RIM Unhappy With Leaks Over BlackBerry Issue – Talks Put On Hold

One of the 3 Telecom Sagas of 2010 looks to have been settled yesterday with Mobile Number Portability finally making a pan India appearance. 3G too is slowly on its way. Twitter has several tweets with...
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ISP’s To Record Online Activities And The RIM Story Continues

Online Privacy and Freedom was one of the most contentious issues debated last year and its importance – and the spotlight on it – will only grow this year. It is always tricky to label how...
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Expect More Unsolicited Calls While Regulators Wrangle Over Authority

Last month, we wrote that TRAI has issued new guidelines for unwanted calls. These guidelines proposed to do away with National Do Not Call Registry and replace it with a Customer Call Preference Regulation....
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Google Unwilling To Share Encryption Keys With Security Agencies

With the entire hoopla surrounding Government of India’s attempts to gain rights to accessing encrypted information for security purposes, this story seems to be taking a similar path. Google representatives...
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3G Video Calling On Hold? Why?!

It hasn’t been that long since Tata DoCoMo became the first private operator to start offering 3G services. Reliance has only just started out in 4 cities. And now, they’ve both received letters...
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DoT Looks To The US For Monitoring Know-How And Snooping Law

Over the last few months the DoT and Home Ministry have been on a security overdrive.  Whether it is the BlackBerry Saga, strong signals to Google and Skype, intention to monitor VPN or looking to put...
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DoT To Invite Bids For Rural Broadband

India’s technological growth story will remain incomplete unless the necessary steps are taken to ensure that it is inclusive. Rural areas in the country have to see connectivity – at least...
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Indian Home Ministry Not Happy With Proposed BlackBerry Solution?

Here we go again! In what could be another twist to the BlackBerry saga, the Home Ministry has written to the Department of Telecommunications expressing their dissatisfaction over a proposed solution...
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Home Ministry Asks DoT To Look Into Imported SIM Cards

In yet another step by the Indian home ministry to tighten its grip on the technology and telecommunications company, they have asked Department of Telecom (DoT) to explore the feasibility of making it...
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Pan-India Mobile Number Portability by year end?

It seems that Mobile number Portability (MNP) has become a part of the Great Indian Tamasha and the latest news from the block is a fitting example of it. In an event organized by BSNL, the telecom minister...
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Blackberry Offers Security Solution To Government – Last Ditch Effort?

Blackberry’s future in India seems threatened. The Ministry of Home Affairs is now frustrated with the encrypted messages of Blackberry. So the ministry has introduced new clauses in which Centre has...
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‘Rs 35,000 Crore Revenue Estimated from 3G Spectrum Auction’ – Union Budget 2009-’10

The Great Indian 3G saga continues as the Government shoot up their expected income from auctioning 3G spectrum. Along with next generation features on mobile phones, third generation (3G) spectrum will...
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