Subhash Menon on Subex

ET has an interview with Subhash Menon, founder and Chairman of Subex Systems. Subex acquired UK based Azure, the largest player in the revenue assurance space, a couple of weeks ago. Subex is a $40-m company and is making an acquisition that is a stock-plus-cash deal exceeding $140 million. Subex and Azure offer revenue assurance [...]

BarCamp Mumbai

Am BarCamping at IIT Powai today. Will present on “Mobiles, Micro-content and Moblogs” and also give a demo of our moblogs product – Mofotu.

3.9 million mobile users added in April

India added 3.9 million mobile (GSM and CDMA) mobile users in April, dowm from 5.14 million new connections in March. The mobile user base grew to 94.44 million, more than the combined population of Germany and Greece. The Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India (AUTSPI) declared that CDMA operators added 974,360 users in [...]

Swiss ByCell set to become ninth GSM operator

ET reports that Geneva based ByCell Holding will establish a 74:26 joint venture with Hyderabad-based Jayalakshmi Group to become the ninth GSM-based cellular operator in the crowded Indian market. The telco will set up a subsidiary in India and invest $100m (Rs 450 crore) over the next 3-5 years. ByCell, when it rolls out services, [...]

18 lakh GPRS users in Gujarat

If this report from Business Standard is to be believed, there are 18 lakh GPRS users in Gujarat alone! So what would be the total number 0f GPRS users in India? GSM subscriber base crossed the mark of 50 lakh recently in the state. Operators have witnessed a growth on an average of around 200% [...]

GSM user growth slows down in April

April saw the GSM user additions in India go below 3 million users mark for the first time in 2006. According to the subscriber figures released by the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), the GSM user base touched 72.12 million in April, up from 69.2 million in March. Bharti = 20.68 million BSNL = [...]

Reliance bidding for Egyptian company

Step aside Orascom, India’s largest CDMA operator Reliance is now eyeing the Egyptian mobile market. The company has formed a consortium with Egypt-based Arab Computer Manufacturing Co, a subsidiary of Mohammad Kharafi and Sons Co, and is among the 11 bidders that have been shortlisted by Egypt’s National Telecom Regulatory Authority for the country’s third [...]

Asim Ghosh writes to PM in spectrum wars

Ratan Tata recently wrote to PM Manmohan Singh demanding equal allotment of spectrum for CDMA and GSM. Following which Hutchison Essar MD Asim Ghosh has also written to the PM and Bharti Airtel MD Sunil Mittal is also planning to write to the PM on the matter. At present, spectrum is allocated in a 2:1 [...]

Insurance companies shying away from mobiles

If your phone is stolen or damaged, you may not be able to stake an insurance claim anymore. Because of the rising number of claims being raised on cell phones, insurance companies are now shying away from providing insurance cover on mobile phones. Since it’s not always possible to verify the genuineness of the claim [...]

Who owns BPL Mobile?

The government seems unsure of the actual ownership of BPL’s mobile business, which was bought by Hutchison-Essar last year and has sought clarifications from it in this regard. Following Hutch-Essar’s application for the legal merger of BPL Mobile Cellular Ltd and BPL Mobile Communications with it, the department of telecommunications has asked the BPL group [...]

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