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Wireless Broadband Roundup: Indicom-NTT; RCOM-Verizon - 2 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 22 Oct 2007 04:03 AM PST

-- Tata Indicom has tied up with Japan based NTT to allow NTT subscribers to use Indicom’s WiFi network in India. Indicom already provides a similar service to roaming subscribers…

Ortel Communications Sells 8 Percent Stake To SREI - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 22 Oct 2007 12:56 AM PST

Ortel Communications has sold 8 percent stake for an undisclosed amount to the SREI group, reports Indiantelevision.com. The report doesn’t mention how much money has been raised. The company is…

@IDNS: Airtel Awaits Legal And Regulatory Clarity On IPTV; Roll Out In North India First - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 18 Oct 2007 12:19 AM PST

Bharti Airtel is waiting for legal and regulatory clarity before rolling out IPTV services. Puneet Garg, GM IPTV for Bharti Airtel, speaking at the India Digital Networks Summit said that…

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BSNL Launches Mobile TV Streaming In Eastern India - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 15 Oct 2007 04:30 AM PST

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), a public sector telco, has launched mobile TV streaming services in Eastern India. BSNL is offering NDTV, CNBC, Aaj Tak, Times Now, Zoom, Bindass, ETC,…

Airtel Launches 8Mbps Broadband Service - 8 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Wed 10 Oct 2007 06:35 PM PST

Airtel will launch an 8 Mbps broadband service first in Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata, Delhi and the NCR with plans to introduce it to Mumbai and Hyderabad users in the…

Tata Indicom Launches Mobile Portal In Hindi - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 10 Oct 2007 05:11 AM PST

A fairly significant move, which makes content on the mobile more accessible to the masses: CDMA operator Tata Indicom has launched Tata Zone, a BREW based content portal in local…

Telco Roundup: Airtel-Germany; AT&T In Talks With DLF? - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 08 Oct 2007 04:22 AM PST

-- Bharti Enterprises Chairman Sunil Mittal has said that Airtel intends to ask German Chancellor Angela Merkel for a mobile phone licence when she visits India next month, reports Forbes,…

BSNL Bundles Broadband With New Landlines; Provides Internet In J&K Via WLL
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Sun 07 Oct 2007 07:32 PM PST

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is set to provide internet facility on its CDMA-based Wireless Local Loop (WLL) connections this month to its WLL customers in Jammu & Kashmir, reports…

Telco Roundup: AT&T, M&M; BSNL Rebranding; Legal Issues - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 01 Oct 2007 02:25 AM PST

-- Today’s the last day for filing applications for a telecom licence in India, and I just checked - the convenience store across the street has not applied for a…

Bharti Airtel Set To Go Live With Mobile Money Transfer Pilot - 3 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Sun 30 Sep 2007 08:26 PM PST

After pilot testing mobile money transfer with the State Bank of India, Bharti Airtel is ready to unveil mobile money transfer services in India. The company will launch host of…

Telco Roundup: Hindujas, Future Group-Licence; MTNL-Suntel Sri Lanka; Airtel-Qatar; TTML FCCB - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 27 Sep 2007 09:52 PM PST

- The Hindujas are believed to be eying a national level telecom licence in India, after others like Videocon, HFCL, BPL, Parsvnath, DLF, Unitech, Indiabulls and others, reports Moneycontrol. The…

AT&T Eying Wireless Acquisition In India? - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 27 Sep 2007 09:01 PM PST

The Wall Street Journal has a piece on AT&T (NYSE: T) and its recently revived move into overseas markets. Top of the list is India: “In July, after barely a…

Google To Lease Dark Fibre From RCom? - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 26 Sep 2007 08:33 PM PST

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is in early stages of negotiations with Reliance Communications (RCom) to lease 500 GB bandwidth of group company Flag Telecom’s trans-Pacific undersea communications cable, reports Business Standard.…

Spice Follows Numbers Auction Trend In Punjab
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Wed 26 Sep 2007 06:50 PM PST

With people willing to spend lakhs to acquire a specific mobile number and rival Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd logging nearly Rs10 crore this week by auctioning fancy numbers to number-crazy…

Sistema Acquires 10 Percent Stake In Shyam Telelink For $11.4 Million; Targets 51 Percent Stake - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Wed 26 Sep 2007 05:26 AM PST

Russian Telecom operator Sistema has acquired 10 percent stake in Indian telecom operator Shyam Telelink for $11.4 million. Shyam Telelink, a part of the public listed Shyam Telecom group, operates…

Essar Group To Raise $3.59 Bln Against 33 % Vodafone-Essar Stake - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Tue 25 Sep 2007 07:12 PM PST

The Essar Group is raising $3.59 billion (Rs 14,360 crore) against its 33 per cent stake in Vodafone (NYSE: VOD)-Essar, the country’s fourth-largest mobile operator, in what will be the…

70 Million SMS’ And $5.25 Million For Indian Idol Final? - 3 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Tue 25 Sep 2007 02:28 AM PST

There’s no way of verifying these numbers, but Rediff (NSDQ: REDF) reports that in the final nine days of the show Indian Idol, the finalists received 70 Million SMS’, amounting…

BPL Mobile Launches Off-Portal WAP Site - 13 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Mon 24 Sep 2007 04:02 AM PST

BPL Mobile has launched an off-portal WAP site at wap.mizone.bplmobile.com, reports TechTree. I just accessed the WAP site via Airtel GPRS. They’ve got ringtones, games, TV, cricket, humor, astrology and…

MTNL To Deploy Novatium’s $100 PC - 0 Comments
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Sun 23 Sep 2007 08:31 PM PST

Public sector telco MTNL will deploy Novatium’s thin client solution netPC in Delhi and Mumbai, reports the Economic Times. The PC will be priced at Rs. 4500 (around $115), and…

BSNL Blames Content Partners For IPTV Delay - 1 Comment
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 20 Sep 2007 08:36 PM PST

Content providers Zee and ESPN-STAR Sports (ESS) are yet to confirm IPTV packages to BSNL, and Sony (NYSE: SNE) has only just done so reports the Financial Express. This delay…

Airtel Lanka Signs Up Huawei For $150 Mln Network Deal - 4 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Tue 18 Sep 2007 07:06 PM PST

Bharti Airtel Lanka, a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel, has struck a $150 million, three-year deal with telecom company Huawei Technologies to manage its networks. Huawei is expected to deploy and…

UT Starcom To Offer IPTV Solution To Bharti Airtel - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Mon 17 Sep 2007 05:52 PM PST

Networking services provider UT Starcom is set provide its IPTV solution to telecom major Bharti Airtel. [via Economic Times] The RollingStream solutions—an end-to-end Internet Protocol Television solution—will allow Bharti to…

At Indian Idol, It’s A Volume Game
Posted By Nikhil Pahwa - Thu 13 Sep 2007 12:29 AM PST

“The mountains are raging”, says Pradip Pradhan, secretary of Indian Idol contestant Prashant Tamang’s fan club. A businessman has offered Rs. 1 crore to the singers campaign. People are going…

BSNL To Offer UP Users Two Numbers On One Sim - 1 Comment
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Tue 11 Sep 2007 02:01 AM PST

Next week Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) will launch its new sim card priced at Rs. 224, which will offer two distinct numbers on one card to subscribers in Uttar…

Spice Telecom Subscribers To Have Access To Mobifusion’s Content - 0 Comments
Posted By Anupama Chandrasekaran - Tue 11 Sep 2007 01:45 AM PST

Silicon Valley-based publisher and distributor of mobile content Mobifusion will provide its content to subscribers of Spice Telecom, the cellular service provider in the states of Punjab and Karnataka. [via…