Telecom minister Dayanidhi Maran resigns

High-profile Communication and IT Minister Dayananidhi Maran has resigned. His resignation is a fallout of political turmoil after Dinakaran, a daily owned by the union minister’s elder brother Kalanidhi Maran, carried a survey that exposed chinks in the family of Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister M Karunanidhi. Dayanidhi Maran is from Tamil Nadu’s ruling DMK party. [...]

Hutch closes in on BSNL’s No 2 spot

GSM mobile operators added 4.13 million new subscribers in the month of April, as against addition of 6.13 million users in March. The total number of GSM subscribers is at 125.57 million, up from 121.43 million in March, showing a growth of 3.4 per cent aginst the previous month’s 5.32 per cent. The April GSM [...]

DoCoMo calls off deal with Hutch

Japanese mobile giant NTT DoCoMo has annulled its contract with Hutch Essar (HEL) to provide its

Hutch-Vodafone deal gets clearance

Vodafone cleared its last hurdle in acquiring a controlling stake in Hutch Essar with finance minister P Chidambaram giving his go-ahead on Friday. His approval comes within a week of the Foreign Investment Promotion Board giving its nod for the acquisition. The approval comes as a welcome reprieve to Analjit Singh and Asim Ghosh, whose [...]

MoMo Mumbai – May event

The May event of Mobile Monday Mumbai will take place on May 7th. Big thanks to Geodesic for sponsoring the event and supporting the Mobile Monday community. Topic: Mobile Messaging Futures Mobile messaging is an integral part of the mobile industry and contributes significantly to the total mobile service revenues of almost every network operator [...]