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Reliance Soft Launches GSM Service. Targets 25% Market Share On Debut

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 launch the full GSM service.
The testing began in the cities of Mumbai, Bangalore, Surat, Ahmedabad, Lucknow and Ludhiana.
The second stage of funding will involve [...]

“Hulla” Available For Download on Bigflix

“Hulla” Available For Download on Bigflix

Bigflix.com, the movie rental company of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group has bagged the rights of the recently released Hindi film “Hulla”. Starring Sushant Singh, “Hulla” promised to be a laugh riot.
Hulla was produced by Big Pictures, another Reliance Entertainment company. The news item from Indiantelevision.com said Bigflix bagged the rights to the film. Really? [...]

Shyam Tele Goes Pan India: Gets Spectrum for All India Roll Out

Shyam Tele Goes Pan India: Gets Spectrum for All India Roll Out

In a major step up Shyam Telecom is said to have got Pan India spectrum to launch mobile services. This is a huge feather in the cap the Sistema controlled for Shyam Tele which now becomes only the third player in market to have a Pan India spectrum. They have been allotted spectrum in the CDMA platform. Among the new crop of mobile telecom players, Shyam is perhaps the first and only player to have a nationwide reach with this announcement.

Reliance ADAG’s DTH Service To Be Launched On Tuesday

Reliance ADAG’s DTH Service To Be Launched On Tuesday

The long awaited Direct-to-Home service from Reliance ADAG will be launched on Tuesday, reports Afaqs. Reliance will be starting with a basic offering of about 200 channels. The price will be an aggressive Rs.200-250.
Reliance will be using the MPEG-4 technology for compression in their DTH platform. MPEG-4 is an advanced technology that allows upto 30% [...]

Anil Ambani’s RCom Plans to go BIG with New Castle United! (via WATGame.com)

 

WATGame.com reveals that Anil Ambani’s RCom may soon own the New Castle football team from the fabled English Premiere League! Yes, ADAG just might buy out New Castle United.

 

The Need For OLPC In India. Is Anil Ambani Joining In ?

The Need For OLPC In India. Is Anil Ambani Joining In ?

I have always believed we need better, more affordable computing resources. OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) always looked like a good solution for this. That the project always ran into one problem or the other is a different story. Many people still question, the original idea of providing a laptop for $100. Even Intel, who was supporting the project at one point, pulled out few months back

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 has been looking to expand to the rest of the country in a big way. RCom receiving a loan of $ 500 million from EDC Canada, in addition to the $ 750 million the Anil Ambani firm had loaned from China Development Bank.

 

TRAI Directs Other GSM Operators To Give Link To RCom

RCom (formerly Reliance Communication) has been trying to get a GSM license, that’s old news. The more interesting news (yess!) is that the rest of the GSM operators had refused to provide any link to Reliance’s GSM service. This, because, they claimed that RCom’s GSM service comes under a new license and therefore [...]

Guess the most reputable company in India? It’s Microsoft!

Now this will leave all Microsoft bashers red faced [especially in India]. According to a survey by global market and insight group TNS, US software giant Microsoft has topped the list of most reputed companies in India! Although what’s surprising is that this comes on the back of repeated protests against both, Microsoft and Bill Gates for being socially irresponsible

And the Reliance - MTN Saga continues…

In a dramatic twist in the tale of Reliance Communications-MTN merger story [will give even the Saas-Bahu soap operas a run for their monies], Reliance Industries wrote to the MTN board pointing out that it has the right of first refusal over a sale of controlling stake in Reliance Communications.

TATA, Reliance, NOKIA & Motorola - All Ride High On WiMAX

WiMax is planning to ride high on the Indian Market. After TATA & Reliance, it’s Motorola’s turn to endorse WiMAX. Pundits believe that given the geographical features of India, WiMAX provides a much cheaper alternative for providing internet access to every nook and cranny of the country, as compared to the wired connections. More so, [...]

Reliance Invests in US Social Networking Portal Whrrl.com – Looking Strongly at Location Based Services

Reliance Invests in US Social Networking Portal Whrrl.com – Looking Strongly at Location Based Services

Reliance Technology Ventures Ltd. has invested in a US Based Social Network, which specializes in location based aggregation and services. What does this investment mean strategically? How does this coincide with the launch of Big Maps? Will Yatra, another RTVL Venture be tied in? We try and put the pieces together and get some stuff from the guys at RTVL.

Big Maps by Reliance – More Updates

There has been some buzz around Reliance launching Big Maps for a while now. This was reported sometime in November. We have some more information on Big Maps from sources that do not wish to be named.
 
A few facts:
The BigEntertainment team has been working on Big Maps for about 20 months now in the [...]

Indian University Implements Wi – Fi Mesh to form the Country’s Largest Wi – Fi Network (Which is Still Quite Small!). More on Wireless Mesh Networking.

Indian University Implements Wi – Fi Mesh to form the Country’s Largest Wi – Fi Network (Which is Still Quite Small!). More on Wireless Mesh Networking.

While this may not seem like great news to many of you – it did get me quite excited. I have always maintained that setting up a Wi Fi Mesh is not too difficult if the topography is not too varied and the Line of Sight is clear because equipment (with powerful dual radios) today [...]

Tata Indicom introduces e – Recharge

Tata Indicom introduces e – Recharge

 
Tata Indicom now allows all prepaid customers to access its ‘i-choose’ platform.
 
Customers can enter their mobile numbers, select a recharge amount and pay via their credit cards for instant top ups.
 
 
 
We also have news that 2 firms have now been given licenses to sell recharge vouchers across India across brands. So in effect you will [...]