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India adds 8 mln mobile users in March; Bharti, Idea lead gains

India adds 8 mln mobile users in March; Bharti, Idea lead gains

India, the world’s second-biggest mobile phone market, saw a 0.88 percent monthly increase in mobile phone subscribers in March, an equivalent of 8 million new users, data released by the country’s telecom regulator showed on Thursday. [Continue]

India’s Mobile Phone Operators Insist It’s Not a Competitive Market

India’s Mobile Phone Operators Insist It’s Not a Competitive Market

Mobile phone bills in India could double if the government agrees to new regulatory proposals for upcoming 2G spectrum auctions, the country’s major operators have warned. [Continue]

India to be second largest mobile broadband market

India to be second largest mobile broadband market

The GSMA, which represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide, has announced that India will become the second largest mobile broadband market globally within the next four years with 367 million mobile broadband connections by 2016. [Continue]

Industry

Mobile Number Portability review in India: Good or bad?

Mobile Number Portability review in India: Good or bad?

For long described as a dud, the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) regime is slowly but surely making a mark in India. There has been a consistent rise observed in portability requests during the last [Continue]

Mobile email bigger in India than US

Mobile email bigger in India than US

Smartphone users in urban India have outnumbered their American counterparts in accessing emails and social networking sites using mobile phones, a new study revealed. [Continue]

Network utilisation and OpEx, key challenges of Indian telecom opertator: Pranay Misra

Network utilisation and OpEx, key challenges of Indian telecom opertator: Pranay Misra

The cell phone has become so important in your life that previously it was near the ear now it has reached to the heart, it’s emotionally connected. From Hello Hello people just now click [Continue]

Too Much Noise in India Telecoms Sector

Too Much Noise in India Telecoms Sector

India’s telecommunications sector is sending out mixed signals. The potential comes through loud and clear. India has the lowest mobile-phone penetration rate in Asia, and less than 10% of the [Continue]

Finance

Mobile tariffs may double: Telcos

Mobile tariffs may double: Telcos
The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has said that the mobile tariffs could go up by a 100 per cent if the government decides to [Continue]

Mobile banking in India does not need a one-size-fits-all solution

Mobile banking in India does not need a one-size-fits-all solution
Mobile banking is a new generation platform available to customers for conducting balance inquiries, account transactions, utility payments, and [Continue]

Telecom major Telenor writes off Rs 3,500 crore India assets

Telecom major Telenor writes off Rs 3,500 crore India assets
Norwegian telecom major Telenor on Monday wrote off its remaining fixed and intangible assets in India worth Norwegian Krone 3.9 billion (over $680 [Continue]

Mobile broadband: India can generate $ 80 billion of revenue

Mobile broadband: India can generate $ 80 billion of revenue
India can generate $ 80 billion of revenue with 10 percent increase in mobile broadband penetration, says GSMA. “The benefits are clear to see, a [Continue]

Indian telecom service sector: Gross revenue down by 1.16% in Q3 2011

Indian telecom service sector: Gross revenue down by 1.16% in Q3 2011
Gross revenue of telecom service sector in India during Q3 ending December 2011 was Rs 49,365 crore, showing a decrease of 1.16 percent compared to [Continue]

Tata fails to agree on price, pulls out of race for CWW

Tata fails to agree on price, pulls out of race for CWW
Tata Communications Ltd (TCL) has pulled out of the race to buy out London-listed Cable & Wireless Worldwide (CWW), the Indian global [Continue]

Huawei India targets $200 million revenue

Huawei India targets $200 million revenue
Infotech communications technology solutions provider Huawei today said it plans to clock USD 200 million revenue from its enterprise business in the [Continue]

Services

DoT invites early bids for selection of spectrum auctioneer

DoT invites early bids for selection of spectrum auctioneer

The government has invited early proposals for selection of an agency that will conduct e-auction of spectrum in 22 telecom service areas. [Continue]

Handsets

Can India rescue Nokia?

Can India rescue Nokia?

Nokia, the Finnish handset giant that has struggled at the global level amidst plunging sales, is busy defending its turf in India by offering specialised service offerings. The India strategy is being worked upon three major pillars wherein Nokia will work to grab a larger pie of the rapidly expanding smart phone market, provide web [Continue]

Regulatory/Government

Telecom companies told to show how TRAI could kill

Telecom companies told to show how TRAI could kill

With finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, telecom minister Kapil Sibal and telecom secretary R Chandrashekhar all ears, India’s telecom honchos told it like it is: the industry’s survival and profitability are at stake if the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s [Continue]

Technology

What Effect Will Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Have on the Industry?

What Effect Will Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Have on the Industry?

Everyone has a mobile phone. How many of you have a tablet? I won’t say iPad because some of you don’t have iPads but how many of you [Continue]

HP introduces virtual application network

HP introduces virtual application network

The infrastructure now needs to become automated. And instead we need to now focus on delivering services. We need to now introduce a layer in the [Continue]

Mobile VAS, The Next Wield for Growth

Mobile VAS, The Next Wield for Growth

As we are in a 3G and 4G era, mobile driven VAS is sure to generate interest and adoption among the end user community and operators are set to [Continue]

Infrastructure/Equipments

Software Defined Networking (SDN) – Is It Really the Future of Networking?

Software Defined Networking (SDN) – Is It Really the Future of Networking?

Software-defined networking – Is it really the future of Networking? And are the big switch vendors finished? Well, data centres, they’re facing [Continue]

Tower firms oppose change in FDI cap

Tower firms oppose change in FDI cap

Telecom tower companies have opposed a proposal to bring down foreign direct investment (FDI) cap from 100 per cent to 74 per cent for telecom [Continue]

Tower cos flay move to bring them under new licence regime

Tower cos flay move to bring them under new licence regime

Terming Trai’s proposal to bring telecom infrastructure providers under the proposed unified licence regime as “arbitrary” and [Continue]

Corporates/Companies

Tata Communications pulls out of GBP1bln battle for Cable & Wireless Worldwide

Tata Communications pulls out of GBP1bln battle for Cable & Wireless Worldwide

Indian group Tata Communications has pulled out of the £1bn takeover battle for Cable & Wireless Worldwide (CWW), paving the way for Vodafone [Continue]

4G services: Bharti Airtel vs Reliance Industries

4G services: Bharti Airtel vs Reliance Industries

It’s just one city. That too Kolkata, not Mumbai or Delhi. Yet, the launch of the latest generation of broadband services in India by Bharti [Continue]

Vodafone tax case: Global trade bodies cannot pressurise India, government says

Vodafone tax case: Global trade bodies cannot pressurise India, government says

The government on Thursday brushed aside the pressure being built by the global trade bodies in the Rs 11,000 crore Vodafone tax dispute case and [Continue]

News and Events

MEF Launches Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Certification

MEF Launches Carrier Ethernet 2.0 Certification

The MEF’s new Carrier Ethernet 2.0 certification program for services and equipment complements the MEF’s recent launch of Carrier Ethernet 2.0 [Continue]

NetEvents Hong Kong Highlights

NetEvents Hong Kong Highlights

The Carrier Cloud future… SDN’s killer app… Datacentre modularisation…The launch of Carrier Ethernet 2.0 certification… One global data [Continue]

M-commerce offers consumers significant convenience over e-commerce

M-commerce offers consumers significant convenience over e-commerce

A lot has been written in recent times about the promise and potential of the e-commerce industry in India. What is also taken for granted is the [Continue]

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