Archive for April, 2008

Mobile segment continues to drive Airtel growth

BL Research Bureau Strong subscriber additions in the mobile phone business have helped Bharti Airtel close the financial year 2007-08 with a solid set of numbers. Revenues have grown by 46 per cent to Rs 27,025 crore, while net profits have increased 57 per cent to Rs 6,700.8 crore during the year.
Healthy subscriber growth and [...]

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Trai turns down DoT’s proposal to allow foreign entry in 3G

Indiantelevision.com Team
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has rejected the Department of Telecom’s (DoT) proposal to reconsider allowing foreign players to offer 3G telecom services.
The sector regulator has said that the existing players would be able to roll out the network faster. They have made huge investments in the infrastructure and their systems are [...]

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60 mn IPTV subscribers by 2010 : TMG

Indiantelevision.com Team
There will be nearly 60 million Internet Protocol television (IPTV) subscribers worldwide by the end of 2010, according to the latest report from Telecommunications Management Group (TMG).
IPTV has been doubling each year since its commercial
introduction in 2002, said the report titled IPTV: The Killer Broadband Application.
There were 9.9 million IPTV subscribers around the world [...]

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Hacking Bsnl Broadband Accounts

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Bsnl Broadband continues to grow as one the most popular broadband services in India with high speed facilities of upto 2 mpbs. But a large number of [...]

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New telcos to get spectrum by April end

The DoT is reported to considering allotting start-up spectrum to the new license holders by April end though initially it maybe in a position to allot spectrum for only four circles namely Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and Tamil Nadu (including Chennai).
Tata Teleservices is also likely to receive pan-India GSM spectrum under cross-over clause. Earlier Reliance [...]

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Spectrum Auctioning: DoT may keep slots of 5MHz for auctioning to allow more WiMax players

TT Correspondent
The DoT is reportedly considering auctioning spectrum in slabs of 5MHz instead of the earlier consideration of 10 MHz in a bid to enable more WiMax players to receive spectrum.
DoT has earmarked 80MHz of spectrum in the 2.5MHz band and is planning to allow each operator to bid for four slots which means [...]

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MoA summons RIM, DoT and operators over Blackberry controversy

The Ministry of Home Affairs has summoned Research in Motion, DoT and service providers to resolve the ongoing issue over Blackberry services.
It is expected that RIM will convey its response to DoT suggestion that RIM move its server for Indian subscribers to India.

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Bharti Airtel gets highest credit ratings from ICRA

Credit rating agency ICRA assigned the highest credit rating ‘LAAA’ to the Rs 2,500 crore fund-and-non-fund based limits of Bharti Airtel.
Bharti received the highest rating on the basis of its leading position in mobile service segment, considerable operational strengths because of its significant subscriber base and robust capital structure.

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MRTPC issues notice against three GSM operators for cartelisation

The Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Commission (MRTPC), an anti-monopoly firm has issued notice of enquiry against three major GSM players-Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar and Idea Cellular for allegedly forming a cartel to distort competition and for increasing prices of telecom services simultaneously.
MRTPC’s investigative unit DGIR’s report said that the three GSM operators have [...]

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MTNL to launch mobile TV services from April 1

TT Correspondent
PSUs are turning the heat on private operators and seem to be in the lookout to gain a head start at the slightest available opportunity. MTNL especially has already started to be aggreesive on the convergent services like IPTV and Mobile TV and is now all set to launch mobile TV services on [...]

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