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IOL Netcom, who had so far become synonymous with broadband and IPTV services in Mumbai and Delhi with its tie-up with MTNL is now all set to enter as a player into the Indian telecom market. The company has entered into an agreement with state-owned telecom service provider MTNL, which has presence in the Mumbai [...]

Mahanagar Telphone Nigam Limited (MTNL) and Bharat Sanchar Nigal Limited (BSNL) have come up with more aggressive pricing for their broadband offerings, starting from August 15, 2008. Yes, MTNL has cut its broadband charges by almost 50% in its bid to boost its user base in Delhi and NCR.

BSNL has plans to test WiMax in Vizag, along with Pune and Ahmedabad, reports The Hindu. In the recent times, broadband usage in Vizag has risen tremendously, and this new initiative, said Mr. G.V Ramakrishna, Deputy General Manager, BSNL, will help in meeting the rising demand for the broadband access.

In a move to capture a portion of the ever so lucrative mobile advertising market in India Yahoo has announced a tie up with Idea cellular. We had blogged earlier on the broad mobile advertising models in India. Its seems like the mobile space is seeing more action these days in India than the online [...]

 This is a Guest Post by Raghav Soni - one of our regular readers.
 
News Based Sources tells us that the government is likely to announce its policies on two advanced technologies i.e IPTV and HITS by next week.
 
The government had earlier proposed a Convergence law to address issues related to overlapping of Telecom and Broadcasting [...]

We hypothesized about Mobile TV for a while. We have also dwelled about Mobisodes and Video ‘snacking’. While we were doing that – Mobile TV via MTNL was quietly launched in Delhi.
 
I think this service will now open up to the other markets that MTNL operates in. Business Standard has reported this story but hasn’t stressed on where the service will [...]

Geodesic Information Systems had said previously that it plans to extend its software voice over internet protocol (VOIP) suite with the launch of VoIP hardware phones in FY 2008-09. Well, that story has now been confirmed by ET.
 
Is VoIP in India Legal?
Making local calls using VoIP is illegal in India. Users in India can make VoIP-originated outbound [...]

The speed to technology deployment is picking up day by day. Not long ago, we were hypothesizing about the possibility of Mobile TV implementation in India. And today, the news came that MTNL has launched Mobile TV in Delhi already.
 
The launch will see the subscribers viewing seven channels on their GPRS enabled handsets. The handsets [...]

With the advance in technology, when everything is now made available on the Internet no one seems to read either books or newspapers. Today it is possible to read newspapers, books, tutorials online. Earlier Yellow Pages and MTNL’s helpline 28888888 were used to find the address of a new hotel, building, café house and so [...]

Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Exchange Ltd (MTNL), the local telephone and mobile services provider has recently launched its Short Messaging Services in 11 languages. MTNL has partnered with Geneva Software Technologies Ltd to offer these services. This SMS service now will be available in 11 different languages which includes Tamil, Malayalam, Bengali, Telugu and Gujarati.
 
The [...]

The Internet is growing at a rapid pace. Indian technology companies are on the verge of capturing the global internet devices market. Ichip Technologies, a Hyderabad based technology company, has developed an internet device ‘@box’ for entertainment, education and communication purposes by making an investment of Rs. 10 Crore which they plan to install in [...]

After Yahoo, Google and Rediff now it is time for to go regional. As a part of an aggressive global expansion strategy AOL is launching Hindi and Tamil language version of internet portal in India and also launches Indian version of its video search engine called Truveo.
We have also blogged earlier that [...]