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Rudradeep Biswas January 17th, 2013 11:03 AM 9 COMMENTS

RCom Partners Alcatel-Lucent for Superior Network Management for $1Billion

India's leading telecommunications service provider Reliance Communications has inked a contract with Alcatel-Lucent with the target to deliver superior network management and customer experience in Eastern and Southern India upto 2020. The deal, first-of-its-kind comes in the form that Alcatel-Lucent will integrate RCom's operations -both wireless and wireline to create world's leading network management organization. The optimized resources integrated will help to deliver world class services to RCom's customers in... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas January 15th, 2013 11:25 AM 9 COMMENTS

Telenor Eyeing 1800MHz Spectrum in Mumbai in Upcoming Auction

Telenor’s Indian subsidiary Telewings Communications are planning to bid for spectrum in Mumbai telecom circle in the upcoming auction in March and will continue to provide services in the metro in line with the license extension announced by the Supreme Court. The Indian subsidiary, which currently operates under Uninor brand name, is shutting down operations in Kolkata and West Bengal zones as planned earlier. Though there might be auction for... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas January 14th, 2013 11:28 AM 10 COMMENTS

Tata Docomo Revises Voice Packs in Mumbai

Tata Docomo revised some of its talk value packs in Mumbai circle. The revision comes in the form of cutting down validity period. This move comes as per with the recent trend in Indian telecom – tariff hike. Though if you are a heavy user this tariff revision is not a big deal, as the revision just only reduces tariff validity. Check out the Second Packs from Tata Docomo in... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas January 10th, 2013 11:23 AM 38 COMMENTS

Tariff Hike and Other Policies: Why Are Regulators Silent?

India's telecom happening was going great, and one day the bubble bursts. Then it is again a dull story. Supreme Court's cancellation of 122 licenses was catastrophic to the sector. As new players left, the market turns to consolidate a bit, and incumbent ones seem to in the seat of driver. That’s not a good advertisement for Indian telecom which attracted many inside and overseas investment options. SMS Termination Charge... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas January 9th, 2013 9:12 AM 94 COMMENTS

More than 400% Tariff Hike on SMS Packs of Airtel, Vodafone and Idea

As new players left the market, it’s preying time for incumbents. They are hiking tariffs and some (read BSNL) are following them to take an axe bow on their customers. New range of tariff hike extends to SMS also. Recently the trio – Airtel, Vodafone and Idea (A-Vo-Id) hike their SMS value packs upto 400%. As we are shared information, the new tariff for SMS packs are already available in... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas January 8th, 2013 3:48 PM 5 COMMENTS

Empowered Group of Ministers Decides to Halve CDMA Spectrum Price by up to 50% for Upcoming March Auction

The empowered Group of Ministers has suggested slashing of CDMA spectrum price by up to 50 per cent for upcoming auction in March. However, the final decision has to be taken by the cabinet. If approved, this will help in halving spectrum prices to about Rs 4,500 crore, and would help the CDMA to scale up services. The government will also auction spectrum in the 900-MHz band, supposed to be... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas January 8th, 2013 12:45 PM 6 COMMENTS

Airtel Offers 75 Minutes Free Mobile Usage in Dubai with Special Prepaid Packs

Airtel today announced the launch of “UAE Supercharge pack” which offers a flat 80% discount on all incoming calls at no additional costs during their travel to UAE. Customers can now spend more on their shopping sprees in Dubai as they save on their roaming charges and enjoy incoming calls at just Rs 20/min as promotional base rate. Customers can also enjoy 30 minutes of free usage on outgoing and... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas January 7th, 2013 11:13 AM 11 COMMENTS

BSNL Launches WiMAX 850 in Kerala, Additional Usage Rs 100/GB

India's largest telecommunications service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has introduced a new WiMAX plan in Kerala circle. The new plan is a postpaid plan with a monthly rental of Rs 850 (tax to be added extra), with 9GB bundled usage per month at a speed upto 2Mbps. Additional usage is just Rs 100 per GB. On the rental Govt. employees can avail 20% discount and if you choose annual... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas January 6th, 2013 11:45 AM 63 COMMENTS

Aircel Gears up for 4G-LTE, Our Expectations

Before a storm, nature becomes too calm. In the midst of dull days at telecom we are expecting the tornado called 4G. The first 4G flight had taken off by Airtel but it is not a great journey so far. RIL Infotel is working on 4G to bring it in next 2-3 months and Tikona is scheduled for mid 2013. And there are media reports that say Aircel, which owns... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas January 6th, 2013 12:21 AM 5 COMMENTS

Spectrum Auction 2013: EGoM Meet on Jan 7, DoT to Conduct by March 11

India's next round of spectrum auction may start from March 11 as Department of Telecom suggested. The decision is taken as per the decision of completing auction process by this financial year taken by EGoM meet held on December 7, 2012. This time the base price will be lower to make the auction a gala success. The November 2012 auction ended in generating Rs 9400 crore on the contrary to... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas January 2nd, 2013 12:46 PM 3 COMMENTS

Airtel Launches mEducation makes education accessible for the masses

Airtel today announced the launch of its mEducation services which will now enables Airtel mobile customers across the country to easily access a host of education services with just a few clicks on their mobile phones. Customers can now easily improve their capabilities with new skills and build self-confidence by improving their use of English language, through test preparations for entrance exams or personality development sessions. MBA aspirants can now... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas December 31st, 2012 5:03 PM 27 COMMENTS

BSNL Bars ISD for Prepaid Connections

BSNL has officially announced that international callings will be pre-deactivated on all new prepaid connections as per TRAI directives. Existing prepaid customers will be informed via SMS regarding this. But best part is those who like to continue enjoying ISD services, can easily activate ISD services by sending SMS. Just send 'ACT ISD' to 53733. To deactivate send 'DEACT ISD' to 53733 Read More