Category: telecom
50% of Falcon Bandwidth Sold – Reliance
Reliance Communications Ltd, promoted Falcon international bandwidth line with a capacity of 90 Gigabits is half sold. Falcon dark fibre was lit in early September. Falcon is a 11,000 Km undersea cable connecting 11 countries. Reliance is now scaling the capacity of the network to 2.5 Terabits. Reliance is looking…
Bed Time Talk gets Cheaper on Idea Cellular. Launches in UP East.
Their is great news for bed time talkers. Idea Cellular Ltd has slashed STD – Long Distance rates on your Idea cell phone during 11PM and 7AM. It will cost Idea user mere 99 Paisa to talk to any other phone in India. For local calls it will be just…
Diwali Online Shopping expected to touch Rs250 crores
Indian’s are choosing to shop and send gifts online rather than driving on pot-holed roads in city full of pollution like Bangalore. In a survey conducted by IAMAI, Indians are likely to shop goods worth Rs250 crores this Diwali. Last diwali(2005) the figure was Rs115 Crores an increase of 117%…
Motorola Inc moves to Delhi High Court
My reliable sources tell that, American Telecom equipment manufacturer, Motorola Inc has moved to the Delhi High Court against BSNL’s decision of disqualifying them from $4 Billion 3G GSM global tender. Earlier yesterday, BSNL director, Mr Dube disclosed that Motorola and ZTE were disqualified leaving Nokia, Ericsson and Siemens in…
Motorola and ZTE out of BSNL 3G Equipment Race
“Motorola and ZTE both have been disqualified on the basis of failing to meet stringent technical norms specified by BSNL”, said R L Dube, Director, Planning – BSNL India Limited. Only three companies are in race now, Nokia, Siemens and Ericsson. However, after bidding for the mega $5 Billion 3G…
Global telcos waiting to start operations as MVNO
Global Telecom majors like, Virgin Mobile’s application to be a MVNO has been rejected twice on the grounds that their is insufficient infrastructure. The DOT is now planning to revisit its earlier decision. It will ask the TRAI to initiate a consultation paper on allowing MVNOs in India. What is…
3G Spectrum to be auctioned. Base collection at $1 Billion
The recommendations of TRAI for 3G services in India have been highlighted by goBroadband Analyst. With a base price of Rs1,000 crores for PAN-India 3G license, the government is likely to net around Rs1,500 crores in the auction process for an all India license per operator. Considering 5 such operators,…
Ortel Cable to diversify into Telecom
Ortel Communications, with Cable TV service as its core business is now venturing into basic telephony services. Ortel also offers broadband internet services. Cable TV operators in India were a secured lot because of no competition and they ruled the space for over a decade with no innovation by just…