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Mobile Number Portability (MNP) a buzz word for quite sometime now and last heard that TRAI would favor the number portability implementation by June 2009.
Now DoT has taken a step further and invited bids from technology players to setup the Mobile Number Portability system in India. For those who dont know Number portability allows subscribers [...]

One can always trust the Department of Telecom to come up with the most radical of ideas and storm up conspiracies. Of course, it must be said that almost all the ideas, DoT has ever implemented, have benefitted the end user till sun dawn. And of course, they have done it again, their favorite theft of time, the 3G policy.

In a landmark decision, the Department of Telecommunication (DoT) has decided to allow the foreign companies, interested in offering telecom services in India to bid for 3G license in India, without partnering with an Indian player, reports The Hindu.
However, the said company will have to partner with an Indian company before starting the operations, as [...]

Amidst news of companies launching iPhone and Nokia getting ready to combat that, how many of us actually take into account that we do not actually have a 3G infrastructure in place, yet, to take advantage of the goodies these Super-phones have to offer? Well, ofcourse we do have our Bluetooth enabled handsets and our [...]

Get ready to dial a new set of numbers in near future. he earlier announced guidelines had specified that spectrum for broadband wireless can be used only for data services. However, the Telecom Commission, in its meeting on August 21 has taken a decision to remove the restriction.

The drama around the 3G rollout in the country hardly seems to be over. However, the pre-bid conference has been deferred till August 27 and the opening of bids has been deferred to September 22 from September 3 as decided earlier.

Last Friday, the government had announced its plans to auction 3G licenses, including the 2.1 GHz band spectrum, in the coming months. However, according to the policy, although the GSM operators need to bid for the 3G spectrum, CDMA operators can seek only one spot in the 800MHz, which is the most efficient and cost-effective frequency band for 3G services.

The 3G scenario in India seems to be heating up big time. First, it was RCom trying to push the envelope for an early 3G rollout for the CDMA technology, which later got shelved because of the GSM market. Then came the announcements from Vodafone and Airtel to launch Apple’s iPhone 3G very soon. Not even a month after that, Airtel started promoting the launch of HTC Touch Diamond (touted as the iPhone killer) on televisions and print all over the country.

DoT’s recently announced 3G policy comes as a ray of hope, bringing the technology even more closer to reality. However, not everyone is happy in the telecom land. It seems that the major GSM players will get to dance in the sun, while the CDMA operators wait in the dark alleys. Preferential treatment by DoT?

A lot has been happening between India’s GSM players, foreign players interested in the growing Indian market, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and the CDMA players. DoT has already had to take some important decisions related to the 3G spectrum auction. It has already allowed international players into the auction and doubled the reserve price for the WiMax auction, which we have already covered earlier. Now, the department is eyeing the recent Idea-Spice Mobile deal.

The Department of Telecom (DoT), recently, announced the long-pending and much awaited 3G policy which allows foreign telecom firms to bid for a 3G license in India. In the policy, DoT has raised the reserve price for the auction to over Rs. 2500 crores. The Indian ISPs, however, do not seem to be happy with this decision.

The Department of Telecom (DoT), today, finalized its policy which has opened the doors for international telecom companies to bid for a 3G license in India. The policy will allow some of the big international players to bid for some 3G spectrum which will enable them to start providing their services in one of the world’s fastest growing mobile markets…

Following the tradition started by Ankit, here’s another WAT’s Up Online where we try to report all the news and happenings that we missed in the day, so that our readers don’t feel left out.

Now this will come as slap in the face for all Telecom majors [both global as well as local] tripping over each other to get a foothold in the Indian Telecom market. According to Telecom Regulatory Authority of India [TRAI] there is no 3G spectrum available in certain circles for allocation to CDMA players! This is expected to severely cramp the plans of existing as well as new CDMA operators

All you Soap opera fans, it’s time to rejoice. After weeks of silence on the 3-G spectrum issue, The Great Indian Telecom Saga has come alive again. It seems that the two caretakers of the Indian telecom industry [DoT & TRAI] are just not able to keep their hands off each other’s throats. This time the reason is the entry of foreign players [as if they needed one].