic component manufacturers — something that also helps foster a vendor base in the country. With BSNL launching 4G services and subsequently 5G, this will also take the domestic component industry along with it.

Lastly, the presence of BSNL’s network assets in border areas and left-wing extremism affected areas means that the government considers it a strategically important company for it to be privatised.

What could be the impact of a revival package?

With these measures, the Centre expects that BSNL will be able to improve the quality of existing services, roll out 4G services, and become financially viable. It also expects that with the implementation of this revival plan, BSNL will turn-around and earn profit in 2026-27 (April-March).

This is the second major revival package by the government after it had announced a Rs 70,000 crore package in 2019 that was mainly to fund BSNL and MTNL’s voluntary retirement scheme.
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This is a mistake. It should go the Air India way.
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"government is committed to privatising all PSUs barring four strategic sectors -- atomic energy, space and defence; transport and telecommunications; power, petroleum, coal and other minerals; and banking, insurance and financial services, where the government will retain a bare minimum presence."
Modernize and monetization is the mantra
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I don't mind keeping it under government control but its operating mandate and focus should have been narrowed.

I don't think there's any point investing huge amounts in urban areas where its services and facilities are bound to lag behind private players like Jio and Airtel

As I see there are 3 main things the govt wants of it.. So why not just focus on that...

1. Providing 4G Coverage in rural areas where the private players are not present

2. Providing rural broadband coverage via BBNL merger

3. Providing network assets in border areas.

Make it a leaner company focused on specific needs while cutting down on employee, operational costs rather than a lumbering PSU mess trying to balance a variety of clients at once
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India's 5G is indigenous; can provide to other countries: Sitharaman
Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said the 5G technology in India is completely indigenous except for some “critical parts” imported from countries like South Korea. During an interaction with students at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, the minister asserted that India is ready to share the 5G technology with other countries as well.
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really hope some day we wont have to import critical parts for atleast some of the systems. its getting to a point where for everything we get to 90% -95% indegenization and have someone holding us hostage by keeping those "critical parts" as a leash.
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In a first in Maharashtra, Mumbai cops use DoT register to crack mobile theft, arrest 2 men
MUMBAI: In perhaps the first such case in the state, city police have arrested two men for snatching the mobile phone of a make-up artist after police posted the stolen handset's IMEI number on the Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR), brought into force by the department of telecommunications (DoT).
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TCS plans to take made-in-India 5G radio equipment to the US
India's largest-IT services company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) plans to take locally developed and manufactured fifth generation or 5G radio network gear global, particularly to the US market. According to a report in the Economic Times, the company's plans are based on the backdrop of Centre's ambition to 'make in India for the world' to overcome supply chain disruptions.

"The N78 5G radios designed by Tejas Networks may be qualified for all greenfield and brownfield 5G opportunities that present themselves to the company globally including that in the US," TCS chief operating officer NG Subramaniam told the publication. Subramaniam further said that TCS, a Mumbai-based systems integrator (SI), contributes to study groups, specifications for 5G Advanced and 6G appropriately, and participates in multinational forums such as the 3GPP or third-generation partnership project.

The N78 radio has been developed by Saankhya Labs and are compatible with 3300 MHz spectrum band. Bengaluru-based Tejas Networks the telecom startup Saankhya Labs early last year and is now manufacturing these radios. In 2021, Tata Sons acquired homegrown telecom gear maker Tejas Networks. Presently, Tejas is supplying radio equipment for the public sector Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) next generation (4G) network program.

TCS-backed consortium that includes Tejas and state-owned Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DoT), has also been deploying more than 100,000 4G sites for BSNL following the proof-of-concept (PoC) at multiple locations. Last month, Tejas demonstrated 5G RAN for BSNL 4G trial network in Chandigarh.

At the recently-concluded G20 summit in New Delhi, INdia and the US announced a slew of telecom, tech and renewable energy partnerships. These included those in the areas of 5G and 6G technologies. During the summit, India and the US also agreed to partner on Open RAN developments.

The US President Joe Biden invited Indian companies to support the country's Rip and Replace program launched in 2020. The initiative allows the US companies to tear out telecom gear deployed by Chinese companies including Huawei and ZTE following fears of backdoors used by Beijing to allegedly spy and steal commercial secrets.
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Dilbu wrote: 14 Oct 2022 14:55 India's 5G is indigenous; can provide to other countries: Sitharaman
Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said the 5G technology in India is completely indigenous except for some “critical parts” imported from countries like South Korea. During an interaction with students at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, the minister asserted that India is ready to share the 5G technology with other countries as well.


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