| Telenor cuts India capex by Rs 3,500cr | 18-NOV-09 |
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| Norwegian mobile operator Telenor today said it has slashed the earmarked capital expenditure by Rs 3,500 crore from Rs 15,500 crore spread over the next five years on lower equipment costs. |
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| More isn't merrier | 06-NOV-09 |
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| Minister of State for Rural Development Shishir Adhikary always believed more was merrier when it came to mobile phones. It’s when he got the fourth mobile from his office, however, that he started feeling the heat. He now regularly gets calls from his service providers, either asking him to pay his bill or to make promotional offers. He’s tried to lodge a complaint with the companies, but this hasn’t really helped. “I can now understand what other customers face,” he says. |
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| Pay per character: tariff war in the mobile space | 28-OCT-09 |
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| Competition in the mobile space has brought down the pulse duration and the tariff per pulse from three minutes to one minute. Trai is talking about making pay-per-second tariff plans mandatory, while many telecom players have already started rolling out such plans. |
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| TTSL bags top slot again with highest subscriber addition | 27-OCT-09 |
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| Continuing its growth momentum, Tata Teleservices today said it has added over 40 lakh (4 million) new subscribers in September, becoming the top grosser in the industry in terms of new subscriber additions for the second consecutive month. |
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| Farming with mobile phones | 22-OCT-09 |
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| For long, they have brought good news about friends and family, but now they will tell farmers when to sow their crops and what fertilisers to use. |
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| Videocon to buy Finnish firm Elcoteq for $73 mn | 02-OCT-09 |
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| Indian consumer durables major Videocon Industries has decided to buy Finnish company Elcoteq, engaged in contract manufacturing of mobile phones and other electronic items, in a deal estimated at around $73 million. |
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| Hitachi, NEC, Casio ink deal to merge mobile phone operations | 14-SEP-09 |
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| Hitachi, NEC Corp, and Casio Computer Co today said they have agreed to integrate their mobile phone operations by next April as they seek to strengthen their global competitiveness by saving development and procurement costs to combat a saturated domestic market. |
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| Blue-toothed wonder | 13-SEP-09 |
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| Krishnaswamy Subrahmaniam, president and managing director, CSC India, likes doing his bit for the environment and that means saying no to batteries in his wall clock even though that requires him to wind the clock every week. He is on the look out for an energy-efficient mobile phone. |
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| Moving on 3G | 31-AUG-09 |
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| After nearly a year of waiting, mobile phone subscribers can hope to get some serious browsing capabilities. Now that the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) has finally cleared the reserve price for 3G licences (Rs 3,500 crore) and for Broadband Wireless Access (Rs 1,750 crore), prospective customers can expect to have these services up and ready in another nine months, at least in the metros. |
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| Hitachi, NEC, Casio mulling to integrate mob phone biz | 28-AUG-09 |
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| Hitachi Ltd, NEC Corp and Casio Computer Co are considering to integrate their mobile phone businesses as early as next April in a bid to improve profitability in the saturated domestic market, industry sources said today. |
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| Mobile phone towers become main target of Naxalites | 25-AUG-09 |
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| Mobile phone and telecom towers seem to have become a major target of Naxalites, who have destroyed nearly 70 such installations during the last three years in half-a-dozen Naxal-infested states. |
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