• The high-level Empowered Committee, tasked with promoting semiconductor manufacturing in India, to submit its report to the Government after August.
• Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS) has asked the Competition Commission of India to investigate the “potential anti-competitive conduct” of Facebook arising out of `Facebook Credits'.
• A Parliamentary panel has slammed the IT Department on the “under utilisation of outlay” for National e-Governance Plan.
• India had received the nod to introduce IDNs in Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Punjabi, Bengali and Urdu.
• Mahindra Satyam slapped Rs 2,114-cr income-tax notice
• Telecom Commission has given its nod to imposing a uniform licence fee of 8.5% on all telecom operators as against operators currently paying between 6% and 10% of their annual revenues as licence fee.
• TRAI had suggested roll out obligation based on population whereby operators would be required to cover all areas with more than 10,000 people within two years and 2,000-5,000 people in four years.
• Infotech Dept exempts outsourcers from tough data privacy rules.
• Nearly 13 million subscribers have changed their service provider using the Mobile Number Portability facility since November 2010.
• According to TRAI the total wireless subscriber base increased from 840.28 million in May to 851.70 million at the end of June, a growth of 1.36%.
