Two of the largest State-run Telecom Companies, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) & Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) could son be split up in an attempt to better monetize the two. The empowered Group of Ministers (GoM), have scheduled a meeting to consider the exact future fate of the two entities. The GoM is currently thinking of trifurcation & hive-off two new companies each holding...

Shopping on Mobile has always been a proactive activity. But GreatBuyz is apparently trying to bring the deals to the potential buyer. Bangalore based Mobile Value Added Services (m-VAS) company OnMobile Global Ltd has developed this deal sourcing service. Incidentally, it is a service & not an app. As in, it relies on a couple of messaging & telecom services to alert a buyer about a good deal....

The Indian telecom scenario seems to have aggressively stuck to cleaning the stagnancy caused due to the non-active mobile subscriber. In fact the disconnections clocked a new record with almost 26 Million (25.97) in the month of December as per TRAI’s records. “Total wireless subscriber base decreased from 890.60 million in November 2012 to 864.72 million at the end of December 2012. This decline...

After being in the news for its growth numbers, the telecom sector seems to have entered the deceleration phase & has been losing  subscribers for some time now. Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular who collectively own 2/3rd of the total subscriber base of India, have collectively lost more than 6.7 million customers in the month of November itself. In all, as per Cellular Operators Association...

State Run telecom service providers MTNL & BSNL have partnered with Russia’s NIS Glonass to offer Satellite based navigational assistance services in India. Officials in the telecom department have confirmed the same to ToI, “A draft memorandum of understanding (MoU) between NIS Glonass, BSNL and MTNL for provision of satellite navigation services is being considered by the government”. Why...

India’s Human Resource, Information Technology & Communications Minister Kapil Sibal has come up with a joint collaborative action plan between industry leaders & Government of India (GoI) to strengthen the nation’s Broadband Internet infrastructure. He envisages combined efforts from Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) & various Government bodies working in tandem to ensure broadband...

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released data which shows that mobile subscriptions are falling. The data shows that subscriptions fell from 965.52 million in June to 944.81 million in July, a difference of 20 million and that too just in one month! This marks the first ever telecom subscriber decline witnessed by a country where the telecom segment flourished like no other in...

Union Minister of State for IT and Communications Sachin Pilot has claimed that Government of India (GoI) is striving hard to ensure at least one member from each Indian family be digitally literate. He was speaking at a panel discussion at the Digital Literacy Conclave organized by Hindustan Times (HT). Taking India towards the goal of a nation with people who are computer literate is by no means...

Indian postal Service ‘India Post’ has collaborated with BSNL to finally offer internally developed money transfer & remittance services. India Post already has a money remittance operation in collaboration with Western Union Money Transfer. Then why the extra effort? It seems the Government wishes to keep the process, the money flow & all the financial details in its control. If this...

After blazing past several milestones of subscriber addition, the Indian telecom market is showing signs of stabilization. Telecom companies in India are beginning to witness the shrinking of the once wide-open market. If the latest statistics from Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) are any indicators, the market will now shift focus from merely adding users to gaining more out of them in...