Rural Mobile Application Contest
Reliance Developer Programme of Reliance Communications has launched the Rural Mobile Application Contest, 2007 - 08 to encourage mobile application development in the country.
This year the focus will be on rural applications for transportation, m-commerce, health care services, governance, education, information and location based services that cater to the needs of rural population.
Applications can be [...]
Reliance Comm buys Yipes for $300 mn
India’s second largest mobile operator Reliance Communications has acquired US-based Yipes Holdings, in an all-cash deal valued at Rs 1,200 crore ($300 million).
Yipes provides managed ethernet and application delivery services for enterprises and has nearly 1,000 customers. Yipes will be a wholly-owned subsidiary of Flag Telecom, the undersea cable arm of Reliance Comm.
Founded in 1999 [...]
Full roll-out of Reliance GSM this year
Announcing the company’s results, Reliance Communications chairman Anil Ambani said: “We are presently operating our GSM business in 8 circles and in 8,000 towns. We plan a full roll-out in all our circles this year.”
The company would need Rs 4,500 crore for the nationwide GSM roll-out. It would also be setting up 20,000 towers. However, [...]
Reliance inks telecom deal with Bharti
The Mobile Pundit is back. With a scoop. Well, almost.
The story is really about Reliane Retail signing a deal with Bharti Airtel to source mobile and enterprise communication services.
Reliance Retail CEO Raghu Pillai confirmed that talks are on.
“All stores would be connected to each other and to the logistics chains to meet our high-end communication [...]
The Swayamvar of Hutch
Hong Kong based Hutchison Telecommunications International (HTIL) is conducting a Swayamvar of its Indian subsidiary Hutch-Essar (HEL). And all the big and small maharajas of Indian telecom are lining up.
Buying and selling businesses is not alien to Hutchison Whampoa, headed by billionaire Li Ka Shing. The group sells a business as and when it gets [...]
80% of Reliance handset sales are of LG make
According to H S Bhatia, LG national group head (GSM Mobile Phones), over 80% of CDMA handsets sold through Reliance are of LG make.
LG Electronics is planning to increase its focus on GSM handsets in India, which is a shift from its current focus on CDMA-based mobile handsets.
“GSM handsets also makes sense as even when [...]
The Samvat of Indian Telecom
Rediff has an article on Dhirubhaism, which provides illustrative anecdotes on the management and business style of one of the most successful Indian business tycoon. Dhirubhai Ambani was father of Mukesh and Anil Ambani - the erstwhile and present heads of Reliance Communications respectively.
Reliance Infocomm, as it was known earlier, indeed proved to be a [...]
Its the costs stupid: Reliance Comm
Surajeet Das Gupta writes in Business Standard that Reliance Communications has cited cheaper equipment and handset prices as the key reason for shifting of its focus to GSM.
Raising concerns about Qualcomm’s policies (as it is a key reason for the high CDMA costs), the company, including Ambani, in its discussions with analysts has pointed out [...]
Cell site sharing
Reliance Communications is in talks with Bharti Airtel, Hutchison-Essar and Idea Cellular for an alliance to share infrastructure across the country.
Industry experts say that about 25% to 35% of all cell sites in India can be shared at least by two operators. Its argued that the cost savings both in terms of capex as well [...]
Airtel, Reliance may bid for Bhutan GSM licence
Business Standard reports that some Indian operators, including Bharti Airtel and Reliance Telecom, have evinced interest in bidding for a GSM-based mobile service licence in Bhutan.
Bhutan started mobile services in November 2003 and has about 50,000 cellular subscribers and over 40,000 fixed-line customers. State-owned Bhutan Telecom is the sole operator until now. This would be [...]
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