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Maxis and Reddys buy out Aircel

Malaysia’s largest telecom company Maxis Communications, in partnership with Apollo Hospitals promoter Reddys, will buy Aircel for $1.08 billion. Maxis plans to list Aircel.
Maxis will take a direct 65% stake in Aircel by spending $702m. It will hold the remaining stake indirectly through a joint venture, owned 74% by Apollo and 26% by Maxis.
This implies [...]

OneIndia and Number portability opposed

Two proposals which if implemented can change the dynamics of the market and are a boon to the consumers are being opposed by government controlled entities.
BSNL opposes IndiaOne:
Government-owned BSNL has opposed Union communications minister Dayanidhi Maran’s proposal for OneIndia tariff. It has said that the company would lose over Rs 4,500 crore per annum and [...]

Things to watch out for in the New Year

ET predicts: “The next year is set to spell good news for all

Mauj launches games in Indian language

As part of its “Indianization” initiative, Mauj Telecom has launched mobile games in Hindi and 7 regional languages including Marathi, Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Urdu.
The 3 games developed by Mauj - “Mastibhari Udaan,” “Saahas Ka Yudh,” and “Jaanbaaz” are aimed at making mobile game play easier for mobile users in B and C [...]

No wrong in accounts: Bharti

Seeking to put a lid over the controversy involving its accounting practice, Bharti Tele-Ventures has asserted that it had done no wrong in adopting international accounting system GAAP. Media reports stated that post corrections Bharti’s losses for the three years (ending 2004) were Rs 2002 crore as against Rs 221 crore profit stated by it [...]

Brightstar Telecom India

Brightstar Corporation, a $2 billion supply chain management company for the mobile industry has launched its operations in India. It provides partners with product distribution, inventory management and logistics services.
Brightstar’s presence will provide increased availability of products and value-added services to wireless network operators, agents, dealers and retailers who serve the wireless telephony market [...]

m-commerce in India

ET story on potential of m-commerce in India.
Reliance Infocomm and Bharti Tele-Ventures are the early movers in the market, which offer m-commerce services such as bill payment and ticket purchases. Reliance’s mobile payment facility offers services such as paying monthly bills, book railway and airline tickets and book movie tickets.
Airtel, ICICI Bank and VISA have [...]

5 operators launch lifetime validity

After Airtel’s lifetime validity offer, four more telecom operators - MTNL, Idea, Reliance and Hutch have also jumped on the bandwagon.
Idea and MTNL announced the launch of

Spectrum woes for operators

Spectrum is turning out to be the biggest bottleneck for Indian mobile operators as they grapple with network problems, poor voice quality and dropped calls.
GSM operators initially get 4.4 MHz of spectrum while CDMA operators get 2.5 MHz of spectrum. In case of GSM, operators with 10 lakh or more subscribers are eligible for [...]

Chalta Rahe

Close on the heels of Airtel launching a life-time prepaid card, Hutch today announced a similar lifetime validity scheme for its prepaid subscribers at Rs 999.
It will also offer full talktime on all future recharges and customers can subsequently top-up with any amount and get full talktime.
But as Vinu pointed, you still need to recharge [...]

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