As Maharashtra goes into lockdown again, telcos try to get frontline worker status for field engineers: Report medianama.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from medianama.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Telecom tower companies have approached DoT for vaccination of their field teams on a priority basis, akin to frontline healthcare staff, so that they can go about their operations & maintenance work in an unhindered fashion in states seeing a surge in Covid cases.
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Phone companies have sought the urgent intervention of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to ensure their essential field staff get the status of frontline healthcare workers to operate freely and be exempt from any curfew-like restrictions amid the surge in Covid-19 cases in Maharashtra and the prospect of fresh lockdowns.
They have warned that without such exemptions, telecom services field engineers won’t be able to access critical sites nor do repairs and maintenance work in Covid zones, which could cause a breakdown in mobile and internet connectivity in Maharashtra.
Elon Musk s SpaceX is struggling with lift-off in India after the Broadband India Forum (BIF) asked regulators to block its launch of Starlink services, claiming SpaceX has neither the license nor the authorization to provide such a service.
SpaceX started the pre-registration process for its satellite-based Starlink service earlier this year. It is already offering Starlink in Canada and the UK and had hoped to launch an Indian service by 2022.
The BIF says SpaceX is not authorized to provide any commercial services during the testing phase.
Its complaint follows one by the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), which has urged the Department of Space to prevent satellite operators from gaining backdoor entry into the communications market.
Zupee names Subi Chaturvedi as Chief Corporate & Public Affairs Officer adgully.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from adgully.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Consumer Protection Questions Raised by Kashmir s Internet Shutdown
Most telecom operators in J&K only sell voice/talk-time services as a âfreeâ service along with data packs, leaving postpaid customers to buy 4G packs to access calling services during the ban on mobile internet.
Children play games on their mobile phones in a neighbourhood in Srinagar October 10, 2019. Photo: Reuters/Danish Ismail
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On February 5, 2020, the Centre restored high-speed internet in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir after a long period of 550 days. Termed as the worldâs longest internet shutdown, the Indian government came under heavy criticism for shutting down the Internet in Jammu and Kashmir and denying internet access to millions of people. Recently, several international celebrities have spoken out against Indiaâs internet-gag policy.