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P K Tarun June 12th, 2012 12:18 AM 2 COMMENTS

AUSPI Opposes One-time Spectrum Charge, Alleges It Will Favour Existing Operators

The Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India (AUSPI), the industry body of new telecom operators, has opposed the one-time charge for spectrum already held by existing licensees for the remaining period, stating it will favour incumbent GSM operators. The Department of Telecommunications had proposed that once the price of spectrum is fixed for the upcoming auction, the existing operators should be asked to pay the price for the spectrum they currently hold. However, the... Read More

P K Tarun June 10th, 2012 11:44 AM 69 COMMENTS

How Mobile Tariffs Are Falling Silently in India?

In a competitive market price is very important to customers to choose a service. Similarly in Indian mobile market there is always some kind of subtle tariff war. Recent addition of tariff war is lead by Airtel who once hiked the tariff and everyone followed them blindly. But this time incumbent players like Airtel, Vodafone and Idea (in their top circles) are entering into tariff cut in a very silent... Read More

P K Tarun June 6th, 2012 2:13 PM 15 COMMENTS

Empowered Group of Ministers Decision Positive For The Sector, Opines Barclays Research

The Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) decision, which met on Tuesday, to sell up to 13.75 MHz of spectrum in the 1800 MHz band, is “incrementally positive” for the sector, according to a note by Barclays Research. “We believe that this should be able to satisfy the current demand of the 2G spectrum both from new players and existing participants. Further, if the entire 13.75 MHz is taken, there would not... Read More

P K Tarun June 6th, 2012 12:50 PM 2 COMMENTS

Panel Decided To Auction 10 MHz, Indecisive On Pricing

The Empowered Group of Ministers has decided to auction a minimum 10 MHZ megahertz of 2G spectrum but was did not arrive at a conclusive decision on spectrum pricing and auction. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) was to submit its recommendations on the impact spectrum pricing to the EGoM last week. However, the regulator did not submit its report. The panel of ministers decided to sell up to... Read More

P K Tarun June 6th, 2012 2:16 AM 12 COMMENTS

GSM Heads Move FM On Spectrum Refarming Issue

The heads of Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular have jointly written a letter to Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee seeking his intervention to prevent spectrum refarming, which apart from resulting in an increase in call rates, would cost them over Rs 1 lakh crore. The CEOs, in the letter said, their companies would have to make investments to re-tune their networks to the new frequency. If the re-tuning is not... Read More

P K Tarun June 5th, 2012 9:25 PM 27 COMMENTS

Refarming Spectrum To Impact Connectivity and Consumers

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s proposal on spectrum refarming will have a substantial cost to the industry, including an increase in tariff that would inconvenience to consumers in coming days, with no benefit to stakeholders. According to the study, the implementation of current refarming recommendations will require replacement of 286,590 existing 900 MHz base stations with 1800 MHz equipment. This is in addition to deployment of 171,954 new base... Read More

P K Tarun June 5th, 2012 1:23 AM 1 COMMENTS

Telecom Associations Leave No Stone Unturned Ahead of eGoM Meet

The telecom operators bodies are leaving no stone unturned ahead of the empowered Group of Ministers (eGoM), which is slated to meet on today to decide on allocation of 2G spectrum and pricing. On its part, Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India (AUSPI) has shot a letter to the Finance Minister stating it is extremely concerned on high spectrum price as recommended by the telecom regulator. (more…) Read More

P K Tarun June 5th, 2012 12:02 AM 21 COMMENTS

India Takes a step Closer To 2G Spectrum Auction

DOT, after a fortnight's delay, is all set to finalise an agency to conduct the e-auction of spectrum in 22 telecom service areas which will be held latest by July 10. As per a Supreme Court order the DoT was supposed to complete the auction before August 31, 2012. Once the auctioneer is finalized the DoT will have to finalise various terms of the auction and give time to telecom... Read More

P K Tarun May 8th, 2012 3:20 PM 6 COMMENTS

Tata Docomo Partners With Snapdeal.Com, Launches Deal Zone

Tata Docomo today announced an exclusive partnership with Snapdeal.com, India’s largest e-commerce portal, to launch ‘Deal Zone’. With this, Tata Docomo GSM subscribers can subscribe and get SMS alerts on a wide range of products and services such as restaurants, spas, electronic goods, fashion accessories, personal care products and lot more at subscription charges of Rs.1 per day ( daily auto-renewable). All Tata Docomo GSM subscribers can avail an additional... Read More

P K Tarun May 4th, 2012 12:04 PM 15 COMMENTS

Tata Docomo Launches CDMA Handset Bundle Offer in Karnataka

Tata Docomo today announced an exciting Samsung and Micromax handset bundled offer with cheapest local call, Unlimited Own-Net free calls and free mobile Internet data usage for its new CDMA prepaid mobile customers in Karnataka circle. This offer is available on 13 new Samsung and Micromax handsets. Customer has to simply buy any of the new handset along with Tata DOCOMO prepay CDMA SIM and then send an SMS “Offer MEID... Read More

P K Tarun April 26th, 2012 12:42 PM 1 COMMENTS

LinkedIn Launches New iPad App

LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network with more than 150 million members worldwide and over 14 million in India, today announced the launch of the LinkedIn application for iPad. New features of the new LinkedIn iPad application include Calendar feature where as users get an informative snapshot of all the people you will be meeting with that day and everything you need to know about them With the new apps... Read More

P K Tarun April 25th, 2012 1:25 PM 6 COMMENTS

Loop Mobile Offers Chance To Win Mumbai Indians Match Tickets with MGM Program

Mumbai oldest GSM Mobile Service Operator Loop Mobile (formerly BPL Mobile) and the ‘Official Mobile Network’ for the Mumbai Indians Team once again this year has introduced a special promotion enabling new customers on MGM – Prepaid program to win IPL match tickets. Loop Mobile claims, till now over 500 new subscribers has won match tickets to witness the live excitement at Wankhede Stadium. The contest has received an overwhelming response... Read More