Economic Times | January 17, 2011
NEW DELHI: Telecom equipments provider ZTE Telecom India , a wholly-owned subsidiary of ZTE Corporation, on Monday said that it has appointed Cui Liangjun as the new chief executive officer (CEO).
Incumbent CEO Huang Dabin would continue working with ZTE...
The Broadband Forum | January 6, 2011 | Press Release
China and India report second best quarters ever and developing broadband markets show over 20% growth 3Q2010
ATLANTA, Jan. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Year on year growth rates of 6.7% have taken broadband subscription to 508,761,837...
Frontier India | January 6, 2011
InMobi, the world’s largest independent mobile ad network, has released its updated network research report closing the year with a snapshot of mobile advertising trends in India between July 2010 and October 2010.
“The Indian mobile advertising market continues to...
Business Standard | January 4, 2011 | Mehul Shah
Global telecom equipment makers Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent and Huawei are in the fray to supply broadband gear to Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), India’s most valued company in terms of market capitalisation, for its re-entry into the sector.
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by Matt Kapko
The second-largest operator in India, Reliance Communications Ltd., has landed a $1.93 billion loan from China Development Bank Corp. and other financial institutions in China.
The company said the bank roll will be used to refinance $1.33 billion in fees for 3G spectrum...
IBM has taken the academic route collaborating with the Indian Institute of technology (IIT) in Bombay on research in mobile phone interfaces. IBM said it aims to develop user-friendly mobile device interfaces for illiterate consumers who mostly hail from India’s rural areas.
In a letter written to the telecom department, IB raised concerns over security and asked for monitoring arrangements, yet to be addressed. What has apparently saddened the intelligence agency is the ‘adamant’ attitude of Nokia as it continues to openly advertise its push email service in the market.
Battery life is a very limiting factor when it comes to using mobile phones in places where there simply isn’t any electricity, but thanks to Vodafone, the problem could be solved with a new solar powered handset targeted at the Indian market.
The Indian Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has rubbished state owned telco Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited’s (BSNL) employee union allegations that it favors private operators.
A joint report by industry body Assocham and research firm Frost & Sullivan has projected total Indian broadband subscription to touch 275 million by Y-2015, great news for players who recently won a chunk of BWA spectrum.
With all this talk of mobile internet being the best-thing-since-sliced-web, Ericsson has decided to throw its two cents into the ring with the proclamation that the internet had reached yet another milestone this week with the five billionth mobile subscription helped largely by emerging markets India and China.
Not long after the truce between India’s famous Ambani brothers – who own Reliance Communications (RCOM) and Reliance Industries Limited respectively - the younger brother, Anil Ambani, head of RCOM, has sold off his firm’s tower business to GTL Infrastructure for $11 billion. This is the first time a non-telco player has gained a foothold in the highly lucrative Indian telecom infrastructure business.
Max, Micromax, Karbonn, Lava, Lemon, Spice - the world is not yet familiar with these names which have recently cropped up in the Indian telecom league. But these local manufacturers with completely indigenous marketing strategies added up to 14% market share by revenue in India's mobile handset market in 2009-10, according to the Voice & Data (V&D) 100 Indian Telecom Survey.
A consortium of Bharti Airtel, Cisco, and Servion today announced their foray into the Indian hosted Contact Center services market - valued at $50 million - with the launch of Hosted Contact Center (HCC) services.
Every year since the World Cup in 2006, companies have been proclaiming that ‘this year will be the year for mobile TV.’ Yet despite the optimism, Mobile TV doesn’t really seem to have taken the world by storm.
India’s Bharti Airtel today gave social networking a voice with the official unveiling of Airtel Blog – which it describes as a “unique voice-blogging service.”
Mukesh Ambani led Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) purchased 95% of Infotel Broadband Services Private Ltd for 48,000 crore ($1 billion) on Friday. Earlier that same day, Infotel was announced as the sole winner of a pan-India broadband wireless access (BWA) license for 12,848 crore ($3 billion).
Short on cash after the latest 3G spectrum auction in India, second place Reliance Communications is looking to shore up assets by approving the sale of a minority stake of up to 26% to investors. Unnamed sources suggest Dubai’s Emirates Telecommunications Corp (known as Etisalat) may buy the shares for $4 billion.
The Indian CDMA lobby, AUSPI (Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India), has come out in support of Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE in the wake of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI’s) decision not to include them in 2G spectrum meetings.
Fearing India might run out of web addresses in couple of years’ time, the Indian department of telecommunications (DoT) is likely to lay down an action plan to upgrade Internet protocol (IP)
Indian Telecom has flourished not just economically but has also gained a fair bit of news momentum since A Raja took the chair of the Indian Telecom Ministry. Now, however, the scam-tainted Union Minister for Communications has received overwhelming support from the Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh.
