Category: telecom
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…
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…
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…
Reliance Comm’s unit ties up with Vanco
FLAG Telecom, a unit of India’s Reliance Communications, had signed a deal with UK-based Vanco Plc that will help the Indian firm expand its virtual private network services and add enterprise customers. The five-year agreement will add 81 countries to FLAG’s VPN network, taking the number to more than 100….
Essar-BPL Telecom Play + BSNL Expansion
Ruia brothers of Essar are one of the most hostile business partners one can find in India [Modi’s of Spice Telecom rank higher in the worst business partners in India]. They have stuck a deal with Vodafone to safeguard their stake in Hutch-Essar a.k.a Vodafone Essar by getting a price…
Reliance Optical Fibre + Next generation Networks.
A year after relinquishing Reliance Infocomm, Mukesh Ambani is planning yet another extremely high capacity Optical Fiber network connecting India’s best states for business – Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. The real purpose of this network is to lease the back end infrastructure to ISPs and Telecom…