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COAI has strongly criticized Tata’s stand on the new spectrum policy to which Tatas had filed objections. It is very well known that Tatas first joined the IDEA consortium and then backed out of IDEA when the Ambanis lobbied with late Shri Pramod Mahajan for CDMA technology to join theContinue Reading

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Cell phone theft, loss off SIM memory are some of the common problems faced by Indian mobile users. Thanks to Bharti-Airtel for this new innovative service where in you can store all your contacts on Bharti-Airtel’s server by means of a toll free SMS for a flat monthly fee ofContinue Reading

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Hutchinson which is in a major clean-up operation before its proposed IPO offered to buy Hindujas 5.11% stake in Hutch @ Rs2025 crores($450 Million). At the current offer price Hutch is valued at $9.0 Billion. At the end of March-2006, Hutch had a subscriber base of 90 Lakhs(9 Million) whichContinue Reading

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Romy Juneja’s MobileNXT wants to setup country’s first chain of mobile retail offering mobile products, services and value addition through mobile stores. MobileNXT is targetting all tier-2 and tier-3 cities in India as Romy believes they are underserved. MobileNXT expects to achieve a turnover of Rs350 crores within the nextContinue Reading

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I had earlier reported about the Asian corridor deram which Maxis, Singtel, Bharti and others are pursuing. It was formed under the brand name Bridge Mobile Alliance(BMA). BMA partners include CSL (Hong Kong), Globe Telecom (Philippines), Maxis (Malaysia), SingTel Mobile (Singapore), SingTel Optus (Australia), Taiwan Mobile (Taiwan) and Telkomsel (Indonesia).Continue Reading

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I have to agree with Om over Piper Jaffray projections of $11 billion for mobile search market. Atleast half the cell phone users in the US do not use SMS actively. Atleast 75% of the users have outdated handsets and are locked in a year or two agreement. Its onlyContinue Reading

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Idea Cellular, Tata’s and Birla’s JV(after exit of AT&T) for providing GSM cellular service ran into rough weather when, Kumar Birla declared that Telecom was a thrust area for the A V Birla group. Tata’s kicked off their telecom venture in early 90s with investment in Idea and later whenContinue Reading

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The Indian mobile subscriber base is growing at such a rapid pace(60% YoY) that it is soemtimes impossible to make calls from busy places like Mumbai’s Dalal Street or New Delhi’s Connaught Place during peak hours inspite of mobile operators making provisions for additional capacities. Thus people tend to carryContinue Reading