India’s controversial auction of GSM licenses confiscated from 11 operators by the country’s supreme court has come to an ignominious end with the government raising less than a quarter of the revenue it had predicted. Read more...

A group of Indian ministers has approved a hefty one-off fee for operators holding “excess” GSM and CDMA spectrum, but has also agreed on a licence fee refund to operators who were stripped of spectrum by the country’s supreme court. Read more...

The Indian government has finally announced the key decisions that will permit the auction of the 800 and 1800 MHz spectrum vacated following the withdrawal of 122 regional licences which the country’s supreme court ruled had been corruptly awarded in 2008. Read more...

Arbitrary, regressive and inconsistent were some of the more polite things Indian and foreign telecoms executives had to say about the Telecoms Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) proposals on re-auctioning confiscated 2G licences, refarming 2G spectrum for 3G and 4G and auctioning the 700 MHz band. Read more...

A week after the Indian Supreme Court revoked 122 telecommunications licences issued in 2008, a clearer picture is starting to emerge of what this will mean not just to the six operators involved but also to the mobile industry in the country as a whole. Read more...

The momentum propelling TD-LTE towards full commercial launch in the world’s two largest mobile markets continues to build as chipmakers and equipment vendors climb on board the China Mobile-powered bandwagon. Read more...

India’s long-awaited new telecoms policy has been published in draft form, but paints a broad picture of the government’s intentions rather than filling in the details. Read more...

India’s long-awaited new telecoms policy has been published in draft form, but paints a broad picture of the government’s intentions rather than filling in the details. Read more...

A draft national telecoms policy aimed at liberalising the Indian spectrum allocation and licensing process by making it wholly market driven has been drawn up by the country’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and leaked to the local media, although it has not yet been officially published yet. Read more...

A draft national telecoms policy aimed at liberalising the Indian spectrum allocation and licensing process by making it wholly market driven has been drawn up by the country’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and leaked to the local media, although it has not yet been officially published yet. Read more...