New Delhi: Loop Telecom on Tuesday took the government and TRAI before the sector's tribunal TDSAT seeking refund of Rs 1,454 crore paid for 2G licence and sought Rs 1,000 crore damages for loss of reputation after its cancellation. In its petition, Loop Telecom has submitted that the Supreme Court has cancelled the UASL license issued to it by the government under its "flip flop' first-come-first-serve policy and it had...
06:09 PM, May 29, 2012
New Delhi: Scores of DMK supporters, gathered outside a Delhi court on Tuesday, cheered out loud on hearing that their leader and former communications minister A Raja was granted bail in the 2G scam case. Over 200 DMK supporters were eagerly waiting for the outcome of the hearing outside the court room at Patiala House courts complex. Raja's wife Parmeshawari Devi was also present in the court. She accompanied Raja...
09:08 PM, May 15, 2012
New Delhi: An empowered group of ministers (EGoM) will meet on Tuesday next week to discuss telecom regulator TRAI's recommendations on unified licences and auction of spectrum, an official said on Friday. The Telecom Commission, the decision making body of the Telecom Department, will also meet on Monday next week to discuss the TRAI recommendations, the Telecom Ministry official told. "Telecom Commission will discuss TRAI's recommendation, while it will be...
05:32 AM, Apr 28, 2012
New Delhi: The telecoms regulator's proposal for a near 10-fold increase in basic mobile phone spectrum prices and switching of radio spectrum given to older carriers knocked down shares of leading operators on fears that the big potential payouts will further hurt an already bleeding industry. Shares in top mobile operator Bharti Airtel fell as much as 7.5 per cent on Tuesday morning to their lowest level since July 2010,...
01:00 PM, Apr 24, 2012
New Delhi: Former telecom secretary D S Mathur on Monday told a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court that he had asked then telecom minister A Raja to reconsider the cut-off date for receiving applications for 2G spectrum licences. "I recorded this note after seeing the order of the then minister, dated November 2, 2007, as fixing the date of September 25, 2007 (cut-off date for issuance of licence) may...
08:46 PM, Apr 09, 2012
New Delhi: A special two-judge bench was on Friday constituted by Chief Justice S H Kapadia for hearing all cases concerning the 2G spectrum allocation scam. In view of a large number of petitions and applications being filed in the apex court by the Centre, telecom companies and others after it passed the order cancelling 122 telecom licences, Justice Kapadia constituted the bench comprising justices G S Singhvi and A...
06:22 PM, Mar 16, 2012
New Delhi: Former TRAI chairman Nripendra Misra, while deposing as a prosecution witness in a Delhi court trying the 2G spectrum case, failed on Thursday to recall conclusively if P Chidambaram was the Union finance minister in November 2006. Testifying before Special CBI Judge OP Saini, Misra said he had met the then finance minister, "perhaps" P Chidambaram, on November 27, 2006 and was directed to sent the Telecom Regulatory...
08:35 PM, Mar 15, 2012
Bangalore: Antrix, the commercial arm of ISRO has moved a local court seeking directions to restrain Devas Multi-media from proceedings with the arbitration it has filed against it in an international court in Paris on cancellation of agreement on S band spectrum allocation. Antrix, which cancelled its agreement with Devas, filed the petition before the Additional City Civil and Session Court, seeking an interim injunction against Devas. Judge D B...
03:59 PM, Feb 09, 2012
New Delhi: After their 3G roaming agreements being termed as "illegal" by DoT, telecom firms may be in for another shock now with the government deciding against allowing spectrum sharing in this segment. Spectrum sharing was expected to be part of the National Telecom Policy-2011 and the operators were looking forward to it, but the government's decision not to allow this may impact their business plans, sources in the know...
06:08 PM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: Seeking clarity on pricing of spectrum and allocation, CEOs of five top telecom operators including Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications and Idea Cellular will be meeting Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal on Tuesday. The high level government-industry interaction would take place for the second time within less than two months. The industry leaders, including Sunil Bharti Mittal, Anil Ambani and Kumar Mangalam Birla had met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on...
08:04 PM, Jan 23, 2012
New Delhi: The lawyer of several high-profile accused in 2G spectrum allocation on Wednesday accused the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in a Delhi court of tutoring witnesses before their deposition while the agency said it was their right to interact with them to check their credentials before they depose. The allegation was made by counsel for various 2G case accused, including RDAG corporate honchos Surendra Pipara and Gautam Doshi,...
07:35 PM, Jan 18, 2012
New Delhi: India's federal police on Saturday conducted searches at Vodafone's Indian unit and Bharti Airtel's offices seeking details on spectrum allocation by the government to operators between 2001-02. The searches were in regard to possible irregularities in allotting spectrum during the previous government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), now in opposition, Central Bureau of Investigation's (CBI) spokeswoman, Dharini Mishra told Reuters. "All our documents are in complete...
10:04 AM, Nov 21, 2011
New Delhi: The Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Vinod Rai, on Tuesday appeared before the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) in connection with the 2G spectrum allocation scam probe. According to reports, Rai stood by his report and asserted that lead auditor R P Singh was party to it. Sources said that Rai gave a detailed presentation on the loss figures. He further said that there was no question of...
03:29 PM, Nov 15, 2011
New Delhi: Law Minister Salman Khurshid on Tuesday defended Home Minister P Chidambaram on the 2G spectrum allocation issue, saying he is an "extremely upright" and well-informed lawyer" and did things specifically as the law permitted. His comments came on a day CBI was directed by a Delhi court to provide a certified copy of a file relating to 2G issue to Janta Party president Subramanian Swamy who alleged the...
12:35 AM, Nov 09, 2011
New Delhi: The special CBI court adjourned the hearing of the case filed by Janata Party President Subramanian Swamy against Home Minister P Chidambaram till December 3. the case is in relation with the 2G spectrum allocation scam. The court asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to hand over all corrrespondence between former telecom minister A Raja and Chidambaram on the share dilution issue to Swamy. The Janata Party...
10:46 AM, Nov 08, 2011
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