Telecom operators are under a peer pressure to launch App stores. After Airtel’s app store, and Aircel’s announcement of an about to be launched App store, comes an App store from Vodafone. Vodafone Essar has rolled out its app store and can be accessed by sending a message APP to 111 . There are close...
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Tata Teleservices is on a partnership spree and after partnership with Virgin and DoCoMo, the company has entered into an agreement with retail giant Future Group to offer GSM mobile telephony services under a new brand T24 to tap the customer base of the Kishore Biyani firm.
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3G Auction is facing a serious hurdle, after DoT found out 8 loopholes in the policy. DoT’s finance and wireless wing have questioned the legal implications of having the 3G auctions for CDMA operators in addition to raising concerns over the department’s move to restrict the CDMA auction only to existing players. Fresh entrants in India’s...
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3G Auction will start from Feb 25th and government is expecting Rs. 30K crores from the auction. Spectrum would be allotted in the first week of August and successful bidders would have to make a payment upfront within 15 days of winning 3G licence. – source DoT is also likely to impose a ban on...
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DoT earlier announced adding an extra ‘9’ to mobile numbers from January 2010, in order to increase the number capacity for future growth. And now, TRAI is planning to drop the 11 number plan and instead go for numbers from ‘2’ to ‘9’. While existing mobile numbers will remain intact, this model will lead to...
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3G auction dates have been announced and is scheduled for January, 2010 (as of now). The spectrum will be allotted to winners by August 2010 and the January auction will cater to four slots (via). As we mentioned earlier, the decision (which results in a loss of Rs. 5K crores.) to restrict the auction is...
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The great Indian telecom delay saga is on and mobile number portability which was scheduled for December 31st, 2009 cannot happen before April of 2010.
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Kamlesh a carpenter in Delhi scratches his living out of the dry wood. He complained this morning that his cell phone was not functioning properly for last few days and was unable to reach most of his clients. Normally people like Kamlesh would get work through referrals on his mobile phone. Besides he is...
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Telecom tariff war is in and as we mentioned earlier, Uninor has launched it’s GSM service in India (they are the 8th GSM operator in India). The launch, as the company claims is the largest single day launch in telecom history, as the service is now available to 550 million people, i.e. 7 circles –...
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DoT, after exhausting numbers starting with ‘9’ launched the ‘8’ series and is now planning to move from 10 digit to 11 digit by prefixing the numbers with ‘9’
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Tomorrow is December 1st and as we covered earlier, close to 20-25 million handsets will go defunct from tomorrow as DoT has instructed operators to block cellphones without a valid IMEI number.
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Great Indian 3G Auction has been the Great Indian Delay Story, and there are chances that 3G auction, which was scheduled for January 14th can be delayed by a ‘few weeks’, owing to operational differences between defense and DoT. “..the armed forces have agreed to vacate 25 MHz of 3G spectrum for the auctions by...
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News from Telecom Industry - Mobile Number Portability by December 31st, 16 million wireless connections added in october 2009.
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Atypically this is how I’d prepare for the internet: To set up an engaging internet business (web-application), I would preferably think of companies like Google, Yahoo, Facebook or Twitter to benchmark upon and search for great opensource stuff to start off my application. While to design a plain vanilla website (HTML stuff) that offers...
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Indian telecom industry is going through interesting times – entry of new players like DoCoMo and MTS has changed the entire landscape. After pay per second, the industry is going to witness another tariff war – location based tariff – i.e. one can avail discount on calls made from certain locations (where the network is...
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We earlier covered Google’s plans to bid for WiMAX spectrum and it seems Google is in talks with MTNL to jointly bid for the spectrum. Google will hold 50% stake in the venture (foreign companies can buy up to 74% equity in such a venture). The BWA/WiMAX auction bid starts at Rs. 1,750 Crores and...
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India enjoys the cheapest call rates on mobile phone available in the world. It has helped India enter the mobile revolution skipping the internet revolution (in one sense). This huge penetration of mobile phones in Indian market prompted a lot of companies to mushroom providing services around mobile phones. One such segment were services...
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And while we are in the middle of telecom scam, TRAI has released the subscription numbers and Indian telecom subscription base has touched 500 million mark. Total Telephone subscriber base has reached 509 Million (Wireless subscription reaches 471.7 Million, Wireline subscription declines to 37.3 Million) 14.98 Million new additions in Wireless segment Wireline subscription declines by 0.02...
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Google is planning to participate in India’s WiMAX auction with an Indian partner (the 3G Auction is scheduled for January 14th). As per BS, Google is either looking at broadband wireless access and may participate in the auction or could serve as a technology partner to a telecom service provider (Foreign companies can buy up...
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3G dates have been revised (yet again) and the auction will happen on Jan 14th.
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