GSM worldwide user base touches 2 billion

GSMA announced at the New Delhi meet that GSM based mobile subscriber base has touched two billion this month. Craig Ehrlich, GSMA Chairman said, “While it took 12 years for the industry to reach the first billion connection, the second billion has been achieved in just two and half years, boosted by the phenomenal growth [...]

More on Reliance GSM

Reliance Communication’s decision to start GSM services has created quite a stir in the industry. It is likely to have upset the strategies of not only its competitors but also its partners like Qualcomm. The comments on my earlier post regarding cross-leverage of spectrum for CDMA and GSM are worth reading. If Reliance does play [...]

Reliance seeks GSM spectrum

Close on the heels of defense authorities agreeing to vacate 45 MHz quantity of spectrum by year-end, a crucial input for further growth of telecom services, CDMA operator Reliance Communications has approached the government seeking 4.4 MHz spectrum in 1800 MHz frequency to start GSM services in the country. Last week, Reliance Communications had applied [...]

GSMA meet starts today

New Delhi is hosting the board meeting of the GSM Association (GSMA), a trade body representing more than 690 GSM mobile phone operators across 213 countries, starting Monday. The meeting is being hosted by Sunil Mittal of Bharti Airtel, who is the first member from India to be inducted into the GSMA board. This will [...]

MobilePundit is getting tuned

MobilePundit is getting tuned for better performance. Have upgraded the blogging software to a newer version so that I can deal with the deluge of comment spam. So please bear with fluctuations in the design and functions for today. If you have recently commented on MobilePundit and it has not appeared, the spambots are to [...]

Strcit verification to affect new additions

The stricter mobile connection verification norms put in place from June 1 this year are likely to affect new subscriber additions, particularly in smaller towns and rural India where many people do not have proper proof of identity and rely on others to sign up for them. The enormity of the exercise, which the operators [...]

Third Party Billing will soon come into mobile content business

Sahad of ContentSutra has done an interview with Rajiv Hiranandani of mobile content provider Mobile2Win. The company is from Alok Kejriwal’s Contests2Win stable. It was set up in September 2003 and employs 90 people currently. He makes some interesting points. Overall a good interview to read. We are not a media company. A B2C model [...]

Tata and ZTE ink 3G deal

Tata Indicom is entering into an agreement with ZTE, under which the Chinese telecom major would build a countrywide CDMA 2000 network for Tata Indicom in the next three years. Although the licencing conditions and spectrum allotment for 3G are not yet clear, operators are gearing for launch of 3G services by next year. CDMA [...]

Government clears the way for telecom ombudsman

Telecom subscribers will soon get an ombudsman to settle their grievances and disputes. Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran has said that the government has given in principle approval to set up an ombudsman. Recently, TRAI chairman Nirpendra Misra had suggested that telecom operators set up an ombudsman. The TRAI Act empowers the regulator to make recommendations [...]

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