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Dept of Posts and BSNL launches Mobile Money Transfer service
• The Department of Posts and BSNL launched a pilot project of mobile money transfer service in Punjab,
Bihar, Delhi and Kerala Circles.
• To use the service, senders would need to deposit the money in the post office and give the receiver’s
details. After this, they would get a 16 digit transfer code on his mobile phone, which they would need to
send to the recipient via SMS. The recipient can claim the money at a nearby post office, by showing the
transaction code and his identity.

Union Cabinet of India cleared Proposal for Spectrum Sharing

The Union Cabinet of India on 8 November 2012 approved levy of about 31000 crore rupees as one-time spectrum charge to be implemented on all incumbent telecom operators like Bharati Airtel, Vodafone, Idea and others. The proposed charges had been implemented to create a level ground between the old players and the new players of the telecom sector. 

The Finance Minister of India P Chidambaram declared that the recommendations of the EGoM (Empowered Group of Ministers) was cleared and the GSM operators would have to pay for the airwaves that they hold beyond the 4.4 Mega-Hertz, the price determined at the auction and the operators holding more than 6.2 mega hertz airwaves would have to pay a retroactive fee from July 2008 onwards. The CDMA operators would have to pay for the airwaves that they hold beyond 2.5 Mega-Hertz as per the validity of the permits offered to them.









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Government to digitize cable TV network in 38 more cities

November 9th, 2012

Phase-2 of the campaign to digitize the cable TV network in India has been started by The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. In the phase0-2, 38 cities in 15 states will be covered by March 31, 2013.

Earlier, the digitization was completed in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata on October 31, 2012, while in Chennai the deadline has been extended till November 9, 2012 by the Madras High Court.

 Secretary in the ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Uday Kumar Verma
the secretary inaugurated the new monitoring Hall of Electronic Media Monitoring Centre, EMMC and  launched its new website. Speaking on the occasion, Mr Verma asked the EMMC to look at the analysis part of the monitoring in such a manner that better choices could be put forth before the policy makers. The secretary also asked the EMMC to get ready for the monitoring of more than 800 new FM channels which will be coming up in the next 3 years.

2G spectrum auction flops; less than Rs. 10K crore of bids received by Govt

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AIR & DD to meet technical challenges to improve programme
As per CEO of Prasar Bharti, Mr. Jawhar Sircar, All India Radio and Doordarshanneed to meet the technical challenges
to get better its programme quantum.
A separate Recruitment Board of Prasar Bharti will be established soon after receiving approval of the recruitment
rules by the Union Cabinet.

The Government of India on 20 September 2012 hiked the foreign investment cap for the broadcasting service providers to 74 percent. The registered hike in foreign investment cap is for service providers of Direct to Home (DTH), modernized cable network and mobile television. This move of the government will allow the global players in acquiring major stakes in the broadcasting companies. Before his decision was passed, the eligibility of DTH and multi-system cable operators to make foreign investment was limited to 49 percent only.

In its decision last week, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs cleared its stand on the companies of broadcast content that the TV news Channels and FM radio channels can have a foreign investment cap of 26 percent. This decision was made to make sure that majority of control remains back in the hands of Indian Partner.