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Will Voice Be The “Killer App” For Internet In India?
By Nikhil Pahwa
There seems to be a palpable change in outlook on the Internet in India over the past couple of months. Over the past year, we’ve seen a num… Read more »
Telco Roundup: Hindujas, Future Group-Licence; MTNL-Suntel Sri Lanka; Airtel-Qatar; TTML FCCB
By Nikhil Pahwa
- The Hindujas are believed to be eying a national level telecom licence in India, after others like Videocon, HFCL, BPL, Parsvnath, DLF, Un… Read more »
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Railtel To Migrate Infrastructure To Next Generation Networks
By Nikhil Pahwa
RailTel, a public sector undertaking, which provides bandwidth for National Long Distance services to telecom operators, intends to upgrade… Read more »
Videocon seeks telecom licence, Partners With Verizon?
By Nikhil Pahwa
Close to the heels of Russian telco Sistema’s forray into the Indian telecom market by acquiring a stake in Shyam Telelink, consumer electro… Read more »
Govt Should Act On TRAI Proposals Within Time Frame, Else Pointless
By Anupama Chandrasekaran
Even as the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) keeps dishing out recommendations, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) seems… Read more »
October 1 Deadline For Telecom License Applications; Indiabulls Applies For Pan India Licence
By Nikhil Pahwa
After real estate developers Parsvnath, DLF and Unitech, another real estate, insurance and share brokerage co Indiabulls has announced that… Read more »
Parliamentary Committee Suggests That Service Providers Be Held Liable For Content
By Nikhil Pahwa
This is remarkably well thought out…not! A parliamentary committee has proposed that Network Service Providers – both mobile and Internet… Read more »
Real Estate Players Eye Telecom Biz, But DoT Has Other Ideas
By Nikhil Pahwa
After real estate player Parsvnath Developers announced its intentions for entering the telecom business, two other real estate players are… Read more »
TRAI Suggests Separate Guidelines For Mobile TV Operators
By Anupama Chandrasekaran
In its latest consultation paper, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has proposed separate guidelines and licensing conditions… Read more »
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TRAI Recommends Broadband Subsidies To Widen Reach
By Anupama Chandrasekaran
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has recommended subsidising broadband services to expand its reach. Another recommendation… Read more »
Utility Bills To Enter Cyberspace Soon
By Anupama Chandrasekaran
People across the country will probably be able to pay their water, electricity and other utility bills online, thanks to the urban developm… Read more »
ISPs Can Now Lease Capacity From Big Telcos
By Anupama Chandrasekaran
The Telecom Regulatory Authority Of India (TRAI) has asked all telecom operators to give access to their fixed line optical fibre cable and… Read more »
3G Policy Likely To Be Further Delayed
By Anupama Chandrasekaran
Business Standard reports that the Group of Ministers(GoM) under the chairmanship of external affairs minister, Pranab Mukherjee, will give… Read more »
Spectrum Issue: COAI Sends Legal Notice To DoT
By Nikhil Pahwa
Just saw this news flashing on the telly…the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), which represents the GSM operators, has serve… Read more »
Indiagames, CII Eye Industry Status For Gaming Segment
By Anupama Chandrasekaran
Online and mobile games company Indiagames, the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) and other industry players plan to approach the cen… Read more »
TRAI May Nag Operators About Realigning Rates – Chairman Misra
By Anupama Chandrasekaran
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s chairman Nripendra Misra apparently is puzzled by the rush of applications for mobile licenses and s… Read more »
BSNL Denied Entry Into Mumbai, Delhi; Merger With MTNL Stalled
By Nikhil Pahwa
BSNL is being denied entry into the lucrative Delhi and Mumbai markets by the Indian government – it’s not being given a Universal Access Se… Read more »
Privacy Be Damned, Mumbai Cybercafes To Log Keystrokes
By Nikhil Pahwa
This seems remarkably well thought out…not! The Mumbai Police intends to install key-logging software at 500 cyber cafes across the city,… Read more »
BSNL To Offer VoIP Services; PC-To-PC Communications To Be Regulated?
By Nikhil Pahwa
MTNL set the ball rolling last month by announcing the launch of their Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services and now BSNL, the other… Read more »
A Million A Day Register To Keep Telemarketers Away
By Anupama Chandrasekaran
The ET reports that within five days of the launch of the National Do-Not-Call (NDNC) registry, over 5 million mobile users have registered… Read more »
TRAI Issues Paper On Regulation Of IPTV In India
By Nikhil Pahwa
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has come out with some observations regarding IPTV regulation, which has been an issue of m… Read more »
India Joins Cheer Team For Wimax Inclusion Into 3G Standard
By Anupama Chandrasekaran
India has finally joined countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom and Italy in supporting the inclusion of Wimax in the third… Read more »
Government Logs Rs. 9,500 crore From Licence Fees, Spectrum Charges
By Anupama Chandrasekaran
The government exchequer is cash rich thanks to Rs. 9,500 crore in revenues from license fee and spectrum charges in 2006-07. With the Trai’… Read more »
Non-Transparent? No Way – TRAI
By Anupama Chandrasekaran
Telecom regulator TRAI vehemently denied mobile operators’ accusations of being non-transparent in its recommendations last week regarding s… Read more »
TRAI Recommends Changes In Telecom M&A And Spectrum Allocation Rules
By Nikhil Pahwa
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has put forth recommendations to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) that effectivel… Read more »
Broadband Users Target To Be Missed…Again
By Anupama Chandrasekaran
The government’s target to have 9 million broadband users by the end of 2007 is most likely going to be missed. [via ET] Of course, there’s… Read more »
ISPAI Calls New ISP Policy Retrograde…Will Scale Ensure Good Service?
By Nikhil Pahwa
Rajesh Chharia, President of the Internet Service Providers Association of India (ISPAI) has said that the move to cancel district level ISP… Read more »
Updated: Airtel Asked To Stop Services That Don't Conform To New Short Code Policy
By Nikhil Pahwa
Updated below
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has reportedly asked Bharti Airtel to stop offering those short code services that… Read more »
Real Estate Developer Parsvnath Plans To Enter Telecom Sector With $414 Million Investment
By Nikhil Pahwa
BSE listed real estate co Parsvnath Developers has informed the stock exchange that they have sought Unified Access Services Licence (UASL)… Read more »
Govt Imposes Licence Fees, 6 Percent Service Fee On ISPs; FDI Limit Of 74 Percent…Consolidation
By Nikhil Pahwa
A shakeup in the ISP sector is imminent now: the Indian government has imposed an annual licence fee of 6 percent of ISP revenue, an entry f… Read more »
TRAI Likely To Propose Higher Stake Limit In Same-Circle Licensee
By Anupama Chandrasekaran
So some Trai official or the other seems to be blurting out the same news of it most likely not recommending a cap on the number of service… Read more »
GSM Operators Hike Voice Tariff; DoT May Ask TRAI To Investigate
By Nikhil Pahwa
While the associations representing GSM and CDMA mobile operators have been trading charges over the past few weeks, all GSM operators incre… Read more »
Indian Government To Webcast President And PM's Independence Day Addresses
By Nikhil Pahwa
The Indian government intends to webcast the President’s address on the eve of Independence Day (August 15th) as well as the Prime Minister’… Read more »
TRAI Recommends Number Portability To The Govt…Again
By Nikhil Pahwa
This isn’t the first time that the TRAI has recommended that the government implement number portability this year; the regulatory body expe… Read more »
The War Of Words Over Spectrum Continues: AUSPI Alleges GSM Operators Using Extra Spectrum
By Nikhil Pahwa
That AUSPI (association of CDMA operators) and the COAI (associations of GSM operators) don’t see eye-to-eye is evident to anyone who’s atte… Read more »
When It Rains…
By Nikhil Pahwa
At the second cybercafe I went to today, the owner told me that he’s chosen to shut the cybercafe down until 15th August (India’s Independen… Read more »
TRAI Refuses To Recommend Cap On Number Of Telecom Operators
By Anupama Chandrasekaran
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) will not recommend capping the number of operators in telecom services to the Department of… Read more »
IT Minister Expects 100,000 Broadband Service Centers within 8 months?
By Anupama Chandrasekaran
Indiantelevision reports Communication and Information Technology minister A Raja is eyeing about 100,000 Broadband-enabled service centers… Read more »
TRAI Launches National Do No Call Registry Online
By Nikhil Pahwa
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has launched the National Do Not Call Registry (NDNC) reports goBroadband. As is usually th… Read more »
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