Other Notable News & Articles

Samsung Elec eyes mobile phone plant in IndiaLooking at potential sites in Noida, near New Delhi, and Mumbai. Motorola’s ODM Compal may enter IndiaCompal produces Motorola’s sub-$40 handsets such as C115, C116, C117. MakeMyTrip.com facilitates booking tickets through mobile phonesTied up with ACL Wireless; Also planning a WAP site. Nokia announces Nokia Business CenterJava-based push [...]

Indiatimes appoints Sukanto Dey as Director of Telecom

Indiatimes has roped in Sukanto Dey as Director of Telecom for mobile-based services. Elaborating on his new assignment, Dey said, “I will be handling short codes, the 8888 service, WAP, GPRS, Indiatimes voice-based service, SMS-based services and the retail business.

Cheaper the better

Kripa Raman writes in Hindu about the low-cost handset market and it being a driver of future mobile growth for operators. Talk to operators and they would claim that a sub-$40 handset (Rs 1,760) will grow their subscriber base by 30 per cent almost instantaneously; and a sub-$30 (Rs 1,320) handset might cause such an [...]

All are invited for BSNL’s tender

More on the $5 billion tender from BSNL for installing additional 60 million GSM lines including 15 million 3G-enabled lines. It has decided to allow all equipment vendors to bid for the tender. BSNL has set aside the recommendations of a high-level committee which had proposed that only the existing vendors – Nokia, Motorola, Nortel, [...]

Other Notable News & Articles

SMS traffic in India to touch 180 billion by 201012.3 billion SMS sent in 2004, according to Portio Research. Conference: Mobile Communications for Value-Added Services13/14 Sep 2005, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi Story on Data-cards offered by Reliance Infocomm, Tata Teleservices and AirtelRs 10,000 for Tata’s V-Card, Rs 14,700 for Reliance’s R Connect Card, and Airtel [...]

Idea figures

Idea Cellular, the country’s fifth-biggest wireless operator, has posted a net profit of Rs 76 crore in FY05 and revenue of over Rs 2,000 crore. It’s subscriber base has grown to 6 million. The AV Birla group recently hiked its stake in Idea Cellular to close to 50% by buying a portion of US cellular [...]

Bloggers Mobile Talk

Just a random collection of posts from the Indian Blogosphere discussing issues related to mobility. Shahab Jafri talks about Mobile Number Portability in India and recommends including mobiles in the amendments to IT Act 2000. Srivatsan Murali has a hilarious post on various situations where a cell phone becomes a headache. According to Hardik, Airtel [...]

God of Mobile Things

Two of India’s top bloggers shoot back at Arundhati Roy, who says in an interview with Reuters that “India’s dying

BSNL plans to roll out 3G by March ’06

Financial Express quotes BSNL chief AK Sinha saying the company is set to start offering 3G mobile services by the end of FY 2005. It plans to launch EDGE by the end of this month. BSNL is preparing the tender for 3G network which will be out in the next three to four weeks. The [...]

Russia’s Sistema interested in Reliance Telecom

Financial Express reports that Russia’s AFK Sistema has approached Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Enterprises controlled Reliance Telecom, to buy out its GSM mobile business. Reliance Telecom has 1.54 million GSM users out of the total 63 million Indian mobile user base. ADAE also runs CDMA-based Reliance Infocomm, which is the third largest mobile operator in India [...]

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