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Show Off Your Fancy Mobile Number – BSNL Lets You Choose One Online

Show Off Your Fancy Mobile Number - BSNL Lets You Choose One Online

If you fancy nice premium looking numbers BSNL’s latest feature might just entice you. State owned telecom operator BSNL has launched a feature that allows you to select your favorite number online from the set of all numbers available in … Read More »

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News: BSNL/MTNL Merger(?), Kishore Biyani to Launch MNVO Service

First announced in 2008, Kishore Biyani is now all set to launch MVNO services (in 6-8 weeks) and will reveal the details in few weeks. MVNOs, as you know do not own spectrum, and buy Minutes of Usage from telecom … Read More »

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News Roundup – Rural Broadband Kiosk, Reliance: Moko, Net Telephony

BSNL’s Rural Broadband Kiosk BSNL plans to setup 30,000 kiosks by 2011 (on a franchisee basis). These kiosks would extend broadband connectivity to those who have no alternative access to the facility, and to those who have little to spend … Read More »

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BSNL Microsoft Partner for Managed SaaS Offering

Saas is in-vogue and while Airtel wants to be your CIO in the cloud, other operators cannot ignore the Saas business. BSNL and Microsoft have inked a three year partnership deal

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India Business Roundup: Loop Telecom Ownership? Vodafone:OnMobile Partnership, BSNL: Nokia for 3G..and more

Vodafone, OnMobile Global enter into VAS agreement Vodafone will use the ringback tones, voice portal and speech-enabled value added services of OnMobile Global in emerging markets. The agreement enables Vodafone operators and Partner Networks across the world to rapidly deploy … Read More »

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OnDemand Entertainment store from BSNL and Hungama

OnDemand Entertainment store from BSNL and Hungama

BSNL and Hungama have announced an on-demand entertainment store (link) that offers popular music, videos and games with a catalogue of over 50,000 songs and 1000 videos across various genres including Bollywood, Devotional, Regional Language content and more. One can … Read More »

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GSM Operators add 9.3mn subscribers in January

The party doesn’t seem to stop – GSM operators have added 9.3mn subscribers in the month of January, 2009. Bharati added 2.73 million subscrbers. Vodafone Essar got 2.4 million new users . Idea Cellular : 2 million and BSNL 1.3 … Read More »

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Telecom Roundup: Reliance’s GSM Goes National, BSNL launches IPTV..and more

BSNL has rolled out IPTV services in 10 cities and is planning to expand to 98 cities by March, 2009. The current charges are Rs. 280 for 150 channels (and Rs. 200/ for 95 channels) – one needs to buy … Read More »

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Telcom Roundup – Reliance to form JV with Alcatel-Lucent, MTN Bid, Dish DTH offers free set-top boxes..and more

Reliance and Alcatel-Lucent are planning a JV for managed network services to manage RCom’s CDMA and GSM networks. Alcatel-Lucent will hold ~67% stake in the newly formed company and will initially focus on providing services to 12 circles in northern … Read More »

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