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China sets up office for Internet information management

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,...

Samsung escalates fight with Apple

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...

Formal investigation of trans-Tasman roaming to begin

National | April 28, 2011 | 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...

GLOBAL: Huawei sues ZTE over alleged patent infringement

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...

America Movil Disputes Mexico $1 Billion Antitrust Fine, Plans Appeal

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: Bail plea deferred again, no relief for corporate honchos

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...

WSJ: Argentina Takes Greater Control Over Private Companies

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: SingTel violated ILD norms; clean chit to Bharti,Tatas

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...

WSJ: India Court Sends Five Telecom Executives to Custody

Wall Street Journal | April 20, 2011 | 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...

DoT to soon decide on telcos missing eligibility norms

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...

Press Release: Consumers Will Pay Up To 30 Per Cent Less for Voice Calls and Up To 50 Per Cent Less for SMSes

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: Another telecom license under CVC scanner

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...

Press Release: Record Commerce Act penalty against Telecom for price squeeze

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...

WSJ: Softbank’s Son Stills Twitter to Protest New Japan Internet Rule

Wall Street Journal | April 13, 2011 | 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, Motorola Solutions agree new price for acquisition of Networks assets at US $975 million

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: 2G case: Attorney General, CBI head may go before PAC tomorrow

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: TRAI proposes Rs.1-lakh cr infrastructure investment

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: Telecom policy-back to the future

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...

New Zealand: Consumers and Businesses oppose broadband legislation

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...

Government key in boosting Intelig’s corporate market penetration – executive

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...

Government key in boosting Intelig's corporate market penetration – executive

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...

2G scam: PAC summons cabinet secretary, PM's principal secretary

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...

2G scam: PAC summons cabinet secretary, PM’s principal secretary

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...

Vodafone challenges Indian tax penalty notice

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...