BSNL – Big Business Opportunity in VPN
State owned Telecom major, BSNL sees a big opportunity in offering VPN [Virtual Private Network] services. What is VPN ? It lets your company create a own secured network using public communications infrastructure to let employees work from remote locations. Read more here. Effective May-1st, BSNL will offer VPN services –Continue Reading
Service Providers Hang-Up on Customers
Mobile Service Providers in Karnataka have started disconnecting customers because of TRAI’s regulation on “Subscriber Identity Verification”. Few phones from in my address book are disconnected too. Jeez! they have been using the numbers for past 5-8 years and most have told me that the Telecom companies have misplaced their documents. TheContinue Reading
Nokia’s Indian Pride is envied in Pakistan
Nokia which broke all the barriers about cell phone manufacturing in India has achieved big landmarks – Shipped 20 Millionth handset last November with its operations being 11% cheaper than in China. If reports from ET are to be believed, then India’s neighbor, Pakistan has asked Nokia not to sell mobileContinue Reading
India has over 2 Million Broadband Subscribers
TRAI has released the latest figures on Internet and Broadband subscribers in India. At the end of December 2006 their were 2.05 Million Broadband subscribers. Last audit in August 2006 pegged the Broadband subscribers at 1.7 Million. In all India has 8.5 Million internet subscribers. BSNL is the largest ISP withContinue Reading
Motorola withdraws cases againast BSNL
Motorola Inc, just a while ago withdrew its cases against BSNL in which it had challenged its disqualification in the Multi-Billion dollar GSM Tender. Motorola sources told PTI, In view of the tremendous growth taking place in the telecom sector in the country and BSNL’s petition of capacity constraints toContinue Reading
BSNL and DoT should be Original not Copy Cats
I am wondering what makes the Government officials lazy and copy cats when they have virtually unlimited resources at their disposable to be creative. Few years ago, it was BSNL with its punchline “Connecting India” directly copied from Nokia’s – “Connecting People”. Nokia wants to do business in India and is probably aware of theContinue Reading
Indian Telecom Centres of Excellence
Indian IT Minister has proposed to setup 8 Telecom Centres of Excellence in a unique Public-Private partnership model. The proposed centres will be focus on some vertical of Telecom. Prominent among the eight are – IIT,Chennai along with Reliance Communications Ltd to work on Telecom Infrastructure, Energy and Rural Applications. IIT KharagpurContinue Reading
Nokia Mobile Application Developers Forum
India’s largest handset selling company – Nokia is is a hosting a Free Mobile Application Developers Forum. The event is focused on dev tool – Open C using which you could port your applications to mobile without writing new codes. Also to get your existing portfolio of products to millions of S60 device users. You canContinue Reading
Web 2.0 and the Bandwidth Grids
Couple of days ago, I was a little bit overexcited to write about a Bangalore based company making the best use of Amazon’s Web Services, nothing but Bandwidth Grid, just like your Power Grid. You plug in your application and you are ready to go. Allan Leniwand, venture partner withContinue Reading