Reliance Announces Pan-India SMS based Mobile Conferencing

Reliance Communications has just announced India’s First Handset Independent SMS-based Mobile conferencing service. The voice conferencing service is being offered as an extension to its existing...
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Download Unlimited Music For Free On Your Mobile – Virgin Mobile Targets Youth Again

Virgin Mobile, who claim to be the only “youth centric” mobile service brand in the country, have launched yet another incentive to grab the youth of India by announcing unlimited and free...
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Nokia C6 to debut in September – The Wait Continues

Yesterday, the market was abuzz with rumor that the hugely anticipated Nokia C6 was already in the market. It seemed that finally the wait for all the eager enthusiasts was over.However, Nokia clarified...
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Some Telcos Favour Delinking While Some Oppose – To Link, Or Not To Link?

In true sense the turning point of Indian Telecom Industry was November 2003, when ‘Unified’ Access Service Licensing was introduced. Earlier, The BSOs (Basic Service Operators) or the guys who provide...
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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...
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Telecom Sector Analysis for June Quarter – Severe Decline In ARPU, MOU But Growth Continues

The boom phase for Indian telecom sector continues to ride on availability of cheaper telecom services at the same time aggressive marketing by new and established players. The growth phase is panning...
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RCom Introduces Universal Plan, Local And STD calls At 50 paise

Indian Telecom Users are burdened with numerous plans and hidden tariffs. Reliance Communication seems to have adapted new strategy to take care of such anomalies and thus would be charging similar voice...
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RCom Inching Closer To Seal M-commerce Deal With Atom

M-Commerce has been the buzzword off-late. The Mobi-payment companies are bringing innovations in facilitating m-commerce in India.  Business Standard reports that Reliance Communication may be inching...
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GSM Shows A Marginal Dip In August Subscriptions

After a brief pick up in the GSM subscribers in the month of July, August showed just a marginal dip over the previous months. Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI) data shows that the total...
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Some BIG News: BIG Maps Goes Live On Mobile And Releases API

The first reports on Reliance’s BIG Maps came out around late 2007, while the official word went out sometime in May 2008. At that time we had reported on bits regarding the team and their plans...
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RCom to pump 150 crores to advertise its GSM Service

Reliance Communication or RCom as it is popularly known in media circles is planning on a major advertising campaign for its GSM services. The campaign has already gone live on media with television ads...
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Tata & NTT Docomo To Launch CoBranded GSM Services

Earlier Tokyo based global telecom major NTT Docomo has acquired 26% of Tata Teleservices for $2.7 billion and now the duo is  reportedly planning to strengthen the alliance and co-branding for  it’s...
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Reliance Soft Launches GSM Service. Targets 25% Market Share On Debut

Company has been giving. The company has distributed around 10,000 test SIM cards to its employees. RCom has invested around Rs.800 crore and erected 2500 towers. By mid-December, the company plans to...
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GSM Operators’ Lobby to take TRAI to Court

Apparently, there’s trouble brewing in India’s telecom sector as the leading GSM operators in the country plan to take the country’s telecom regulator TRAI to court. And as it seems,...
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Reliance Communications laps up $ 500 million from EDC, Canada – Will it help improve their services now?

  Reliance Communications has been upbeat about sprucing up its GSM services for a long time, now. After making SMART’s, its GSM network, presence felt in the eastern and central zone, Reliance...
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DoT now eyes the Idea-Spice Mobile Deal

  The Department of Telecom (DoT) folks have been having numerous sleepless nights lately, with all the activity that has been happening in the telecom industry of India.   A lot has been happening...
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