Foreign telcos eyeing Shyam Telelink stake

ET reports that Korea Telecom is the front-runner for snapping up a majority stake in Shyam Telelink which operates fixed-line and CDMA-based mobile services in Rajasthan under the Rainbow brand. Korea Telecom is one of the largest global players in the fixed-line broadband space. US-based Sprint, Deutsche Telekom and Sweden-based Telia are also said to [...]

Enterprise mobile security tips

Express computer has a nice article on growing security issues faced by enterprises with an increasing number of employees storing company data on mobile devices. The article quotes a survey where it was discovered that almost 30% of users store their PINs, passwords and other critical information on their handheld devices without enabling the basic [...]

SMS as the new real time TRP tool

Exchange4Media article talks about media companies tracking viewership for their shows before the TRP data comes out by using SMS response as a metric. ActiveMedia Technology is a provider of such mobile services to channels like Aaj Tak, Headlines Today, MTV India, Ten Sports, Janmat, Jaya TV, Total TV, Doordarshan, CNBC-TV18, Sony Television, Discovery Channel [...]

Reliance Infocomm news

ET has a speculative story on Reliance Infocomm’s plans to foray into retailing of consumer electronic products under its own brand name. I can understand Reliance Infocomm vertically integrating and launching mobile phones under their own brand; but consumer electronics sounds incredible! But then, nobody could have foreseen Reliance Petrochemicals when Reliance was a textile [...]

Bluffmaster

Times of India reports that the Bandra police arrested two persons who, under the pretext of selling mobile phones, cheated citizens by selling them soaps inside the phone cartons. Ibrahim Shafi Khan (24) and Sarfaraz Yunus Khan (22) would stand outside Manish market at CST and sell expensive camera-phones at cheap rates. They would brandish [...]

LG betting on upgrades to colour phone

LG has set itself an ambitious growth target of 300% in 2006 by focusing on the upgrade market. LG launched itself in the Indian market by supplying CDMA phones to Reliance Infocomm and becoming numero uno in that segment. But its share in the GSM segment is miniscule. Unlike CDMA, GSM phone manufacturers are not [...]

OneIndia misses one more deadline

The much-awaited ‘OneIndia’ Scheme failed to takeoff at the last minute after the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) cited number of issues, disappointing the Union Minister of Communications Dayanidhi Maran who was keen to announce the launch on the 57th Republic day. This is the second time that the scheduled launch of the service failed [...]

Times Now on Mobile

Times Now, a 24-hour news channel from Times Group & Reuters Service, will put video news on Reliance Infocomm’s R World. Subscribers will be required to pay 3 rupees per day to access Times Now content, or they may opt for a 25 rupees per-month subscription. Video clips will be downloadable at 7-10 rupees per [...]

Job hunting goes mobile

The next time you get a job offer on SMS, don’t be surprised. Naukri.com is launching its mobile version in February across all telecom networks in India. Job seekers will be able to search for jobs on the mobile phone and recruiters can contact relevant candidates through SMS. Kumar Apurva, AVP & National Head (Mobility, [...]

Interconnect exchanges

In order to decongest telecom networks, BSNL is persuading private telecom operators to jointly set up interconnect exchanges. Interconnect exchanges are dedicated exchanges to route telephone calls from one network to another. Currently, a telephone call from one network to another is passed on directly at points of interconnection between the two networks. Once the [...]

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