NEW DELHI: Reliance Industries will invest Rs. 2,50,000 crore for Digital India initiatives, said Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani at the launch of Digital India Week on Wednesday.
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Videocon Telecom in talks for JV with 3 global smart city solution providers
KOLKATA: Videocon Telecom is in advanced talks to float a joint venture with three international smart city solution providers even as it prepares to gradually exit the spectrum-dependent mobility business, a top company executive said.
Nokia Networks may manufacture 5G telecom gear in India
CHENNAI: Finnish telecom broadband infrastructure software and services provider Nokia Networks will consider India as one of the production bases for making 5G telecom systems, said a senior company official on Wednesday.
Google’s biggest campus outside US to be in Hyderabad
HYDERABAD: Google will build its largest campus outside the US in Hyderabad at an investment of Rs 1,000 crore, according to Telangana IT minister KT Rama Rao.
Nokia Networks in talks with Vodafone, Idea and Uninor to roll out 4G
NEW DELHI: Nokia Networks is talking to carriers including Vodafone, Idea Cellular and Uninor for possible deals to roll out networks on fourth-generation LTE technology as the Finnish telecom gear maker looks to build on a strong 2014, when it signed nearly three dozen equipment supply contracts.
Smart cities top Bloomberg’s agenda for India
NEW DELHI: The United Nations Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change and former mayor of New York City Michael R Bloomberg will visit India next week and meet the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his cabinet colleagues with his proposals to extend help to India in developing smart cities through multiple measures.
Indus Towers digs up Ambazari embankment to erect mobile tower in Nagpur
NAGPUR: Indus Towers, one of the two agencies in the city involved in setting up infrastructure for private cellular companies, has allegedly dug up a part of Ambazari Lake’s embankment to erect a high mobile antenna tower.
Microsoft opens centre in Delhi’s red light area
NEW DELHI: Microsoft has veered from its regular corporate social responsibility route with a centre in one of Asia’s largest red light areas in the Capital.
Huawei wins $120 million contracts to upgrade Airtel, Idea wireline networks
NEW DELHI: Chinese telecom equipment manufacturer Huawei Technologies has bagged two contracts worth a combined $120 million from Bharti Airtel, India’s leading telecom service provider, and Idea Cellular, the third-largest player, to upgrade their wireline networks, a person familiar with the development said on condition of anonymity.
Ericsson files complaint against Apple over mobile technology
STOCKHOLM: Swedish telecom equipment supplier Ericsson on Wednesday said it has filed a complaint against Apple Inc after the iPhone maker sued Ericsson.