Weekend Telecom Updates

After SEZs, its time for a wirless park. Telecom multinationals operating in India – Nokia,Motorola and Siemens are setting up shop in Jarkhand’s Rs75 Crores wireless park.

Hutch and Essar continue to battle over BPL mobile’s Mumbai circle. Latest acquistion by Esaar group is, Hutch executives tried to poach the top management of BPL mobile. Bharti-Airtel’s Sunil Mittal says he is not interested in BPL Mumbai if its up for sale. However, Reliance Telecom could be interested 🙂

TRAI has instructed all the telcos in the country to upgrade their technology to monitor and intercept signals of roaming cellular subscribers in the interest of national security.