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Tata DOCOMO ropes in Ranbir Kapoor as brand ambassador

Economic Times | April 7, 2011 NEW DELHI: Tata Docomo, the GSM brand of Tata Teleservices (TTSL), today appointed Bollywood star Ranbir Kapoor as its brand ambassador . The company has inked a two-year contract with Kapoor and will roll out various television, print and outdoor...

Vodafone challenges Indian tax penalty notice

Wall Street Journal | April 5, 2011 | R. Jai Krishna NEW DELHI -- Vodafone International Holdings B.V., the Netherlands-based holding company of Vodafone-Essar Ltd., Tuesday said it has filed a petition in India's Supreme Court challenging the country's tax authority notice imposing penalties on...

airtel rolls out 3G services in the cyber city of Hyderabad

airtel | April 5, 2011 | Press Release • Reaches a milestone of 2 million customers on airtel 3G • Launches High Definition gaming for airtel 3G customers across India • Offers special B2B programme for airtel 3G enterprise customers Hyderabad, April 5, 2011 : Leading telecommunications company,...

Wimax Forum bets big on BSNL, MTNL for Indian market

Economic Times | April 4, 2011 NEW DELHI: With private operators seemingly going the TD-LTE way, WiMax Forum is now betting on state-run telecom operators BSNL and MTNL for growing its subscriber base in India. "Outside of India, WiMax is going great, but in India, it is...

Vodafone plans IPO for its Indian entity

CNBC Money Control | April 1, 2011 With Essar out of the way, Vodafone Plc is looking to list its Indian entity in the near future. The timing and the equity stake to be listed will be decided once the British company buys out Essar's stake...

China, India, United States propelling base station deployments

March 30 2011 - 1:33 pm ET | Dan Meyer | RCR Wireless News The crush of mobile device usage is indeed a worldwide phenomenon with global handset adoption on track to surpass the six billion subscriber mark bolstered by continued growth in developing countries...

Vodafone pledges $5B for control of India operations

March 31 2011 - 11:52 am ET | Dan Meyer | RCR Wireless News Vodafone Group plc (VOD) has pledged $5 billion to acquire the remaining interest in Indian wireless operator Vodafone Essar Ltd. it did not previously control. The move was initiated by the Essar...

US to seek change in India's telecom security policy, encryption rules

Economic Times | March 29, 2011 | Joji Thomas Philip NEW DELHI: The United States government will seek changes in India's policies on telecom security and encryption in its next meeting with the telecoms department officials here, an executive aware of the development told ET. Also on...

Bharti, Idea, Vodafone Close to Signing 3G Pact

Wall Street Journal | March 29, 2011 | Kenan Machado MUMBAI—Bharti Airtel Ltd., Vodafone Essar Ltd. and Idea Cellular Ltd. are close to signing an agreement to share their third-generation radio bandwidth, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said Monday. The agreement "is almost...

Microsoft Names Oracle Ex-India Chief Bhaskar Pramanik As New Chairman

Fox Business News | March 28, 2011 | Dhanya Ann Thoppil BANGALORE -(Dow Jones)- Microsoft Corp. (MSFT: 25.41, -0.21, -0.82%) Monday said it named the ex-chief of Oracle India, Bhaskar Pramanik, as new chairman of the U.S. software giant's India unit. Pramanik, previously managing director of Oracle Corp.'s (ORCL:...

For Vodafone in India, a Swift but Bumpy Rise

The New York Times | March 27, 2011 | Heather Timmons NEW DELHI — When the British mobile phone giant Vodafone bought an Indian wireless company for $11 billion in 2007, the chief executive at the time, Arun Sarin, praised the new “tremendously exciting, fast-moving market.” But...

Bharti faces Rs 26.92 cr penalty for violation of norms in J&K

The Economic Times | March 27, 2011 NEW DELHI: Facing a huge penalty of over Rs 26 crore for not following guidelines on re-verification of pre-paid subscribers in the troubled Jammu and Kashmir, Bharti Airtel has asked the J&K division of DoT to take a...

Bharti faces Rs 26.92 cr penalty for violation of norms in J&K

The Economic Times | March 27, 2011 NEW DELHI: Facing a huge penalty of over Rs 26 crore for not following guidelines on re-verification of pre-paid subscribers in the troubled Jammu and Kashmir, Bharti Airtel has asked the J&K division of DoT to take a...

CIOs in India identify cloud computing as top technology priority in 2011

eGov Innovation  | Mar 22, 2011 MUMBAI -- The 2011 CIO Agenda survey conducted by Gartner Executive Programs (EXP) showed that chief information officers in India ranked cloud computing as their top technology priority for 2011. The worldwide CIO survey was conducted by Gartner EXP from September to...

Govt plans Chinese models for telecom infra projects

The Economic Times | March 23, 2011 | Kalyan Parbat KOLKATA: India is looking to replicate China's vendor credit models to finance greenfield telecom infrastructure projects worth Rs 5 lakh crore ($110 billion approx). The finance ministry, at the instance of the telecom department, is mulling a...

RCom launches new Facebook mobile app for feature phones

RCom | March 23, 2011 | Press Release Reliance and Facebook today announced the launch of a new Facebook mobile app exclusively available for Reliance subscribers in India for a 3 month period. The new Facebook app for Java-powered feature phones will be made available...

India telecom regulator: To send infrastructure policy proposals to government next week

Nasdaq | March 24, 2011 | R. Jai Krishna NEW DELHI -(Dow Jones)- India's telecommunications regulator will send its proposals to formulate a single country policy on setting up tower infrastructure to the government next week, Chairman J.S. Sarma said Thursday. Sarma, however, didn't elaborate on...

MTS launches MBlaze in Andhra Pradesh

MTS | March 23, 2011 | Press Release Sistema Shyam TeleServices Limited (SSTL) today announced the launch of its high-speed mobile broadband service, MBlaze in Andhra Pradesh. MTS has rolled out its high speed mobile internet services in Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Vishakhapatnam, Tirupati, Warangal, Rajahmundry and...

Intelsat 17 Expands Programming Reach for India’s Sun TV Network

Intelsat | March 21, 2011 | Press Release Intelsat S.A., the world’s leading provider of fixed satellite services, today announced that Sun TV Network Ltd. (Sun TV) has signed a multi-year,...

Bangalore-based Acropetal acquires two companies in the US

BANGALORE: City-based Acropetal Technologies Ltd today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire two US-based companies LineBeyondInc , and Optech Consulting Inc. LineBeyond is valued at $ 5 million and Optech at $ 7 million, respectively, the company said in a statement. Acropetal...

Government tightens phone tapping norms

The Economic Times | March 22, 2011 | Deepshikha Sikarwar NEW DELHI: The income tax authorities will need to go through another layer of scrutiny before they are allowed permission to listen to private phone conversation. All requests for phone tapping of tax offenders or those...

Buongiorno India* and IBM Agree Partnership

Buongiorno India | March 18, 2011 | Press Release Buongiorno India* and IBM Agree Partnership to Provide Leading Indian Telecoms Subscribers With a "Best in Class" Mobile Content Delivery Platform GURGAON, India, March 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Buongiorno India, the joint venture between Mitsui & Co. Ltd and Buongiorno...

Viom Networks trims IPO size

Wall Street Journal | March 18, 2011 | Kenan Machado and Bijou George MUMBAI--India's Viom Networks Ltd. has scaled down the size of its initial public offering to 45 billion rupees, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday. The telecom tower company wants to launch...