India’s Department of Telecom (DoT) has issued Show Cause Notices to India’s five private operators, including Bharti Airtel , Vodafone and Reliance Communications, for under reporting revenues. As...

Vodafone Group Plc hopes to triple the revenue share of its data services in its India operations over the next two years. Vodafone hopes to achieve this growth riding on increase in the use of smart-phones for...

India’s largest mobile phone operator Bharti Airtel is set to renew its network maintenance contract for its 8 circles and 3 years with Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN). NSN is a joint venture between...

The spectacular 2G scam worth 1.76 Lakh Crores (US$ 39Bn) which was hereto limited to government officials, has spilled on to the private sector. India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered...

Vodafone’s wish to enter big in India seems to be giving it nightmares with the company’s bill for 4 years coming close to UK Pounds 12 Billion. In an irony of sorts, Vodafone has been pretty unlucky...

TRAI has proposed new rules or rather amendment of old rules regarding Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) which are believed to be beneficial for Norwegian mobile operator Telenor ASA. The proposed...

After launching ‘Endless Music’ service and unveling it’s 3G services, Tata DOCOMO, announced the launch of a new unique VAS service called Video News Alert. This service that will offer...

The mobile web space in India is growing at an incredible pace and with the advent of 3G it is poised to grow even more. Majority of the phones have at least a WAP browser to access basic information...

Quite contrary to its initial plan of launching 3G services in the state of Gujarat by March this year, Idea Cellular has announced its plans of rolling out the services in the entire country by the same...

10 years ago, UK raised $34 billion for the sale of 5 3G licenses. Yes – 10 years ago. In 2010, India raised Rs.67,710 crore (approx $15 billion) by auctioning 3G spectrum in 22 circles. In the months,...

A few days ago, Bharti Airtel took a big step towards customer satisfaction by stopping bulks SMS services. This was great news for customers of the telecom giants as more and more mobile users around...

One can always trust the Department of Telecom to come up with the most radical of ideas and storm up controversies. Of course, it must be said that almost all the ideas, DoT has ever implemented, have...

The United States based makers of the CDMA platform, Qualcomm said that it plans to offer chips for 3G telecom services at ultra-low prices in India. The company plans to offer the Internet Access Device...