The Hindustan | May 11, 2011 | Aloke Tikku
The government is setting up phone monitoring systems across the country that can not only listen to your phone conversation, but can also track down your precise location on a map and match your voice with...
MarketWatch | May 4, 2011 | Carla Mozee
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Mexican stocks dropped Wednesday, with shares of market heavyweight America Movil SAB extending losses and ending at an eight-month low following a court ruling about telecom industry fees.
Mexico’s IPC equity index XX:IPC -0.95% fell 1%...
XinhuaNet | May 4, 2011 | Zhang Xiang
BEIJING, May 4 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government announced Wednesday the setting up of an office to manage Internet information in a statement of the State Council General Office.
The department, known as the State Internet Information Office,...
Wall Street Journal | April 29, 2011 | Evan Ramstad, Jung-Ah Lee
SEOUL—Samsung Electronics Co. escalated its fight with Apple Inc. over the appearance of smartphones, filing a new lawsuit in the U.S. Thursday, and introducing its second-generation Galaxy S phone in its home country...
National | April 28, 2011 |Â Hon Steven Joyce
New Zealand and Australia have launched a formal investigation into the trans-Tasman roaming services provided by the two countries’ mobile operators.
Communications and Information Technology Minister Steven Joyce made the announcement this morning with his Australian counterpart Senator...
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has filed lawsuits in Germany, France, and Hungary against ZTE Corp. for patent and trade mark infringement, alleging ZTE is infringing on Huawei's patents for data card and LTE technologies, and using a Huawei-registered trademark on some of its data...
Bloomberg | April 26, 2011 | Crayton Harrison
America Movil SAB, the largest mobile-phone carrier in the Americas, said the record $1 billion fine assessed by Mexico’s antitrust agency this month is based on erroneous conclusions about the industry.
The company will appeal the ruling by...
The Hindustan | April 26, 2011 | Harish V. Nair
The CBI on Tuesday strongly opposed bail plea of the five corporate honchos jailed in the 2G scam alleging that the offence they committed was of a grave nature. The court deferred the decision to...
Wall Street Journal | April 13, 2011 | Taos Turner
BUENOS AIRES --Argentina's government increased its sway over dozens of companies through a presidential decree on Wednesday, a move that will grant the administration a larger influence in some of the key sectors of the...
The Hindu | April 25, 2011
The Telecom Ministry has pulled up SingTel for violating ILD licence norms by acquiring and billing customers in India without a licence between 2005 and 2009, while giving a clean chit to Airtel and Tatas which provided international private...
Wall Street Journal | April 20, 2011 |Â R. JAI KRISHNA And RUMMAN AHMED
NEW DELHI – A special court, citing "incriminating evidence," Wednesday denied bail to five senior telecom industry executives as India's top federal investigative agency continued with its efforts to unravel one of...
Economic Times | April 20, 2011
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Ministry has received replies from all the operators who were issued show cause notices for not meeting the eligibility criteria for licences and will soon decide on action against errants, a top official said today.
"The...
iDA Singapore | April 20, 2011 | Press Release
Singapore and Malaysia announced today that they have successfully concluded discussions to progressively reduce bilateral roaming rates. The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) has worked closely with the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) and...
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...
New Zealand Commerce Commission | April 19, 2011 | Press Release
The High Court in Auckland has imposed a $12 million penalty against Telecom for breaching section 36 of the Commerce Act in the so-called ‘data tails’ case. The penalty is the highest imposed under...
Wall Street Journal | April 13, 2011 |Â Yoree Koh
This much is clear: Masayoshi Son has been an angry man these past few days.
While Japan’s richest man has recently used Twitter to share news of his philanthropic activities in the post-quake relief efforts, the strong-willed founder...
Nokia Siemens Networks | April 13, 2011 | Press Release
Espoo, Finland - April 13, 2011
Preliminary injunction from Huawei preventing transfer of certain assets withdrawn
Companies target April 29, 2011 to close transaction
Anti-trust approval still pending from Chinese regulatory authorities
A new purchase price of US $975...
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,...
The Hindu | April 14, 2011
Tax benefits for telecom infrastructure providers suggested
Proposes setting up of 2 semiconductor fabrication units
NEW DELHI: The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Wednesday issued important recommendations related to manufacturing, infrastructure and green telecom to promote structured growth of...
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...
RCR Wireless Asia | April 12, 2011 | Sandra Cuya
This week TUANZ, Telecommunications Users Association of New Zealand, sent a letter to the New Zealand government concerning the ultra-fast broadband proposal. TUANZ is made up of large organizations and small businesses who depend on telecommunications technology...
Business News Americas | April 6, 2011 | Juan Pedro Tomás
Brazilian telecoms operator Intelig is focusing on the government segment to acquire new customers for its corporate services, local mobile telephony operator TIM (NYSE: TSU) top clients director Leonardo Queiroz told BNamericas.
"The Brazilian government segment is very...
Business News Americas | April 6, 2011 | Juan Pedro Tomás
Brazilian telecoms operator Intelig is focusing on the government segment to acquire new customers for its corporate services, local mobile telephony operator TIM (NYSE: TSU) top clients director Leonardo Queiroz told BNamericas.
"The Brazilian government segment is very...
Economic Times | April 7, 2011
NEW DELHI: Stepping up the pace of its inquiry into the 2G telecom scam , the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament has summoned cabinet secretary K M Chandrasekhar and principal secretary to the Prime Minister T K A Nair...
