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Go Wireless at 50 cents – INR 25
The battle for supremacy in the 2G Wireless Space has intensified with Reliance Mobile [GSM] and Idea Cellular launching SIM cards to end customers at Rs 25 or 0.5 USD. [Yes that is correct] When we did a ground price check, this scheme was available in Mumbai Circle as well…
Quality of Service – TRAI Needs Your Opinion
The Telecom Regulator [TRAI] has informed to collect public opinion on the Quality of Broadband service by various service operators in India. TRAI acknowledges about low browsing speed than the one promised by ISP. It said, Incidences have come to the notice of the Authority where subscribers allege speed of…
Batelco takes stake in S Tel
Batelco, Bahrain’s telecom operator has partnered with Millennium Private Equity to pick up 49% stake for $225m in new Indian operator S Tel. The deal values S Tel at $459m, which has license to operate in 6 circles in India. Given that these 6 circles account for 11% of total…
SMS Compression + Clever Text Completion
Here is some innovation in the usual SMS text messages which is very popular in India. CleverTexting has developed a technology which enables to compress your SMS message and also lends a helping hand while composing the message with completion by prediction much more than dictionary. All this is possible…
Ad Sponsored Web 2.0 – Hit the Exit Button
If you are a Web 2.0 startup banking on the Advertising Model, then its better you hit the exit button sooner as Intel’s Andy Grove has come down heavily on such startups which are a mere get rich quickly, attitude. Andy Grove said, These days, people cobble something together. No…
3G auction – Battleground for DoT + Trai
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) and the telecom regulator TRAI are in confrontation regarding the auction of third generation (3G) spectrum. The DoT has now written a letter to Cabinet stating that Trai was going out of its jurisdiction to make recommendations on 3G spectrum while it was only asked…
Airtel eyes 10 mn subscribers in UP
Private sector telecommunication services major, Bharti Airtel, aims to boost its subscriber base in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand by adding another three million subscribers by the fiscal end. The company eyes a customer base to 10 million by March 2009 from 7 million at present in the two states. Bharti…
New 2G Licensees Roll-Out Obligation likely to be Raised – DoT
The Department of telecommunications (DoT), the top communication body in the nation, is looking to tighten the network roll out obligations of new 2G licensees. A committee of the department which was entrusted to review the task has in fact recommended that in case the licensed areas covers large metropolitan…