Telecom News Oct week1


1. No more free? Jio TV, Jio Music, other Jio apps could soon charge you for content: What Reliance is planning 
2. Bharti Airtel launches 4G service in over 100 TN villages 
3. Data hungry applications to emerge in 5G era: Unlimit CEO. 
4. Telcos can skip 5G spectrum auctions if prices too high: Fitch Ratings. 
5. New telecom policy to help firms cut cost, red tape: Fitch.
6. Prasad asks UIDAI to prepare action plan on Aadhaar use after SC order 
7. Foreign Telecom Gear Makers Decry Local Sourcing Mandate 
8. More Than a Billion Smartphones Will Be Sold in India Over the Next Five Years: Counterpoint 
9. OnePlus says not increasing smartphone price in India; to expand operations. 
10. Deadline for feedback on draft data protection law extended to Oct 10 
11. Facebook says security flaw may have affected 50 mn users, shares down 3% 
12. Govt Sets Up Data Analytics Center To Offer Better Governance 
13. Xender, SONY join hands to create Indian version of `Netflix` 
14. Google CEO Sundar Pichai will testify before US House on bias accusations
15, Wireless Licence Allocations May Go Online 
16. DoT plans to seek Cabinet nod for 4G spectrum allocation to BSNL, MTNL 
17. Lack of uniform policy framework challenges 5G growth in India: Report. 
18. Supreme Court verdict on Aadhaar: No major impact on telecom operators 
19. Rs 1,700 crore bank loan fraud: CBI raids telecom equipment firm. 
20. No Question of Deleting Aadhaar Data: UIDAI CEO 
21. SC verdict on Aadhaar may lead to overhaul of identity law, say experts 
22. Sector Regulators Must Guide Cos Post SC’s Aadhaar Verdict, Says UIDAI CEO 
23. Flipkart’s payments arm PhonePe may raise funds separately to catch up with Paytm. 
24. 1,000 Verizon employees to move to Infy 
25. 631,000 threats detected on Android devices in Q2 2018 
26. Tech Mahindra wins Rs 350 cr enterprise business system deal from five major ports 
27. Breach Adds to India Worries for Facebook 
28. China to hold 5th World Internet Conference in November.
29. RIL in Talks to Buy Hathway, Bring Broadband Home to You 
30. BSNL 4G services to be launched soon in Telangana; to partner Netflix 
31. ZTE says closely working with Indian telcos to provide 5G core tech 
32. Free-mobile schemes in election states: Jio gets customers, govts get data 
33. UIDAI asks telecom firms to submit action plan on delinking Aadhaar 
34. For first time, new iPhones get weak response in India 
35. Handset makers want 10-year tax holiday for mobile phone exports 
36. Facebook names Adam Mosseri head of Instagram, says CEO title only for founders
37. MobiKwik launches instant loan product ‘Boost’ 
38. Tata Communications acquires Netherlands-based IoT company Teleena 
39. Industry Bodies Write to Prasad Against Data Bill 
40. In a head-on fight with Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, ZEE5 goes global

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