Telecom News - September Week 1.

1. Getting 5G ready: DoT forms panel on road map for spectrum auction

2. Over 200 4G smartphones now support Airtel VoLTE

3  Airtel CEO, Gopal Vittal, urges staff to push for more market share

4. Anuj Sharma is Xiaomi’s new marketing head for India

5. For 4G rollout & to take on rivals, MTNL to raise authorised capital, borrowing limit: CMD

6. Telecom sector continues to reel under acute financial stress

7. Vodafone calls Reliance Jio ‘gatecrasher’ after being trolled over merger with Idea

8. Vodafone Idea raises Rs 15 bn through debt, its first since incorporation

9. India will soon be digital payment society: Finance Ministry

10. Paytm achieves Rs 29,000 crore GMV in August

11. Paytm Money aims to add 25 million users in the retail investment segment

12. PhonePe, PayU Tie up for Merchant Payments

13. Nokia India bags 50 contracts in the first half of the ongoing fiscal year

14  Andhra Pradesh to adopt Alibaba’s cloud-computing frameworks for governance

15. RBI working on measures to further beef up cyber security in FY19

16. WalmartLabs makes first Indian acquihire, brings on-board team from Appsfly

17. Internet Society inks pact with web service providers body for secure Net infrastructure

18. Tata Communications partners with CII to launch ‘The Grand India IoT Innovation Challenge’.

19. New telecom policy in the offing, to create 4 mn jobs: Aruna Sundararajan

20. BSNL ropes in Indian boxer Mary Kom as brand ambassador for two years.

21. DoT Likely to Invite Applications for Providing In-Flight Connectivity in October

22. Rajasthan government to provide free mobile phones to women of BPL families.

23. Share market update: Telecom stocks fall up to 4%; RCom, Idea, Bharti Infratel, Airtel suffer.

24. Vodafone Idea set to move TDSAT for recovering Rs 7,249 crore from DoT.

25. Vodafone, Idea Cellular shed one-third of the workforce since merger

26. Deadline to implement Aadhaar virtual ID extended to Oct-end

27. Big boost to digitisation: UPI transactions rise 13 times

28. Razorpay Steps into Enterprise Lending to Offer Full Stack

29. Streaming Firms Explore Voluntary Censorship

30. COMIO Chief Marketing Officer Sumit Sehgal Quits OPPO,

31. Xiaomi to buy foldable displays from Samsung: Report

32. IAMAI, Nasscom Upset over Govt’s Draft Data Protection Bill

33. In $19-m deal, Ebix Inc arm buys Miles Software

34. Indian startups likely to be hit hard by data protection bill: IAMAI

35. Netflix inks pact with Hathway, to offer video streaming via set-top box

36. China plans mega merger of two wireless carriers to speed up 5G development

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