VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

On 1st day of spectrum auction sees bids worth ₹77,146 crore :  The government on Monday received bids worth ₹77,146 crore on the first day of the spectrum auction for telecom airwaves, exceeding its own pre-bid estimates of about ₹45,000 crore. Informed by   Ravi Shankar Prasad , Minister of communications , electronics and information technology .   The  department of telecommunications (DoT)  aims to raise at least ₹3.92 trillion in the auction of 2,308.8MHz of spectrum.  Airtel , Vi and Jio were the bidders this year, against seven bidders during the last auction in 2016. Around 60% of five bands out of seven on auction has been sold, Prasad said.   The department of telecommunications (DoT) aims to raise at least ₹3.92 trillion in the auction of 2,308.8MHz of spectrum. The auction will continue on Tuesday, the minister said.   The minister said bids were received for radio airwaves in the 800MHz, 900MHz, 1,800MHz, 2,100MHz and 2,300MHz bands....

Russia accuses Twitter for violating laws for failing to delete content :  Russia accused   Twitter   on Monday of violating   Russian law , saying the social media platform had not complied with some of its requests to delete banned content.   The regulator, Roskomnadzor, said Twitter had failed to delete over 2,862 posts containing material linked to suicide, pornography and drugs since 2017. It could be fined heavily if found guilty of repeatedly failing to delete content deemed illegal under Russian law, it said.   The platform is used extensively by Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and his allies to criticize the authorities and announce new protests. Twitter, which declined to comment, has been fined in the past for breaching Russia’s data laws, but the penalties have been relatively small. A Moscow court last year fined Twitter 4 million roubles ($54,000) for failing to comply with Russian data law after the platform refused to locate its server holding...

Donald Trump accused big tech of censorship and pledged to break up monopolies:  Former US President Donald Trump , in his first public speech at the   Conservative Political Action Conference   said, "The time has come to break up Big Tech monopolies and restore fair competition."   Trump has frequently accused tech companies of censorship over his removal from both Facebook and Twitter for violating their policies. However, the section 230 gives websites the ability to regulate the content that appears on their platforms. It also protects sites from being legally liable for content shared by users.   Trump spoke on the final day of CPAC in Orlando, Florida. It was his first public speech since leaving the White House last month. He further called on US states to punish companies like Twitter, Google and Facebook with sanctions "whenever they silence conservative voices". Twitter permanently banned Trump after the attack at the US Capitol.... Read More