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Avaya IP Telephony Seminar Date: 18 April 2006, Tuesday Venue: The Grand, New Delhi Date: 20 April 2006, Thursday Venue: The Leela Palace, Bangalore Date: 21 April 2006, Friday Venue: Grand Hyatt, Mumbai The Mobile Enterprise: Convergence & Mobility Strategies 2006 Date: 20 April 2006, Thursday Venue: The Leela Kempinski, Mumbai Forum Nokia India Tech [...]

Nepal clampdown deals blow to Indian telecom interests

Indian joint venture United Telecom Ltd (UTL) received a fresh blow this week with the government shutting down its limited mobility wireless services, introduced a couple of weeks back. UTL, a joint venture between India’s Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd, Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd and Telecommunications Consultants India as well as Nepali partner Nepal Venture Private [...]

Malaysia’s Khazanah eyes Idea stake

Malaysian interest in Indian telecom does not seem to be ending. After the Maxis – Aircel and Telekom Malaysia – Spice deals, there are reports that Malaysia’s state investment firm – Khazanah Nasional Bhd is in talks to buy a one-third stake in Idea Cellular. Khazanah might take up a 33% stake conglomerate Aditya Birla [...]

ADC affects BSNL’s net profit

ET reports that BSNL is likely to register a lower profit of upto Rs 8,000 crore in 2005-06 compared to over Rs 10,000 crore in the previous year. The dip is attributed to lower levy (Access Deficit Charge) received from private operators and lower reimbursement of their license fee paid to Government. The ADC was [...]

Private telcos capture 40% of PCOs

The monopoly of BSNL and MTNL in PCOs is fast eroding with private operators like Bharti, Tata Tele and Reliance Info now accounting for close to 40% of PCOs in India. BSNL’s market share in this segment, which was over 74% in September 2004 has come down to 54% as of December 2005. According to [...]

21 million 3G users in 2007

According to a report prepared by CII and Yankee Group, commercial launch of 3G will happen in 2007 and its user base would grow to 21 million by 2010. The report predicts a total of 201 million mobile users by 2010 which is significantly lower than other industry estimates of 250-275 million users. By then [...]

Induslogic buys Lambent

Lambent Technologies, a Nagpur based mobile development company has been bought by Delhi-based Induslogic for an undisclosed sum. Lambent’s CEO Shashikant Chaudhary prefers to call it a “merger

Birlas to buy out Tatas from Idea for Rs 4406 cr

The Aditya Birla group on Monday announced its intention to acquire the Tata group’s 48.14% stake in India’s fifth-largest operator Idea Cellular. The Aditya Birla group will hold 98.3% after the acquisition. The deal estimates Idea to have an equity value of about Rs 9,000 crore. This is a sharp jump from the valuation of [...]

Telecom subscriber base reaches 140 million

According to the latest figures from TRAI, gross telecom subscribers base touched 140 million at the end of March, 2006. The month of March 2006 saw total new additions of 5.33 million. 5.03 million mobile additions 3.78 million new GSM subscribers 1.25 million new CDMA subscribers 0.30 million new fixed line subscribers The total mobile [...]

GSM user base grows by 3.9 mn in March

The GSM user base witnessed the highest ever record 5.95% growth in March 2006, with the addition of 3.9 million new subscribers. With this, the GSM subscriber base in the country has increased to 69.06 million. Bharti = 19.6 million total, 1.1 million new, 28.35% market share BSNL = 17.2 million total, 1.1 million new, [...]

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