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BlackBerry MAY be banned in India!!

By Poonam Singhal at 12 August, 2010, 3:07 pm

The Indian government may decide to ban BlackBerry services in India. The security agencies in India have been demanding access to data sent over BlackBerry phones. From quite some time now, there is a tussle going on between the two parties over security concerns. Research In Motion, (RIM) has a high level of encryption and [...]

Tata Indicom slashes STD calls to 30 paisa/min – Who dares to take on this pricing war ?

By Manoj Govindassamy at 12 August, 2010, 1:13 pm

CDMA arm of Tata Teleservices, Tata Indicom has unveiled an aggressive pricing scheme for its prepaid customers, by which STD calls are billed at 30 paisa per minute across all network for 600 minutes in a month. With an aim to popularize STD calling among its subscribers, Tata Indicom has priced the STD calls at way lesser compared to the market price from other telecom operators and even lesser than local call tariffs of some operators…

Nokia ties up with Tata DocoMo to provide Nokia Ovi Life

By Poonam Singhal at 22 July, 2010, 4:03 pm

Nokia have tied up with GSM service provider Tata Docomo to provide Ovi Life tools, mainly targeting customers in rural areas and small towns. Nokia Ovi Life tools are a set of software application that comes in select Nokia handsets. It provides information on education, entertainment and agriculture. These tools were created to fill the [...]

Dell invites distributors for mobile phones in India

By Poonam Singhal at 16 July, 2010, 4:36 pm

Dell, the world’s third largest PC maker, selling laptops & desktops, is planning to venture into the fastest growing mobile market of India. Dell has launched ads in newspapers in India saying it is looking out for distributors of mobile phones, with retail reach. However, in the ad there are no details of what kind [...]

Ban on non-branded mobile handsets??

By Poonam Singhal at 14 July, 2010, 12:57 pm

Owing to the expanding influence of the communication technology, our country is adding the maximum number of mobile users to the subscriber base in the world. To tape on this, we know that there are a number of low-end low-price mobile handsets available in the market. Where on one end it is good that we [...]

Government to allocate 3g Spectrum on September 1 – 3g mobile service from 2011

By Muruganandham Krishnan at 27 June, 2010, 5:07 am

The government said it would allot 3G spectrum to successful bidders on September 1, and rejected the criticism of faulty auction process leading to high prices by leading operators. The government also said that the Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) spectrum would be allocated to all the players, including Infotel Broadband, which has been acquired by [...]

Tulip Telecom forays into consumer space ? to pick up 26% stake in Qualcomm’s Wireless Broadband business

By Manoj Govindassamy at 23 June, 2010, 10:01 am

But, Tulip’s recent move would make it one of the consumer brands in the country. It is rumoured that Tulip Telecom is about to pick up 26% stake in Qualcomm’s Wireless Broadband business. … But, as per the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) norms in Indian Telecom, a foreign entity cannot wholly build, operate and run the services in India…

India skips iPhone 3GS? iPhone 4 soon to be launched in India by Vodafone

By Muruganandham Krishnan at 9 June, 2010, 6:57 am

Vodafone Essar plans to bring the world’s thinnest smartphone iPhone 4 to India in the next few months. Apple’s iPhone 4 has the highest resolution display ever built into a phone. “Vodafone Essar will launch iPhone 4, the thinnest smartphone in the world, in India in the coming months,” the company said in a release. [...]

Nokia launches four new cheap phones and pedal power charger

By Muruganandham Krishnan at 4 June, 2010, 7:19 am

Want to talk more? Keep pedaling, says Nokia. The world’s largest mobile phone maker has launched four low-priced handsets and a charger that can be connected to a bicycle’s dynamo to power the phone while the wheels turn. The bicycle charger models — some with a standby battery time of up to six weeks, FM [...]

3G auction : Bharti,Reliance big winners: Govt.biggest winner

By Natraj Muthukrishnan at 20 May, 2010, 9:10 am

The Indian Govt’s pockets are all set to swell by Rs 67,718.95 crore ($ 15 billion), with the conclusion on Wednesday of auctions for the crucial airwaves for third generation (3G) telecom services by private players. Govt. seems to extremely happy with the auction results. The government had hoped to collect Rs 35,000 crore ($ [...]