Mobile Number Portability coming to India by August this year
Indian Union Minister for IT and Communication A Raja has said in a statement that the government aims to bring mobile number portability in the market by August this year.
Mobile number portability has been massively delayed and is much awaited.
This feature would allow mobile users to [...]
15 million new mobile subscribers in January in India
India might be facing issues when it comes to the broadband revolution with companies like Airtel throttling user’s internet connectivity.
But the mobile segment continues to see tremendous growth.
The Indian market saw an addition of 15 million new mobile connections in the month of January alone. [...]
Batelco acquires a stake in S Tel Limited
Bahrain-based integrated telecommunications company Batelco has announced that they are now going to acquire a 49 per cent stake in S Tel Limited.
With this, the company would get a way to enter the Indian telecommunications market which is growing at a huge pace.
Batelco chairman Shaikh Hamad bin [...]
BSNL announces plan to share infrastructure with rival companies
Government owned telecom giant BSNL has announced that they are now going to share infrastructure with other service providers.
BSNL said that this step would enable them to roll out new services and technology at a faster pace.
BSNL Chairman and Managing Director Kuldeep Goyal added: “We are [...]
National-Do-Not-Call registry to be operational this October 12
National-Do-Not-Call registry is all set to be operational starting this October 12. With this the telecom customers in India would finally be free from the spam calls from call centers offering credit cards and loans.
TRAI had issued the orders for establishing this registry on June 5 this year [...]
AT&T India applies for telecom licenses in India
US based telecom giant AT&T has announced that their Indian unit has applied for licenses to provide services in the Indian market.
They are collaborating with Mahindra Telecommunications for this application filed for 22 of the 23 telecommunications circles.
Indian telecom market already has as many as 12 players and [...]
Sterlite Optical Technologies gets a mega order from MTNL
Sterlite Optical Technologies has announced that they have received a contract worth Rs 169 crore from Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd.
They would now be working on deploying broadband and metro Ethernet network in Delhi and Mumbai.
The project guidelines requires them to complete the network by 2009. The network [...]
TRAI tells telecom service providers to set up call centers
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has now brought in a new regulation which makes it mandatory for the telecom providers in the country to set up call centers within 60 days from the date of implementation of the regulation.
The telecom companies are now also required [...]
India now has more than 200 million telephone subscribers
India has crossed a major milestone with as many as 206.8 million telephone subscribers as of March 31. The number has grown dramatically in the last year with the subscriber base growing by around 47%.
Compared to last year, mobile subscriber base has grown phenomenally while the [...]
India now has a GSM subscriber base of 12.1 crore customers
The mobile industry in India continues to grow at a rapid pace. The market saw an addition of over 61 lakh subscribers in March.
Bharti Airtel dominates the scene with 30.59% of the market share. The market sources said that the Indian GSM market now [...]
