Gigabit Passive Optical Network technology, designed and developed in India by the Centre for Development of Telematics, was transferred to manufacturers today.
India's state-run telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL), which has posted a loss of $1.2 billion in its most recent fiscal year, plans to lease out spare capacity of its network of towers to private players, according to news reports.
Indian telecom operator Idea Cellular has picked up the most subscribers from other companies through the mobile number portability facility launched by the government a few months ago.
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The chiefs of leading telecom companies met Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other key policy makers to discuss contentious issues plaguing the telecom sector.
Tata Communications today announced the launch of InstaHCM, a human capital management addition to its InstaApps software-as-a-service portfolio. InstaHCM will offered in partnership with SuccessFactors Inc., a company dealing in cloud-based business execution software.
The Indian Home Ministry is examining a report submitted by a high-level panel of experts on a focused and practical approach to the issue of decrypting some of the encrypted communication in a readable format, a task with which India's security agencies have encountered problems.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India's recommendation of a 60% market share cap on merger and acquisitions has been turned down by a standing committee of the Department of Telecommunications.
Amdocs unveiled its Amdocs Data Experience Solution, which it said was designed to help service providers deploy new data services that could improve the customer user experience and accelerate data services monetization.
"If there is any responsible player coming into the industry and growing the business especially by data, it is very good news," a top RCom official said.
India's top telecom bureaucrat, R Chandrashekhar, Monday said the Telecom Commission expects to conclude discussions on TRAI's proposal on 2G spectrum pricing and M&As in the telecom sector within a week.
India's Bharti Airtel, a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 19 countries across Asia and Africa, Monday expanded its managed services agreement with Ericsson for its India operations.
A report by India's telecom regulator states that the combined earned revenue of the country's telecom operators was $9.6 billion at the end of Q2 (September 2011).
The Indian Telecom Equipment Manufacturers Association (TEMA), in a letter to the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday, asked for a level playing field for the home grown telecom equipment manufactures.
The Indian government should consider granting 'critical infrastructure' status to active and passive infrastructure in telecommunications and broadband sector, according to a report prepared by consultancy major KPMG and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), an Indian industry body.
The sale of mobile devices in India is set to reach 231 million units in 2012, an increase of 8.5% compared with this year's total of 213 million units, according to a study by Gartner Inc.
Juniper Networks on Wednesday announced that it has provided a secure multiplatform remote network access solution to the Essar Group, an Indian multinational conglomerate with interests in steel, oil and gas, power, business process outsourcing, ports, shipping and infrastructure development.
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Top executives of three leading telecom companies in India have now written to the Indian Prime Minister over the issue of the controversial 3G roaming deals.
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In a recent draft of security policy, the Department of Telecom asks telecom operators in India to play a role in ensuring the security of the country's telecom networks.
The sentencing of a former telecom minster last week on bribery charges continues the troubled recent history of India's telecom agency and sector. Of the nine telecom ministers since 1996, four have faced serious corruption charges.
India's GSM operators added 7.12 million new subscribers in the month of October, an increase of 1.15% from the previous month, bringing the country's GSM subscriber base to 625.41 million.
India's federal investigation agency has registered a case against the country's two top telecom companies and a former Telecom Secretary for alleged irregularities in the allocation of spectrum during 2001-2003 when the late Pramoj Mahajan was telecom minister.
