Mobile, Internet, etc

Two sets of figures pertaining to the Indian telecom industry were released recently. Each tells a different story. According to the one released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), the wireless subscriber base increased by 16.67million during October 2009, taking the total number of subscribers to 488million.
That’s a yearly growth rate of [...]

Should A Raja continue to be telecom minister? This newspaper has brought to light how norms were twisted by the department of telecommunications officials under Raja’s directions.
However, Raja had all along a line of defence—that he’s done nothing wrong and purely gone by the recommendations of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India and kept [...]

ariff wars in the Indian telecom sector are now taking new shapes. In fact, they are entering a new territory. So far restricted to voice call rates such as per second billing, telecom operators are in an overdrive to reduce tariffs on roaming and SMS charges as well.
The idea is to reduce customer churn [...]

Mobile phone subscribers have a reason to rejoice, as the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has said a subscriber can retain his number while changing the service provider (also known as number portability).
On payment of a small sum of Rs19, says TRAI, the mobile owner can take his number and switch to any [...]

By the end October 2009, the telecom subscriber base in India reached the 525.65 million mark. The numbers increased from 509.03 million subscribers in September-2009, highlighting a 3.26% increase. With this change, the overall Tele-density in India reaches 44.87.
For the wireless segment of the telecommunications sector, subscriber base increased by 16.67 million subscribers. Source

India is one of the fastest growing mobile markets in South Asia with a huge potential for growth amongst the rural population, an industry analyst has said.
According to Lavanya Palani Batcha, Industry Analyst for ICT Practice at Frost & Sullivan, South Asia and Middle East, the mobile value-added services (VAS) market is set to grow [...]

With just a day left for the Government-imposed ban on illegal handsets to come into effect, the mobile operators have sought a two-month extension of the deadline.
The operators who have set up 1,600 outlets for implanting the IMEI number on handsets through a standardised software are nowhere near reaching out to the 20 million [...]

Strong opposition from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the home ministry has forced the government to drop the idea of a cost effective, convenient and efficient mobile-based model of financial services that allows transfer of funds outside the banking system.
The RBI is concerned that regulating the system will be difficult and it [...]

A report by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) and KPMG reveal that although the cost of owning and using telecom equipment and services has come down considerably in the past few years, the typical rural consumer finds it hard to put aside money for what is still believed to be [...]

Tata Communications, a leading provider of a new world of communications, today announced that India-based NDTV Convergence Ltd has chosen its LiveBroadcast service, a high-quality, flash-based streaming service, to broadcast three national channels in India—two news and one business—over the Internet to a global audience.
The LiveBroadcast service is part of Tata Communications’ suite of Content [...]