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Openera’s PPVS

Bangalore based Openera Technologies, a developer of IMS mobile client applications for fixed and mobile operators, announced the commercial availability of its peer-to-peer video sharing application with integrated presence, enabling mobile phone users to talk with and view fellow callers simultaneously. It has partnered with Lucent Technologies, which is delivering the product to market as [...]

1900 Mhz band for CDMA players

Parliamentary Committee has recommended that the government allot the crucial 1,900 Mhz spectrum to CDMA operators.
“All efforts should be made to allot as much spectrum as the government can in 800/1,900 Mhz for the CDMA operators and the 900/1,800 Mhz for the GSM players for the expansion of telecom services”, Standing Committee on IT (2005-06) [...]

BSNL-MTNL

The government is reconsidering the issue of merger between BSNL and MTNL on the basis of suggestions made by a financial consultant appointed by the Centre.
Since BSNL and MTNL had been owned by the government, a need was felt that merger between the two would give more operational synergy. While BSNL is fully owned by [...]

Tata Tele recharges itself

Tata Tele’s “insaan phone leta hai tarakki karne ke liye

Sasken asked to pay $1.5 mn in damages

The London Court of International Arbitration has ordered Sasken Communication to pay close to $1.15 million to one of its customers 3G.com. The Tribunal has ordered that Sasken shall pay 3G.com, damages in the sum of $1.15 million in addition to the legal and other costs in the sum of $173,760. Sasken shall also bear [...]

Stay mobile for Rs 999

Airtel has come out with a life-time validity plan for prepaid users, which could be availed by paying a one-time fee of Rs 999. So a pre-paid user can continue to receive incoming calls for life after a single recharge, as against the current system of restricted validity, based on the recharge package.
As per the [...]

Orascom gets foothold in India

A month after Vodafone stepped into India through a stake in Bharti, its arch rival Orascom Telecom has got a foothold in the country.
The Cairo-based telecom major Orascom Telecom has picked up a 19.3% stake in the Hong Kong-based Hutchison Telecom, which holds a 42% stake in Hutchison Essar.
Orascom Telecom Chief Executive Officer Naguib Swiris, [...]

Brand Orange

SloganMurugan, a copywriter by profession, has a blogpost on the erstwhile Orange brand.
Like vada pav and Midday, dance bars and bhai-log, it’s a Mumbai thing. And last month it made a quiet exit. Orange, a cell phone service provider brand from Europe that became an integral part of the organism called Mumbai, changed its [...]

Made in India Motorola for Rs 1700

World’s second largest maker of mobile phones, Motorola, on Thursday launched its first ‘Made in India’ handset, the C115, for Rs 1,700.
C115 is a mass market phone with high battery life and Hindi messaging capability. The company has bagged a bulk deal from Hutch for the C115.
Commenting on the `Made-in-India’ tag, he said, “The designing [...]

Maxis may buy 26% of Aircel

Business Standard reports that Malaysian telco Maxis Communications Berhad may pay $280 million (Rs 1,265.32 crore) for a 26% stake in the C Sivasankaran-controlled Aircel Ltd.
At an enterprise value of $1.07 billion (Rs 4835.3 crore), the Malaysian company will be paying about $496 (around Rs 22,414) per subscriber for the deal. The valuation is much [...]

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