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Cisco trims WiMAX focus; will provide only IP packet core and WiMAX edge solutions  Mar 11, 2010
Cisco’s move is widely perceived to be the obvious strategy since acquiring Starent Networks for $ 2.9 billion. Starent’s competency includes proving IP packet core solutions.Cisco has recently bagged BSNL’s WiMAX franchisee contract for urban areas in eight circles. Its local partner for the project is Teracom...read more
SC objects to S Tel’s letter to DoT  Mar 11, 2010
The matter will come up for hearing on Friday...read more
Imported Telecom equipment gear will have to pass through Govt’s Testing Lab  Mar 11, 2010
The lab is called the Telecom Testing and Security Certification Centre...read more
Vodafone launches ‘Vodafone Star of the Match’ competition for IPL-III  Mar 11, 2010
Both prepaid and postpaid Vodafone customers can participate in the ‘Star of the Match’ competition...read more
Independent auditor submits report on Bharti Airtel  Mar 11, 2010
The DoT had appointed independent auditors to review accounting books of incumbent operators including Vodafone-Essar, Tata Teleservices, Idea Cellular and RCom apart from Bharti Airtel over allegations of under-reporting of revenues to save on annual licence and spectrum fee...read more
DTH player Sun Direct to telecast IPL matches in HD format  Mar 11, 2010
There will be no advertisements displayed offering uninterrupted match experience...read more
Apalya to partner GCV for mobile video streaming services of IPL  Mar 11, 2010
Apalya specializes in enabling mobile video services...read more
Cisco unveils NGN router to address future video, mobile, data centre and cloud computing services  Mar 11, 2010
Cisco claims that the new router has more than 12 times the traffic capacity of competing products available in market...read more
NEC Corp claims successful deployment of WiMAX network for Japan’s UQ Communications  Mar 11, 2010
As part of the contract, NEC deployed its PasoWings BS 202 base station operating in 2.5 GHz...read more
Airtel digital TV to premiere Ishqiya for Rs 25   Mar 11, 2010
The movie will be available on Channel No.181 and is priced at Rs 25...read more
Verizon Business powers iYogi with IP networking and applications management solution  Mar 11, 2010
The Verizon IP networking and applications management solution will combine IP voice and data network connecting iYogi operations across multiple locations...read more
DoT wins battle of upmanship, S Tel says may not pursue more licences  Mar 10, 2010
S Tel says that it is reviewing its strategy for licences in the remaining 16 circles due to a combination of factors such as the emergence of several new players, hyper competition, the fact that several existing players have not been allotted airwaves and evolution of new technologies such as 3G and 4G...read more
‘Indian operators can record high activation for mobile data services through our offerings’: July Systems  Mar 10, 2010
The CEO says that it is in talks with some of India’s leading advertisers and many of them have committed to explore mobile web medium for their advertising objectives...read more
Moser Baer says its proprietary process helps it in increasing module efficiency to 7.3%  Mar 10, 2010
This improves the module wattage from 340 watts / panel to 400 watts /panel on full size modules (5.7 m2.)...read more
Synchronica claims $ 1.05 mn deal with Indonesian operator  Mar 10, 2010
The devices will be bundled handsets incorporating Synchronica’s Mobile Gateway solution and will include handsets from Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Motorola and LG as well as Synchronica’s own MessagePhone...read more
UK-based Omnix offers SaaS-based management services for telecom infrastructure firms  Mar 10, 2010
Omnix says that the solution enables contractors to achieve increased efficiency and keep a check on tighter control of margins as well as improved communication and progress reporting to operator clients...read more
IBM India partners NID & University of Tokyo to make mobile phones more accessible for elderly  Mar 10, 2010
IBM will help in identifying the communication needs and preferences of the targeted segment. It will particularly focus on Japan where the ageing rate is growing at a rapid pace...read more
Aditya Birla Minacs acquires UK based Compass BPO  Mar 10, 2010
Through this acquisition, Minacs will take over all the operations of Compass across the UK, US, Middle East and in India, bringing Minacs’ F&A employee strength to 600...read more
EMC’s new software claims to enhance overall VMware ecosystem  Mar 10, 2010
EMC says that the software cuts by almost half virtual machine storage capacity requirements through thin provisioning, deduplication and improved management...read more
Turkey’s Turk Telekom switches over to Global IP’s VoIP solution  Mar 10, 2010
GIPS VoiceEngine Mobile offers application developers, service providers and hardware manufacturers the ability to build solutions that offer HD voice...read more
Videocon d2h ropes in Abhishek Bachchan as Brand Ambassador  Mar 10, 2010
Abhishek Bachchan will feature across all Videocon d2h brand and product communication including advertisements on TV, Print, Outdoor, Radio and all BTL media like POS & collaterals...read more
MTNL migrates to Elitecore’s platform for Prepaid Broadband service  Mar 10, 2010
MTNL will also use the platform to offer On Demand Services such as upgradation of bandwidth in real-time including real time balance management and VAS such as IPTV, VoIP...read more
Emerson Network Power names new Director for Data Centre Business  Mar 10, 2010
Shrirang is presently the Regional Head, Business Critical Continuity Passive Infrastructure Solutions in Maharashtra State for Emerson Network Power...read more
Advertisers including Airtel, Samsung to sponsor Google’s IPL streaming services on YouTube   Mar 10, 2010
The ad formats include pre-roll and mid-roll ads, YouTube homepage ads, and banner ads next to the live player and on video watch pages...read more
Airtel offers new scheme for prepaid subscribers in Kerala  Mar 10, 2010
For a recharge voucher of Rs 14, the intranet calls will be charged at 30 paise per minute...read more
Vodafone says already launched App Stores in India  Mar 09, 2010
Branded as Vodafone Mobile Applications Store, the operator claims to have clocked over 10,000 downloads from these App Stores...read more
Coca Cola leverages on SaaS platform to connect over 70K mobile workforce  Mar 09, 2010
The SaaS initiative helped the firm to connect with its white collar workforce and enabling the firm to redefine its communication strategy as part of its business transformation agenda...read more
RCom launches ‘Socially’ VAS for mobile subscribers active on social networking sites  Mar 09, 2010
The new application provides a single client interface for accessing popular social networking sites...read more
Karbonn Mobiles bags sponsorship rights for host of IPL properties  Mar 09, 2010
Karbonn Mobiles will also donate Rs 25,000 per match to the Indian Cancer Society Delhi as part of its Karbonn Breast Cancer Initiative...read more
Tata DoCoMo follows-up compensation plan with another industry-first, Rollover Plan  Mar 09, 2010
Under the offer, there are four variants of plans available RO 500, RO 799, RO 1000 and RO 1099 available at a monthly rental of Rs 500, Rs. 799, Rs. 1000 and Rs. 1099 respectively...read more
July Systems powers IPL’s mobile internet property  Mar 09, 2010
The services are based on a ‘freemium’ model meaning combination of free and premium content. Free content will be supported by mobile advertising...read more
Home Ministry on S Tel: Never asked DoT to stop S Tel’s services  Mar 09, 2010
IB wanted S Tel to expedite the process of allowing lawful interception of its network by security agencies. DoT on Friday had asked the operator to immediately stop its mobile services in its three circles of operations namely Bihar, Himachal Pradesh and Orissa...read more
Videocon bags award for its V1405 mobile phone models  Mar 09, 2010
The V1405 model is a dual SIM phone with camera, wireless FM radio with recording, 8 GB expandable memory, mobile tracker, Bluetooth. It is priced at Rs 4,000...read more
TCS’ BaNCS scores high in Celent’s ABCD analysis  Mar 09, 2010
TCS is rated at the top for categories involving Advanced Technology, Breadth of functionality and Depth in Client Services...read more
MNP player Telcordia receives Home Ministry clearance  Mar 09, 2010
Earlier the company’s selection came under Home Ministry lens due to its presence in Pakistan...read more
BSNL, MTNL’s network performance overall satisfactory says Kamat  Mar 09, 2010
The Minister however said that some of the mobile towers become non functional for some duration due to reasons like prolonged power failure, transmission media failure at times...read more
BSNL’s losses at Rs 4,963.6 cr from services excluding mobile services  Mar 09, 2010
The Minister said that BSNL’s expenditure was at Rs 26,656.7 crore as compared to Rs 21,819.9 crore in 2008-09 with an operating loss of Rs 4,836.7 crore...read more
TATA DOCOMO launches mobile services in Gujarat; pan-India presence within current fiscal  Mar 08, 2010
The company has positioned the tariff for its services under the “Pay-for-what-you-use” model which includes per-second pulse tariff structure...read more
Alcatel-Lucent claims industry-first 200 mn DSL line shipments  Mar 08, 2010
The company is focusing on tapping the demand for VDSL2, GPON, next generation DSL/fiber and demand for increasing the application enablement capabilities of the access network...read more
BSNL may divest 10% stake  Mar 08, 2010
The panel headed by Sam Pitroda had recommended BSNL to offload as much as 30% stake...read more
BSNL launches 3G services in Mangalore  Mar 08, 2010
The company aims to further expand the services to 32 towns in the circle in the next two months including all district headquarters...read more
Intex launches dual SIM phone with live Video Chat facility  Mar 08, 2010
It is priced at Rs 3,650...read more
The growing potential of Ring-Back Tones as tools for mobile marketing  Mar 08, 2010
With 20% of India’s 500 million subscribers using RBT there is significant potential for RBT as an avenue for mobile marketing...read more
Future Axiom in talks with Essar’s The MobileStore for offloading stake, says report  Mar 08, 2010
The deal maybe structured in such a way that Future Axiom ends up with holding a minority stake in the new entity giving management and operational control to The MobileStore...read more
Operators unanimous in opposing TRAI’s move to levy charge on phone numbers  Mar 08, 2010
However viewpoints presented by B K Syngal, Senior Principal, Dua Consulting point out that the existing 10-digit numbering plan support 1.69 billion wireline connections. This is not required as wireline services in total have only 37.31 million subscribers...read more
Issue of Upmanship? DoT asks S Tel to stop services over ‘security’ concerns  Mar 08, 2010
S Tel was the only player which challenged DoT’s move in the Delhi Court. The Delhi HC too ruled in favour of S Tel and termed DoT’s move as arbitrary. Following this the DoT approached the Supreme Court and the case is up for hearing in few days time...read more
Two years since floating a mega 93 mn GSM tender, BSNL finally scraps it  Mar 08, 2010
The move obviously will affect the shortlisted vendors, Ericsson and Huawei. Ericsson was shortlisted to deploy solutions for the North and East zones while Huawei was shortlisted for the South Zone...read more
Google to offer information services to commuters of Delhi Metro   Mar 05, 2010
For mobile devices, the services will be offered as part of Google Maps for Mobile allowing commuters to check the latest updates to make route changes on-the-go...read more
Mobile PCs to Account for Nearly 70 Percent of All PC Shipments by 2012, says Gartner  Mar 05, 2010
This forecast is more optimistic than Gartner''s December 2009 forecast, which anticipated 13.3 percent growth in PC shipments in 2010 and 1.9 percent growth in spending...read more
Rising smartphone reach attracting advertisers and operators onto mobile web: AdMob  Mar 05, 2010
AdMob which is considered to be one of the top global players in mobile advertising space is awaiting FTC approval on its acquisition by Google and its potential as a firm is set to exponentially surge with the combined synergies...read more
Opera launches native version of Opera Mini for Windows Mobile phones  Mar 05, 2010
Traditionally Opera Mini runs on Java, but with the new native version, Opera Mini will now work on Windows Mobile phones as well...read more
Bling launches Movil in South India  Mar 05, 2010
The company is aiming for Rs 250 crore revenues in the new fiscal...read more
BSNL Unions oppose Pitroda panel’s recommendations over disinvestment; one lakh retrenchment   Mar 05, 2010
The Union blamed the company’s dwindling performance on network capacity crunch and the delay in procuring equipment to overcome the problem...read more
Spice launches two new music phones  Mar 05, 2010
The phones come with Yamaha Amplifier and Dual speakers. The models can support upto 8 GB memory...read more
Mobile Media firm, July Systems raises $ 7mn in Series C Funding   Mar 05, 2010
The company claims to have registered 300% growth in revenues attributing it to exponential growth in mobile internet consumption and a rapidly growing customer base...read more
Prithvi aims for Rs 500 cr revenues from telecom biz  Mar 05, 2010
It is banking on strong demand from operators in emerging markets including India and Brazil...read more
Bharti Airtel launches ‘Airtel Talkies’   Mar 05, 2010
Under the services, Airtel offers a pre-edited fifteen minute capsule of a film to the listeners...read more
Dual-SIM shipments to double in 2010  Mar 04, 2010
Last year alone the shipments increased by 74% when compared to 2008 figures...read more
Satnav’s new GPS application assists in locating people, assets  Mar 04, 2010
SatNav says that when the application is installed onto mobile phones, it can send precise information in terms of longitude/latitude of the phone...read more
With 129.1 mn unit sales, Asia-Pac to contribute 35.6 % of global touchscreen shipments in 2010  Mar 04, 2010
The year will see global touchscreen shipments hitting the 362.7 million mark at a yearly growth of 96.8 % and by 2013, 58% of all mobile devices across the globe will be touchscreen...read more
Aricent claims award from Internet Telephony Magazine  Mar 04, 2010
As a recipient of 2009 Product of the Year Award...read more
Gartner assigns strong’ rating to Clarity’s OSS offerings  Mar 04, 2010
The Garnter ratings take into consideration parameters such as scope of product suite, solution scalability, professional services capabilities, transformation expertise, partnerships and customer track record...read more
Loop Mobile aims to reach out to subscribers with Mobile Service Gallery  Mar 04, 2010
The van will visit different areas of Mumbai city daily, Subscribers will be informed a day prior via SMS about the van visting their neighbourhood...read more
BSNL launches 3G services in AP  Mar 04, 2010
Local Video calls are charged at 70 paise per minute while STD video calls are priced at Re.1 per minute...read more
Vodafone offers subscribers to book IPL tickets through its M-Shop  Mar 04, 2010
Tickets booked will be charged Rs 30 per ticket...read more
Bharti Airtel undergoes another organizational restructuring  Mar 04, 2010
The organizational reshuffle announced earlier will now be effective March 01, 2010 as opposed to earlier announced dates of April 01, 2010...read more
After pay-per sec, TTSL sets another first for the industry, a compensation offer  Mar 04, 2010
The offer presently is available only to TTSL’s CDMA subscribers under the Tata Indicom brand...read more
Citigroup hikes stake in Tulip Telecom   Mar 04, 2010
Prior to this, the firm held 3.09% stake in Tulip...read more
ZTE bags Long-haul backbone Network deployment contract from Portugal’s Optimus  Mar 04, 2010
Optimus is Portugal’s second largest fixed-line and country’s third largest mobile operator...read more
India’s Aditi Technologies to equip T-Mobile USA with multi-platform App Development solution   Mar 04, 2010
The platform will support applications for Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and J2ME platforms...read more
ABI Research positions WiMAX ahead of LTE  Mar 04, 2010
ABI cites that globally there are 164 mobile WiMAX networks on trial or commercially live. But there are only over 100 LTE trials presently being conducted across the globe...read more
Oracle gets recognition as leader in Data Mining market  Mar 04, 2010
Oracle says that it offers an option to clients to make use of Oracle Database 11g to find patterns and insights which otherwise are hidden in their data warehouses...read more
3G spectrum auctions: CVC bats for foreign firms; tells DoT to ensure a level playing field  Mar 04, 2010
According to existing norms, new players entering the Indian mobile space through 3G are required to acquire 2G spectrum as well. But practically there is not enough spectrum available for 2G services...read more
Pitroda Panel to BSNL: Unbundle last mile for all, target 30 million broadband subscribers  Mar 04, 2010
To manage expenditure related to call centre, IT and network, the panel has recommended that BSNL adopt a managed services model. On enhancing the procurement process, the panel suggested that BSNL should adopt methods such as -procurement, vendor rating and running contracts...read more
Sigma Ventures-DCI tie-up bag exclusive global smartphone application rights for IPL  Mar 04, 2010
The tie-up will offer their applications branded as ‘Official IPL Mobile Application’ and will support range of smartphones including BlackBerry, iPhone and Android phones...read more
Paramount Airways ties up with Uniconnect to offer International roaming services  Mar 03, 2010
The rewards Program named as Paramount Royale will allow its members to avail international roaming services offered by Uniconnect and earn 10 Royale Miles for every Rs 100 spent on airtime...read more
Cyberoam launches SSL VPN solution on VMware platform  Mar 03, 2010
The solution allows clientless browsing to applications such as Microsoft Outlook, Intranets, web applications, FTP...read more
Sybase-Wipro combine to equip mobile devices with SAP applications  Mar 03, 2010
Sybase and SAP are jointly delivering co-developed solutions for extending SAP CRM and SAP Business Suite to mobile devices...read more
TRAI asks operators to furnish details over maintaining confidentiality of subscriber information  Mar 03, 2010
TRAI said that it has come across numerous cases from consumers of alleged breach of confidentiality of information by the operators...read more
“Demand from handset manufacturers for reduced time-to-market solutions fueling our growth”: MediaTek  Mar 03, 2010
Mr. Grant Kuo, MD of MediaTek in an interaction with TelecomTiger...read more
Airtel digital TV offers discount to HDFC credit card customers  Mar 03, 2010
The offer is valid till March 31, 2010...read more
Bharti confident of closing Zain deal  Mar 03, 2010
The two companies are in talks till March 25. Bharti has offered to pay $ 10.6 billion to Zain towards acquiring the latter’s stake in African market...read more
TCS bags £600 million e-governance deal in UK  Mar 03, 2010
The contract will cover services like employer participation, member enrollment, collection and reconciliation, cash management, accessing pension savings and administration of accounts...read more
Roaming solution player, Starhome joins European Public Safety Communications Project  Mar 03, 2010
Starhome will deploy its Roaming Broker solution as an alternative to bi-lateral operator roaming agreements...read more
Olive launches Hybrid phone in India for Rs 1,699  Mar 03, 2010
The Olive FrvrOn phone can work on AAA batteries as well...read more
SMS evolving to next generation messaging  Mar 03, 2010
The new ecosystem will allow text messaging with contextual presence and location information as well as a unified identity for messaging that provides a user’s status, personal information, updates and messages in one user interface...read more
African mobile handset player, Mi-Fone enters India  Mar 02, 2010
Mi-Fone is currently available in 15 African countries including Ghana, Tanzania, Mauritius, DRC, Kenya, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Zambia, Madagascar and Nigeria...read more
Big FM, OnMobile’s BIG Mobile Radio aims to break geographical barriers for radio services  Mar 02, 2010
With the launch of the services on the mobile platform, the reach of BIG FM expands from 45 cities to over 4500 cities and towns including rural areas...read more
Airtel digital TV lines up Harry Potter movie as part of its PPV offering  Mar 02, 2010
The movie will be offered for a rental of Rs 70 on channel 210...read more
Andrew Solutions claims Telab verification for its smoothwall aluminum cable solutions  Mar 02, 2010
Andrew says that its HELIAX® 2.0 FXL solution is the first aluminum cable tested by Telab to pass 10 rounds of environmental testing, proving its durability in extreme temperatures...read more
US-based Fast Company ranks Huawei as fifth most innovative company; VNL among top 50  Mar 02, 2010
Huawei finds itself in the top 5 list along with firms such as Faceook, Amazon, Apple and Google (in that order). Huawei is the only new entrant in the top 5 list...read more
Incumbent operators to take a hit as govt hikes spectrum charges  Mar 02, 2010
The new hike by the government will impact incumbent GSM operators the most as these operators hold additional spectrum in most of the circles. Bharti Airtel pays the highest amount in terms of spectrum charges amongst all the operators...read more
CosmoCom-Tata Communications combine bag S Tel’s contract centre contract  Mar 02, 2010
The InstaCC services is an end-to-end IP solution promising to provide consolidation for centrally managed multi-site contact centres...read more
UTStarcom India comments on Budget 2010  Mar 02, 2010
Global broadband infrastructure equipment sales rise 10% qoq in Q4 09; Alcatel-Lucent & Huawei at top  Mar 02, 2010
Huawei is seen the global leader for EPON and GPON equipment sales helped mainly by demand from domestic Chinese market.Alcatel-Lucent is at the top for VDSL solutions. The vendor is ranked second for GPON helped by supplies to North American operators AT&T as well as Verizon ...read more
India’s first commercial urban mobile WiMAX network rolls out in Kerala   Mar 02, 2010
Aviat Networks which formerly was known as Harris Stratex is the technology partner for BSNL in setting up the WiMAX network...read more
Majority of consumers in UK against levy to fund rollout of future broadband services  Mar 02, 2010
As many as 74.3% consumers do not support the Next Gen Broadband Tax proposed by the government...read more
MTNL Mumbai offers unlimited broadband combo plan for Rs 495  Mar 02, 2010
The landline services are offered on rent-free basis and offers broadband speed of 320 kbps...read more
Bharti Enterprises’ Rajan Mittal takes over as the new President of FICCI  Mar 02, 2010
Rajan Mittal succeeds Harsh Pati Singhania, Managing Director of JK Paper...read more
Comviva welcomes government’s move to enhance banking facilities in rural areas  Mar 02, 2010
Budget reaction from Comviva...read more
Budget reaction from Cisco India  Mar 02, 2010
Budget reaction from Freescale Semiconductor India   Mar 02, 2010
UTStarcom appoints new COO  Mar 02, 2010
In his new role, Lu will oversee the broadband business unit, multimedia communication business unit, global supply chain and China sales and marketing functions...read more
Free SMS service provider, 160by2.com to partner Idea for ‘Use Mobile Save Paper’ campaign  Mar 02, 2010
Alliance will offer mobile subscribers an interactive game encouraging users to make increased use of mobile phone and less of paper...read more
BSNL lines up special MVAS content branded as ‘Holi Zone’ on festival eve  Mar 02, 2010
The services will be available on BSNL’s ‘BSNL Live’ portal...read more
Infotainment including music and gaming sectors receive Budget boost  Mar 02, 2010
Digital transmission receive budget incentives...read more
Budget 2010: Mobile phones may get cheaper with exemption of special additional duty  Mar 02, 2010
Goods imported in a pre-packaged form for retail sale exempted from special additional duty...read more
FM extends tax concessions to mobile phone accessory manufacturers  Mar 02, 2010
The concessions were originally to be valid only till June, 2010...read more
RCom’s ‘Weekend Masti’ offers competitive rates during weekends  Mar 02, 2010
The offer can be availed upon a e-recharge priced at Rs .33. The pack will be valid for 1 weekend only...read more
Scrap mega-GSM tender; adopt managed services model: Committee to BSNL  Feb 26, 2010
The scrapping of tender appears to be inevitable as not only the committee but even the CVC (chief vigilance commission) had asked BSNL to scrap the tender. In fact the Committee was formed after CVC objected to the way the entire tender process was being dealt with...read more
Mobile subscribers show strong preference to applications which are free  Feb 26, 2010
Meanwhile the Admob metrics for January 2010 show that contribution from the Indian market is marginally down by 0.4% at 777 million requests...read more
Mobile VoIP player REVE’s iTel Mobile Dialer gets TMC award  Feb 26, 2010
The Dialer is a mobile application that allows customers to make VoIP calls from their mobile handsets...read more
Fortunes changing positively for World’s largest WiMAX operator, Clearwire  Feb 26, 2010
Importantly revenues for the company increased by 34% to $ 79.9 million which is higher than what analysts projected at $ 76 million. Monthly ARPUs for the company rose from $ 39.70 to $ 39.86...read more
SBI to issue tenders for procuring mobile payment system gateways  Feb 26, 2010
Meanwhile the Bank has earmarked 70% of its planned capex for the upcoming new fiscal towards investments in technology...read more
Dream11.com inks content tie-up with leading portals  Feb 26, 2010
The tie-up will also offer advertisers a platform to reach out to millions of target audience...read more
BSNL offers free VAS for new broadband subscribers   Feb 26, 2010
BSNL also announced waiver of broadband installation fee (normally charged at Rs 250) for all new subscribers till March 31, 2010...read more
Bihar records highest subscriber additions in Jan; 19.9 mn new wireless subscribers added across India  Feb 25, 2010
Bihar recorded the highest number of new subscriber additions with 2.2 million additions followed by UP (E) with 1.8 million additions. Operators in UP (W) added one million subscribers...read more
COAI welcomes auctions date for 3G spectrum   Feb 25, 2010
COAI Officiating Director General, T.R. Dua says that the GSM industry had been eagerly awaiting the 3G auctions...read more
Yahoo enters into tie-up with Twitter  Feb 25, 2010
Yahoo Search and Yahoo media properties like News, Finance, Entertainment, and Sports will include real-time public Twitter updates across a variety of topics...read more
BSNL launches FTTH services in Hyderabad  Feb 25, 2010
The services will also support enterprise applications and features such as LAN, VoIP and video conferencing...read more
Dow Jones, Naukri tie-up to launch new mobile application   Feb 25, 2010
Wall Street Journal will also offer comprehensive content from WSJ.com to be used in a co-branded newsletter for job-seekers and recruiters within the Naukri.com resume ...read more
CMAI Infocom to host World National Telecom Awards on May 17  Feb 25, 2010
Awards will be presented over 26 wide areas of category including Best VAS Provider, Best Infrastructure Provider, Best Internet Service Provider and Best Mobile service Provider...read more
CDMA segment in India receives a big boost with OMH initiative  Feb 25, 2010
The Open Market handsets (OMH) initiative is endorsed by the CDMA Development Group (CDG) to enhance the CDMA ecosystem by offering a greater selection of devices through multiple distribution channels...read more
SBI says Bharti Airtel in talks for Zain deal funding  Feb 25, 2010
Bharti is in exclusive talks with Zain till March 25. Bharti has offered to pay $ 10.6 billion towards the acquisition...read more
LG launches ‘Ice Cream’ KF 350 phone in India  Feb 25, 2010
It has an 800 mAH battery phone supports a 5-hour talk time and a standby time of up to 350 hours and is priced at Rs 7,949...read more
Karbonn Mobiles to foray into Africa and Middle East; aims Rs 2400 crore revenues in new fiscal  Feb 25, 2010
Having achieved 3 million shipments in India since its launch in march 2009, the company is now planning to foray into African and Middle East markets by second quarter of next fiscal...read more
DoT finally issues NIA; except for five circles, operators to fight it out for 3 slots of 3G spectrum  Feb 25, 2010
The government has also stated that spectrum for backhaul connectivity maybe provided. But the same will not be related to the auctions and operators will have to separately avail the backhaul spectrum...read more
SanDisk begins commercial shipments of 64 GB cards  Feb 24, 2010
According to SanDisk, SDXC cards are based on the new SD 3.0 specification, which makes it possible to manufacture cards with storage capacity up to 2 terabytes (TB)3...read more
BSNL introduces 24 Mbps broadband services over VDSL technology  Feb 24, 2010
The services are available across the country in BSNL’s areas of operations for monthly rental of Rs 4,999 for 16 Mbps and Rs 9,999 for 24 Mbps speeds...read more
Infinite Computer subsidiary and Motorola to continue licence agreement related to messaging solutions  Feb 24, 2010
The company reported net profit of Rs 20.44 crore at a sequential rise of 22.3%. Revenues however declined to 2.8% to Rs 160.90 crore...read more
I-T Dept considers levying tax on recharge cards  Feb 24, 2010
According to the I-T Department, operators sell such cards at a discount to retailers which in turn are sold in end-users at full price...read more
Samsung unveils new version of Jet series, Jet 2 in India priced at Rs.19,500  Feb 24, 2010
It has a 5 mega pixel camera, built-in GPS, DNSe & SRS Sound Effect technology for superior sound quality, and DivX and XviD video support for hassle-free video downloading and viewing...read more
RCom comes up with new plans for FWP subscribers  Feb 24, 2010
FWP subscribers will now be 2 tariff modes under the prepaid mode, Pay Per Minute (@50p/min) and Pay Per Call (@Re. 1/3mins)...read more
Global VoIP subscriptions cross the 100 mn mark  Feb 24, 2010
Softclient player, Skype continues to increase its presence in the VoIP market as the company reported 27.7 billion PC-to-PC minutes, in addition to 3.1 billion Skype Out minutes which are calls terminating on normal phone lines or mobiles...read more
Regional player Sangeetha Mobile acquires Wavetel Mobiles for Rs 13 crore  Feb 24, 2010
Wavetel claims to have a market share of 30% in Tamil Nadu...read more
Govt to conduct 3G spectrum auctions on April 9  Feb 24, 2010
DoT said that the government would invite applications from prospective bidders from February, 25. The last day for submitting bids is March 19. An auction for broadband wireless access (BWA) services will be held two days after the completion of 3G bandwidth auctions...read more
Mobilkom Austria selects Openmind’s messaging solutions  Feb 24, 2010
The deal is an extension of the business relationship between the two organizations which already is in existence across six of Mobilkom Austria’s operations...read more
Global mobile handset sales remain almost stagnant at 1.21 bn units in 2009; smartphone segment grows 23.8%  Feb 24, 2010
Smartphone sales in the fourth quarter of 2009 reached 53.8 million units at a yearly rise of 41.1%...read more
ATC records third acquisition in Indian telecom infrastructure market with Essar arm buy  Feb 24, 2010
The new acquisition will add 4,500 more towers to ATC’s India count which currently has about 2,500 towers.The deal values each tower of Essar arm at 50 lakhs which is almost similar to what GTL had offered to Aircel while acquiring the operator’s telecom arm recently...read more
Prepaid services receive one year extension in J&K  Feb 23, 2010
The Union government has extended by one year the permission to service providers in the state of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) to offer mobile services in the prepaid version...read more
MNP delayed by two months to May  Feb 23, 2010
With this delay, the fate of MNP appears to be heading the 3G way with postponing of dates becoming a trend...read more
Huawei to upgrade China Unicom’s backbone network  Feb 23, 2010
As part of the contract, Huawei wil deploy its NE5000E cluster router system to provide four new backbone nodes in Chengdu, Xi''an, Chongqing and Wuhan...read more
Telecom NZ puts Alcatel-Lucent on notice as XT Network fails fourth time in two months  Feb 23, 2010
The CEO said that all the four network failures were caused by different problems, though two were following operational processes. The failures are being observed at radio network controller located in Christchurch...read more
Alcatel-Lucent claims strong performance in IP router solution market for the year 2009  Feb 23, 2010
The company gained about 5 percentage points of market share in 2009 taking its market share to over 20% in the edge router segment...read more
3G to happen only next fiscal; PMO intervention however results in preponing dates from Sep to April  Feb 23, 2010
There is still lack of clarity on the number of spectrum blocks to be auctioned. The Minister could only commit that the number of slots to be auctioned will be as per the decision of the empowered group of ministers...read more
MTS to launch services within three months in AP  Feb 23, 2010
The company also aims to offer its services bundle with smartphones which will be offered in the price range of Rs 5000 to Rs 30,000...read more
LAVA launches A9 dual-SIM handset in the Indian market for Rs 5,999  Feb 23, 2010
The handset also has social networking related features incorporated into it. It is priced at Rs 5,999...read more
Tata DoCoMo offers free GPRS to subscribers for accessing top 5 social networking sites  Feb 23, 2010
The free browsing is available on both Tata DOCOMO Dive- in and Tata DOCOMO ‘INTERNET’ APN’s...read more
Tata Communications earmarks $ 200 million investment for Middle East business  Feb 23, 2010
The new cable network will enable the company to offer services such as Global Ethernet, MPLS based VPN, Managed Security, IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and Global Telepresence...read more
Zain bags GSMA’s inaugural mobile banking services awards  Feb 22, 2010
GSMA’s inaugural "mobile money for the unbanked service" award category...read more
ZTE bags Bearer Network contract from Westlink  Feb 22, 2010
The deal will enable Westlink to offer traditional voice services and interconnection over Finnet’s all-IP-networks...read more
Micromax bags title sponsorship rights for India-SA ODI series  Feb 22, 2010
With this, the company received branding rights at particular strategic locations of the venue stadium...read more
Uninor launches 29 paise per minute scheme in Karnataka  Feb 22, 2010
The scheme can be availed upon a e–recharge of Rs 99 which offers Rs 50 talk time with local calling at 29 paisa, STD calling is charged at 49 paisa per minute and no call setup or daily rental or any additional charges...read more
MapmyIndia comes up with updated with version for navigation and LBS  Feb 22, 2010
The maps provide detailed information on 2 million unique destinations across 52 categories including option to search by popular name, abbreviation, phone numbers etc...read more
Tata DoMoMo partners Gemalto for VAS   Feb 22, 2010
The solution will enable the end-user to a one-click access to numerous VAS which will be located in the SIM...read more
Sterlite Technologies bags Rs 800 crore power transmission project from PFC  Feb 22, 2010
The company claims that the Rs 800 crore project which is awarded on a ‘Build Own, Operate and Maintain (BOOM) basis is the first mega independent power transmission project to be awarded in India...read more
Vodafone Essar ties up with BookMyShow for m-booking services  Feb 22, 2010
Vodafone subscribers need to call 53333 (toll free) or send SMS MSHOP to 53333 (no charge) to avail the services...read more
BSNL eyes 22 mn new subscribers; revenues from mobile banking and advertising  Feb 22, 2010
The official also revealed that ARPU from its 3G subscribers was seen at 40 % more than that of 2G subscribers...read more
AUSPI hits out at Vodafone over ‘combined spectrum usage’ proposal for dual tech players  Feb 22, 2010
The industry lobby also claimed that dual tech players had to incur higher capex for running two separate networks for GSM and CDMA networks. On the contrary, Vodafone saved significant capex as high as $ 2 billion due to trunking efficiency possible because of excess spectrum held by it...read more
Huawei launches triple-mode LTE modem  Feb 22, 2010
The modem will be first launched for Net4Mibility in Sweden...read more
Intelenet Global gets recognition in Leaders Category list of Global Outsourcing 100  Feb 22, 2010
NSN India records $ one bn revenues in a week with new contract from Aircel  Feb 19, 2010
As part of the deal, NSN will not only deploy radio and core network and services for Aircel in three Indian states namely Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan where Aircel plans to launch services by April this year but also offer managed services...read more
GTL aims increase tower count to 50,000 by 2013  Feb 19, 2010
Telecom towers in urban areas will be increased from 1,350 to 9,400 and the company expects the tenancy ratio to grow to 2.3 by 2013...read more
Comverse enables visual voicemail services on Sony Ericsson handsets for Norway’s NetCom  Feb 19, 2010
Comverse Visual Voicemail is part of the Comverse HUB Value-Added Services, which spans voice, messaging, mobile Internet and mobile advertising...read more
Western Union selects Comviva in its Mobile Vendor Program  Feb 19, 2010
Comviva’s mobile money solution, mobiquity offers a platform for mobile subscribers particularly in emerging markets to have a cash-free and card-free payment in a secured environment...read more
Fundamo gets Western union certification  Feb 19, 2010
The certification will allow Fundamo to offer Western Union’s services in Mobile Wallet and Mobile Banking platforms as part of the Digital Vendor Program ...read more
LG eyes to triple revenues to Rs 3,000 cr this year from handset business in India   Feb 19, 2010
The company plans to introduce 40 new models in 2010 in the price range of Rs 1,200 to Rs 40,000...read more
MTNL Mumbai launches new life scheme for 3G services  Feb 19, 2010
The new scheme is priced at Rs 101 (Rs.10 for 3G SIM KIT +91 for FTRC) with free talk time of Rs.41. It however requires a recharge of Rs 91...read more
VAS player Netxcell sets up a new JV with Africa’s AquaSanTec  Feb 19, 2010
AquaSanTec offers water and sanitation solutions...read more
Nuance comes up with enhanced version of writing technology for pen-based and touch screen devices  Feb 19, 2010
The solution is capable of learning each user’s preferred vocabulary and even adds new words based on user communication patterns...read more
Virgin Mobile launches GSM services in Mumbai and Maharashtra  Feb 19, 2010
The company plans to expand its GSM services to more circles within three months...read more
TTSL selects Acision solutions for advanced messaging and charging services  Feb 18, 2010
As part of the contract, Acision will deploy its Acision SMSC, Acision MMSC, Acision Business Tools, and Acision’s mobile data charging solution. The solution will support TTSL’s CDMA as well as GSM subscribers...read more
IAMAI calls for preferential corporate tax treatment for internet & MVAS sectors  Feb 18, 2010
According to the body, internet and MVAS sectors in India are in the same situation as what IT and ITeS where 10 years in terms of potential...read more
IPTV player MyWay selects Utiba for e-top-up solutions  Feb 18, 2010
The move is part of MyWay’s plan to enhance its retail presence in the electronic medium...read more
VNL bags another global recognition; this time GSMA’s ‘Green Mobile’ Award  Feb 18, 2010
VNL claims that its solution is the only one designed to build sustainable telephone networks for the three billion people (half the world’s population) who live in rural areas not covered by a mobile network...read more
ZTE launches new customized handset for T-Mobile UK  Feb 18, 2010
The touch-screen handset is customized for T-Mobile’s users and will be available from March for a price of £59.99...read more
COAI joins hands with Israel’s mobile industry association, IMA  Feb 18, 2010
The Associations have agreed to communicate on a regular basis to exchange views and reports on accomplishments and developments in Cellular Telephony...read more
Elitecore launches new solution managed internet service solution for Hotels & Hotspots  Feb 18, 2010
The solution includes free software, hardware, bandwidth , technical support for a complete Wi-Fi network for the hospitality segment...read more
ZTE showcases smartphone capability at MWC  Feb 18, 2010
The company is particularly focusing on the European market for its range of products.Its range of smartphones are built on all popular OS such as OMS, Linux and Windows Mobile...read more
Huawei bags GSMA’s Best Service Delivery Platform Award  Feb 18, 2010
The recognition was particularly for the company’s service platforms and their ability to coexist seamlessly with existing systems and complement service offerings already available so that operators can easily transition to new services...read more
Huawei bags ATCA-based IMS solution contract from Singapore’s M1  Feb 18, 2010
The solution will help the service provider enrich its national broadband services and build its FMC capabilities ...read more
FarmVille developer, Zynga sets up India office  Feb 18, 2010
The India unit will be responsible on developing games and large-scale infrastructure to support the delivery of Zynga games to millions of players every day...read more
Vodafone lines up $ 15 handset for India and emerging markets  Feb 18, 2010
In India the company expects the handset to reach 60% of the population through its retail network...read more
Comviva’s Usage & Retention solutions available for commercial use  Feb 18, 2010
Solutions promise to extend the lifetime value of mobile subscribers...read more
Comverse offers M2M solutions in tie-up with Intel  Feb 18, 2010
The solution aims to enable operators to have a better monitoring, broadcasting and control capabilities...read more
Sify-Hitachi tie-up launches on-demand storage services  Feb 18, 2010
Service will be offered on a fully managed concept...read more
Govt assures Bharti support for Zain deal  Feb 18, 2010
ICA asks Govt to provide Rs 4000 cr towards making handsets available to poor  Feb 18, 2010
The handset lobby also called for removal of the National Calamity Contingent Duty which was imposed on 2008-09 on imports of mobile phones...read more
ZTE lines up 160 Gbps Packet Gateway for operators  Feb 18, 2010
The solution supports EVDO, WiMAX, HSPA(+) and LTE...read more
Nokia partners with Yes Bank for mobile payment services  Feb 18, 2010
To start with, the services will be launched in Pune and will also be available thorugh Nokia’s retail network. Transactions can be done over SMS, IVR, WAP, JAVA and FIRE...read more
TTSL unstoppable in registering highest number of new subscribers; crosses 60 mn mark  Feb 18, 2010
The figure of 2.98 million (2,981,853 to be precise) is bit lower when compared to the last two months when the company managed to add 3.3 million subscribers each time but nevertheless the figures are highest in the industry...read more
MTNL Mumbai offers free upgradation to higher speeds for its broadband subscribers  Feb 17, 2010
Subscribers under Plan 599 will be offered 512 Kbps upon upgradation while under DSL 749 plan...read more
Following requests from bidders, BSNL asks Defence Ministry to amend tender norms  Feb 17, 2010
The main barrier for most of the interested companies is that the existing tender norms require them to have their own manufacturing facility in India. Most companies allege that this condition works in favour of couple of companies and leaves the others out of fray...read more
Tata Teleservices claims awards for HR initiatives and practices  Feb 17, 2010
The company was also ranked as the ‘5th-Best Employer’ in the Country...read more
BSNL earmarks Rs 384 cr towards network expansion in NE  Feb 17, 2010
Plans to rope in more than 4 lakh subscribers in the region...read more
Govt says 3G issues resolved; but no clarity on timing of auctions  Feb 17, 2010
But union Communications minister said that the Ministry to receive directions from the Law Ministry as well as the Finance Ministry...read more
Kenya’s govt wins GSMA Award for supporting mobile broadband services   Feb 17, 2010
Lat year, Kenya eliminated both import duty and sales taxes on mobile phones and other ICT equipment, making access for consumers more affordable...read more
Nokia, Intel partner for new platform to power smartphones  Feb 17, 2010
The alliance aims to tap pocketable mobile computers, netbooks, tablets, mediaphones, connected TVs and in-vehicle infotainment systems...read more
Bharti-Zain Update : Media Statement from Bharti Airtel  Feb 17, 2010
Sasken to launch handheld satellite phone in June  Feb 17, 2010
Sasken’s centres of excellence in India, Finland and Germany were involved in the project...read more
Germany’s Communology launches new solutions for Android-based IM & Visual voicemail services  Feb 17, 2010
According to Communology, the visual voicemail solution enables the operator to offer a user interface...read more
Tekelec bags BSNL contract for MNP & SIP solutions  Feb 17, 2010
For the MNP contract, Tekelec will implement its signaling system 7 (SS7) while the SIP-based solution will support multiple networks...read more
Synchronica unveils new Mobile Gateway for IM, and SNS  Feb 17, 2010
The Gateway is compatible with industry standards including IMAP, IMPS, SyncML, and ActiveSync...read more
ICICI & SBI most popular BFSI portals in the mobile medium, says research  Feb 17, 2010
It is to be noted that the sample size of the research is low when compared to the actual mobile subscriber base in the country...read more
Women to comprise two-thirds of the total potential new mobile subscribers  Feb 17, 2010
In low and middle-income countries, women account for 750 million of the 1.25 billion adults. Revenue-wise operators stand to earn as high as $ 13 billion additional revenues each year from this segment...read more
Reliance Mobile launches two new CDMA handsets priced at Rs 1,799  Feb 17, 2010
Handsets priced at Rs 1,799...read more
CDMA operators China Telecom, KDDI & Verizon join GSMA  Feb 16, 2010
Qualcomm joined as associate member and will wok with operators to aid the smooth integration of LTE with existing Mobile Broadband technologies...read more
Etisalat seeks FIPB approval to increase stake in Indian JV  Feb 16, 2010
Meanwhile the company announced that it has scaled the 100 million subscriber mark for its operations spread over 18 geographical markets across the globe...read more
Ericsson launches its own App Store for carriers  Feb 16, 2010
Branded as ‘eStore’ the platform presently has over 30,000 applications. The applications can run on any mobile device irrespective of make or operating system used...read more
Global operators pledge to offer enhanced voice services based on LTE standard  Feb 16, 2010
Initiative aims to lead the development of the specifications that will enable interconnection and international roaming between LTE networks...read more
Comviva comes up with ‘no download’ online gaming solution  Feb 16, 2010
From an operator perspective, the solution enables flexibility in pricing such as offering free trials as well as offering more affordable pricing ...read more
Smarthpones, mobile services to drive global subscriber base at over 5 bn mark in 2010:ITU  Feb 16, 2010
Broadband subscriptions alone are set to cross the one billion mark from the existing figures of 600 million...read more
RCom claims 2.8 mn new subscriber additions in Jan 2010  Feb 16, 2010
The company’s wireless subscriber base has now reached over 94 million subscribers...read more
Bharti among 24 global operators come together for Mobile Apps drive  Feb 16, 2010
GSMA as well as handset vendors LG, Samsung and Sony Ericsson are supporting the initiative...read more
Microsoft unveils its new Windows Mobile 7 OS  Feb 16, 2010
Microsoft Director for Mobile Division, Nicolas Petit termed the new OS as a major new step in the company’s strategy...read more
GSM operators add 13.76 mn subscribers in Jan; Uninor emerging a strong challenger  Feb 15, 2010
The operator in which Norway’s Telenor has a majority stake, added 1.33 million new subscribers. Its total subscriber base at the end of January 2010 stood at 2.5 million...read more
Loop Mobile ties up with Cinemax & Sterling Cinemas to offer free movie tickets  Feb 15, 2010
Subscribers can also purchase a combo pack of ‘regular Popcorn & Coke’ for Rs. 50...read more
Ericsson signs Wi-Fi patents licencing agreement with Japan’s Buffalo  Feb 15, 2010
Ericsson takes to its credit the evolution of Wi-Fi standards including the recently recognized standard IEEE 802.11n...read more
Aircel and Radio Misty tie-up for Valentine Week in Siliguri   Feb 15, 2010
RCom to buy 2 mn CDMA handsets valued at Rs 340 crore from Huawei  Feb 15, 2010
RCom aims to offer these handsets priced in the range of Rs 1700 tp Rs 1950 per unit in Tier-II and Tier-III cities...read more
Aircel adopts Oracle solution for its content delivery platform  Feb 15, 2010
Wipro Infotech deployed the solution along with Oracle Communications Consulting...read more
$ 72 bn opportunity for mobile broadband technology vendors in 2010  Feb 15, 2010
The greatest investment is set to come from Asia Pacific operators with collective investments pegged to be $ 34 billion. This continent will be followed by North America which will see investments of $ 19 billion...read more
Nokia launches new 3G handset for Rs 4,499  Feb 15, 2010
The handset is available in black and dark magenta colours. It weighs 87.7 g and its dimensions are 109.6 mm x 46.9 mm x 14.4 mm...read more
Media Statement from Bharti on Zain deal  Feb 15, 2010
Bharti enters into exclusive discussions with Zain for the acquisition of Zain Africa BV ...read more
Motorola to split into two  Feb 15, 2010
In the new set-up existing Co-CEO, Sanjay Jha will head the handsets and set-top boxes business units which will come under a new entity. The new entity will be spun off as a separate publicly traded company...read more
Scrapping of GSM tender: “As an alternative BSNL should go for ‘moderate’ network expansion”  Feb 15, 2010
A section within the DoT feel that the PSU should go for a moderate network expansion with 10-15 % price escalation...read more
France’s Bouygues Telecom selects ip.access for 2G picocell deployment  Feb 15, 2010
The deployment will help Bouygues to enhance its coverage in areas of high network traffic as well as indoors...read more
Opera mini claims 50 mn user base at 150% yearly growth  Feb 14, 2010
Opera says it has witnessed rapid growth recently when compared to the fact that it took 28 months for the company to reach the 10 million mark...read more
Orange standardizes Riverbed Technology for opex-based Enterprise WAN offerings  Feb 14, 2010
The solutions are offered as part of Enterprise Application Management services which is a fully managed service in nature and is based on opex-based pricing model...read more
TTSL, Future Group tie-up to offer GSM-based mobile services under ‘T24’ brand  Feb 14, 2010
The alliance will initially launch the services in South India. The alliance will initially launch the services in South India...read more
Telcordia to present its case study for real-time charging solution deployed for Tata DoCoMo at MWC  Feb 14, 2010
The company says that there is tremendous potential for new revenue generation if subscriber ad network data is managed and analysed properly...read more
Bharti offers $ 10.7 bn cash for Zain’s Africa operations  Feb 14, 2010
If the deal is successful, Bharti will become an operator in 15 countries in Africa namely Burkina Faso, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia...read more
Alcatel-Lucent bags LTE contract from AT&T  Feb 14, 2010
Ericsson is the other vendor shortlisted for the project...read more
Aircel introduces SMS-based ‘ABCD’ offer in Kerala  Feb 12, 2010
SMSes will be charged at Rs.5 per SMS. The offer is available till February 1...read more
Comverse’s BSS offering promise cost saving gains to telcos  Feb 12, 2010
As an instance, Comverse says that a operator managed to reduce costs incurred on customer data management, data rating, and billing from $11.2 million to $ 1.2 million on an annual basis...read more
BSNL offers new prepaid BlackBerry plans for subscribers in 3 zones  Feb 12, 2010
The three new plans are BlackBerry® Internet Bundle service plans, BlackBerry® Messaging Bundle service plans and BlackBerry® Social Networking Bundle service plans...read more
Comviva deploys e-top-up solution for Kenya’s Safaricom  Feb 12, 2010
Comviva deployed its PreTUPS™ solution as part of the project. The solution is based on open-standards and will also enable Safaricom’s postpaid subscribers to pay their bills via channel members...read more
Huawei set to unveil is new SingleRAN@Broad solution to tap mobile broadband market  Feb 12, 2010
The solution also helps to reduce the operation & maintenance (O&M) costs due to features such as multi-mode convergence, ultra coverage, fixed and mobile synergy and intelligent operation...read more
SinglePoint acquires mobile advertising player M2Junction  Feb 12, 2010
SinglePoint will launch its SingleBrand web-based solution in the SMS format and will leverage from the M2Junction platform for this initiative...read more
Tata Sky launches 7 new channels on its platform  Feb 11, 2010
The new channels are in addition to the recently launched interactive service, Actve English...read more
Vodafone Essar crosses 10 mn subscriber base mark in Gujarat  Feb 11, 2010
In the last year alone the company added 2.5 million subscribers in Gujarat...read more
Except BSNL, all operators say will be MNP-ready this time by deadline  Feb 11, 2010
The operator will be able to be MNP-ready only by middle of May...read more
Telenor reports 27% growth in Q4; Uninor operating profit at 755 mn kroner  Feb 11, 2010
Revenues however declined to 24.19 billion kroner from 25.86 billion kroner a year ago...read more
Tikona Digital Networks launches its 4G Wi –Bro services in Delhi  Feb 11, 2010
The company has invested over Rs 500 crore in this venture and counts Goldman Sachs among two other investors as its strategic investors...read more
Bharti Airtel’s licence & spectrum fee contribution more than double that of RCom and TTSL in Q3  Feb 11, 2010
AUSPI however refutes the higher contribution made by incumbents. According to AUSPI the incumbent operators have been in operation for close to 15 years now and thus have higher revenues on their respective GSM networks...read more
Telenor completes its planned investment in Unitech Wireless  Feb 11, 2010
Takes Telenor''s total ownership in the JV to 67.25 percent at a total investment of Rs 6,120 crore...read more
NSN bags $ 700 mn network expansion contract from Bharti Airtel  Feb 11, 2010