SK Telecom ends alliance talks with Tata Tele

South Korea’s largest mobile operator SK Telecom has reportedly ended its alliance talks with Tata Teleservices citing disagreement on price. But says it still remains interested in investing in India. There were reports in July that it may pick a 33% stake in Tata Teleservices.

Vodafone buys 10% stake in Bharti

Vodafone Group, one of the largest mobile companies in the world, has entered the Indian telecom scene by acquiring a 10% stake in Bharti Televentures for Rs 6,700 crore ($1.5 billion). Vodafone picked up 5.65% stake from Warburg Pincus and 4.4% through Bharti Enterprises. Bharti Enterprises maintains a controlling interest of 45.9 per cent in [...]

Qualcomm pre-certification lab in Hyderabad

Qualcomm plans to open a pre-certification lab for handset manufacturers in Hyderabad by this year-end. It will enable OEM’s to test their handsets in different environments to meet the CDMA providers’ requirements. At present OEMs normally test handsets on their own, which normally takes around six months. In Qualcomm’s pre-certification centre, OEMs would be able [...]

Other Notable News & Articles

Tata Teleservices crosses 6 million markIn last 40 days, Tata Indicom has added 1 million customers. Mobile music in India shows annual average growth of over 250%From DhaliwalBrown’s “The Future of Mobile Music

Bharti Q2 EBITDA crosses Rs 1,000 cr

Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd has announced un-audited results for the second quarter and half year ended September 30, 2005. It reported consolidated revenues for the quarter ended September 30, 2005 of Rs. 2,709 crores, up 46% Y-o-Y and EBITDA of Rs.1,021 crores, an increase of 47%. The net profit during the quarter was Rs. 521 crores, [...]

Connecting Bharat

Sunil Jain has a good article in Business Standard discussing TRAI’s latest recommendations on rural telephony. Since 2002, the government has levied a cess of 5% on telephone bills to fund rural phones through the Universal Service Obligation fund. The USO Fund collected a whopping Rs 7,254 crore till April but had disbursed only Rs [...]

Comics on R World

Reliance Infocomm users can now enjoy reading comic strips on their mobiles through the Mobile Comics Service launched on R World. Currently available strips, costing Rs 2 per log-on, feature Indian characters Chacha Chowdhary, Biloo & Pinki and the international teen-favourite Archies. I think comic strips on mobile phones make a compelling service. I would [...]

Other Notable News & Articles

Income Tax department to send SMS remindersHT has a story on I-T department’s plans to send reminder SMS for the October 31 deadline for filing tax returns. Indian Mobile Gaming market size is approximately $12-15 millionIndiagames claims 5-6 lakh downloads per month. Comba Telecom starts India officeSells antennas and tower top solutions for BTS for [...]

Trading on Mobiles

Story on the launch of M-Trade application for trading on mobiles. On a related note, Airtel had sometime back launched a mobile stock tracker application. The mobile trading platform also allows investors to get connected using their mobile handset and see the market rates, enter, modify, cancel orders, view their positions and transactions through a [...]

Ericsson to set up R&D centre in India

Ericsson has announced that it will invest several hundred million dollars every year in India. It will set-up a new R&D center in Chennai besides building a Global Services Delivery Centre (GSDC) in Gurgaon. It will convert its India NOC (National Operating Centre) to regional NOC (RNOC) for Asia-Pacific customers. Ericsson already has a manufacturing [...]

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