BROWSING: India

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) - 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...

March 31 2011 - 11:52 am ET | Dan Meyer | RCR Wireless News Vodafone Group plc (VOD) has pledged $5 billion to acquire the remaining interest in Indian wireless operator Vodafone Essar Ltd. it did not previously control. The move was initiated by the Essar...

Economic Times | March 29, 2011 | Joji Thomas Philip NEW DELHI: The United States government will seek changes in India's policies on telecom security and encryption in its next meeting with the telecoms department officials here, an executive aware of the development told ET. Also on...

Economic Times | March 29, 2011 | Joji Thomas Philip NEW DELHI: The United States government will seek changes in India's policies on telecom security and encryption in its next meeting with the telecoms department officials here, an executive aware of the development told ET. Also on...

Fox Business News | March 28, 2011 | Dhanya Ann Thoppil BANGALORE -(Dow Jones)- Microsoft Corp. (MSFT: 25.41, -0.21, -0.82%) Monday said it named the ex-chief of Oracle India, Bhaskar Pramanik, as new chairman of the U.S. software giant's India unit. Pramanik, previously managing director of Oracle Corp.'s (ORCL:...

The New York Times | March 27, 2011 | Heather Timmons NEW DELHI — When the British mobile phone giant Vodafone bought an Indian wireless company for $11 billion in 2007, the chief executive at the time, Arun Sarin, praised the new “tremendously exciting, fast-moving market.” But...

eGov Innovation  | Mar 22, 2011 MUMBAI -- The 2011 CIO Agenda survey conducted by Gartner Executive Programs (EXP) showed that chief information officers in India ranked cloud computing as their top technology priority for 2011. The worldwide CIO survey was conducted by Gartner EXP from September to...

The Economic Times | March 23, 2011 | Kalyan Parbat KOLKATA: India is looking to replicate China's vendor credit models to finance greenfield telecom infrastructure projects worth Rs 5 lakh crore ($110 billion approx). The finance ministry, at the instance of the telecom department, is mulling a...

Nasdaq | March 24, 2011 | R. Jai Krishna NEW DELHI -(Dow Jones)- India's telecommunications regulator will send its proposals to formulate a single country policy on setting up tower infrastructure to the government next week, Chairman J.S. Sarma said Thursday. Sarma, however, didn't elaborate on...

MTS | March 23, 2011 | Press Release Sistema Shyam TeleServices Limited (SSTL) today announced the launch of its high-speed mobile broadband service, MBlaze in Andhra Pradesh. MTS has rolled out its high speed mobile internet services in Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Vishakhapatnam, Tirupati, Warangal, Rajahmundry and...

BANGALORE: City-based Acropetal Technologies Ltd today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire two US-based companies LineBeyondInc , and Optech Consulting Inc. LineBeyond is valued at $ 5 million and Optech at $ 7 million, respectively, the company said in a statement. Acropetal...