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| RCom launches mVDO for mobile users | 16-NOV-09 |
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| Telecom operator Reliance Communications (RCom) today announced the launch of its value-added service 'mVDO', which will allow its mobile subscribers watch, share, search and upload videos online. |
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| SC notice to Trai, RCom, Tata Tele, Vodafone others | 09-NOV-09 |
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| The Supreme Court has issued notice to 11 parties, including Trai, Reliance Communications, Tata Teleservices, Vodafone Essar, on a petition by state-run BSNL challenging removal of Access Deficit Charge (ADC), a levy paid by private telecom operators for funding the PSU's operations in rural and remote areas. |
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| RCom forays into handset distribution biz | 05-NOV-09 |
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| Reliance Webstore, the retail arm of Reliance Communications, today said it has forayed into handset distribution and plans to have a network of 10,000 outlets across the country in the next three years. |
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| Account conflicts give rise to new media arms | 05-NOV-09 |
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| Rising conflict in media accounts appears to have compelled prominent media planning and buying agencies like Lintas, Starcom and Madison to launch new arms, even as agencies insist the move is geared towards providing specialised solutions to global companies. |
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| RCom, Loop announce per-second call rates | 04-NOV-09 |
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| Reliance Communications today launched a per-second billing plan for both its GSM and CDMA subscribers. It would charge a paisa every second for all local and national calls, as well as on roaming, a company statement said. The plan would be applicable to both its GSM and CDMA networks. The company has also announced a plan wherein a subscriber would have to pay a rupee every three minutes. |
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| RCom introduces per-second billing plan | 03-NOV-09 |
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| Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications (RCom) today introduced per-second billing tariff option for its subscribers across the CDMA and GSM platform. |
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| Rethinking regulators | 03-NOV-09 |
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| The government’s decision not to extend the tenure of VK Sibal as Director General of the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons (DGH) brings to an end yet another saga of controversy surrounding the office of a sectoral regulator. Whatever the merits of the criticism of Mr Sibal’s various decisions, and a new regulator may choose to reflect on some of these, there is certainly a case for the government to take a relook at the procedure that allows two of the four member-team that clears an operator’s capex to be from the operator’s firm itself — the other two are from the DGH and the petroleum ministry. There are larger issues that arise from Mr Sibal’s departure. The most important being the limited set from which governments tend to pick persons for such jobs. It is a sad commentary on the institution that so many of our regulators are retired civil servants. |
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| RCom finalises global MNP contracts | 03-NOV-09 |
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| Telecom service provider Reliance Communications is close to awarding a contract for implementation of mobile number portability (MNP) integration across its network to eight global telecom companies. The deal is estimated to be worth Rs 700-800 crore. The eight are Tekelec, HP, Intec, Huawei, ZTE, Ericsson, Lucent and Radio Telecom. The deal would involve network and information technology infrastructure deployment across RCom’s network. MNP has to be offered to all subscribers in metro cities and Category-A circles by every telecom service provider from January 1, 2010 (and in the rest of the country by March). It would allow mobile users to change their service providers while retaining their numbers. |
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| RCom net drops 52 per cent | 01-NOV-09 |
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| Hit by foreign exchange and mark-to-market losses, the Anil Ambani group’s telecom service company, Reliance Communications (RCom), posted a 51.63 per cent fall in net profit to Rs 740.30 crore on a consolidated basis for the second quarter ended September 30. RCom, which made a provision of Rs 283 crore for MTM losses, had recorded a net profit of Rs 1,530.78 crore in the same period of the previous financial year. |
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| RCom debunks special audit reports, expects no liability | 26-OCT-09 |
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| The adverse findings of the special audit report done on Reliance Communications (RCom) and its subsidiaries are clearly wrong and will not result in any additional financial liability, says the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani group company. |
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| Sunil Jain: Can Manmohan ditch Raja? | 26-OCT-09 |
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Readers of this column have reasons to feel vindicated by last week’s CBI raids in the telecom ministry as on various telecom firms that benefited from telecom minister A Raja’s largesse in early 2008 — he gave a handful of favoured firms valuable spectrum at prices exactly equal to those paid by buyers in June 2001. Readers would recall every vicissitude in this saga, from the wishy-washy Trai recommendations that allowed Raja to do what he wanted, to his announcing a |
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