Other Notable News & Articles

Mats Granryd to head Ericsson IndiaHe was the President of Ericsson Mobile Systems – CDMA Business Unit in San Diego, USA. XLRI ties-up with Reliance WebworldLaunches PG programme on virtual classroom e-learning platform. Sasken to invest Rs 126cr to set up another Bangalore development centerNoki Growth Partners and Nortel Networks have stakes worth $3 mln [...]

Airtel to invest Rs 250 cr in Andhra

What is noteworthy in the article are a couple of tidbits: Airtel is present in 2,800 towns as of June 2005, and the target by the end of FY 2005-06 is to cover 5,000 towns. Goal is to be present in all villages with around 10,000+ population. Installed around 10,000 base stations in the past [...]

Huawei to invest $100 million in Bangalore facility

Chinese telecom giant Huawei Telecommunications plans to set up a manufacturing unit with a $60 million and an R&D centre with a $40 million investment in Bangalore. The proposed investment would increase Huawei’s total capital infusion in India to $200 million. The funding would also make it the second Chinese company, after Zhongxing Telecom, to [...]

60 million mobile subscribers

According to recently released numbers by TRAI, the number of mobile subscribers stood at 59.83 million at the end of July 2005. The growth in subscribers accelerated with 2.45 million new additions in July ’05 as compared to 1.98 million in June ’05. In the fixed segment, a total of 0.27 million were added during [...]

More on Moblogs

Rajesh Jain linked to the post Moblogs in India on his blog Emergic. Vasanthi’s comment on Emergic: But dont you think that the category of people who can blog have a pc and net connection either in office or home. Though the mobile penetration is very high compared to pc. Mobile is used by a [...]

Hutch figures

Some interesting numbers from a media briefing held by Hutchison Whampoa CEO Dennis Lui. The most important is that Hutchison generates nearly half of its revenues from India. With so much at stake Hutch is definitely a long term, serious player in India. Though India doesn’t occupy the same position in SingTel’s bouquet of investments, [...]

BSNL eyes Rs 500cr VAS revenues

Business Standard reports that BSNL is targeting more than 10 times increase in its revenues from value-added services in 2005-06. In the last fiscal, BSNL earned revenues of Rs 45 crore from VAS like ringtones, news and cricket scores among others. This fiscal, it is expecting to up this number to Rs 500 crore. The [...]

Moblogs in India

Blogging is at a nascent stage in India and there aren’t a huge number of blogs in the country. This is because the current set of blogging service providers like blogger.com are PC-centric. You are expected to have two things in order to blog – a PC and an internet connection. Which unfortunately aren’t many [...]

Tata Tele figures

Tata Teleservices Maharashtra and its holding company Tata Teleservices, which have a combined user-base of around 1.2 million, is hoping to increase its subscriber base by five-fold within this financial year to 5 million. In the fixed wireless segment, its brand Walky already has a 70 per cent incremental market share as on June 30, [...]

Setback for COAI Walky petition

The GSM operators bid to support BSNL against the alleged bypass of access deficit charge by fixed wireless services offered by Tata Teleservices (Walky) received a setback, as two of its members have decided against joining the corporate war. Idea and Aircel have decided to stay away from the intervention petition filed by the Cellular [...]

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