WWW: WAT Weekly WrapUp 15th August – 22nd August 2010

by | posted: August 23, 2010
This week saw Ybrant acquiring Lycos and then planning for an IPO which raised questions if the acquisition was done purely to increase market value. Facebook launched Facebook Places but only for iPhone...
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BSNL 3G Services In Gujarat Help One97 Test Video Portal

by | posted: August 18, 2010
BSNL recently launched 3G services in Gujarat. Taking advantage of this, One97 Communications have launched a pilot for video portal VAS in the state. Though this service is not available commercially,...
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Telecom Round Up: BSNL Introduces 3G Video Streaming, 3G Bidding – Day 2 Review

by | posted: April 12, 2010
BSNL Introduces 3G Video Streaming As usual Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) is again on it’s track of overwhelming it’s subscribers by providing them with cutting-edge technology at the...
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Thanks To BSNL – Urban Mobile WiMAX Is Now A Reality In India

by | posted: March 3, 2010
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...
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Mobile Number Portability To Be A Reality From The Forthcoming April Fool’s Day

by | posted: February 4, 2010
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...
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BSNL Takes The Internet To Rural Areas – Launches Innovative Products

by | posted: February 4, 2010
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...
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Another Hurdle In BSNL’s Rural WiMax Roll-out

by | posted: January 28, 2010
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...
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BSNL IPO Expected By Late 2010

by | posted: January 21, 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...
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Telecom Tie-ups: MTS ties up with Utiba for E-Recharge ; BSNL partners NFL for Distribution

by | posted: January 13, 2010
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...
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IDEA Overtakes BSNL While Bharti Airtel Grows By 2.5% In Nov: GSM Growth

by | posted: December 16, 2009
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...
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Gazing At The 3G Saga… Day In And Day Out!

by | posted: November 24, 2009
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...
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October Telecom Stats: Subscriber Base At 52.56 Crores, Telecom Density Reaches 44.87 Percent

by | posted: November 23, 2009
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...
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GSM Subscriber Base Higher By 10.3 Million In October

by | posted: November 13, 2009
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...
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India’s Telecom Space – A Case Of Lofty Targets & Inflated Numbers?

by | posted: November 12, 2009
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...
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Battle Of Telephonia – ‘Per Second Paisa Bolta Hai!’

by | posted: November 4, 2009
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...
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Telecom Roundup – BSNL Alliances Grow, USO Fund Still Swings Overhead

by | posted: November 4, 2009
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...
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