High Court clips TRAI’s wings

Dismissing TRAI’s petition questioning TDSAT’s jurisdiction to entertain the appeals against the regulator’s decision, the Delhi High Court today said its regulations, other than those specifically listed in Section 36 of the Trai Act, on issues like the access-deficit charge and interconnection, were mere decisions on which Telecom Dispute Settlement Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) was empowered [...]

Airwide launches India operations

Airwide Solutions, a mobile infrastructure software provider, announced its entry into the Indian market with plans for a R&D and operations centre in Gurgaon. Airwide will be serving the India market with its portfolio of messaging, mobile security and device management products, as well as business intelligence tools and solutions to drive premium messaging services. [...]

ZTE seeks nod for retail foray

ZTE Telecom India, the wholly owned subsidiary of ZTE Corporation of China, has sought the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) approval for diversification into after-sales telecom equipment service, cash and carry wholesale trading and hi-tech equipment trading. The company proposes to provide after-sales services in the country directly and through authorised service agents to Indian [...]

Unbelievable numbers

Rashmi Bansal collates all the numbers in all the articles on mobile gaming that are mushrooming in the media recently. She does a good job of bringing out the inconsistency in numbers and the apparent lack of fact-checking when using the numbers dished out by industry players. Minus the PR generated hype, I do believe [...]

Time runs out for the wristwatch

Another gadget becomes the victim of the mobile phone. This time its the wristwatch. According to the Journal Sentinel, all the cool dudes and dudettes are refusing to wear their time on their wrists and are just looking at their cell phones instead. “I see our business going down because of it,” says Chuck Reardon, [...]

WOW LG Centres

LG India is planning to open WOW LG download centres across India offering users free downloads-ringtones, wallpapers, games “without pinching their pockets”. We are putting an investment of about Rs one lakh for each such store apart from the land cost,

Republic day to usher in OneIndia

BSNL, Tata Teleservices, Hutch and Airtel are readying for the rollout of

Indo-Pak live commentary on Airtel

Airtel has launched an Indo-Pak cricket pack which offers access to free live commentary for the one-day matches and free sms alerts for test matches. The cost of the Airtel Indo-Pak cricket pack is Rs 99 and the customer needs to call a toll-free number 646601 to listen to the free live commentary of the [...]

Indian Games Industry and Trade Association formed

India’s leading gaming companies, including Dhruva Interactive, Electronic Arts, Hungama, Indiagames, Mauj, Microsoft India (Entertainment & Devices Division), Mobile2Win, Paradox Studios, Small Device and Tinfo Mobile, have formed the Indian Games Industry and Trade Association (iGITA). Vishal Gondal, CEO, Indiagames, said, that despite having a large talent pool of artists, programmers and designers, “ironically, the [...]

Vodafone puts its top names on Bharti board

Vodafone has appointed heads of some of its biggest businesses as nominees on the board of Bharti Tele-Ventures. The world’s largest mobile service operator by revenues, is being represented on the Bharti board by Bill Morrow, president of Vodafone KK, Vodafone’s Japanese business, and Gavin Darby, chief executive of Vodafone America, Africa and China. Gavin [...]

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