Market
India’s mobile subscription base at 881.4 mln
Indian mobile phone operators added a net 7.8 million mobile subscribers in October, a 0.9 percent growth over the previous month, taking total connections in the world’s second-biggest mobile phone market to 881.4 million from 873.61 million in the preceding month. [Continue]
GSM operators add 7.12 million subscribers in October 2011
Signalling a revival in the telecom sector, India’s GSM operators added 7.12 million new subscribers in October, as against 6.52 million in the previous month, taking the total number of users to 625.41 million. [Continue]
RIM bets big on Indian mobile apps market
Research In Motion India (RIM), the maker of BlackBerry smartphones, has said it sees huge opportunities in mobile applications development in India. [Continue]
Industry
India Reaches 900 Million Telephone Lines
The number of telephone subscribers in India rose to 906.93 million at the end of September 2011 from 899.78 million at the end of the previous month, with service providers adding a total of 7.153 [Continue]
Telecom industry’s concerns will be addressed: PM
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday assured all stakeholders in the telecom industry that his government will address their concerns and support the growth of this crucial sector with [Continue]
Telecom manufacturing policy sends negative signals, says EC
The European Commission has told the Communications and IT Minister, Mr Kapil Sibal, that the move to give preferential treatment to domestic manufacturers of telecom equipment raised questions about [Continue]
India Seeks Access to the Broadband Highway
Visitors to India quickly experience firsthand the country’s notoriously inadequate infrastructure: the crumbling roads, sprawling shantytowns, and frequent power outages. Just as big a drag on [Continue]
Finance
Nokia Siemens to ramp up India investments
India Telecom Commission defers pricing, M&A decision
Proposed one-time fee for airwaves would violate the terms of its licence contract: Vodafone
Poor outlook for telecom sector
My Mobile Payments gets RBI nod to issue mobile wallet
Indian telcos earn Rs 46,891 cr in Q1, Airtel leads pack
Services
India Accepts BSNL’s Proposal to Return Bandwidth
India’s Department of Telecommunications has “in principle” accepted state-run telecom service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd.’s proposal to return wireless broadband bandwidth in several service areas, a top government official said. [Continue]Handsets
Indian handset sales to touch 231 million units in 2012
The sales of mobile devices would rise by as much as 231 million in 2012 from 213 million units in 2011, says the Gartner report, ‘Market Share: Mobile Communication Devices by Region and Country, 3Q11. A significant rise of 8.5% is what is being projected in the time to come for the sales of the [Continue]
Regulatory/Government
Telecom exit policy on the cards: Trai
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Thursday said it was drafting rules that would allow telecom operators to surrender their airwaves and licences if they closed business. J S Sarma, chairman of TRAI, said: “We are in the process of preparing a [Continue]Technology
DoT sticks to stern view on 3G roaming
The Department of Telecommunications on Friday reiterated that it would not allow roaming agreements that allowed operators to provide [Continue]
MEF Addresses Significances of New Carrier Ethernet Specifications
Nan Chen, President of the MEF, talks about the good progress on the technology front and significances of new carrier ethernet specifications. Key [Continue]
Huawei to set up R&D unit in India
Chinese telecom equipment major Huawei Technologies will invest about $150 million for setting up a research and development centre in Bangalore. It [Continue]
Infrastructure/Equipments
Telecom Equipment Manufacturers raise national security concern with PM, Home Ministry
The Indian Telecom Equipment Manufacturers Association (TEMA) today in a communication to the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh and the Home Minster P [Continue]
3G to be big business for equipment makers, VAS companies
The roll-out of third generation (3G) telecom services across the country will bring in huge business for not just telecom operators but value-added [Continue]
Govt to provide countrywide optical fibre broadband
Government has decided to own and operate a countrywide broadband network with an optical fibre base through which different operators could provide [Continue]
Corporates/Companies
Why good news and big changes are anticipated in Indian telecom sector
The story so far in Indian telecom can be tucked neatly into three chapters by piecing together policy announcements and the barrage of radical [Continue]
India: Bet you haven’t got an iPhone
Walk onto a crowded train in New York, London, or Tokyo, and odds are many of the commuters seated there will be tapping away at an Apple iPhone. [Continue]
Vodafone, Bharti Offices Searched
India’s top federal probe body is conducting searches in the offices of two of the country’s top mobile phone operators and former [Continue]
News and Events
India May Look at Auctioning More Broadband Bandwidth
India’s Department of Telecommunications may auction more bandwidth to provide wireless broadband services after the government decides on a [Continue]
Extreme Networks Seems To Be Every analyst’s Favorite
Extreme Networks Inc., a network supplier for the mobile solutions has been named as a top data center vendor by 3 separate analyst groups – [Continue]
Enterprises concerned with mobile security: Fortinet survey
A Fortinet-commissioned survey of 350 IT professionsals in medium to large-sized enterprises across Asia has found that businesses are concerned [Continue]