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GSM Mobile Subscriber in India – Sept-2007
goBroadband reports that the Wireless subscriber growth in India slowed down during Sept-2007. However, India had 149 million GSM subscribers at the end of Sept-2007. Mobile teledensity is close to 21% [includes CDMA] Bharti Airtel is the market leader in the GSM segment with 32.8% market share followed by Vodafone…
Internships – Finally for the deserving Indian Students
The Indian student had been long deprived of internships while he is still in college. Not any more. With a vibrant job market, companies are willing to hire pre-final and final-year graduate students as interns during summer or even during college days if they are local and can manage their…
10% Cap on Crossholding + Auction of 2G Spectrum Unlikely
The Department of Telecom (DoT) has rejected a key recommendation of the telecom regulator TRAI, that aimed to increase the threshold cap of equity crossholdings to 20 per cent by the same promoter in two separate companies offering services in the same licence area. The Centre is close to finalising…
Local Search by SMS – Google
Google has unveiled local search on Mobile for Indians by means of SMS. The short code for this search is 54664. To test this service I sent a message “North Indian Food, Jaynagar Bangalore”. [See the left screen shot captured from Sent messages on Mobile]. I received 3 messages in…
Rush for Licenses + Next Gen Network Guidelines
After Sunil Mittal showing the way of success in Indian Telecom industry, everybody wants to be a Telecom Service Provider. First it was Real Estate major Parsvnath Developers which applied for a Telecom license. Unitech Ltd and DLF followed it and now India’s most speculative company IndiaBulls also wants to…
DoT Freezes Licenses + Bharti DTH + Aircel
DoT freezes unified access applications – Following a spate of new applicants for licences to start telecom services, the department of telecommunications (DoT) on Monday put a freeze on new unified access service (UAS) licence applications from October 1 until further orders. Aircel to invest $2.5bn for pan-India roll out…
JANET chooses VSNL’s Global Bandwidth
If Google is planning to lay its own optical fibre network on the Trans-Pacific route, UK’s network for research and education, JANET has chosen VSNL for its high bandwidth global internet access across the UK. JANET connects the UK’s universities, FE colleges, research councils, specialist colleges and adult and community…
RupeeMail – Get Paid to Read E-mails
Anil Lakhwara and his team have setup Rupeemail, an e-mail service, filled with advertisements. You basically get paid to read your e-mails. You earn money by opening and reading the contents of RupeeMail. Senders are known and verified who are paying you to read their e-mails. The money will be…