3G from Tata Docomo is just few days away! 3G business was a pricey one, now it is affordable, thanks to BSNL who drops unlimited 3G data plans to Rs 700 per month! More excitement are just some months away as most operators plan to roll out their own 3G services in Q1 of 2011. After becoming affordable 3G will bring some changes in India despite of the fact it... Read More
Pan India 3G mobile service operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) today announced the launch of Video Call and 3G Data facility for its 2G service users in Tamilnadu telecom circle. Under the BSNL’s Free Video Call and 3G Facility offer, all Postpaid and Prepaid 2G-GSM subscribers of Tamilnadu are now up-graded for next generation 3G mobile services to provide the video call facility by default irrespective of whether customer... Read More
India's largest GSM Mobile service operator Bharti Airtel today announced that it has chosen Ericsson India, Nokia Siemens Networks and Huawei Technologies as network partners to launch 3G Services in India. These partners will plan, design, deploy and maintain a state of the art 3G HSPA Network in Bharti Airtel 3G license circles. This deployment would enable Bharti Airtel extend its leadership position in the Indian market and meet the... Read More
The Government of India will start allocation of 3G spectrum to telecom companies that bid the highest in the May 2010 3G auction. Earlier the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had set the deadline to September 1 for allocation of 3G spectrum.The defence forces had already released two slots of 3G spectrum before the auction. Leading Mobile Service operators like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar, Reliance Communications (RCOM), Aircel, Tata Teleservices, Idea... Read More
Reliance Communications, India's largest integrated telecom operator (GSM and CDMA) is now making a fast progress towards readying itself for the 3G-GSM led opportunities. Moving up the ladder, in an all India bid for 3G spectrum, the company has won 13 circles including the metros of Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata and is the only operator without capacity constraints on 2G in these circles. This advantage puts it in a unique... Read More
SmartPlay Technologies, a leading provider of Mobile Software and System Design services, will now offer 3G feature-phone and smartphone solutions designed to operate on Qualcomm Incorporated’s chipsets using multiple operating systems, including Brew Mobile Platform (Brew MP) and Android. SmartPlay will introduce customized 3G solutions for the India market in late 2010. SmartPlay will create compelling user experiences for various Indian user segments ranging from youth, working professionals, sports fans... Read More
Long waited India’s 1st 3G spectrum auction is over! Starting on 9 April it took 34 days. Govt-owned BSNL and MTNL are already offering 3G services over country. Now private operators also get licenses to offer high speed 3G services. Indian Government earned Rs 67,700 crore, double than they expected to get by selling 3G airwaves.Most important thing not a single operator did win pan-India 3G license, which may lead... Read More
India's auction for 3G GSM Service licence ended today with bids for pan-India licence touching Rs 16,751 crore which ensures the Government of India a revenue of Rs 67,719 crore. The 3G auction had commenced on 9 April, 2010 and there were nine bidders in the fray for the slots of 3G spectrum on the block. The government auctioned three slots in 17 telecom service areas and four slots in... Read More
The long awaited event in the Indian Telecom Industry ”The Grand 3G auction” has been 26th day over with PAN India Spectrum price set at Rs. 13,474 crore, though the auction eventually happened after more than a year from the initial proposed date. Delhi and Mumbai circles grabbed top positions taking an extensive lead from others with prices closing at Rs 2,372.97 & Rs 2,433.88 respectively. By the time our... Read More
India's 3G bid price continued to increase steadily entered the third day. The pan-India maximum bid price on Monday was Rs.4324.19 crore, which is 24% more than the reserve price of Rs.3500 crore.The competition among the top telecom operators like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar, Reliance Communications, Idea Cellular, and Tata Tele Services will be on peak in the bid for getting 3G airwaves in all 22 telecom circles. The day... Read More
The Department of Telecom (DoT) has announced the cancellation of UAS (Unified Access Service) License of Russian-owned, Swiss-registered Telecom operator ByCell Telecommunications Pvt Ltd to start telecom operations (Mobile Services) in 5 Telecom circles named Assam, Orissa, Bihar-Jharkhand, North East and West Bengal, on grounds of security concerns. After the Indian home ministry's concerns about ByCell’s shareholding structure, its source of funding and the lack of clarity about the company... Read More
After being postponed several times in the last two years, the long-awaited 3G & Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) spectrum auction is finally happening today. While commercial usage is only permitted from September 2010 onwards, a successful auction should lay the groundwork for faster internet connectivity and data transfer on mobile phones, boosting usage of data services in the cellular market. While the purpose of the auction was to facilitate the... Read More
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Thank you Rupesh for good realistic long writing on Vi and BSNL.??
