India Telecom
Anil Ambani controlled Reliance Communications Ventures plans to provide broadband, interactive TV and media solutions in association with OCC – Orbit communnications of Bahrain in the Gulf. The solution is branded as RiTV(most probably an acronym for Reliance India TV) and will service the hospitality sector(all 5 star and 4Continue Reading
ET & PTI report that TRAI chairman, Nripendra Misra has confirmed that the figuers of subscribers released by cellcos are authentic. Earlier Tata group chairman Ratan Tata had questioned the authenticity of subscriber numbers released by cellcos on which they are eligible for further spectrum according to TRAI and DoTContinue Reading
I am extraordinarily bullish on the Indian and Asian Mobile market in general. Lately, Indian Cellcos have been toying with the ideas of cashing in on its vast mobile subscriber base by offering more value added and innovative services. Mobile coupons, Location Specific Services, Mobile Portals, Advertising on mobiles byContinue Reading
The International court of Arbitration today ruled in favour of Reliance Telecom, who owns and controls international carrier Flag Telecom. Flag Telecom’s landing station in India are under the control of Tata’s owned VSNL. VSNL refused to give access to Reliance Infocomm thus creating a monopoly to carry international traffic.Continue Reading
Hindustan Times is reporting that, BSNL is reducing the tariff for local calls originating from its network and terminating on private GSM or CDMA networks. BSNL subscribers who were paying Rs4.80 to talk for 3 minutes to a GSM or CDMA phone will now pay only Rs1.20 and ofcourse thisContinue Reading
Tata’s controlled VSNL is planning to launch fixed line telecom services in South Africa reports PTI. Tata’s already own 26% stake in South African telco, SNO. It is hard to understand why Tata’s are in such a hurry to expand in South Africa when their is tremendous growth potential inContinue Reading
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
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
GSM subscribers base in India grew by a whopping 68% for the year ending March-31-2006. The GSM subscribers base now stands at 6.9 Crores(69 Million) which was at 4.1 Crores(41 Million) at the end of March-31-2005. The GSM subscriber base also saw a sequential quarterly growth rate of 18% correspondingContinue Reading
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