Telecom & Broadband Summit & Expo

Last minute notification. Confederation Of Indian Industry is organizing a two day Summit and Expo in Mumbai on 19th and 20th of October, 2005. Highlight of the event is a workshop titled “Generation Next Wireless 3G/UMTS Network”. Telecom & Broadband Summit & Expo Date: 19 – 20 October, 2005 Venue: Hotel Grand Hyatt, Santacruz East, [...]

Other Notable News & Articles

Indian mobile gaming business makes 5% of the global marketThere are more than 20 million gaming-capable handsets in the country. Don`t dump that iPod just yetNice review of the so called “Music Phones” and where they stand against the iPod. ValueFirst and BITS Pilani team up for Mobile Messaging at OasisOrganizers can communicate in addition [...]

Ten Years, Four Ironies

Ibrahim Ahmed of Voice & Data lists out four ironies in the ten years of mobiles in India. He nicely describes the role played by the former, and now forgotten, Telecom Minister Sukhram. Second, and even more interesting, is to know about the person whom Jyoti Basu made the first call. It was Sukhram, the [...]

Wireless Communication and Development

Papers and presentations from the annual workshop organized by the Annenberg Research Network on International Communication. This years topic was “Wireless Communication and Development: A Global Perspective.” Professor Jhunjhunwala of IIT Madras was also one of the presenters. Also check out the research report titled: The Mobile Communication Society – A cross-cultural analysis of available [...]

Increasing rural teledensity

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India plans to raise the teledensity in rural areas from the current 1.9% to 15% by 2007 and has proposed a Rs 8,000 crore subsidy for creating necessary infrastructure. With this kind of subsidy support, it will be possible to install 20,000 base stations in rural areas to cover about 80-90% [...]

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Airtel increases Mobile Office GPRS subscription chargesIt now costs Rs 399 per month with a 100mb download limit. Sony Ericsson plans to bring R&D to IndiaManufacturing facility in China is meeting the Indian demand. Interview with Nortel Networks CTO Phil EdholmHis stature in VoIP solutions, multimedia communications and IP transport technology is evident from the [...]

Lower taxes yield more

A recent report by TRAI says that Indian telecom operators pay between 17% and 26% of their revenues as levies and taxes to the government, as against 5% paid by operators in Indian sub-continent countries and China. The regulator made a case for imposing licence fees and spectrum charges only for the universal service obligation [...]

Desi Mobiles

With 65 million of largely urban subscribers in their fold, operators are speeding towards their target of 250 million. To achieve it, they have to look towards the rural market and next socio-economic bracket of users in urban / semi-urban India. CIOL has a story on handset manufacturers increasing local / regional language support on [...]

Interview with Allen Burnes of Motorola

The Financial Express has an interview with Allen Burnes, VP – High Growth Markets, Mobile Devices. Motorola Mobile Devices has established its High Growth Market (HGM) headquarters in Delhi with the senior management team relocating to India right now. In fact, between 1991 and today, India has emerged as an R&D hub for Motorola. Several [...]

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Event: Mobile Expo 200521 – 24 October 2005, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi Buongiorno Vitaminic SpA of Italy teams with Indiatimes“B2B services such as Mobile marketing and Content distribution to operators, brands and media houses are also under evaluation” said CEO Mahendra Swarup. Kellogg’s Chocos launches branded mobile game in IndiaCoco Racer is developed by Mobile2Win. [...]

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