Reuters | April 28, 2011 |Â Prashant Mehra
(Reuters) - Idea Cellular , India's sixth-biggest mobile phone operator, said on Thursday it had added a million users for its third-generation (3G) services within a month of its launch.
Idea, which launched 3G services in March, currently offers...
Reuters | April 28, 2011 |Â Prashant Mehra
(Reuters) - Idea Cellular , India's sixth-biggest mobile phone operator, said on Thursday it had added a million users for its third-generation (3G) services within a month of its launch.
Idea, which launched 3G services in March, currently offers...
Times of India | April 28, 2011
NEW DELHI: Over a month after it launched iPad 2in the US, Apple on Wednesday announced availability of its next-generation tablet in India. According to the company, Indian consumers will be able to buy iPad2 from April 29. The cheapest...
The Hindustan | April 25, 2011 |Â Vivek Sinha
Shiv Nadar, the founder chairman of software major HCL Technologies, announced on Monday that he would set up a research-led multidisciplinary university at Greater Noida, a satellite town of Delhi. The Shiv Nadar University, named after the...
NEW DELHI: Micromax, Lava, Karbonn, Spice, Maxx , Olive and Zen have got a new caller tune-waka waka eh ehae...this time for Africa. After giving multinational majors such as Nokia a run for its money in India, and cornering one-fifth of the handset market...
The Telegraph | April 22, 2011
Guwahati, April 22: Reliance Communications today announced the launch of its 3G services in 24 locations in the Northeast, making them the first operator to do so.
The company today launched 3G services in Guwahati and Shillong, which will be...
Reuters | April 20, 2011 |Â Devidutta Tripathy
(Reuters) - Three executives of India's Reliance ADA Group have appealed to the Delhi High Court seeking bail in a telecoms graft case after their bail applications were rejected by a lower court, a lawyer for the group...
Silicon India News | April 21, 2011 |
Bangalore: Samsung Electronics announced the launch of its ultra-premium and ultra-slim Notebook Series 9 in the Indian market. With a weight of only 1.31kg measuring a mere 16.3mm in depth and with a screen size of 13...
The Hindustan Times | April 20, 2011
In a bid to clean its stables, Norway-based telecom major, Telenor, which has a joint venture with Unitech Wireless, the 2G spectrum scam-tainted Uninor, has asked Sanjay Chandra to step down as chairman of the Uninor board. Unitech...
The Hindu | April 18, 2011
In yet another instance of a decision taken by the NDA regime coming under scrutiny, the Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) has begun an inquiry into issuance of ILD licence to Data Access in 2002 which was later cancelled after...
Business Line | April 14, 2011
NEW DELHI, APRIL 14:
Attorney General Goolam Vahanvati, CBI Director A.P. Singh and Law Secretary D.R. Meena are expected to appear before Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee tomorrow to give evidence in the probe into the 2G spectrum allocation scam.
The PAC,...
Wall Street Journal | April 11, 2011 | Kenan Machado
Mumbai--Singapore Telecommunications has increased its stake in India's Bharti Airtel through the purchase of 2.83 million shares for 934 million rupees.
In a filing to the Singapore Stock Exchange, SingTel said a wholly owned uni --...
Business Standard | April 11, 2011 | Priyanka Joshi
LG Mobile phones is set to expand its smartphone market as it plans to start manufacturing them from its Pune unit.
The unit, with its present production capacity of eight million handsets, mainly entry level and features...
Hindustan Times | April 12, 2011 | Manoj Gairola
It’s really back to the future. The roots of the New Telecom Policy that communications and IT minister Kapil Sibal announced on Monday lie as far back as 2003, when the NDA was in power. The...
Pacnet | April 7, 2011 | Press Release
Plans Underway for a New US$120 Million High-Speed Network Directly Connecting Chennai to Los Angeles
NEW DELHI, INDIA–(Marketwire – April 7, 2011) - Pacnet today announced that it has signed agreements with Bharti Airtel Limited to deliver a new...
Economic Times | April 8, 2011 | Deepali Gupta
MUMBAI: Vodafone's $5-billion deal to buy out Essar in India's third-largest mobile phone company may run into trouble with the local partner seeking $600-700 million more for its 33% holding.
Essar group, known for its strong-arm negotiation...
Pacnet | April 7, 2011 | Press Release
Plans Underway for a New US$120 Million High-Speed Network Directly Connecting Chennai to Los Angeles
NEW DELHI, INDIA--(Marketwire - April 7, 2011) -Â Pacnet today announced that it has signed agreements with Bharti Airtel Limited to deliver a new...
The Hindu | April 7, 2011 | Sandeep Joshi
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has issued licence termination notices to three telecom operators — Aircel, Etisalat DB and Sistema Shyam Teleservices (SSTL) — for delays in roll out of services in circles allotted to them.
“We...
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...
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 | 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,...
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...
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...
