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Roaming rates slashed

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India issued a tariff order substantially reducing the tariffs
for national roaming for mobile subscribers. This would result in reduction of roaming tariffs to the extent of 22% to 56% compared with the current market rates.

Distance neutral composite ceiling tariffs specified.
No rental for roaming in any form.
Mobile operators can not charge any [...]

Almost 150

India added 6.48 million new mobile subscribers in December 2006, slightly lower than 6.80 million added in the month of November 2006.
At the end of 2006:

Total wireless (GSM, CDMA and WLL-F) subscriber base stood at 149.50 million
Wireline subscriber base reached 40.43 million
Gross telephony subscribers in country reached 189.93 million
Overall tele-density reached 17.16%

Tech Mahindra bags $1 bn British Telecom deal

Pune based telecom software servics company Tech Mahindra has signed a five-year outsourcing deal with British Telecom (BT) that is expected to generate revenues of over $1 billion. This is the largest contract bagged by any software services firm in India.
The company will support BT’s planned growth of managed services to business customers around [...]

5 million GSM additions in November

GSM subscriber base in the country has crossed the 100-million landmark. 5 million new GSM subscribers were added in November, which is the largest since cellular services began in India in 1995.
India has now become the third-largest GSM market in the world behind China (401.7 million subscribers) and Russia (152.2 million).
During October, India had created [...]

Sequoia picks up 1.5% in Idea for $48m

ET reports that VC firm Sequoia Capital has picked up about 1.5% stake in Idea Cellular for around $48 million.
According to sources, this transaction has taken place at a higher price as compared to what was paid by other PE players and hedge funds, who recently picked up stake in Idea Cellular.
US-based Providence Equity Partner’s [...]

Sandip Das joins Maxis Malaysia as CEO

Hutchison Essar’s deputy MD, Sandip Das, is joining Maxis Malaysia, as its CEO. Maxis Malaysia is Malaysia’s largest telecommunications companyhaving a market capitalisation of $6.4 billion.
Apart from his role as CEO of the Malaysian company, Mr Das will also have a strategic role of supporting the India operations of Maxis. The Malaysian telco had entered [...]

Motorola has 14% market share in India

Motorola has become the No. 2 in handset sales in India with a market share of 14%. Market leader Nokia has a market share upwards of 60%.
The ET story says Motorola had a 2% market share in December 2005. I think thats incorrect.
According to this post — Motorola was already No. 3 in March 2006, [...]

Access IN services of other operators

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has passed a regulation allowing mobile subscribers to access Intelligent Network (IN) services such as toll-free number of other service providers.
At present, consumers can access special services through Intelligent Network (IN) deployed by the telecom operator in their network only. Free phone or toll free number, Virtual Calling Card [...]

Every 6th person in Himachal has a mobile

With a population of more than 62 lakh (6+ mn), the number of mobile phones in north Indian state of Himachal Pradesh have grown to 11,21,431 (1+ mn).
According to the latest figures, until October this year,

Bharti Airtel = 468,667 customers
BSNL = 309,821 customers
Reliance Telecom = 108,915 customers
Tata = 64,386 customers
Reliance Infocomm = 63,841 customers
Idea = [...]

Idea to enter Mumbai

The Department of Telecom has issued Letter of Intent (LoI) to GSM operator Idea Cellular for the Mumbai and Bihar circles. This clears the way for entry of Idea as the seventh operator in Mumbai.
But there is still a hurdle for Idea to cross before it can start operations. The entry is at least [...]

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