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While the Interim Finance Minister spoke extensively about investing in infrastructure but the telecom sector did not receive significant support, said DG COAI Rajan Mathews.

Telecom industry is deeply disappointed that none of its key asks have found mention in the Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Budget 2018 speech, says Rajan S Mathews

COAI and ETSI, a standardization organization for ICT standards fulfilling European and global market need have signed an MoU to work and collaborate on telecom standardization

India’s private telecom service providers have a total of 1.035 billion subscribers. This includes subscriber figures of Aircel, RJio & MTNL as of February 2017, said a report from COAI

In the upcoming Union Budget 2018, telecom sector is eagerly waiting for some breather given the fact that year 2017 was a year of consolidation and steep fall in profit margins

At the end of August 2017, India’s private telecom service providers had a total of 948.54 million subscribers and the numbers include those of Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd, said Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI).

COAI welcomed the specific notifications issued by the Wireless Planning & Coordination (WPC) wing of Department of Telecommunications.

COAI, the apex industry association representing the country’s major Telecom, Internet, Technology & Digital Services companies, expressed deep concerns over the allegations levied by Reliance Jio Infocomm, where it has accused the industry body of using disparaging remarks.

With companies like Reliance going all the way to increase their consumers, India's telecom subscriber base including mobile and landline combined, touched the 1.18 billion mark at the end of February 2017

Cellular operators' body COAI said its members may meet this week to discuss the modalities of rolling out the verification process for the existing one billion-plus mobile phone users