MTNL is providing broadband services, which would lower the rent of another tariff plan by 34%.

In New Delhi, MTNL Broadband services reduced the charges up to 50% for the users. Due to the decreasing rates in the broadband services, the public sector telecom major is planning to charge a monthly rent of only Rs 99 per 150mb of free download.

The internet lovers will also have a scheme of paying only Rs 149 with free download of 400mb and all this would be applicable from the of August 15th.

Amman  - Jordan's telecommunication investments reached one billion dinars (1.4 billion dollars) over the past seven years, the head of the country's Telecommunications Regulatory Commission, Ahmad Hiyasat, said Thursday.

Speaking at a foreign investment conference currently in process in Amman, Hiyasat said a number of laws and regulatory decisions had "helped to boost the competitiveness of the country's telecommunications sector."

London, Aug 14 : Britons are chatting like never before, says a new research, which found that the natives are spending a record amount of time chatting on the phone.

According to the study, they spent a total of 247billion minutes on the blower last year, up from 233billion in 2006, reports The Sun.

More calls are made from mobiles, with landline use falling.

They spend an average ten minutes a day talking and texting on a mobile — twice the 2002 figure.

But one in ten people with a landline say they never use it.

The government on Monday asked cellular operator Idea to surrender the licence of either Punjab or Karnataka telecom circle to enable the merger of Spice Communications with itself.

Department of Telecom secretary Siddharth Behura said the company would not get any official "response" on the merger proposal till one of the two licences was returned.

“Policy is very clear. What will one do with two licences?,” said Behura.

The DoT has also made it clear that the company would not get any "refund" on the return of licence.

Earlier this year Idea Cellular, one of the fastest-growing mobile-phone carriers, offered Rs 32.4 billion ($757 million) for control of Spice Communications.

The Government hopes to finalise the process auctioning the next generation 3G mobile spectrum by September 30.

Telecom Secretary, Sidhharth Behura said, “Technical and financial details are being discussed. Once that is done, this e-auction process for 3G spectrum would be finalised by September 30.”

Before allocating the 3G spectrum, the government will invite request for the proposals for rolling out mobile number portability (MNP).

The government has also allowed the foreign players to take part in the next generation telecom arena and is thus expecting a good response from the bidding process as it hopes to raise it up to a level of Rs 40,000 crore.