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With the major Indian telecom operators including Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications and Aircel, missing out on the pan-India 3G spectrum licence and bagging a maximum of 13 circles, the industry could see another set of fierce bidding in the BWA auctions, starting this Saturday. BWA spectrum is necessary for rolling out Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) services and enable hand-held devices and laptops access the Internet. The base price for one pan-India slot for WiMAX service has been fixed at Rs 1,750 crore, half of the base price for 3G. About 11 operators are participating in the BWA bidding process (for two slots) which is more than 9 operators that bid for the 3G licensing process (for three slots).
Neeraj Jain, director, strategic and commercial intelligence, transaction services, KPMG, said, Since the some telecom operators that have missed out on key circles, BWA auctions could emerge out another opportunity to grab additional spectrum. We might see some irrational bidding for these licenses too. Prashant Singhal, telecom industry analyst with Ernst & Young, said, Most of the bidders still have a capacity to leverage their balance sheets. At the same time as the BWA spectrum is available only in two slots we could see another round of fierce bidding. However, we do not expect operators to bid for pan-India license and it could be similar spread as in 3G, he added. More so the spread of spectrum license amongst the limited operators is expected to bring better mutually beneficiary arrangement between the operators. The cross-pollination of services will be evident now in a bid to offer seamless services to consumers, added Jain.
We see greater potential for JVs and the sharing of active/passive infrastructure in the coming months that could bring down rollout costs, said, Sachin Salgaonkar, analyst at Goldman Sachs, in a report.
In the recent 3G auctions, operators like Idea Cellular, Tata Teleservices and Aircel that missed out on major circles are believed to bid aggressively in these circles. Gurdeep Singh, COO at Aircel, said, We might consider it (bidding fiercely). BWA is critical technology for large corporate as well as SMEs (small and medium enterprises), so it can be a huge opportunity in major circles. Sanjeev Aga, MD at Idea refused to add any views on the BWA auctions.
Last week, after unveiling its upcoming Gatorade collaboration, Jordan Brand is back today with more sneaker release information for the month of December. Unveiling a brand new iteration of the Air Jordan 6 Retro, the Jumpman presents a clean and appealing silhouette that pays homage to the alma matter of the NBA legend Michael Jordan.
Releasing later in the week, this Air Jordan 6 Retro, dubbed as the University Blue pair, will feature a black nubuck upper with hits of university blue complimenting the heel tab, midsole, tongue and lacelock. In addition, a transparent icy blue outsole will round out the shoes, giving the kicks the proper pop of color needed to complete the silhouette's entire look.
The Air Jordan 6 was first introduced by Michael Jordan in 1991. Sporting the pair of sneakers during the entire 1991-92 NBA season, the 6-time Chicago Bull Champion has gone on to retro the Air Jordan 6 sneaker a number of times over the years.
The Air Jordan 6 Retro University Blue iteration will release worldwide at select Jordan Brand retailers and Nike accounts starting Sat., Dec. 2. Look for the pair of shoes to retail for a suggested price of $190.
As much as your dad enjoys a shiny new tie or an annual mini-golf outing, it might be time to retire the typical Father's Day activities. From sipping on some bourbon to racing around town, here are a few foolproof ideas for pleasing your pops in D.C. this weekend.
What screams fun more than beer and barbecue? Take Dad to Atlas Brew Works on Saturday for Brewskies and BBQ, an evening of live jazz, barbecue from Mike's Smokehouse -- and, of course, tastings of local craft beer, including a growler of beer. Tickets are $60 for the event and proceeds will benefit D.C. veterans.
Bring your favorite father along to try out a selection of scotch, bourbon and rye at Paul's Wine and Spirits for a free whiskey tasting this weekend. Can it get more manly? The event is free, but you must RSVP to attend.
Yes, take him to a Father's Day brunch! Why not let Dad enjoy an all-you-can eat meal filled with everything from fried chicken to buttermilk biscuits on his special day?
Try spending Sunday morning at the Mansion on O Street Museum for a brunch featuring an omelet and waffle bar, plus champagne and a self-guided tour of nearly 100 rooms and 70 secret doors building. You can also go on a treasure hunt.The event price starts at $49.50 and the brunch begins at 11 a.m.
You could also get the family together for the Father's Day Gospel Brunch at the Hamilton downtown. Along with a slew of food options, the morning features a concert by the Gospel Persuaders. Tickets start at $50 and the doors open at 10 a.m.
Put the food aside for a moment and lace up for a run at the fifth annual Father's Day 8K Sunday at 6:30 p.m. The nearly five-mile out-and-back route stretches along the C&O Canal Towpath. Awards will be given to the top finishers, including the top father/son and father/daughter teams. Registration is $35 before Sunday and $40 on race day.
If a shorter distance suits your dad's style, check out the Run with Dad 5K Sunday at 8 a.m. at South Lakes High School in Reston. There's also a one-mile fun run following the 5K. You can register online for $35 until June 13 or register on race day for $40.
Cap off the father-centered weekend with a visit to Mount Vernon, home of the father of our county, George Washington.
The "Father to the First Family" program has shows at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. on the bowling green lawn in front of Mount Vernon. The event is included in general daytime admission, which is $17 for adults and $8 for children ages 6-11.
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- North and South Korea will hold a high-level talk to discuss steps to implement agreements made in the Pyongyang summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Seoul's unification ministry said Friday.
"The high-level talk will discuss actions needed to implement the joint Pyongyang Declaration made as part of the September summit and setting further talks to discuss issues in each category," the ministry said in a press release.
The talk follows a series of North-South Korea talks to facilitate cooperation and to forge ties between the two countries, separated for more than 70 years.
North and South Korea have been discussing plans for conducting co-inspections of North Kora's railways and expressways.
They also agreed to create a joint team to the 2020 Summer Olympics and pursue a joint bid to host the games in 2032.
A woman attending a Tom Steyer-led town hall asked what the difference was between President Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler, arguing that the Republican president has done things similar to those of the detested leader of Nazi Germany.
The crowd was clearly not excited about Steyer’s response.
Steyer — who made his fortune as a hedge fund manager in California — has spent millions in past election cycles in an attempt to defeat Republican lawmakers and push the issue of climate change to the forefront of political debate. Lately, Steyer has made a massive effort to impeach Trump. He is traveling across the U.S. to muster support for his efforts.
Steyer’s climate super PAC, NextGen America, released an ad Mother’s Day that suggests Republicans are turning children into Nazis.
EVANSDALE, Iowa -- An eastern Iowa memorial park is getting the money it needs for completion.
The Angels Memorial Park in Evansdale will receive a $30,000 grant. The money will be used for a new bridge, to make it more handicap accessible.
The park is dedicated in part to cousins Lyric Cook and Elizabeth Collins, two girls who were abducted and found dead in 2012. It also honors three other murder victims: Evelyn Miller, Donisha Hill, and Lindsay Nichols.
From the sky it appears to be an idyllic island with amazing beaches and a dense forest, but tourists or fishermen don’t dare to set foot on this outcrop in the Indian Ocean due to its inhabitants’ fearsome reputation.
Visitors who venture onto or too close to North Sentinel Island risk being attacked by members of a mysterious tribe who have rejected modern civilisation and prefer to have zero contact with the outside world.
When they do interact with outsiders, it usually involves violence – the indigenous Sentinelese tribe killed two men who were fishing illegally in 2006 and have been known to fire arrows and fling rocks at low-flying planes or helicopters on reconnaissance missions.
Located in the Bay of Bengal, North Sentinel Island belongs to India and remains an enigma, despite being populated for an estimated 60,000 years.
Untouched by modern civilisation, very little is known about the Sentinelese people, their language, their rituals and the island they call home.
It is too dangerous to approach them due to their hostility to outsiders, meaning they are rarely photographed up close and almost never seen on video. Most of the photos and video clips that do exist are of poor quality.
There are also conflicting reports on the tribe’s population, with most estimates putting it in the range of a few dozen to a few hundred.
It’s still unclear what impact the 2004 tsunami had on the population and the island, which is part of India’s chain of Andaman Islands, although the uncontacted tribe managed to avoid being wiped out. After the tsunami one member was photographed attempting to fire an arrow at an Indian Coast Guard helicopter.
Often referred to as a ‘Stone Age tribe’ – a title that advocates take offence to, as its members have adapted over time – the Sentinelese may be the most isolated tribe in the world, with the Indian government choosing not to meddle in their affairs.
The government made several failed attempts to establish contact, but has abandoned all attempts and allows the tribe to live how it chooses on an island that is about the size of Manhattan.
Indian authorities have gone as far as making it a crime to try to make contact with the Sentinelese. It is illegal to go within three miles of the island.
While privileged people are eating £15 burgers and splashing £100 on new trainers, the near-naked Sentinelese are surviving off the land and hunting for sea creatures.
But the waters surrounding the island appear to be under threat by even more illegal fishermen.
Survival International reported late last year that it had received reports that fishermen are targeting the area, with seven men being apprehended by the Indian Coast Guard.
One of the fishermen reportedly stepped foot on the island in close proximity to the tribe’s members, and he managed to leave unscathed.
Survival International, which advocates for tribal peoples’ rights, describes the Sentinelese as ‘the most vulnerable society on the planet’ as they are likely to have no immunity to common diseases such as flu and measles.
Due to their complete isolation, the chances of them being wiped out by an epidemic are very high, according to the organisation.
In a statement, Survival International’s director, Stephen Corry, said: ‘The Great Andamanese tribes of India’s Andaman Islands were decimated by disease when the British colonised the islands in the 1800s.
The organisation said the islanders are ‘extremely healthy, alert and thriving’, despite threats from the outside world and their 'old world' way of life.
Their hostility towards outsiders can at least be partially attributed to past conflicts. Survival International said 'the outside world has brought them little but violence and contempt'.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s several tribespeople were killed in battles with armed salvagers who visited the island to recover iron and other goods from a shipwreck.
I think they have the right idea.
The 70s look is back in vogue.
With sunglasses too. And, especially, coloured rim shades. Nobody wears it better than Bollywood. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Priyanka Chopra, Preity Zinta, Kangna Ranaut hold their heads high off the sets while Mumbai’s swish set of society ladies like Avanti Birla, Anju Taraporewala, Ramona Narang take the trend to the racecourse and brunches with equal elan.
Eyewear brands are placing their bet this season on oversized sunglasses which come with a signature rim. Coloured rims, some encrusted with Swarowski crystals, some with pointy edges, shades with butterfly or cupid motif on the arms, are instant hits.
Salil Chaturvedi of Provogue eyewear says, “It’s exciting to see people experimenting with sunglasses. No one’s playing safe by going the regular cliched way. Sunglasses are a reflection of one’s attitude and so the shape, size and colour are completely out-of-the-box, yet very wearable.” Agreed, for style icon Saif Ali Khan, whose sunglasses are often made-to-order, now sports his pair with a coloured thin red rim.
Actress Soha Ali Khan, who is a big fan of laminates, is gung-ho about yellow coloured lenses in oversized frames. In fact, laminates is another trend which has set in this season. Thanks to the Dev D look of actor Abhay Deol, laminates have gone down well with men too. “Tommy Hilfiger has a limited edition of teardrop shaped laminates which capture the summer feel fairly well,” says Soha.
While facilities like Seabrook Emergency Room might be covered by a patient's insurance network, the doctors working there might not.
A lot of people assume that if a hospital is in their insurance network, the doctors who treat them there will be, too. But that’s not always the case — and it can leave patients on the hook for thousands of dollars in unexpected charges.
NHPR’s Casey McDermott took a look at how this is playing out in New Hampshire, and what lawmakers are trying to do to address it.
Listen to the audio version of this story.
One morning back in August, Donna Beckman woke up feeling dizzy and just not quite herself. After a trip to Seabrook Emergency Room, it turned out everything was fine.
Fine, that is, until she got the tab for the visit. Soon after she got home from the hospital, Beckman received an invoice for the visit addressed from Owascoag Emergency Physicians LLC and informing her that she owed $1,648 for the “emergency evaluation and management” she received at Seabrook ER.
A review of Beckman’s medical records shows that she was charged the most expensive rate for emergency care — meant for the most severe patients.
After going around and around on the phone with the hospital and her insurance company, Beckman found out that Seabrook ER — and its parent company, Portsmouth Regional Hospital — outsources some of its medical staff to other companies like Owascoag Emergency Physicians LLC.
And even though Portsmouth Regional Hospital and Seabrook Emergency Room are in Beckman’s insurance network, the Owascoag doctor they sent her was not.
To make matters more complicated, Owascoag Emergency Physicians is also affiliated with EmCare — a company that has come under scrutiny for inflating emergency room charges in hospitals across the country.
The charges Beckman is grappling with are standard operating procedure in health facilities all across the country, sometimes leaving patients on the hook for $100,000 or more.
Donna Beckman says a trip to Seabrook Emergency Room in August left her with a surprise doctor's bill of more than $1,600.
Adler’s written extensively on the issue of balance billing and what might be done to curb it. While it can happen across all kinds of specialties, he says the emergency care market is especially susceptible.
Now, just imagine if there was only one coffee shop in town, but you really needed a cup of coffee to stay healthy, and you need it now — but you don’t get to see how much it costs until after you drink it. That’s kind of how the emergency care economy works.
“No matter what they charge, it has basically no influence on the volume of care they will receive,” Adler explains.
But more states, including New Hampshire, are trying to find a way to even the playing field for patients.
Hopkinton Rep. Dave Luneau is sponsoring a bipartisan bill that tries to make sure patients aren’t stuck with these surprise charges. The goal, he says, is to simplify things for the patient.
“When a patient walks through the front door, whether it’s a hospital or a clinic, to see a doctor that’s in the patient’s network, all the other wraparound services associated with that healthcare service — whether it’s anesthesiology, pathology, radiology — would also be covered, as the patient would expect that to be covered, because the patient’s plan actually says all these things are covered," he explains.
The insurance department is on board with that plan. Tyler Brannen, a policy analyst with the agency, says they rarely endorse legislation but felt it was important to step up on this issue.
Luneau has tried to tackle ban balance billing several times before, but his earlier efforts ran into skepticism from fellow lawmakers and industry lobbyists. He’s optimistic this year’s proposal will be more successful: It has the support of Gov. Chris Sununu and a bipartisan group of lawmakers, and it’s the product of a months-long study committee that convened to get input on the issue last fall.
Still, not everyone’s a fan of the proposed reforms. Lobbyists for local hospitals and physicians groups have argued the changes would limit their flexibility and make it harder to fill staffing gaps, especially in more rural areas. Opponents also point to a lack of hard data about how frequently it happens in New Hampshire.
But Josh Kattef, a Concord resident who successfully fought back on his own balance bill a few years ago, says that’s because the system is so hard to navigate that most people just throw their hands up.
“There’s this like this giant murky triangle of like everybody pushing the consumer around with the consumer’s complaints, and 90 percent of the consumers just give up,” says Kattef, who sat on the study committee that came up with this year’s balance billing proposal.
Brannen, with the insurance department, also said it is tricky to pin down data on the scale of the problem.
Donna Beckman says she might have been inclined to do just that — if the bill wasn’t so expensive.
In the meantime, Beckman says her insurance company has offered some help. They sent her a check and told her to forward the payment along to Owascoag Emergency Physicians, along with an explanation of her insurance benefits.
But that was in November. As of this week, she says the check still hasn’t cleared.
Update: After this story was published, a representative from Envision Healthcare, the parent company of the physicians group that billed Beckman, told NHPR they "take [their] patient billing very seriously" and worked to address the issue with Beckman's E.R. bill once they "were alerted to her concerns." Envision said they will accept $218.98 ($186.14 from the insurance company plus $32.84 in coinsurance, the same payment arrangement she tried to complete after speaking with her insurance company in November) as payment in full, instead of the $1,648 they initially charged. While Beckman still hasn't received any confirmation that her earlier payment has been processed, she plans to void that check and send her payment online instead. "Hopefully," she said Tuesday, it will be "the last small irritant to fix this mess."
A month to go before Christmas – and don’t we know it.
Supermarkets are packed to the rafters with seitan turduckens. Radio stations already have Mariah on repeat. And old enemies suddenly seem to have called a truce.
Ahh, we’re just one viewing of Love Actually away from a festive full-house (but let’s not lose our heads just yet, it really is only November still).
While one omni-vegan rivalry was trying to bury the hatchet this week, however, another was just getting going – and in Brighton of all places.
And vegan pets didn’t have a much better time of it either.
What a week in vegan news it’s been!
Remember when Waitrose Food ed, William Sitwell, joked about killing vegans in response to a pitch from freelance joumo Jemima Webber?
Well, they’re now both totally cool with each other – after they bonded over hate mail.
In fact, the i claims that pair shared a load of vegan tortillas at vegan pub, The Spread Eagle.
Jemima is reported to have told Sitwell that it was never her intention for him to lose his job when she shared their email exchange on social media. He then apologised, calling his behaviour ‘flippant and immature and silly’.
The plant-based journalist then wrote on her Instagram after the meeting, saying that Sitwell had shown her ‘nothing but kindness’.
‘I think the fact that we’re able to discuss these crucial issues, listen to each other and not hurl insults sends a positive message, and that hopefully some of the nastiness shown by both sides of the argument will abate,” Nelson said.
Not only that, but Sitwell has even suggested that the pair should come together to ‘explain the world of food and describe it to people of our persuasions’.
Oh, and the former Waitrose editor has also written on his own Insta that perhaps cutting down on meat is a good thing.
An early Christmas miracle indeed.

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