The Department of Telecom has granted state-run telecom company BSNL licence for 20 years effective from February 29, 2020, to provide mobile, fixed-line, satellite and other communication services across India, including Delhi and Mumbai. Another state-run PSU MTNL provides telecom services in Delhi and Mumbai and BSNL currently serves the rest of the country. The licence shall be valid for a period of 20 years from the effective date of this licence unless revoked.effective date of this licence shall be February 29, 2020, the agreement signed between BSNL and the DoT on December 10 said. The government approved a long-pending plan of merging the 34-year-old loss -making telecom company Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited in October 2019.
Eros Now: The platform, which had made its services free in the initial part of the lockdown, added 6.9 million subscribers in the first six months of the fiscal to get the total number of paying subscribers to 36.2 million as of September, its chief executive Ali Hussein said.
CVC Capital Partners has agreed to buy Myanmar s largest telecom tower company in a deal that sources said was valued at about $700 million and which marks the global buyout firm s first foray into the Southeast Asian country.
Huawei: Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) official Nicole Goodman is expected to face more grilling on Friday after prosecutors said Goodman had reached out to a Canadian Department of Justice employee to ask about a privilege issue, which violated an order not to discuss testimony outside of court.
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