August 30th, 2010 3:10 PM 14 COMMENTS

RCOM forms 3G Business Team, Plans 3G Innovation Lab

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

July 23rd, 2010 3:34 PM 46 COMMENTS

Unlimited Plans – Subscribers Dream & Operators Nightmare

Network and spectrum are pretty expensive things. Huge costs go in deploying networks. An operator who is ready to incur costs expects good return on investment. But the costs are so huge that it takes years for an operator to look at profits. Also they cannot charge heavily for service because they have incurred huge costs. So there is a trade off between what we expect and what we get.... Read More

June 16th, 2010 12:09 PM 5 COMMENTS

SmartPlay To Collaborate With Qualcomm For 3G Solutions

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

June 8th, 2010 4:16 PM 82 COMMENTS

Exclusive: Maharashtra will get BSNL 3G from 11th June

After a long delay finally Maharashtra and Goa circle will get the next generation BSNL 3G Mobile and Data services from 11th June. The Pan-India 3G operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is going to make its 3G debut in the Pune, Goa, and 55 other cities in Maharashtra and Goa telecom circle from June 11th. Maharshtra’s cultural capital city of Pune will be the first city to witness the... Read More

June 8th, 2010 12:16 PM 32 COMMENTS

MTNL Upgrades 2G Customers To Gen NEXT!

In an attempt to provide greater benefits to the GSM mobile service users, India's first 3G mobile service operator Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) announced the launch of Free 3G Up-gradation for its 2G GSM Dolphin & Trump subscribers in Mumbai telecom circle. Under the MTNL Mumbai 's Free 3G Up-gradation Offer, its Postpaid and Prepaid (Dolphin/Trump) 2G subscriber will be automatically up-graded into next generation 3G services at free... Read More

May 31st, 2010 11:06 AM 31 COMMENTS

GSM Operators Approaching BSNL for Pan-India 3G Roaming

At the closer of the India's 3G auctions, most of bidders including the biggies Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Reliance Communications(Rcom), Aircel and Tata Teleservices (TTSL-Tata Docomo) emerging 3G airwaves winners for limited telecom circles. No single bidder bid for a pan-India 3G license so state operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) would be remain the biggest 3G operator in India. The absence of any pan-India 3G licence winner amongst all private... Read More

May 22nd, 2010 5:35 PM 33 COMMENTS

India 3G Spectrum Bid Results: What Operators Said

At the closer of the India's 3G auctions, most of bidders including the biggies Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Reliance Communications emerging winners for the 3G airwaves. While  latest entrant in GSM arena Videocon Telecommunications Ltd and Etisalat DB were unable to win a single circle. The GSM biggies Vodafone Essar, Bharti Airtel and dual technology operator Reliance Communications (Rcom) bagged the lucrative Delhi and Mumbai circles for a whopping Rs.3316.93... Read More

April 10th, 2010 8:17 PM 4 COMMENTS

Nokia Siemens Networks First To Commence 3G Manufacturing in India

In a bid to faster and easier deployment of 3G Mobile and Data networks in the Indian subcontinent, Nokia Siemens Networks today announced that it has starts manufacturing 3G mobile communications infrastructure at its Chennai facility. With this move, Nokia Siemens Networks becomes the country's first telecommunications infrastructure vendor to manufacture 3G products locally. By developing the local ecosystem, Nokia Siemens Networks is showing its commitment to the roll-out of... Read More

April 8th, 2010 10:43 PM 24 COMMENTS

A Generation Too Late For 3G!

Are we in the race anymore or have we fallen behind? That's the question Indian subscribers will be asking as the day approaches for the quite essential 3G services being bid for. Of course its another matter all together when it would be implemented and services will be made affordable to the end consumer. If this is the case with Indian government agencies moving so slowly on the much awaited... Read More

April 1st, 2010 1:43 PM 13 COMMENTS

Indian Telecom Industry Vs 3G And Mnp Worldwide The 8th Take

Greetings to all our esteemed readers of Telecom Talk, so Q2 is over and I guess everyone in our telecom industry has been quite busy recently like me in achieving the targets. At first will like to congrats Team TT, for achieving a mark more than 4k in terms of subscribed readers.Everyone here must have heard about the new delayed date for MNP implementation and that’s 30th of June the... Read More

March 27th, 2010 12:58 PM 29 COMMENTS

Sneak Peek Into 3G Mobile Phones In India

After a lot of delays, the long-waited 3G & BWA auction processing for private players has been started in India. A total of 9 operators have applied for 3G spectrum auction and 11 companies have applied for BWA auction. So it will be a intense tag of war among companies as only 3 slots (in few circles 4 slots) are available for 3G, and only 2 slots are for BWA,... Read More

March 19th, 2010 12:22 PM 4 COMMENTS

BSNL Launches 3G Mobile & Data Services in Namakkal (TamilNadu)

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) today launched its much awaited 3G mobile services at Namakkal city of Salem SSA in the state of Tamilnadu. The BSNL 3G Services will provide High quality multimedia features like video calling, high speed internet browsing through Mobile phone/Data Cards and also subscribers can enjoy Live Mobile TV & VoIP services on our 3G Compatible mobile phone. Speaking on the launch of 3G services, Shajahan.A,... Read More

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