Idea’s Mumbai plans hits a roadblock

Idea’s plan to roll out services in Mumbai is likely to face some roadblocks due to the unavailability of spectrum in the circle. Existing players like Hutchison Essar, BPL Mobile and Bharti Tele-Ventures are waiting for additional spectrum in Mumbai. Although they are eligible to get additional spectrum of 1.8 mhz, after their subscriber base [...]

Aircel in talks with Malaysian telcos

ET speculates that Aircel is in discussions with Malaysian telcos, Maxis Communications and Telekom Malaysia with the intention of inducting a strategic partner. The size of the transaction is expected to exceed $700 million. Of the two telcos, Maxis is believed to be closer to clinching the deal. When contacted by ET, top sources at [...]

Telecom Sector Update

Check out the report “Telecom Sector Update – November 2005″ on India Infoline for a good roundup of the state of industry and some stats, graphs and news.

Cricket tickets via Hutch

In association with Gujarat Cricket Association and Converge Labs, Hutch is offering m-tickets (mobile tickets) for the India vs. Sri Lanka match at Motera through SMS. “Mobile users should register himself at www.convergelabs.com/gca on the basis of credit card and its expiry date, from where customer will get MPIN, a unique mobile pin number through [...]

Hutch challenges Airtel on mobile mail

Comprehensive article by Surajeet Das Gupta in Business Standard on the competiton between Airtel’s Blackberry and Hutch Mail. Hutch had announced its mobile push mail service HutchMail, in August this year. But there was hardly any visibility of the product after that. But looks like there are interesting times ahead in the enterprise mobile segment. [...]

Maran’s IndiaOne plan

Writing in Financial Express, S Sadagopan is bullish about Dayanidhi Maran’s IndiaOne plan and its effect on the telecom userbase. The article gives a nice backdrop of the Indian telecom market and a good overview of the IndiaOne plan and related issues. The ever-enthusiastic IT minister, Dayanidhi Maran, has been talking of a countrywide uniform [...]

Brand makeover of Airtel

ET reports that Airtel is undergoing a major image bolstering process that will touch its customers, employees and business partners. It is touted as an inward transformation by raising the service and consumer experience bar. London-based WPP group company Enterprise Business & Brand Engagement has been given the mandate for the transformation. The Rs-8,000 crore [...]

Mobile manufacture banks on India

Financial Express article on global telecom manufacturers like Samsung, Motorola, Nokia and LG setting up manufacturing facilities in India. Of the expected 810 million global mobile phone sales this year, India is expected to account for about 34 million. A large percentage of mobile handsets market in the country is the below Rs 4000 category [...]

Airtel launches Rs10 credit pack

’10 on Demand’ is an innovative scheme launched by Airtel in Gujarat. Prepaid users whose talktime has expired can dial 888 to get emergency talktime worth Rs 10, which will be deducted in next recharge. This top up amount will be available only once till customer recharges again. “This emergency value added service which customer [...]

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