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Nikhil writes that Anil Ambani backed BigAdda.com [Alpha] has gone live but still in Invite only mode. Sure this is no big innovation [atleast for now], but Anil Ambani has set his eye sight to become the world’s media baron. Fortune & Forbes will find it irresistible to write about Anil Ambani’s growth from MobileContinue Reading

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Nokia and Siemens have meregd their network division and the entity is also the biggest benificiary of BSNL’s megatender. Nokia-Siemens’ chief, Ashish Chowdhary said that it is not too late for Indian Telcos to go the 3G way. Here is an official document that gives you more insight on Bangalore Unwired project. [PDF]Continue Reading

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At the end of Q1 [March – 2007], the GSM Mobile Service Providers Market share looks like as shown below Bharti-Airtel is the largest wireless service provider with a market share of 30.63% followed by state owned BSNL  controlling 22.53% of the GSM market. Vodafone-Essar is just behind BSNL with 21.77%Continue Reading

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Just a while ago, Bharti Airtel released its results for FY07 [Ending March-31st]. It has 37 Million Wireless subscribers and 1.87 Million Broadband and Wireline subscribers. I was frantically searching for broadband subscribers. Report  says,  32% of Broadband & Wirleline subscribers are also subscribing to Broadband. This tells us that, Airtel has 0.59 Million BroadbandContinue Reading

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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

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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

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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

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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