| 3G auctions to be on schedule, says EGoM | 20-NOV-09 |
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| Uncertainty over auctions of 3G or third generation telecom services ended today, with the empowered group of ministers (EGoM) deciding to stick to the January 14 date with a slight modification. |
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| Vavasi to approach BSNL, MTNL for due diligence of Zain | 18-NOV-09 |
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| Vavasi group, a city-based firm with diverisifed interests, today said it would approach government-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL) to join in doing due diligence of Kuwait's Zain Telecom. |
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| BSNL, Vavasi talks for Zain buy fall through | 18-NOV-09 |
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| State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is likely to exit the consortium comprising Delhi-based Vavasi Group and Malaysia's Al-Bukhary to acquire 46 per cent in Kuwait’s Zain Telecom. |
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| US market ends firm; MTNL ADR up 3% | 17-NOV-09 |
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| US markets advanced on Monday, sending indexes to fresh 13-month closing highs, after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke reinforced expectations that interest rates would stay low to help growth. |
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| Ubuntu 9.10: A karmic disconnection | 16-NOV-09 |
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| I have always believed that the primary responsibility of an operating system (OS) is to work so smoothly that it becomes virtually invisible — functioning without the least bit of hiccup to provide an unobtrusive environment on any computer where other applications come into play. |
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| MTNL hopes to add 2 million broadband connections by 2010 | 14-NOV-09 |
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| “We expect to reach the target of providing 2 million broadband connections by 2010,” MTNL’s CMD, R S P Sinha told reporters here. Another leading state-run telecom operator, BSNL had launched a similar scheme a month back. |
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| MTNL launches pre-paid broadband service in Mumbai | 13-NOV-09 |
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| State-run telecom operator Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL) today said it has launched pre-paid broadband services for its subscribers in Mumbai. The service has been launched in partnership with transmission solutions firm Sterlite Technologies. |
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| DoT, defence scrap over 3G spectrum | 12-NOV-09 |
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| The inter-ministerial battle over spectrum for 3G telecom services has intensified, with the department of telecommunications (DoT) rejecting a claim by the ministry of defence (MoD) that it has not accounted for 10 MHz of spectrum given to DoT at the end of October in the information memorandum (IM). |
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| Trai'ing times | 09-NOV-09 |
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| India’s telecom market continues to be one of the most baffling ones in the world. You’d think, as the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) does, that having 8-10 service providers would ensure the market works, so it doesn’t really need to regulate tariffs. And yet that isn’t really so. Sure, India has the lowest telecom tariffs in the world and that shows markets are working and Trai is correct in keeping tariffs under what’s called “forbearance”. But, at the same time, the new players that have just begun offering their services argue the interconnection agreements being signed between them and dominant players, like Bharti Airtel, are one-sided. This is where Trai needs to come in, since it is mandated by law to set out interconnection agreements which, in turn, are cost-based and help prevent dominant behaviour — if Trai doesn’t come in, it’s likely that someone will approach the Competition Commission. |
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| Devangshu Datta: Looking good in comparison | 07-NOV-09 |
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| Behavioural scientists chuckle over the “Lake Wobegon Effect”. Lake Wobegon is a fictional small town whose residents claim that all the women are beautiful, all the men strong, and all the children intelligent. Similar effects are seen in surveys where everyone is a self-assessed good driver. |
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| Telecom users cross 500-mn mark before targeted date | 05-NOV-09 |
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| The total telecom subscriber base in India crossed 500 million at the end of September, taking the overall teledensity to 43.5 per cent. India is the second-biggest and fastest market for wireless services, behind China, which has over 600 million users. |
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| On the way: cable TV without any wire | 03-NOV-09 |
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| In what may become a revolution in entertainment, accessing television via cable, IPTV or interactive DTH services is soon going to be via wireless, on the lines of a wi-fi internet connectivity. |
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| MTNL, Tata Tele, Nalco & Ashok Leyland Q2 result | 31-OCT-09 |
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| Falling revenues from both mobile as well as fixed line subscribers have forced state-run telecom major Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL), which operates in Delhi and Mumbai, to post a steep 77.5 per cent fall in net profit to Rs 20.5 crore for the second quarter ending September 30, against Rs 91.5 crore in the same quarter last year. In the same period, the total income was Rs 972 crore against Rs 1,231 crore in the same quarter last year, a 21 per cent decline. |
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