New Delhi: Over Rs 7 crore is what some current and former Members of Parliament (MPs) owe MTNL as unpaid telephone bills. CNN-IBN has accessed RTI details obtained by activist Subhash Agarwal showing how much money is owed by the MPs. An overall sum of Rs 19,78,027 is owed by six sitting members, while 399 former Members of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha combined together owe over Rs 7.10 crore...
07:05 PM, Nov 22, 2011
New Delhi: State-run telecom major MTNL on Wednesday announced a steep decline of 15 per cent in internet tariffs, an effort to provide the services at affordable rates to customers. The customers now would be charged Re 1 for every data download of 1.2 MB, against the earlier rate of Re 1 for every data download of 1 MB. It means per MB download rate has now been made as...
07:01 PM, Oct 12, 2011
Mumbai: HCL Infosystems and MTNL took a hit in early trade on the BSE on Thursday after the CBI carried out searches in the premises of former top officials of both companies in connection with alleged irregularities in a Commonwealth Games project. Shares of IT firm HCL Infosystems tumbled by 11.43 per cent to hit a month's low of Rs 92.55 on the BSE. Later, the stock managed to erase...
01:49 PM, Jun 09, 2011
New Delhi: India's GSM subscriber base grew by 1.95 per cent in April with the addition of 11.11 million mobile phone users, of which Bharti Airtel alone signed up over 2.41 million customers. The total number of GSM subscribers in the country crossed 580.67 million as against 569.56 million in March, according to the data released by Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI). Bharti Airtel now has a market share...
01:04 PM, May 20, 2011
New Delhi: Following directives from Telecom Ministry to synergise their operations, state-run MTNL on Wednesday said it has initiated process with BSNL to streamline their business, including telecommunications, enterprise and customer care to cut costs. Both the firms are reeling under huge financial losses and the Government has directed them to synergise their resources in order to cut costs and provide Pan-India services to their subscribers. "We want to give...
05:16 PM, May 18, 2011
New Delhi: The circumstances under which United Carbide chief Warren Anderson suddenly fled the country after he arrived in the aftermath of the Bhopal gas tragedy will continue to remain a mystery. MTNL, which could have thrown some light, said it was unable to provide phone call details. The state-owned telephone company expressed its inability to provide records of call details between the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) and the US...
08:05 PM, Sep 07, 2010
New Delhi: The Home Ministry has asked the Department of Telecommunication to ensure service providers upgrade infrastructure to intercept calls and SMS of all third generation (3G) mobile services or else stop using the latest technology. In a letter, the MHA has asked DoT to direct state-run BSNL and MTNL, which currently offer the services, to do the needful immediately or else stop the services, particularly in Jammu and Kashmir....
01:25 PM, Aug 11, 2010
The six-member panel, approved by Telecom Minister A Raja, is headed by Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrasekhar. ...
11:39 AM, Jul 15, 2010
MTNL sends him 11 more bills when asked to fix the problem. ...
05:01 PM, Aug 27, 2009
Roy said he had tendered the resignation and party will take final call. ...
01:01 PM, Aug 26, 2009
The management has agreed to review the employees demands. ...
08:16 PM, May 20, 2009
Besides video calls, 3G technologies also offer hi-speed Internet access. ...
06:07 PM, Jan 13, 2009
Phone requests will be handled by a national call centre. ...
01:27 AM, Dec 16, 2008
Prime Minister has inaugurated the MTNL 3G service. ...
04:38 PM, Dec 11, 2008
Now BSNL and MTNL will be able to launch 3G services by the year-end. ...
11:25 PM, Aug 07, 2008
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