Category: telecom
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…
Cabinet Committee – Decide on 3G Pricing
In wake of differences among various ministries regarding the pricing issue of third generation (3G) telecom services spectrum auction, the Department of Telecommunication (DoT) has left it to the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) to take a final call. DoT also suggested to go ahead with the current reserve…
Mobile Number portability to be Delayed
In a development that will harm the interests of mobile subscribers, the number portability scheme, which was set to be launched in June 2009, may get delayed. The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has extended the date for issuing clarifications to bidders’ queries by a month. The same are now expected…
Tata Teleservices Gets Aggressive for GSM Launch
The house of Tatas have finally gotten aggressive for the last leg of the great Indian Telecom Revolution. After being a flip-flop for several years, they now have a strategy to focus on acquiring customers in both the CDMA and yet to be launched GSM platform. Tata Teleservices, will shortly…
Impact of TRAI Interconnect usage charges
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is set to review interconnect usage charges (IUC) after they were fixed back in 2002-03 and not revised since then. IUC is payable by one telecom operator to others for use of their networks either for origination, termination or carriage of a call….
Nokia Siemens to build Tata’s GSM Infrastructure
Nokia Siemens Network – NSN has won the contract from Tata Teleservices to build its GSM Network Infrastructure. The value of the contract is said to be around $1 bn. NSN will build, deploy and manage the network for a period of 5 years which include – network planning, project…
Indus World’s Largest Tower Company ?
Indus Towers, a company jointly promoted by Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular is all set to be the World’s Largest Telecom Tower company some time in 2009. They already have 73,000 towers up and running and the number is likely to cross 100,000 mark sometime in Mid-2009. Indus…
TimeLine for Wimax + 3G Spectrum Auction Announced
The DoT has announced the time line for auction of WiMax Broadband Spectrum [20 MHz for 3 Operators, tentative] and 3G Spectrum. Meet potential bidders on Dec-11 and Dec-13 3G + WiMax Spectrum pre-bid conference on Dec-19th Last date for submitting applications to participate in the bidding – Dec-31st Pre-qualification…