MTNL Ties Up With Bharat Berry Technologies To Launch Push Mail Services

by | posted: May 30, 2011
State-owned Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL), has tied- up with Bharat Berry Technologies Pvt. Ltd. to provide “Push Email” services for all its mobile subscribers in Mumbai & Delhi....
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Airtel Has Highest Number Of Active Subscribers, What About The Rest?

by | posted: February 11, 2011
Sometime back in July last year, we covered a story on the growth of mobile subscribers in India. Adding onto this, a recent TRAI report also said that there were 752.19 million subscribers in December...
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Aircel To Launch 3G Even As Reliance Industries Eyes 4G

by | posted: January 10, 2011
At WATBlog, we have covered many stories on how the whole 3G episode is shaping up in India. Despite many speculations and announcements, only Tata DoCoMo and Reliance (and not to miss out the state owned...
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3G Rollout Will See Telcos Working Together To Maximize Coverage

by | posted: January 5, 2011
In India’s almost cut throat telecom sector it isn’t very often you see too many Telecom companies working together. All thanks to the 3G spectrum auction, now they pretty much do not have...
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3G Video Calling On Hold? Why?!

by | posted: December 15, 2010
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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Discovery And Apalya Partner To Launch 5 Mobile TV Channels

by | posted: November 19, 2010
To give you an India of the immense potential mobile TV has in India, according to a Nielsen Report, India ranked 4th worldwide in terms mobile video viewership despite a paltry penetration figure of...
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Tata DoCoMo Announces 3G Tariff

by | posted: November 10, 2010
Just a week after it won the accolade of being the first private operator to introduce 3G in India, Tata DoCoMo has launched an aggressive tariff plan eyeing on converting its existing 2G customers into...
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Funding Updates: Ericsson – Novatium Solutions | Naspers – OLX

by | posted: August 31, 2010
Funding news can only mean one thing; the investors believe that a certain company has the potential to grow. So who is investing in whom? Let us find out. Ericsson Claims Minority Stake in Novatium Swedish...
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‘Dual’ling SIM connections – Problem For Indian Telcos

by | posted: August 30, 2010
While talking about mobile connections, there is a decent chance that you have had someone tell you that the only reason for not changing their connection is that a lot of people already have their existing...
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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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Telecom RoundUp: MTNL To Go International, BSNL 3G In TN, 3G Bidders To Pay In INR

by | posted: January 28, 2010
MTNL to go International With appointment of MTNL’s new chairman and managing director Kuldip Singh, it’s plans of entering overseas markets have been revived. MTNL now plans to enter Africa by...
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WATFive: Google vs Newspapers, Telenor Launches Service, MTNL-Virgin Mobile, Mauj – Hungama Tieups

by | posted: December 5, 2009
WATFive your dose of 5 news stories is back. Here are the 5 news stories of last week! Google vs Newspapers At the World Newspaper Congress in India it was Google vs Newspapers. Google senior vice president...
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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 Shows A Marginal Dip In August Subscriptions

by | posted: September 12, 2009
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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MTNL’s Location Based Services – Threat To GPS?

by | posted: September 10, 2009
Ever lost finding a place? Ever wanted to know where your friends really are? If you have a MTNL connection and you are in Mumbai, you now can. Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) launched its new Value-Added...
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