telecom

STel shuts down mobile services in Himachal, Bihar, Orissa – Chinese network equipments security breach ?

S Tel Private Limited (S Tel) is a joint venture between Siva Group (formerly Sterling Infotech Group) and Bahrain Telecommunications Company (Batelco) and is the latest entrant in the India Telecom bandwagon. We spoke about the company here and about its tariff plans here  .
S Tel has acquired Unified Access Services Licenses (UASL) and spectrum to [...]

BSNL has 1 lakh excess staff. VRS, IPO, downsizing on way?

BSNL, one of the largest employers in the country, currently has over 3 lakh employees. This PSU, has been facing a lot of competition from the private operators. Its fixed-line market has been declining mainly because of ancient procedures & processes.
A panel headed by Mr Sam Pitroda, advisor to the PrimeMinister, has provided a 15-point formula [...]

Jobs at Convergys : Convergys set to hire 1K

Here is some good news for the job-seekers in NCR region. Convergys Corporation is all set to hire more than 1,000 employees in India, over the next 3 months. All of these openings are at their Gurgoan centre. 
Convergys is listed on the NewYork Stock Exchange and has around 75,000 employees world-wide. It deals in relationship [...]

High Speed Internet Infrastructure soon in India – BSNL sheds a new entity for Internet Infra

We know broadband penetration in India is bad. When many other countries are having average broadband speed at over 4 Mbps …There has been some initiatives from few players in the country to bump up the internet speed. One such is the Metro Ethernet Scheme of MTNL … over three years to lay a five lakh km optic fibre cable (OFC) network to reach every gram panchayat. Country’s Telecom Public Sector Unit (PSU), BSNL is shedding out an infrastructure company to implement this mega project and work with other PSUs like Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCIL) and RailTel. The venture will be supported financially by the Universal Services Obligations Fund..

Essar Telecom Infra bought over by American Towers’ Transcend Infra – More consolidation in Telecom Towers business

..Transcend Infrastructure Ltd (TIL) the subsidy of American Towers Corporation (ATC) is taking over Essar Telecom Infrastructure in an all cash deal and making a tower valuation of around 45 lakhs which is same as the previous GTL-Aircel deal. To get this deal done, Transcend has entered into share purchase agreement with three Indian companies of the Essar Group ….Seems, ATC is constantly expanding its tower portfolio. With the latest deal, ATC has got 3 indian tower companies in its kitty and has installation base … increase its network coverage and launch new technologies like 3G and WIMAX..

BSNL launches 3g Services in Bangalore, Chennai – Prepaid, Postpaid Tariff

Finally India got 3g networks, hurray! There are more than 40 countries launched the 3g networks around 4 years back and only USA has been quite successful in these 3g networks after the launch of iPhones by Apple. Even now USA has been suffering lot of Data Contention problems with 3g networks and it causes [...]

Nokia to provide Mobile Money in India

India has been one of the fastest growing mobile markets in the world. Nokia has been the market leader in mobile handsets, having a share of 57% in the Indian handset marker. So, cash in this popularity, Nokia is set to launch Mobile Money in India.

Under this service, mobile users can send and receive money instantly [...]

Tata DOCOMO BuddyNet- Unlimited Browsing & chatting on Facebook, Orkut, Twitter etc.,

… Tata DOCOMO will now empower its BuddyNet members with the ability to stay in touch with their buddies anytime, anywhere. Tata DOCOMO BuddyNet members can browse through these five social networking sites without having to pay any browsing charge thus enabling them to share posts, information and chat absolutely free of charge. The free browsing is available on both Tata DOCOMO Dive- in and Tata DOCOMO ‘INTERNET’ APN’s…

Mobile Number Portability -Launch Date -May 1st week in Chennai Bangalore – I&B Minister Raja

Information & Broadcasting Union Minister Raja confirmed that the mobile number portability will be launched around May 1st week. Initially it will be launched in major cities like Chennai, Bangalore where mobile subscriber base is very high and also different service providers.
This effort from Union Minister is really appreciable and it may bring the real [...]

Tata Teleservices partners with Future group – T24: A new offering in telecom & retail space

Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL) has entered into a franchisee agreement with Indian retail chain, Future group, to offer a unique retail & talking experience to their customers. TTSL will be launch its new GSM operations under the brand name T24 – Talk 24.

Tata teleservices is under a similar agreement with Virgin group, under the Virgin [...]