Nokia shifts managed services hub to India
Nokia today announced that it was shifting the hub of its global telecom network management services business to India from Finland.
The managed services division of Nokia runs the telecom networks of service providers as part of outsourcing agreements.
Coincidently, Nokia today announced a five-year deal with Hutchison Essar for managing its telecom infrastructure in 10 new [...]
38 million mobiles sold in last fiscal
According to the Indian Telecom Industry Report released by Voice & Data, around 38 million mobile handsets were added in 2005-06.
Nokia leads with over 50% of handset market, while LG surprises by coming second with about 18%.
The GSM mobile phone market had a 73% and grew at 42%, clocking revenues of Rs 10,506 crore.
The market [...]
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Fame multiplexes launches mobile ticketing
Fame Multiplexes has launched ‘M-ticket’ service in Mumbai, Pune and Kolkata that allows booking of movie tickets of any Fame Multiplexes by a voice-recognition service (IVRS) and payment through credit card.
This service has been powered by OnMobile and is available for Hutch, Airtel and Idea subscribers in the above mentioned cities.
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Analyst’s views on Reliance moving to GSM
Moneycontrol has a interview with Susanta Mazumdar of UBS, who believes that the discount between the prices of RCoVL and Bharti Airtel on the bourses will narrow down by 2008-09.
With regards to discount, it would be unfair to compare in 2007 because RCoVL is a year or two behind Bharti in terms of profitability and [...]
TRAI proposes interconnect charge for SMS
In a consultation paper on regulating SMS, telecom regulator TRAI has proposed a interconnect usage charges (IUC) on SMS. But it acknowledged that there is an apprehension that IUC could increase SMS tariffs and has therefore sought opinion of all the stakeholders by June 30.
What is an Interconnect Usage Charge?
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Maran favours 3G entry fee
Speaking at the sidelines of the GSM Association’s New Delhi conference, Telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran said that the Government was in favour of an entry fee for 3G services.
Spectrum was a scarce resource and the Government has to make some money out of it
We do not want operators to sit over spectrum without using it
Sunil [...]
Mobile Bandh
Retailers in South Mumbai are threatening to go on strike against a cut in margins by mobile operators. The telcos had slashed the margin on recharge cards to 2.5% from 3.25% this month.
Dealers complain that operators have been reducing margins over the past year, from 5% to 4% and then to 3.25%. Telcos argue that [...]
Mobile VAS market may touch Rs 4,000 cr by 2007
BSNL is the second largest operator and it is putting of VAS infrastructure in its various circles. This will open up a new market for the providers and is expected to substantially increase the total VAS market size.
But without going in to the reasoning of the market size projection of Rs 4000 crores in the [...]
BSNL opens Rs 21000 cr tender
Motorola, Ericsson, Siemens, ZTE and Nokia have submitted bids for BSNL’s tender for procuring equipment and installing GSM network of a total capacity of 45.5 million lines which opened on Monday. Chinese major Huawei didn’t participate in the bidding process.
The size of the order is likely to be about Rs 21,000 crore. Two out of [...]
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