A total of 42 mobile manufacturing companies have set up their plants in India in the past two years, and now a total 13 crore mobiles have been made in a year, compared with six crore earlier. Since the NDA government came to power at the Centre in 2014, a total one lakh direct jobs […]
Jeremiah Caron, Senior Vice President – Analysis, Current Analysis asked: What are the challenges for telcos? We worry about them! But they are making money – he gave plenty of example of very profitable telcos – but what challenges do they face?
The MEF has announced the winners of the MEF 2015 Excellence Awards. The Awards program is the largest, longest-running in the world focused on Carrier Ethernet services and applications and is the first in the industry to spotlight leadership in emerging dynamic Third Network services powered by CE 2.0, Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO), NFV, and […]
Idea Cellular, part of the Aditya Birla Group, is working on a Rs 7,580-crore ($1.2 billion) deal to sell its independent towers, drawing the interests of Malaysia’s Axiata, Bharti Infratel and American Tower Corporation (ATC), sources directly briefed on the matter said.
Cable operators have shown interest in providing broadband connectivity to consumers by tweaking technology – a move that will increase Internet penetration in the country, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad today said. “I am very excited to note that lot of cable operators have come forward to deliver broadband in urban areas by tweaking of […]
HP announced new cloud-managed, software-defined networking (SDN)-enabled unified wired and wireless network solutions that help customers to increase the agility of their network while simplifying its management. The new solutions—including the HP Cloud Managed Network Solution, IEEE 802.11ac wireless access points and SDN applications—expand the industry’s most complete unified wired and wireless portfolio.(1) These new […]
Reliance Industries Ltd’s telecommunications unit has agreed to use Reliance Communications Ltd’s intra-city fibre network to roll out 4G services, in what is the third infrastructure-sharing agreement between the two companies. Reliance Communications, controlled by billionaire Anil Ambani, said on Monday a master services agreement signed was based on “arm’s length pricing at prevailing market […]
Where is the Ethernet today? If you see, the broader enterprise market in 2013 is at $42.4billion for IDC’s forecast and that includes all enterprise networking technologies combined. You can see from this slide that on the right the table tells you what are the various technologies that are included with enterprise networking. The key […]
Last month, India’s communications minister Kapil Sibal wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asking for the formation of a special committee to look into the revival of state-run telcos Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL).
