COAI protests against Tata Tele’s ‘non-stop mobile’ plan

GSM industry body COAI has approached the Government against Tata Tele’s “Non-stop mobile” pre-paid tariff plan that allows users to receive incoming calls for two years even after exhausting the talktime. As per the scheme, although the subscriber will not be able to make outgoing calls after exhausting talktime, he will be able to receive [...]

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60% of mobile sales are now of colour phones BSNL serves notice to Huawei for undelivered CDMA equipment BSNL raises equipment order size to 60-70 million linesThe equipment installation contract would run for two and a half years. India declines Pak request for cross-LoC mobile servicesBut said a direct telecom connection could be set up [...]

FDI cap in Telecom raised to 74%

Information Broadcasting Minister Jaipal Reddy said the Cabinet had raised the limit on foreign investment in telecom service firms to 74% from 49%. The move met a long-standing demand from the cash-starved industry, which is looking to tap overseas money to fund nationwide expansion plans. The telecom ministry says the sector needs $20 billion to [...]

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National Telecom Policy-2005 to admit Fixed Wireless Phones as fixed servicesReprieve for providers like BSNL, MTNL, Reliance Infocomm and Tata Tele. MocoNews: Brojo Pillai, co-founder PurpleAce, on content discovery problem on mobiles and recommendations as a solutionPurpleAce and Mobile2Win have a common investor in Siemens Acceleration in Communications. Tracking solutions from Taco MobiAppsUses GSM cell [...]

Chota Recharge Bada Headache

Hutch recently introduced recharge coupons (Chota Recharge-Puri Baat) having full talk-time and no access fee. The top-up coupons range from Rs 10-198 and offer full talk-time if the customer opts to recharge the pre-paid account within the validity period. One can recharge any number of times within the vailidity period without paying an extra access [...]

Towns and rural markets driving growth

Rural and semi-urban India are not the mobile markets of the future. They are the present; already taking a lead. Cellular growth over the last 12 months has been largely driven by subscriber additions in smaller towns and rural markets. The Indian cellular market has witnessed an average growth of 3.5% per month during the [...]

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Event: BREW 2005 Developers Conference – IndiaOctober 26-27 at the Grand Hyatt in Mumbai. C-DAC launches course on wireless and mobile computing24-week diploma course conducted by Advanced Computing Training School. Ratan Tata to head TTSLThe incumbent Firdose Vandrewala quit the top post Fake mobile phone bill collection agency bustedFake collection centre for Reliance mobile phone [...]

Distacom exits from Spice Telecom

Hong Kong-based Distacom, which held 42% stake in Spice, has sold its stake. With the exit of Distacom, Spice would up its stake in the company from the existing 22% to 36%. “We would like to increase this stake further to 51 percent and be the majority holder.

Essar buys Max’s stake in Hutch-Essar

Continuing its acquisition drive in the telecom sector, the Essar Group clinched a deal to buy 3.16% stake of Max India in Hutchison Essar Telecom for Rs 657 crore putting the valuation of the telecom firm at close to Rs 21,000 crore. “We have the option of increasing our stake up to 37 per cent [...]

Sirf Baat Mat Karo

I was impressed with new Nokia 6600 TV advertisement. It came after the Ajay-Kajol ad for Tata Tele, which positioned the utility of the phone as just talking. The Nokia ad not only makes that position look old style but also breaks it by demonstrating the multimedia capabilities of the smartphone. It is necessary to [...]

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