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    India needs legislature to address telecom AGR dues

    2020-05-11T04:20:06+00:00March 27th, 2020|2020, India Inc Views - India Global Business, Last Word, North America Edition – 27 March-09 April 2020, UK Edition – 27 March-09 April 2020|

    Rather than allow a crucial sector like telecom to sink, the government should bring in legislation to override the orders of the Supreme Court. The Indian Supreme Court has threatened to slap contempt of court proceedings against officials of the Department of Telecom (DoT) and senior executives of private telecom companies for not following its orders on the payment of aggregate gross revenue (AGR) dues that have accumulated over two decades to about $21 billion. The issue lies in a [...]

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      Theatre of the absurd: India’s telecom sector

      2020-08-20T06:54:44+00:00February 21st, 2020|India Inc News|

      All stakeholders are to blame for the mess India’s telecom companies find themselves in, and it's damaging India’s efforts to project an investor friendly image abroad, writes India Inc. Founder and CEO Manoj Ladwa. Highlights: India’s Department of Telecommunications' unreasonable demand of $21 billion from the country’s ailing telecom companies will cripple India's burgeoning telecom sector. All stakeholders – the telecom companies, public sector companies, the Government of India and the Supreme Court of India – are responsible for this [...]

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        Airtel ties up with Telecom Egypt

        2018-08-09T10:30:16+00:00August 8th, 2018|Uncategorized|

        Telecom major Bharti Airtel has announced a strategic partnership with Egyptian operator Telecom Egypt (TE), which would allow Airtel to use the Middle East North Africa (MENA) Submarine Cable and TE North cable systems. The partnership would help Airtel to serve the growing demand for data services, particularly in markets across South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, the company said in a statement. It said: "The partnership grants Airtel the right to use fibre pairs of MENA Cable from [...]

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          SHORT TAKES

          2018-12-31T11:54:14+00:00November 22nd, 2017|2018/2017, India Investment Journal November Edition, The Big Story, Year|

          India takes top spot for Nokia India has become the largest market for the Nokia globally in terms of sales, followed by Russia and Indonesia. Nokia, now owned by Finnish company HMD Global, will be banking on India for its resurgence at a time when the market is dominated by Chinese heavyweights such as Xiaomi, Vivo, Oppo and Huawei. Florian Seiche, the newly-appointed CEO of HMD, told Indian media that the company’s engagement will grow manifold in India, especially as [...]

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            Artificial Intelligence is bringing intuition to Cyber Security

            2018-06-12T07:28:47+00:00April 10th, 2017|2017/2018, April 2017, Sector Focus/IT, Year|

            Cyber Security is the protection of information assets, which are highly valuable to an organisation, writes a security expert. In the early days of the internet, Cyber Security wasn't of importance since most computers linked to the internet were part of academia, where trust played a major role. In addition, traditional networking wasn't secure by design, and did not encompass elements of security. As the internet grew, organisations started realising the efficiency and productivity the internet brought, and applications and [...]

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              India needs a meaningful bond market

              2018-08-06T13:40:26+00:00February 9th, 2017|2017/2018, Emerging Markets, February 2017, Year|

              Parag Saxena is the CEO of New Silk Route Partners, one of India’s largest Private Equity (PE) funds with a primary focus on India and the Southeast Asia markets. He tells ‘India Global Business’ about the company’s journey since inception in 2006 to becoming a leading Asia-focused growth capital firm with $1.4 billion under management. How is New Silk Route contributing to the Indian growth story? New Silk Route was formed with the belief that as India’s GDP per capita [...]

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                Leveraging Ireland’s rich skills in science & tech

                2018-05-18T13:04:08+00:00February 9th, 2017|2017/2018, February 2017, Hotspot, Year|

                Tech Mahindra, an Indian software major specialising in digital transformation, consulting and business re-engineering, opened its new Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Dublin in January 2017.

                The centre, to be operational in the first quarter of calendar year 2017, will be central to Tech Mahindra’s operations in the country and would focus on emerging technologies such as Robotics and Automation, Business Analytics, Cloud Infrastructure and Digital Services. The new centre would employ around 150 engineers over the next three years.

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