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IMImobile to set up 3G lab in Mauritius

Hyderabad-based VAS technology provider IMImobile is setting up a 3G lab in Mauritius in partnership with a local operator Emtel. The lab, likely to be operational within this quarter, will help mobile operators to roll out 3G value-added services like video chat, video mail etc. The company employs 225 people in India and is looking [...]

Air Station

Air passengers may be able to use their mobile phones on board aircraft by 2007 if the government approves a proposed project. Air to ground communications provider Arinc has tied up with Bird Group to launch the in-flight mobile service in India. In-flight mobile access is subject to regulatory approvals across the world. While European [...]

Mobile user base rises to 98.6 million

India added 4.3 million new GSM and CDMA subscribers in May, up from 3.9 million in April. Overall mobile user base rose to 98.6 million. GSM operators added 3.2 million new users taking their total to 75.3 million. CDMA user base rose by 1.1 million in May. Bharti = 1.18 million new users, 21.86 million [...]

Hutch Haryana in trouble

Hutch is in trouble with authorities in Haryana because close to 50% its users in the circle have been issued SIM cards on the basis of forged identity documents. Superintendent of Police Kaithal, Navdeep Singh Virk told media that the total subscriber base of Hutch in Haryana Circle as on April 30, 2006 is 3,73,801 [...]

RCoVL to merge 9 arms

Reliance Communication Ventures will merge its nine subsidiaries with itself and will be rechristened as Reliance Communications. It will be headquartered in Mumbai. The ADAG companies, which will be amalgamated with RCoVL, are Reliance Infocomm (the CDMA business), Reliance Communications Infrastructure (the equipment arm), Reliance Communications Solutions (RCS), Reliance Software Solutions (RSS), Reliance Communications Technologies [...]

Interview with Jai Menon of Airtel

Dr. Jai Menon, Group CIO of Bharti Airtel, talks about the company’s famous outsourcing strategy. If you are still wondering how can an operator outsource its network – read to find out. Instead of funneling huge CAPEX on infrastructure, processes and people, he tested what he considered a “true utility computing model” by outsourcing the [...]

ZTE expansion put on hold

ET reports that the government has put on hold Chinese giant ZTE Telecom’s plan to enter wholesale trading in telecom equipment, following objections from intelligence agencies. The home ministry is now conducting a detailed probe into the Chinese company’s activities and the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) has been told that ZTE can’t be granted [...]

Interview with Sanjeev Sharma

Business Standard has an interview with outgoing Nokia India head Sanjeev Sharma, who will quit the company on June 30. Sanjeev Sharma stepped down as MD of Nokia India after he was asked to move to Singapore as regional head of marketing. He declined to go abroad for a larger role in Nokia because he [...]

Haier’s India plans

Chinese home appliances and handset maker Haier is aiming for a sales of 5 million handsets and revenues of $300 million from the sale of mobile handsets in India over the next 18-24 months and then consider setting up a plant. Other Chinese handset makers like Bird and TCL haven’t been able to make their [...]

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