BROWSING: India
Buongiorno India* and IBM Agree Partnership
Buongiorno India | March 18, 2011 | Press Release
Buongiorno India* and IBM Agree Partnership to Provide Leading Indian Telecoms Subscribers With a "Best in Class" Mobile Content Delivery Platform
GURGAON, India, March 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Buongiorno India, the joint venture between Mitsui & Co. Ltd and Buongiorno...
Intelsat 17 expands programming Reach for India’s Sun TV Network
Intelsat | March 21, 2011 | Press Release
Intelsat S.A., the world’s leading provider of fixed satellite services, today announced that Sun TV Network Ltd. (Sun TV) has signed a multi-year, multi-transponder contract for C-band capacity on the recently launched Intelsat 17 satellite (IS-17) at...
Nokia extends mobile money service to Union Bank in India
Bloomberg | March 21, 2011 |Â Vidya Root
Nokia Oyj (NOK1V), the world’s biggest maker of mobile phones, has started supplying mobile banking services for a Union Bank of India offering aimed at phone customers who don’t have bank accounts.
The Union Bank Money Powered by Nokia service...
Bharti won't buy Govt's 30% stake in Hexacom
Economic Times | March 14, 2011 | Joji Thomas Philip
NEW DELHI: Hitting out at the delays in executing the stake sale, Bharti Airtel has withdrawn its bid to buy out the government's 30% stake in...
Bharti won’t buy Govt’s 30% stake in Hexacom
Economic Times | March 14, 2011 | Joji Thomas Philip
NEW DELHI: Hitting out at the delays in executing the stake sale, Bharti Airtel has withdrawn its bid to buy out the government's 30% stake in...
India asks Etisalat, Idea to respond to regulator
Reuters | March 10, 2011 |Â Devidutta Tripathy
* Notices sent to Etisalat DB for two zones and Idea for one
(Adds Etisalat statement)
NEW DELHI, March 10 (Reuters) - India's telecoms ministry has asked Etisalat's (ETEL.AD) Indian mobile joint venture and Idea Cellular (IDEA.BO) to respond to...
Airtel 3G service comes docking on the shores of Mumbai
Airtel | March 8, 2011 | Press Release
• Announces significant network investment to offer comprehensive 3G coverage in aamchi Mumbai
• Provides stock market and entertainment followers with multiple ways of staying tuned to the latest - all through the mobile device
• Brings along enhanced...
Tata Communications launches international cloud services in Singapore
Tata Communications | March 8, 2011 | Press Release
Asia Pacific businesses will benefit from Tata Communications’ Infrastructure as a Service offering, combining pay-per-use applications with an extensive and reliable global network
Singapore – March 8, 2011 – Tata Communications, a leading provider of a...
Tata Communications launches international cloud services in Singapore
Tata Communications | March 8, 2011 | Press Release
Asia Pacific businesses will benefit from Tata Communications’ Infrastructure as a Service offering, combining pay-per-use applications with an extensive and reliable global network
Singapore – March 8, 2011 – Tata Communications, a leading provider of a...
Sharp to participate in e-Education proof-of-concept trial in India
Sharp | March 8, 2011 | Press Release
Osaka, Mar 8, 2011 - (JCN Newswire) - Sharp Corporation will participate in a proof-of-concept trial for electronic education (e-education) from March 8 to the end of March 2011 at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad to...
Karbonn to buy South Korean design company for $40 million
Economic Times | March 8, 2011
KOLKATA: Homegrown handset maker Karbonn will buy a South Korean cellphone design house for about $40 million in an all-cash deal, an executive with the company said. The proposed acquisition is strategic to the company’s bid to market low-cost...
GSM operators to surrender excess spectrum during renewal in 2014
Economic Times | March 7, 2011 |Â Joji Thomas Philip
NEW DELHI: All leading GSM operators will have to give up 'excess' airwaves they have when their mobile permits come up for renewal beginning 2014. This implies companies such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar and Idea...
Aircel to invest Rs 400 cr in AP
Business Standard | March 1, 2011
To launch mobile banking with ICICI in 60 days
GSM mobile network operator Aircel, a 74:26 joint venture between Maxis Berhad of Malaysia and the Apollo Hospitals Group, will be investing Rs 400 crore in Andhra Pradesh for 2G and...
Alcatel-Lucent and Altair Semiconductor enable TD-LTE solutions for emerging markets
Companies to Jointly Participate in TD-LTE Field Trials in India and China
BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 16, 2011 -- Mobile World Congress -- Altair Semiconductor, the world's leading developer of ultra-low power, small footprint and high performance 4G LTE chipsets, today announced that their TD-LTE solution,...
NEC collaborates with Aricent as its Femtocell services partner in India
Aricent | February 1, 2011 | Press Release
Partnership provides deployment, rollout and support services for operators in India
New Delhi - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced that it will collaborate with Aricent® as a service partner to support the deployment of its market-leading...
ZTE India appoints Cui Liangjun as CEO
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...
Broadband Subscription Reached 509 Million Lines Worldwide as IPTV Passes 40 Million Subscriber Milestone
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...
India is largest mobile advertising market in APAC with 5.8 billion impressions monthly
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...
Alcatel-Lucent, Huawei, Ericsson in fray to supply RIL broadband gear
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.
In...
Reliance secures $1.93B loan for network in India
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 works on mobile interfaces for illiterates
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 2015, 60% of phones will sport Internet
Another day another mobile web report, and this time it’s from ABI Research claiming that 60% of phones will be Internet enabled by 2015.
RIM caves to Indian government pressure
BlackBerry users in India will have to share their private data with the Indian Government, it has emerged.
Indian Intelligence upset by Nokia, RIM
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.