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. [...]
Update: Airtel’s latest excuse to ban VoIP services:
“We regret to inform you that to connect static IP using “VOIP” have been restricted as per guidelines received by “DOT”, Hence you will not able to use VOIP services.”
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DoT approves long distance calling cards
Indian Department of Telecommunications has now given their approval to long distance operators to sell calling cards in the Indian market.
This would enable the customers in the market to pick their own long distance call service provider.
TRAI had recommended that this market should be opened up to increase [...]
India adds 10.81 million mobile subscribers last month
Indian telecom industry continues to shine as the country saw an addition of 10.81 million mobile subscribers in December 2008.
This was higher than 10.35 mobile subscribers which were added in November last year.
These figures were revealed by TRAI.
With this, the country now has around [...]
Airtel fails to meet TRAI benchmark for quality of services
Voice&Data has revealed the details on how the mobile service providers in the country are performing as per the TRAI benchmark for quality of services.
Only five telecom companies in the country have met the 90 percent mark required to satisfy the recommendations of TRAI.
Airtel, BPL, [...]
Mobile phones a necessity in these tough times for Indians
India remains one of the few markets where mobile phone market continues to see a massive growth.
Along with China, it accounts for millions of new connections every month.
Anshul Gupta, principal research analyst at Gartner stated in a report that even in these tough times, Indian [...]
National Do Not Call violators getting disconnected
Indian telecom regulatory body TRAI has announced that more than 10,000 telephone connections of telemarketers have been disconnected for violating the National Do Not Call registry.
These call centers made calls to mobile numbers which were listed on the DNC registry.
Most of the connections disconnected in this drive belonged to [...]
TRAI has some good news for prepaid mobile users in India
TRAI has taken some actions to make life easier for prepaid mobile users in the country.
They have now instructed the mobile service providers to remove the processing charges on recharge cards. This is to improve transparency in tariffs and to protect the interests of consumers.
They [...]
Reliance GSM gets interconnection from other players
TRAI has confirmed that the conflict between Reliance Communications and other GSM operators is now over.
GSM players in the country have now agreed to provide interconnection to RCOM’s GSM network.
Nripendra Misra, chairman, TRAI said in a statement: “There is no row. They will honor the TRAI directive.”
BSNL, [...]
Bharti, Idea, BSNL and Vodafone told to provide connectivity to Reliance GSM
TRAI has now directed the existing GSM companies in the country to provide interconnection to Reliance’s newly launched GSM services.
Bharti, Idea, BSNL and Vodafone are four of the biggest GSM service providers in the country. Spice Communications has also received similar directions from the [...]
