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Tata Consultancy Services posted ₹73,188 crore of revenue and $9.6 billion of contract value for the September quarter, with annualised AI revenue crossing $3.1 billion alongside Porsche and Best Buy transformation wins.
BSNL picked Pratap Technocrats for an ₹8,025 crore BharatNet Phase-III package covering fibre backhaul across eight northeastern states, with rollout targets tied to 4G site densification.
NPCI data shows UPI processed 24.07 billion payments in September, averaging 802 million a day, even as a shorter month pulled headline volume slightly below August’s record.
Telecom operators must surface TRAI-mandated prepaid packs as the first recharge tab on apps and websites under an October direction, with compliance reports due within 30 days.
Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd. launched True 5G fixed wireless access tariffs for Pune’s Hinjawadi and Magarpatta corridors after monsoon trenching delayed fibre-to-the-home builds, pitching router kits to IT parks and co-living operators.
The Supreme Court declined to stay NPCI’s merchant discount on large UPI payments, keeping the 15 October start date intact for person-to-merchant transactions above ₹2,000.
GMPCS licensees including Eutelsat OneWeb and Jio Satellite Communications await Cabinet approval after the Digital Communications Commission backed a 5% AGR spectrum charge.
UIDAI told private KYC aggregators to mask all but the last four Aadhaar digits in stored records from October, tightening data-minimisation rules for fintech onboarding.
Kerala's National Informatics Centre cell migrated 941 panchayat payroll accounts to the state data centre after July floods knocked out on-prem servers in three districts, restoring salary files before the October pay cycle.
Reliance Jio and T-Mobile activated the first 5G standalone roaming link on Tuesday, using Syniverse mediation so subscribers keep SA data across borders.
BSNL switched on voice-over-WiFi in four Rajasthan telecom circles after a Delhi pilot showed one-third of indoor dropped calls moved to broadband backhaul.
Acquiring banks pushed merchant discount rate tables to large retailers this week as processors test settlement splits ahead of mid-October festival volumes on Unified Payments Interface rails.
Twenty of Gujarat's busiest citizen services now sit behind Aadhaar authentication on the Digital Gujarat portal, with masked Aadhaar accepted at the login step. The number stays off the screen — but the exclusion risk lands on whoever's mobile number, thumbprint or paperwork does not cooperate.
TRAI's thirteenth TCPR amendment, issued September 21, requires voice-and-SMS-only recharge options with validity of up to 30 days and parity on monthly renewal. For feature-phone users, spare SIMs and operators' ARPU math, the details are what matter.
MeitY Secretary S. Krishnan told the PAFI Delhi summit on 24 September that India needs a “mutually assured disruption” posture against technology denial, urging domestic capacity in semiconductors, telecom gear and trusted AI stacks.
Nifty IT fell about 0.87% on 23 September while the broader Nifty gained, with Infosys and TCS among index drags; desks cite hedge timing, cautious U.S. clients, and Washington’s 24 September Trump–Xi meeting for billing visibility.
Konkan Railway began a solar-backed station lighting trial at Ratnagiri after monsoon blackouts left platforms dim during overnight express stops, pairing battery banks with grid fallback for heritage-sensitive masts.
Vodafone Idea began distributing fixed wireless CPE kits to retailers along Jaipur’s ring road ahead of Navratri fair traffic, pitching 5G-backed home broadband where last-mile fibre drops lagged monsoon trenching schedules.
Bharti Airtel is piloting LEO satellite backhaul to Ladakh border outposts, pairing commercial terminals with NavIC timing after ISRO pushed indigenous navigation into defence logistics networks.
BSNL is replacing microwave hops with dual-route fibre along Bengaluru Metro’s Purple Line, giving station Wi-Fi and operations rooms a shared backhaul spine contractors can extend into Whitefield yards.
Tejas Networks began shipping MPLS core routers from its Bengaluru plant for BSNL’s multi-year core refresh, with acceptance tests focusing on power failovers that rural exchanges still depend on during grid dips.
Vodafone Idea field teams are running millimeter-wave backhaul trials on Delhi Metro tunnel segments where fiber cuts have repeatedly knocked out passenger Wi-Fi, with DMRC signaling engineers sitting in on overnight throughput tests.
Bharat Electronics’ Jalahalli naval radar workshop began shipping phased-array upgrade kits for in-service frigates after Bangalore acceptance trials, with Ministry of Defence quality boards signing lot releases before install teams sail.
Pratap Technocrats crews reopened BharatNet Phase III trenching in lower Assam after monsoon water tables receded, with BSNL field teams auditing splice pits before fibre pulls resume toward gram panchayat blocks.
Jio Payment Solutions opened a sandbox merchant API gateway aimed at tier-two retailers, bundling UPI QR, intent, and hosted checkout with settlement files formatted for Tally and Marg ERPs common in Indore, Coimbatore, and Lucknow wholesale lanes.
BSNL switched on 38 corridor 4G sites between Leh and Kargil before Ladakh’s winter stocking deadline, routing Army and ITBP traffic through indigenous cores while civil teams raced to cache diesel and battery packs at solar-only towers.