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Thanks To BSNL – Urban Mobile WiMAX Is Now A Reality In India
You must have heard a lot about WiMAX already. Now you can use it too. Thanks to BSNL, you will soon be able to browse the web anywhere with the country’s first mobile broadband – 4G Internet Access Network – The Urban Mobile WiMAX. BSNL was also the first to introduce 24 MBPS Broadband internet [...]
Mobile Number Portability To Be A Reality From The Forthcoming April Fool’s Day
The talks about implementing Mobile Number Portability (MNP) have been in the air for quite some time. We have already told you about the lack of execution on the Service Providers’ part and extended deadlines for implementing MNP. Both BSNL & MTNL are ready to implement the mobile number portability (MNP) service by the [...]
BSNL Takes The Internet To Rural Areas – Launches Innovative Products
Public sector telecom major – Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. has joined hands with Chennai-based IT solutions company Novatium in order to provide cheap and better broadband internet services in the rural areas of Uttar Pradesh. BSNL chief Om Vir Singh says “The broadband penetration in UP is quite low and lower still in rural [...]
Another Hurdle In BSNL’s Rural WiMax Roll-out
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd’s WiMax project has suffered a blow with its (BSNL’s) internal vigilance officer putting a stay on giving the project to one of the four shortlisted bidders. BSNL had received bids for its WiMax tender in November 2009. Earlier, BSNL had to cancel the tender twice.
Vippalamritha Magnetic Components Ltd (VMC), a Hyderabad [...]
BSNL IPO Expected By Late 2010
Disinvestment Secretary Sunil Mitra has given clear indications for the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. IPO (Initial Public Offering) to a private news channel. He says “I hope the BSNL IPO happens in the coming year (2010-11). I can’t say exactly when, but I certainly hope that it does happen, because BSNL does need to open [...]
Telecom Tie-ups: MTS ties up with Utiba for E-Recharge ; BSNL partners NFL for Distribution
Telecom tie-ups and partnership updates are the flavor of the season specially looking at service roll out of new players and frequency of VAS introductions. In latest, MTS has announced their tie-up with Utiba to facilitate better E-recharge facility to its subscribers.
MTS the newest telecom entrant owned by SSTL (Sistema Shyam TeleServices) feels third party [...]
IDEA Overtakes BSNL While Bharti Airtel Grows By 2.5% In Nov: GSM Growth
GSM subscriber growth numbers for November have been released by COAI (Cellular Operators Association of India) and according to these numbers IDEA Cellular has apparently overtaken BSNL in total subscriber base.
IDEA has reached 55.90 million GSM subscribers and has overtaken BSNL which has 55.18 million subscribers. This puts IDEA at no.3 position after Bharti Airtel [...]
Gazing At The 3G Saga… Day In And Day Out!
Dynamics of the Indian Communication Industry have been on a drastic revolution spree since last few months. Be it Price wars, MNP or 3G. Already pegged as the next big thing in Indian telephony, 3G seems to be the only rescuer of this slowly sinking ship. Each player in the current times has so much [...]
October Telecom Stats: Subscriber Base At 52.56 Crores, Telecom Density Reaches 44.87 Percent
TRAI has released the telecom stats for the month of October. The figure clearly points at increasing demand for telecom services in the country. The growth is largely witnessed in wireless services unmatched in other segments thus boosting the total tele-density in the country.
Total Subscriber Base & Tele-density:
The total subscriber base for all telephony [...]
GSM Subscriber Base Higher By 10.3 Million In October
The action witnessed in telecom tariffs in recent past seems to have provided a boost to net subscriber addition count for GSM telephony. The total subscriber base in October was seen higher by 10.32 million compared to 9.03 million recorded in September. The total GSM subscriber base stood at 355.2 million in October.
Vodafone [...]
India’s Telecom Space – A Case Of Lofty Targets & Inflated Numbers?
There are targets and then there are targets! Some targets make you smile and some targets make you wonder. Now dont get me wrong.. I may be sarcastic and a cynic sometimes but by and large I feel very bullish about the Telecom space in India. But it pains me when I see a larger [...]
Battle Of Telephonia – ‘Per Second Paisa Bolta Hai!’
It was expected, but never ever did we thought that it would come about this fast. The whole thing was started by the TATAs as they have always done, flagging of new revolutionary ideas for the Indian Economy through the history, and then adopted by a new comer from foreign lands called MTS. They called [...]
Telecom Roundup – BSNL Alliances Grow, USO Fund Still Swings Overhead
The telecos found the Universal Service Obligation (USO) fund noncompetitive when the government of India proposed to allocate Rs 1,800 crore to BSNL in order to expand their activities. The Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India (AUSPI) and the Cellulars Operators Association of India (COAI) along with the CDMA and GSM operators fought [...]
BSNL Assures Numerous Broadband Kiosks In Remote Areas – Will This Dream Come True?
BSNL to set up 30,000 broadband kiosks in the coming two years, should be one big news from the rural internet penetration perspective. And it is, since franchisees would be doing this job for BSNL in some of the most remote areas of India which will not only enhance internet connectivity but also help the [...]
BSNL Opening Bids For Rural WiMAX Project – Will The Internet Penetration Pick Up Now?
BSNL’s opening the bids for launching WiMAX service centers in 7000 rural pockets of India. Is it going to be the best thing in recent times to have happened to improve Indian internet penetration levels?