KOLKATA: Universal Services Obligation Fund, or USOF, is open to a graded reduction in the annual payout by mobile phone companies only if it is linked to their meeting rural tele-density targets, the ...

NEW DELHI: Around Rs 10,000 crore will be spent from the USO Fund in 2016-17 to speed up digital infrastructure projects even as the Finance Ministry remains conservative in allocations from it, ...

The Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) — renamed Digital Bharat Nidhi in the new Telecom Bill — may be used to create a mega money source for research and development (R&D) into networking and ...

New Delhi: Is Kapil Sibal’s ministry being overcautious and penalising telecom companies left, right and centre just to ensure that no fingers are pointed against his very high-profile ministry which ...

A review of the Universal Service Obligation Fund is in order to bridge the rural-urban teledensity gap. Despite the growth in both urban and rural teledensities (urban teledensity was 140 % as of ...

As on March 2014 the USOF had total accrual of Rs 58,579.35 crore, of which only Rs 24,896 crore was disbursed to the department of telecommunications for rural telecom projects. (Reuters) When ...

Since the satcom companies, most recently SpaceX, talked about using USOF subsidy for satcom services, satcom companies, and the telcos are once again, in contention. India Mobile Congress has become ...

Leading industry associations such as ASSOCHAM and the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) are pushing for the sunsetting of the levy forked out by telcos for the Universal Service ...

IIT panel approves new CBSE portal for re-evaluation after security review ...

The Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) last month extended the agreement with state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited for the setting up of 25,000 Wi-Fi Hotspot at BSNL Rural Telephone ...

DoT will allow multiple service providers to jointly set up infrastructure and claim support from the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) for it. DoT will allow multiple service providers to ...

The government plans to set aside about 50% of the near Rs 35,000-crore corpus that is likely to be available in the Universal Services Obligation Fund. The peak subsidy outflow is based on Rs ...