3G is a year away in India

CTO of Reliance Infocomm, BM Jain says that 3G services are a year in India away since there is no customer demand for it yet.
“In the initial stage we would start it in metros than mega cities and than across the country as it does not fulfil the requirement of customers in towns and villages,” [...]

BSNL culprit for congestion: TRAI

BSNL is mainly responsible for the increasing congestion between networks of cellular operators on points of interconnection (PoI), a main reason for poor call quality, regulator TRAI has said in a report.
Worst case scenarios where congestion level on PoI is 40 per cent or more have been experienced across the country from Patna to Patiala [...]

25 lakh phones surrendered

Minister of State for IT and Telecom Shakeel Ahmad told Rajya Sabha that 23.02 lakh lines of BSNL and 1.92 lakh lines of MTNL have been surrendered in the current fiscal till October 31, 2005.
Looks like the FWPs are continuing to steal the landline customers from BSNL and MTNL. The total number of FWP subscribers [...]