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Britain might face its worst-ever cyber attack on Tuesday night. The country's National Crime Agency had warned people on June 2 to brace themselves against a "powerful computer attack" involving a strain of malware known as Gameover Zeus....

Reliance Jio Infocomm and telecom tower company Tower Vision India have entered into a master service agreement for tower sharing. Tower Vision has a portfolio of 8,400 telecom towers in India. Reliance Jio, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries, holds a...

British telecom major Vodafone Group has admitted in its annual report that it faces tax claims and liabilities exceeding Rs 27,000 crore in India, of which Rs 14,200 crore relates to the acquisition of Hutchinson- Essar in 2007. ...

Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (RJIL) is likely to raise Rs 10 billion through private bonds. The company plans to raise the entire amount through ten-year securities for which the coupon rate may be fixed between 9.25 per cent and...

The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is likely to allow spectrum sharing among 3G players. Earlier, the department had stated that it would exclude 3G airwaves in the proposed spectrum sharing policy. The DoT’s move to reconsider...

Alcatel-Lucent and Mobily Saudi Arabia have announced the first global deployment of virtualised radio access network (RAN) software from the vendor’s Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) portfolio. Mobily is deploying Alcatel-Lucent’s 9771 Wireless Cloud Element Radio Network Controller (WCE RNC) to...

Cell-phone adoption in Africa continues to grow at a rapid pace; the continent is on track to hit the billion cellphone mark in 2015. Many African mobile users don’t have monthly plans with a carrier. Instead, they own phones...