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Rajeev Chandrasekhar, a member of India’s Parliament, has raised several issues for improving the transparency of the country’s Department of Telecom, including suggested revisions to rules on spectrum allocation and M&A activity.

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Bangalore-based OnMobile Global Ltd., one of India’s largest value-added services companies, has launched its KaraoPhone application with Jet Multimedia Morocco, a leading provider in all-in-one products and services for all media in Morocco.

T-Mobile USA turned a corner during the third quarter as it added 126,000 customers to its network after several quarters of customer losses. While the growth was noteworthy, all of …

TRAI Chairman J.S. Sarma recently urged the telecom industry to increase the manufacturing of mobile equipment in India; a trial on India’s 2G spectrum scandal case will begin today in a lower court.

DALLAS — Sprint Nextel has kept wireless network observers busy recently thanks to its Network Vision initiative, which will see the carrier upgrade virtually all of its current cell sites, …

DALLAS — Verizon Wireless’ plans to expand LTE coverage into smaller markets under its LTE in Rural America program are nearly set to show some results. The program, which counts …

DALLAS – Leap Wireless’ senior vice president of strategy, Bill Ingram, threw down the gauntlet on his rivals during a keynote address at this year’s LTE North America event in …

India will have 121 million Internet users by December 2011, according to the annual I-Cube joint report published Monday.

India’s Telecom and Information Technology minister says 4G services may be launched in the country as soon as the second half of next year.

Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) is laying off 10% of its workforce in an effort to cut costs. The world’s second largest chipmaker will also terminate some contractual employees, resulting …

Wall Street’s wait is over: Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) is finally public, pricing Thursday night at $20 a share in one of the most widely anticipated initial public offerings in years. …

More than 100 representatives from India’s leading mobile operators are expected to converge on Jaipur to discuss some of the hottest topics in the mobile industry.

Switzerland’s ST-Ericsson has inked a deal to supply chipsets for future Nokia phones that use the Microsoft Windows operating system. Shares of ST-Ericsson’s two parent companies, Ericsson and STMicroelectronics, traded …

Brazil and India followed telecom regulatory policies with an objective to bring in privatization and competition, but the variations in models followed by the two has led to different sectoral outcomes.

The controversial 2G note, dated March 25, 2011, sent by India’s Finance Ministry to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) is again in news with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday clarifying that the note was prepared at the behest of the PMO.