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, ...

"I hope dream of developed Goa by 2037, in line with PM Modi's vision of developed India is realised," Goa CM Pramod Sawant ...

While the government claimed that the agreement will augment high-speed internet connectivity, it will be a while before the bandwidth is actually delivered to users. The Universal Service Obligation ...

After taking bold decisions like separation of spectrum from licences, the Telecom Minister, Mr Kapil Sibal, has now set up a panel to ascertain the reasons for delays in providing mobile services in ...

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 ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday held a cabinet meeting and gave his approval for the provisioning of mobile services in uncovered villages of aspirational districts across five states of ...

A panel set up by Communications Minister Kapil Sibal to ascertain the reasons for delays in providing mobile services in rural areas under the USOF scheme. Last month, Sibal had set up a panel to ...

The Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) under the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has inked a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Prasar Bharati, the national public service ...

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 ...

A mandatory condition in the Universal Services Obligation Fund (USOF) that states operators should use 2G technology for voice and 4G for data is resulting in a huge loss of hundreds of crores of ...