New Delhi: The CBI on Saturday conducted raid in Tamil Nadu in connection with the BSNL-WiMax deal. Earlier, the CBI had registered a preliminary inquiry in 2011 where the allegations were that former telecom minister A Raja forced BSNL to sign a deal with a private firm Starnet to procure the WiMax technology. The investigative agency is questioning four senior officials of BSNL who were then incharge of BSNL and...
10:19 AM, Feb 25, 2012
A Bhaskar Narayana, Ex-ISRO Scientific Secretary, said that the findings are committee's own conclusions. ...
03:36 PM, Feb 05, 2012
Shillong: Chief Minister of Meghalaya, Mukul M Sangma today inaugurated Wireless Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) at Ampati Sub Divisional Office (Civil) in Garo Hills of Meghalaya. Addressing the gathering Sangma said, "WiMAX is the latest technology being deployed for high speed data connection for long distances." WiMAX is basically a type of certification given to an equipment supplier by WiMAX forum, an official press release said. "The two driving...
08:47 AM, Nov 11, 2011
New Delhi: With an aim of identifying individuals responsible for the controversial Antrix-Devas deal, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has ordered a new inquiry by former Central Vigilance Commissioner Pratyush Sinha. The Sinha panel has been set up in pursuance to the recommendations of the B K Chaturvedi committee that went into the technical, commercial, procedural and financial aspects of the agreement between ISRO's commercial arm Antrix and Devas. The Sinha...
07:43 PM, Jun 18, 2011
New Delhi: Not just the 2G scam, former telecom minister A Raja had also tinkered with BSNL's WiMax deal to provide fixed and mobile Internet access. BSNL's technical committee had short listed six companies for BSNL's WiMax franchise and five of those were floated by Raja's friend Sanjay Kapoor, along with a few relatives. The five companies are WiExpert Communications, SV Telecom Systems, Digitelco Communications, Spectrus Communications and Technotial Infoways....
10:24 PM, Feb 19, 2011
New Delhi: The Telecom Ministry had opposed the S-band spectrum deal between Devas Multimedia and Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) commercial arm Antrix in 2007, two years before ISRO asked for a review. In an exclusive interview to Network18, Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal said ISRO had no power to allocate spectrum. "How can they handover the current spectrum which is to be handed over by the Dot? Spectrum allocation is...
03:27 PM, Feb 09, 2011
New Delhi: The S-band spectrum scam is the latest one to embarrass the already tainted UPA government. Legal experts had advised the government that it should take a policy decision to terminate the controversial S-band allocation. CNN-IBN has accessed a copy of the legal opinion that given to the government on the issue on July 12, 2010. The Government had realised that the Antrix-Devas lease agreement on G-SAT-6 and 6A...
07:57 AM, Feb 09, 2011
Tianjin: Telecom equipment maker Alcatel Lucent said some telecom carriers in China and India could put out bids for building of 4G trial networks as early as year-end, as they rush to upgrade existing networks or get into the wireless business. China Mobile, the world's largest carrier by subscribers, has been letting some of the world's top equipment sellers, including the French-US firm, show off their 4G capabilities at the...
12:44 PM, Sep 13, 2010
The Government looks at 3G telecom licensing as a means to raise revenue. ...
04:16 PM, Sep 16, 2009
Intel's Sean Maloney scoffs at India's obsession with the mobile phone. ...
05:52 PM, Sep 05, 2009
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