Mobile in India
The Department of Telecommunications accepting TRAI’s recommendation on implementation of 3G is likely to go ahead with the spectrum auction said a PTI press release. Most of the bandwidth required for 3G is currently held by the DoD. TRAI in its proposal had recommended a reserve base price of Rs1,050Continue Reading
The High court of Delhi has asked BSNL not to award the contracts of it’s mega tender until Nov-16th when it will retake the case of Motorola’s disqualification. Motorola has challenged BSNL’s decision. Recall, when mobile telephony licensing was thrown open, Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd had won the bids for allContinue Reading
Bharti Tele-Ventures Limited known throughout the world for its unique and successfull telecom business model has done it for the third time. This time, Bharti Airtel Ltd has outsourced its WAP Systems and Network contract worth $400 Million to Nokia. Earlier in August, Bharti had extended its outsourcing contract to Ericsson.Continue Reading
Just a fortnight ago, I had written about BSNL’s Value Added Services – Resource Tracking, Mobile Advertisements and Chatting which were still in their test labs then. All the services are all live now according to a press release by BSNL and will be free for BSNL Cellone user until Dec-31st-2006. I am not sureContinue Reading
Bharti Airtel Limited, announced its quarterly results for the quarter ending Sept-30-2006. Its Q2 revenue fell just short of $1Billion at $968 Million. It now has 21.4% of India’s Mobile Subscriber Market share with ARPU of Rs 438 down from Rs 441 in Q1. However, it has added record number ofContinue Reading
In order to boost bottomlines, Cellcos in India are concentrating on Value Added Services by tying up with ISVs. SMS is already a big hit in India and consumers are using them to get stock/sports update to book their weekend movie tickets and much more. Mobile service providers are just aContinue Reading
RBI governor Dr. Y V Reddy is keen to get M-Commerce rolling in India. The Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT) is currently testing banking transactions by means of Mobile phones. However, Dr. Reddy is well aware that it needs to be a full proof system withoutContinue Reading
Spice Telecom started its operations in the states of Karnataka and Punjab in 1997; One of the first companies to get licenses and begin operations. Spice has done well in Punjab but gets a C Minus for its performance in Karnataka. In Karnataka it has mere 500,000 subscribers in 9Continue Reading
Indians are embracing SMS more than ever and probably more than any other country in the world ? Here are some of the applications of SMS I have come across in India, excluding jokes and other routine ones.. Feel free to add any other application or services making use of SMSContinue Reading
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