Parliamentary Panel On Telecom

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  Draft Telecom Bill Sections See Parliamentary Panel Red Flags: Report

  Members of the parliamentary panel on IT on Friday expressed apprehensions about some provisions of the new draft telecom bill and sought details from the Telecom Ministry about how the law will ensure data safety and privacy, sources said.

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  Apple, Google, Netflix India Executives To Appear Before Officials

  Top executives of the Indian arms of Apple, Google, Amazon, Netflix and Microsoft are scheduled to depose before a parliamentary panel looking into anti-competitive practices in the digital space later on Tuesday, the committee's chairman Jayant Sinha has said.

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  Parliamentary Panel Calls Airtel, Jio, Ola, Truecaller Over Data Security

  A Joint Committee of Parliament issued a notice on Wednesday calling representatives of telecom operators Reliance Jio and Airtel and cab aggregators Ola and Uber to depose before it on the issue of data security.

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  5G Chinese Telecom Gear: Parliamentary Panel Questions Top Government Officials

  Members of a parliamentary committee on Tuesday quizzed top government officials on whether there is a ban on the purchase of equipment from Chinese vendors for 5G infrastructure in India, sources said.

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  Bring Call Drops Under Consumer Protection Act: Parliamentary Panel On Telecom

  A recent report of the parliamentary panel on telecom has suggested that call drops should be brought under the purview of the Consumer Protection Act.

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  Call Drops: Parliamentary Panel to Meet Telcos, DoT, TRAI on November 10

  The panel will hear the views of the representatives of COAI and Reliance Jio, followed by meeting with representatives of DoT and the TRAI.

• Parliamentary panel report on 2G tabled in Lok Sabha

  The controversial report of the JPC, which gave a clean chit to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the 2G spectrum scam saying he was "misled" by the then Telecom Minister A Raja, was today tabled in Lok Sabha amid pandemonium.

• Prime Minister must depose on 2G scam, says BJP's Yashwant Sinha

  Citing former Telecom Minister A Raja's communication to the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on 2G scam, BJP member in the panel Yashwant Sinha on Monday wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking him to appear before the committee to "clear your name" following allegations levelled against him.

• Prime Minister must depose on 2G scam, says BJP's Yashwant Sinha

  Citing former Telecom Minister A Raja's communication to the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on 2G scam, BJP member in the panel Yashwant Sinha today wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking him to appear before the committee to "clear your name" following allegations levelled against him.

• 2G scam: BJP threatens to quit committee which says Chidambaram won't be summoned

  Finance Minister P Chidambaram does not need to testify on the telecom scam before a parliamentary committee, the panel's head, PC Chacko, reportedly told the group today, widening the chasm between the Congress and the opposition BJP, which has threatened to quit the panel in protest.

• 2G scam: BJP says PM, Chidambaram must depose for parliamentary panel

  The BJP has explained in detail why five of its members walked out of a meeting of a parliamentary committee on the telecom or 2G scam.

• 2G scam: BJP walks out of JPC meet

  Five BJP members today walked out of a meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) that is examining the 2G telecom scam, alleging that Congress members had used "unparliamentary" language and called the panel a "kangaroo court."

• Finance ministry, tax officials to brief parliamentary panel on 2G probe

  The I-T department would place on record the status of its assessment and tax evasion proceedings that it has conducted so far against various telecom firms and individuals involved in the case.

• Raja responsible for 2G spectrum decisions: Behura to parliamentary panel

  Former Telecom Secretary Siddharth Behura on Tuesday sought to put the responsibility of major decisions taken ahead of granting 2G licences on A Raja and said he differed with the then telecom minister on first-come-first-serve policy for allocation of the spectrum.

• Parliamentary panel on 2G may not call Chidambaram, Raja

  The Joint Parliamentary Committee looking into the 2G spectrum allocation scam may not summon Home Minister P Chidambaram or the main accused in the case, former Telecom Minister, A Raja.