Telecommunications

Mumbai: India's telecom market is firmly in control of local heavyweights — Kumar Mangalam Birla, Sunil Mittal and 

Republican senators moved Thursday to dismantle landmark internet privacy protections for consumers in the first decisive strike against telecommunications and technology regulations created during the Obama administration, and a harbinger of further deregulation.The measure passed in a 50-to-48 vote largely along party lines.

India is fast becoming the new battleground for global technology and telecommunications giants, as Facebook, Vodafone and others vie to connect the country’s population of 1.2 billion to the internet.The fight took another turn on Monday when Vodafone, a British car