TT Correspondent
Manmohan Singh’s decision in 1990s’to liberalise the Indian economy is a well known historic pact now. The then Finance Minister’s decision had its bearing on the telecom sector as well which till the time was restricted only for government owned organization.
There was one company which pounced on the opportunity of opening up of [...]
The city is all set to get another Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and direct-to-home (DTH) services within this year. Bharti Airtel is aiming to launch both the services simultaneously. This follows the Union Cabinet’s approval of down-linking norms for IPTV last month.
IPTV was part of Airtel’s ambitious triple play offer, which proposed to provide Internet, [...]
Indiantelevision.com Team
Communications and Information Technology Minister A Raja today said broadband subscribers in the country have grown from a meagre 0.18 million in March 2005 to more than four million as on 31 August 2008.
Raja said it was envisaged that internet and broadband subscribers would increase to 40 million and 20 million respectively by 2010.
Inaugurating [...]
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has come up with a two-pronged restructuring strategy to boost its market share – currently sliding fast. Like a private operator, the telecom company is now to transfer about 35,000 towers into another company, and is also implementing a business process re-engineering (BPR) effort. It believes that, as a result, [...]
puranjay
The state of broadband in India is bad at best. Lack of infrastructure, limitations on bandwidth, download limits, low speeds are some of the problems.
Lets look at some of the problems plaguing broadband services in India:
1. Dependence on ADSL:
This, to me, is the no.1 problem for broadband in India. ADSL is much slower than cable, [...]
Televisionpoint.com Correspondent | Mumbai
Zapak.com has launched a dedicated microsite for the latest Warner Bros. movie Saas Bahu Aur Sensex. The website includes a number of interesting sections that a user can browse through.
There is a Game section, which has an online game based on the movie available exclusively on the website. There is also a [...]
India may have emerged as the fastest growing telecom market in the world, however, in terms of Internet access and broadband numbers, the country has some major catching up to do. With almost close-to-zero broadband penetration, India is far behind most economies of the Asia-Pacific region. On the other hand, the region is the world’s [...]
TT Bureau
Tata Teleservices announced the launch of Blackberry services for its subscribers. It may be remembered that the company’s move to seek permission for offering such services had resulted in controversy regarding the services of Blackberry in India due to some security concerns.
The company’s new services with Blackberry also offer international roaming services even on [...]
TT Bureau
After ruling the internet roost, Google is all set to extend its tentacles in the mobile domain, as it announced that it will roll out its first mobile phone based on Android software in collaboration with T-mobile next week.
The handset- Dream, touted as the internet giant’s answer to Apple’s popular handset iPhone, is [...]
Indiantelevision.com Team
State-owned telecom major Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) plans to extend broadband coverage to 1,48,000 villages over the next six months.
BSNL, which offers broadband across 3261 cities, will expand to 5000 cities by March 2009.
Said Communications and IT Minister Thiru A Raja, “Government will initially connect 5000 blocks by wireless broadband, soon after the [...]
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