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The High court of Delhi has asked BSNL not to award the contracts of it’s mega tender until Nov-16th when it will retake the case of Motorola’s disqualification. Motorola has challenged BSNL’s decision. Recall, when mobile telephony licensing was thrown open, Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd had won the bids for allContinue Reading

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TRAI has released a consultation paper, “Improvements in the effectiveness of NIXI“[PDF]. NIXI was established to interconnect all the ISPs in India such that local traffic could be routed effectively. However, TRAI has observed that, Limited number of ISPs have joined NIXI resulting in sub optimal utilization of NIXI’s infrastructure.Continue Reading

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Anil Ambani controlled, Reliance Communications Ltd today announced at an analysts conference that it has bagged enterprise data business from the global internet majors Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Reliance will provide the GYM companies bandwidth connectivity and data managed services from India. It’s nice to see the convergence of global internet giants at Reliance dataContinue Reading

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Reliance Communications Limited announced its results for the second quarter ended Sept-2006. As reported by the press, it had income of Rs3526 crores and a net profit of 702 crores. However, the Bombay Stock exchange website lists income of Rs2838.6 crores and a net profit of Rs496.52 crores. So who isContinue Reading

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In order to boost bottomlines, Cellcos in India are concentrating on Value Added Services by tying up with ISVs. SMS is already a big hit in India and consumers are using them to get stock/sports update to book their weekend movie tickets and much more. Mobile service providers are just aContinue Reading

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Spice Telecom started its operations in the states of Karnataka and Punjab in 1997; One of the first companies to get licenses and begin operations. Spice has done well in Punjab but gets a C Minus for its performance in Karnataka. In Karnataka it has mere 500,000 subscribers in 9Continue Reading

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Disruptive technologies have always bled the Telcos all around the world. At the end of September-2006, India had mere 1.7 Million broadband subscribers and a whopping 120 Million Mobile Phone Subscribers. To correct this imbalance, TRAI has recommended a BWA policy[PDF] according to which any Telco can get an all India WiMax licenseContinue Reading