March 29th, 2014 12:30 PM 4 COMMENTS

Qualcomm Gets Nod to Sell Entire Stake in 4G JV WBSPL to Bharti Airtel

India's Department of Telecom (DoT) has finally cleared US-based Qualcomm Inc's sale of 100 percent stake in its broadband wireless entity, Wireless Business Service Private Ltd (WBSPL), to Bharti Airtel. In October last year, Airtel has acquired 100 per cent stake in Wireless Business Services (WBSPL), a company founded by Qualcomm which holds 4G BWA Spectrum in Mumbai, Delhi, Haryana and Kerala telecom circle. Bharti Airtel has 4G (BWA) license... Read More

October 18th, 2013 5:30 PM 26 COMMENTS

Airtel Acquires 100 Percent Stake in Qualcomm Founded WBSPL – 4G Spectrum Holder in Mumbai, Delhi, Kerala and Haryana

India's largest mobile service provider Bharti Airtel today announced that it has acquired 100 per cent stake in Wireless Business Services (WBSPL), a company founded by US chipmaker Qualcomm which holds 4G BWA Spectrum in  Mumbai, Delhi, Haryana and Kerala circle. Earlier Airtel had acquired a 49% stake in WBSPL (Qualcomm Asia Pacific -India)  in May 2012 for USD 165 million.  WBSPL ( Qualcomm)  has emerged as a successful bidder... Read More

April 18th, 2013 3:36 PM 28 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Gets 10,000 Mobile Numbers to Run Voice Over LTE Trial

Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has provided 10,000 mobile numbers to Pan India 4G BWA spectrum winner Reliance Jio Infocom for trial of Voice over 4G LTE network, as requested by the company. The number series allocated to Reliance Jio is 83378 for trial propose, and it will be used across Mumbai, Delhi and Jamnagar where Jio will soon start the trial run of VoLTE with 4000 mobile numbers each in... Read More

June 14th, 2011 4:14 PM 18 COMMENTS

Tikona Introduces Prepaid WiBro Plans To Home Users

Tikona Digital Networks, pioneered in fixed wireless broadband services over the country has introduced prepaid services in selected cities. Currently prepaid offerings are limited to home users only. Tikona which is offering WiBro based wireless broadband using 4th Generation OFDM and MIMO has brought prepaid services to Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Mangalore, Rajkot and Solapur. It is expected Tikona will bring prepaid services to all cities where it is present. A... Read More

May 19th, 2011 6:16 PM 32 COMMENTS

India On Its Way to Mobile Broadband

After the roll out of 3G (EVDO/HSPA) from operators, next big thing for India's telecom sector is going to be roll out of 4G services. India was late to enter 3G era, but 4th Generation communications will not allow that much delay as BWA auction is already done and spectrum was given to the auction winners in September 2010. WiMAX & LTE (Long Term Evolution) are not true 4G, rather... Read More

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