However, the facility will be allowed on a need basis and can be used only in "fusion mode", which means people can use it only along with other existing means of authentication.

The move will help telcos, including Reliance Jio, Vodafone, and Idea Cellular

At present 100% FDI is allowed, of which up to 49% investment in a company can be done through the automatic route

The CAG report, tabled in Parliament, states the interest on the short payment stood at Rs 1,052.13 crore for the period up to March 2016.

India's stand is important against the backdrop of US FCC's decision to roll back its net neutrality rules adopted in 2015

To make the scheme attractive, the government has announced a rate structure wherein the operators may take the optical fibre on lease and provide broadband connectivity to customers.

The incumbent operators faced the onslaught of free offers and cheaper rates from Jio.

Battleground shifts to rural and small towns, where user base aspires to upgrade to smartphones.

With the addition of 4,000 employees, the RCom staff strength is estimated to rise to 9,500

In a dig at Jio's Rs 1,500 4G-enabled feature phone, the Sunil Bharti Mittal-led company said its smartphone would be made available for the price of a feature phone

India is looking at 5G technology as a major opportunity in terms of offering services tailored for rural India like telehealth, tele-education and bandwidth-heavy applications

A Chinese company named Shanghai AdUps has been sending massive data about phones and users to servers in China.

RJio's LYF, Videocon and other smartphone makers to also get notices

In the latest move, the telco has reduced validity for its Rs 309/509 packages from 84 days to 56

BSNL told a government panel that it should be allocated 5 MHz spectrum in the 700 MHz band through the equity route

Samsung plans to increase capacity to make 100 million phones in India by 2020, which will be sold here as well as exported.

'We are in touch independently with leading players, and they are denying it as well.' 'The Indian digital footprint is rising, creating new opportunities.'

It had requested the government to grant it 15 years of duty-free import of components to assemble its iPhones in the country, sharing a road map to slowly indigenise products.

Trai has said the three operators were "intentionally denying and delaying" the provision of points of interconnects (PoIs) to Jio, "only to restrict a new entrant thus violating the terms and conditions of licence and regulations of the Authority which also caused a lot of inconvenience to the consumers."

Reliance Jio saw fall in speeds from 7.2 mbps in September to 6 mbps in October, according to CLSA report.