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Edward Zander of Motorola in India

Motorola Chief Executive Edward Zander is visiting India. He said on Tuesday that Motorola may manufacture mobile phone handsets in India.
Zander said Motorola is planning to launch a new range of mobile phones this fall, including models priced below 2,000 rupees to expand its customer base.
‘We are going to be back with a vengeance. I [...]

Reliance Infocomm campaign floods

Article on agencyfaqs critiquing the recent ad campaign by Reliance Infocomm touting the benefits of its services for its customers during the recent Mumbai floods.
Of all the operators, networks of Reliance and Airtel faced lower downtimes. But going by their overall performance, there didn’t seem to be much put into contingency planning or disaster recovery [...]

Bharti awards Nokia Rs 580cr contract

Bharti Televentures has awarded Nokia a $125 million contract to provide it with managed services over a three-year period and expand its network in eight circles including Mumbai, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Bihar, Jharkhand and Orissa. The deal will help Bharti to increase network coverage to more than 5,000 towns from around 3,000 at present.
This is not [...]

Mobile STD rates set to dip 10%

ET reports about a DoT policy directive to TRAI saying the access deficit charge should be levied on the basis of a percentage share of annual revenue and not on a per-minute basis. Under the existing ADC policy, operators have to pay 30 paise as ADC to the government for every minute of STD call. [...]

Air Deccan deploys NG Pay

Budget Airline, Air Deccan is launching a facility where consumers can pay for or reshedule their flights through mobiles. It has forged an alliance with Bangalore-based Jigrahak Mobility Solutions.

Airtel launches

On the eve of the completion of 10 years of mobile telephony in India, Airtel has declared launch of a developer programme called the

Nokia to host investor event in India

Nokia’s first ever global investor meet in India will be held in New Delhi on August 25, to coincide with the 10th anniversary of mobile telephony in India. The event is aimed at global investors, financial and industry analysts from a number of global investment banks, financial institutions and research houses.
Nokia’s operations in India include [...]

IIM students gaze into India’s mobile future

Few ideas from students participating in ‘Vertical Limits‘, a day-long discussion on the future of telecom industry in the country.
The students also pointed out that the penetration of telephones in the urban sector was 15 times higher than rural and urged companies to turn their attention to this ‘vast untapped market’.
“As of now, around 27 [...]

Other Notable News & Articles

Reliance Info launches international roamingAgreements with China Unicon, Sprint PCS (USA), Pelephone Cellular (Israel), Mobile-8 (Indonesia), Telecom Mobile (NZ)
Telecom link to all 6 lakh villages by 2006Currently 5,40,000 of the 6,00,000 villages are connected
You say you have the lowest charges in the worldWe heard the same thing ten years ago from Indian Airlines
Cell operators plan [...]

10 years of Mobiles

Times of India is carrying a story on the 10th anniversary of introduction of Mobiles in India.
Not so long ago, owning a phone was a luxury. Things have changed drastically. Says Bharti CMD Sunil Mittal:
“There is nothing more moving than seeing a carpenter talking business on his mobile, or a fisherman trying to sell his [...]

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