Terming the Trai recommendations on spectrum &quot;retrograde and perverse&quot;, Vodafone today asked the government to reject the report as its acceptance would sound the death knell for the telecom sector.

Vodafone terms Trai report "perverse", asks govt to reject it

Press Trust of India

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) chairman J S Sarma today said his recommendation to tweak the existing norms for mergers and acquisitions aims to prevent the union of two big companies or a big and a medium-sized operator, but it provides enough scope for mergers between others.

New norms have left enough scope for M&As: Trai chief

Business Standard

It sounds very nice. In June this year, Dish TV &ndash; a direct-to-home (DTH) operator owned by Subhash Chandra&rsquo;s Essel Group &ndash; plans to launch Conditional Access Modules (or CAM) Cards. If you are an irritated Tata Sky subscriber, you can buy a card for about Rs 700, insert it in your Tata Sky set-top box and get Dish TV&rsquo;s signals.

Why interoperability in DTH makes no sense...

After failed attempts to find private partners for the country&rsquo;s oldest and long-ailing telecom equipment company, Indian Telephone Industries (ITI), the UPA government is giving another try for its revival.

More transfusion being planned for long-ailing ITI

Vodafone Essar has asked the department of telecommunications (DoT) to reject the recommendations of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on spectrum management and related licensing issues, terming these retrograde and perverse.

Vodafone asks government to reject Trai's 2G proposals

The Hyderabad-headquartered information technology outsourcing provider is the first Indian company to sign with Fifa, the world soccer body, as a sponsor and official IT provider for the 2010 and 2014 editions of the world cup tournament.

Satyam eyes Rs 90 crore from Fifa World Cup

The country's third-largest telecom company, Reliance Communications, posted a net profit of Rs 1,220 crore for the quarter ended March 31, 2010 &mdash; a decline of 16 per cent from the Rs 1,454 crore posted in the same quarter in the previous financial year. The revenues of the company stood at Rs 5,093 crore, down 17 per cent from the Rs 6,124 crore posted in the same period of the previous financial year.

RCom Q4 net profit falls 16 per cent

&ldquo;Sales yet to catch up, but the mobile OS will gain by year end&rdquo;.

Slow start for Google's android in indian market

The next time you go shopping, try this: Walk into an electronics store and ask for a demo of 3D (three-dimension) TVs. This request will not only draw the store manager&rsquo;s attention but will also ensure that all your queries are answered with utmost politeness &mdash; in the hope of converting you into a buyer. This is because 3D TVs fall in the super-premium sales category. Selling a single product to you can cover a large part of the sales target of any store.

Is 3d Worth the hype?

One of the best parts of my job is scouring gadget markets for new products, inspirations, trends and the best of electronic toys for my stores at Vu Technologies. What is most interesting is that many products do not make it to the mainstream market and you may find a new gadget that is unheard of. They are inexpensive as they may mostly be &lsquo;engineering samples&rsquo;, which are products that are in the beta stage before the final tried and tested product is mass-manufactured.

On a gadget trail: Devita Saraf

I am a compulsive technology and gadget buyer. Earlier, I used to feel a bit guilty splurging on gadgets. But hey, women buy dresses and shoes, too.

On a gadget trail: Alok Kejriwal

In what could be one of the largest debt-raising exercises within a sector, telecom companies that win the third generation (3G) licences are expected to raise more than Rs 50,000 crore by way of debt in order to roll out their services.

Telcos may have to raise Rs 50,000 cr to fund 3G rollout

Aegis, the business process outsourcing arm of the Essar Group, is in advanced talks to acquire India-listed Avaya GlobalConnect (AGC) Networks.

Aegis close to buying Avaya GlobalConnect

UIDAI has split the overall project into small ones and handed them over to multiple vendors to speed up work.

No single vendor may get over Rs 30-cr UID contract

The beta version has seen over 1.3 mn downloads; over 2,000 firms in India are moving to the latest version.

MS Office 2010 takes fight with Google to the cloud

Thailand&rsquo;s government today insisted a crackdown on Red Shirt protesters will continue despite their plea for UN-mediated talks to end four days of street clashes with troops that have left 30 people dead.

30 dead in Thai unrest, crackdown to continue

SAP, the world&rsquo;s largest enterprise software maker, recently announced its acquisition of Sybase. Both companies have a significant presence in the country.

'We run ERP on private clouds today'

Worldwide mobile gaming end-user revenue is forecast to surpass $5.6 billion in 2010, a 19 per cent increase from revenue of $4.7 billion in 2009, according to IT research and advisory firm Gartner, Inc.

Mobile gaming revenue to surpass $5.6 bn in 2010

Local markets to feel pressure as telecom companies look to access funds.

3G payments may push up short-term rates in June

Both the currencies have depreciated against the US dollar. While the Euro depreciated by 7.7 per cent on quarter-to-date (QTD) basis against the dollar, the GBP depreciated by 4.2 per cent.

Euro, pound decline against dollar to marginally impact Indian IT firms

The refusal to auction 2G spectrum ensures that the debate over Trai&rsquo;s recommendations will centre on whether one group was favoured over the other in the past and whether one wrong justifies another.

Has Trai been fair?

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