Other Notable News and Articles

OneIndia becomes effective from March 1Had gone to MTNL asking for a change of plan. But their computers are apparently not ready for it yet.
Tata Tele may break even in mid-2006Its user base is close to touching 5 million.
SavaJe confirms partnership with HCL TechnologiesTo enhance engineering development resource for its Java ME-based operating platform for [...]

Economic survey 2005-06 on Telecom

Taking stock of progress made on the telecom infrastructure front, through the eyes of the economic survey of 2005-06.

The last fiscal was another year of reckoning for the telecom sector. Explosive growth rate in the mobile telephony segment was almost counterbalanced by sedate growth of the fixed line and broadband businesses. Pressure on tariffs continued [...]

Wireless is Jammed, Please take the Wired route

In order to manage the spectrum bandwidth crunch, DoT is asking non-commercial users such as defence agencies to switch to wired communication and use optical cable.
It is not only the non-commercial users but also the private cellular operators who are hit by the spectrum crunch. DoT is asking them to exploit optical fibre resources to [...]

Telekom Malaysia to buy 49% in Spice

ET reports that Telekom Malaysia will take a 49% stake in Spice Telecom, with BK Modi retaining his 51% controlling interest.
Telekom Malaysia will be buying out Ashmore Investments and Deutsche Bank’s stake in the company, who had picked up the strategic stake held by Singapore-based Distacomm.
With the company’s net valuation pegged at roughly $400m, the [...]