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TRAI should be consulted again on re-farming: Planning Commission.c
Oct 25, 2012
NEW DELHI, OCT. 25:
The Planning Commission has taken a view that there should be more consultation before deciding on the issue of shifting incumbent GSM operators from the 900
0.24 m GSM subscribers added in Oct
Nov 23, 2012
New Delhi: The telecom subscriber market showed signs of recovery in October with a net addition of 0.24 million GSM subscribers.
The country's largest telecom operator, Airtel, led the
Column : DoT loses the plot
Jul 16, 2012
TRAI says existing tariff regime to continuey
Jan 13, 2013
NEW DELHI: Regulator TRAI has decided to continue with the existing tariff regime for the time being that allows operators to decide on charges for telecom services.
VAS in India: yet t0 ev0lve
Jan 03, 2011
A host of issues from the business model, too many entrants and lack of innovation have prevented the value added services segment from evolving beyond vanilla SMS and ring tones.
Telcos oppose licence fee for Internet services
Feb 05, 2013
NEW DELHI, FEB. 5: Telecom operators, including Reliance Infotel, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone, have opposed the proposal to impose licence fee on Internet services.
Telecom companies have told the
Telcos cut mobile internet, data service rates
Aug 10, 2010
Mobile internet and data services are fast emerging as the new front for a rate war among service providers. Telecom companies are eyeing a piece of the market share where
Vodafone wants to defer 3G auction.oa
Oct 30, 2008
Vodafone, the UK-based mobile major has asked the Department of Telecom for a deferment of the 3G spectrum auction till early next year in view of the global financial crisis.
Blackberry Storm to take the wind out of iPhone
Oct 09, 2008
Research In Motion, the Canadian company is ready to launch a touch-screen model
of its BlackBerry smartphone by the end of this year, throwing a gauntlet in
front of Apple’s
The Storm has arrived!i
Nov 24, 2008
Research In Motion Limited the makers of Blackberry have confirmed that Storm mobile phone, their touch screen offering is now available in the markets. Verizon Wireless and Vodafone are the
MVAS MeOnGo to explore foreign shores!com dst
Nov 17, 2008
Ahmedabad-based Net4Nuts Limited’s low-cost Mobile email application MeOnGo is ready to take on the challenge in markets beyond its shores. The company has been providing MVAS to major Indian telecom
Eterno receives investment from Rediff.com!st
Nov 12, 2008
Eterno a brainchild of ex- Nokia employees, Umesh Kulkarni and Chandrashekhar Sohoni, have received an investment from Rediff.com that will enable them to carry forward their work on mobile enabling
Laurels for Indian telecom czars
Nov 10, 2008
Seven Indian telecom leaders have made it to the list of the “world’s 100 most influential telecom leaders” according to an industry magazine. The list includes Srinath N (8) of
Interconnection woes for new players.
Nov 05, 2008
New mobile players are facing hurdles in their roll out plans due to the existing pan-Indian operators demanding higher rates for providing interconnection. If existing players like Bharti Airtel and
Telcos go creative on VAS
May 21, 2009
The value-added services sector is expected to touch Rs 9,760 cr by end June.
Telecom operators in India appear to be gung-ho over the prospects of value-added services (VAS) which help
Telcos pin hopes on poll alerts to raise VAS usage
Mar 25, 2009
CHENNAI: Apart from the country’s home minister, it is the mobile operators who will have to manage the LS elections and IPL together. These telcos, whose woes include low awareness
PEs look at mobile VAS providers
Mar 12, 2009
Notwithstanding the lull in the industry, mobile value-added service (VAS) providers are getting fresh calls for investments from global private equity and venture capital funds, with some even close to
BSNL to provide Blackeberry and iPhone services
Jul 07, 2008
In a bid to enlarge its consumer base Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd is mediating with Blackberry and Apple to become a platform for their services. The services that are already
Wireless wondersa hr
Jan 24, 2009
Even by the standards of the scorching pace set in the past five years, the next five years of India's telecom history promise to be good, if a report just
Nazara: From gaming portal to mobile content
Jan 23, 2009
What started with a thought of diversifying from a gaming portal to the mobile content business is churning out big revenues for Nitin Mittersain and his
Wireless wondersa hr
Jan 23, 2009
Even by the standards of the scorching pace set in the past five years, the next five years of India’s telecom history promise to be good, if a
GSM subscriber base rises by 8.1 million in December
Jan 13, 2009
GSM operators in India continued to report healthy growth rate as the subscriber base in the country grew by 8.1 million (excluding Reliance Telecom) in December 2008.
According to the latest
New Technology Enables Local Language SMSscst
Feb 25, 2009
Since local language is always preferred to communicate with close ones, Tachyon Technologies, the Bangalore-based company initially rolled out Quillpad for the online players. It has recently introduced the solution
Telecom units pin hopes on VAS
Feb 24, 2009
Kolkata-based telecommunications companies (telcos) are pinning hopes on value-added-services (VAS), as average revenue per user (ARPU) is on a declining trend, following the drop in tariffs.
According to analysts, voice SMS
Vodafone blocks Netcore's free SMSoan
Feb 17, 2009
GSM service provider Vodafone-Essar has blocked entrepreneur Rajesh Jain-promoted Netcore Solutions’ free SMS alert service, alleging the service does not comply with the telecom regulations. This is the second instance
Google launches software to track mobile users
Feb 06, 2009
BANGALORE: US Internet search company Google Inc released software on Wednesday that allows users of mobile phones and other wireless devices to automatically share their whereabouts with family and friends.
India upbeat on 3G auction, moves to hook foreign cosst
Dec 24, 2008
NEW DELHI: India is confident the global financial crisis will not derail its auction of 3G mobile services spectrum due in mid-January, hanging out the prize of a larger foothold
Mobile VAS players ringing in more profitscst
Dec 22, 2008
While the world reels under recession, emerging players in the mobile value added services (mVAS) business in India are not just growing but chalking out new plans with the introduction
Vodafone and Essar heading for a showdown!cst
Aug 12, 2008
Vodafone, the British Telecom giant is heading for a showdown with its Indian partner the Ruias owned Essar Group in which they own a 67% stake. The cause of the
TIU: VAS awareness could reap benefits for telcosn
Apr 23, 2009
With telecom companies planning to bank on value-added services (VAS) to shore up revenues generated per subscriber - simply creating awareness could be the first step. VAS includes features like
OnMobile to provide speech-enabled services to Vodafone
Apr 22, 2009
MUMBAI: OnMobile has partnered with Vodafone to provide ringback tones, voice portals and speech-enabled services.
The deal enables the mobile operator and other partner networks to install products and services offered
Now read Amar Chitra Katha on your mobilecost
Apr 22, 2009
Watching the latest flick on your mobile may still be some months away. But you can catch up with favourite comic strips or read those illustrated tales of Amar Chitra