07 November 2025
Bharti Airtel has received regulatory approval to gradually increase its ownership stake in Indus Towers by up to 5%, strengthening its influence in India's largest telecom tower infrastructure company.
In a filing on 3 November, Airtel disclosed that a special committee of directors approved the acquisition of additional shares over time, either in one or multiple tranches.
Find out more06 November 2025
With commercial mobile networks playing an increasingly important role in the mission-critical communications market, there are essential capabilities that must be implemented to ensure the networks deliver mission-critical services for end users. For first responders in particular, a delayed connection or dropped call can mean the difference between life and death.
One essential network capability is Quality of Service, Priority and Pre-emption – more commonly referred to QPP. Mission-critical mobile broadband networks need to implement QPP mechanisms to enable mission-critical services, securing mission-critical users’ operations and communications by giving them priority over non-mission-critical users/traffic in time of need, when both are sharing the same network.
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06 November 2025
The Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (IN-SPACe) is reportedly moving to restrict satellite services from Chinese-linked operators, citing national security reasons.
According to anonymous sources, IN-SPACe has rejected applications from ChinaSat, APT Satellite (Apstar), and AsiaSat to provide satellite services in India.
Find out more04 November 2025
PLDT’s corporate arm, PLDT Enterprise, announced on Monday a strategic partnership with API exposure platform developer Nabstract to enhance user authentication processes by leveraging open network APIs instead of traditional one-time passwords (OTPs).
As part of this collaboration, PLDT’s mobile unit, Smart Communications, will integrate Nabstract’s Service Exposure Platform (SEP) into its network infrastructure to support PLDT Enterprise’s SmartSafe SilentAccess solution, which is part of the broader SmartSafe fraud management API suite.
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