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India’s largest Cellco, Airtel and largest private bank, ICICI along with American Express have been severely fined for unsolicited tele-marketing. A complainant, who neither had any banking nor any business relationship with ICICI / American Express dragged them to the consumer court and made Airtel a respondant in the caseContinue Reading
With 120 Million Mobile phone subscribers and still counting, Russian Mobile Retailer, EuroSet has big plans for India. Euroset wants to setup around 5,500 retail stores with PAN-India presence. Euroset is in talks with Delhi Real Estate land lords, Ansal group. Afterall, only the BRIC nations understand how to runContinue Reading
I normally don’t write about outsourcing or management. Being Diwali weekend, and for some reason didn’t enjoy the fireworks, I decided to peruse through my ACM journal archive and hence this posting. [Unrelated to Broadband or Telecom] In October-2006 Issue of Communications of the ACM[Oct issue not yet available online], I read an article, “TechnologyContinue Reading
Convergence.In has a new identity, goBroadband. Though “Convergence” is the right word to describe this blog, its however a bit of overused word and 25% of them spelt it wrongly. I was inclined to change the punch line or tag line to “disruptive thinking” but decided to continue with “linking diversity” which represents Indianism. IContinue Reading
Bharti Airtel, India’s leading mobile service provider has tied up with the Redmond giant to offer Windows Mobile services targetted at SME(Small and Medium Enterprise) customers in India. Airtel already offers blackberry services to corporates and SMEs. Speaking on the ocassion, Manoj Kohli, President of Bharti-Airtel Mobile division said thatContinue Reading
The long awaited Tata Sky TV(Dish TV) will be soon available to you. Tata Sky is a 80:20 joint venture between Tata and Star TV. With majority of the Telcos opting for IPTV, Tata’s took the Dish TV path while Reliance communications is still in a fix. Tata Sky intends toContinue Reading
Tech Mahindra’s IPO closed today and according to figures made available by the National Stock Exchange of India, the issue has received terrific response. The institutional part of the issue was oversubscribed by a whopping 104 times leading to a collection of Rs29,000 crores($6.3 Billion). However, institutions will get allotmentContinue Reading
On the directions of the government of India, Indian ISPs have started censoring and blocking web properties. This was first noticed by Indian bloggers and upon inquiring with their respective ISPs, the actions are confirmed. Unfortunately, Blogspot and TypePad are the targets till now.” There’s an ongoing discussion of theContinue Reading
Hindujas who exited out of Hutch in a shady deal, have said that they see a great potential in Indian GSM based mobile market and want to re-enter if they good stake at the right price – right price ? I doubt if Hindujas know what the right price is,Continue Reading
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