Nokia to distribute handsets in India on its own

Nokia will start distributing mobile phones in India on its own and split the phone distribution business with its current distributor HCL Infosystems. The Espoo, Finland-based Nokia, which will begin distributing wireless handsets in India for the first time, will take away about 50% of the phone distribution business from HCL Infosystems in about two [...]

Hutch-BPL merger hits a roadblock

ET reports that he Hutchison Essar-BPL Mobile merger in the Mumbai circle has hit a roadblock as the composite (direct plus indirect) foreign shareholding in Hutch is said to be around 77%, which is in excess of the allowed 74% FDI limit. The foreign shareholding in the holding companies owning stakes in telecom operators count [...]

Samsung India’s handset plant on stream

The world’s third-largest mobile phone maker, Samsung has announced that its Indian handset plant has begun production. Samsung’s $15 million-plant on the outskirts of New Delhi will produce 1 million units per year, and capacity will be ramped up to 20 million units annually by 2010. It will act as a sourcing hub for Southwest [...]

Reliance Info writes off Rs 4500 crores

Reliance Infocomm has decided to write-off Rs 4,500 crore for liabilities relating to “regulatory and taxation matters, bad debts and irrecoverable amounts, obsolete and slow moving inventories and impairment of assets.” The Boards of Directors of Reliance Infocomm and Reliance Communications Infrastructure Ltd, the two major operating companies under Reliance Communications Ventures Ltd, approved the [...]

Jataayu announcements

Bangalore based mobile handset and VAS infrastructure solutions provider Jataayu Software has released the jB5 web browser for mobiles with its Adaptive Rendering Technology (ART) and has reported winning the first major customer for it. This will help mobile users receive pushed content, confirmed downloads and even use voice over IP to make calls over [...]

Reliance Tele in $100 mn deal with Motorola

Reliance Telecom, the GSM services arm of ADAE group which also owns CDMA provider Reliance Infocomm, has put together a network and infrastructure equipment deal worth under $100 million with Motorola. As part of the deal, Motorola is expected to supply mobile switches, 3,000-4,000 base stations and related infrastructure to Reliance Telecom at one of [...]

PIL makes Operators spring into action against telemarketers

The days of those irritating and unwanted calls from telemarketers trying to sell you a credit card or a personal loan seem to be numbered. Top cellular operators are moving to weed out telemarketing calls from their networks. The initiative to weed the

NMS Communications to acquire Openera Technologies

US based NMS Communications, a provider of infrastructure technologies and applications platforms to operators has acquired Bangalore based Openera Technologies, a provider of mobile application handset solutions for converged mobile networks. Completion of the transaction is expected to occur within the next few weeks, for consideration of $16.4 million in stock, approximately 51% of which [...]

OneIndia worries PCO owners

With STD tariffs being reduced to as low as Re 1, PCO booth owners have expressed concern over the lower commission due to a decrease in overall revenues from long-distance calls. PCO booth-owners get a fixed commission from the telecom companies depending on the total revenues generated. They said BSNL should provide an alternative package [...]

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