Aircel To Roll Out 3G Services Before Cricket World Cup

by | posted: February 10, 2011
As the whole country is getting ready for the biggest cricket extravaganza, the ICC World Cup 2011, Aircel is planning to roll out 3G services in all of its 13 telecom circles and rake in the moolah, reports...
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BSNL App Store Coming Soon?

by | posted: February 9, 2011
Appvolution rolls on! We just wrote about an Android App Store specifically for India.Well, BSNL is the fray as well. It had signed an agreement with Accenture to build an app store for its 2G and 3G...
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MNP : Over 11 Lakh Opt For Change, But How Many Will Get It?

by | posted: February 8, 2011
It has just been a little over 2 weeks since Mobile Number Portability was made all available Pan India. Even when we wrote about Haryana specific stats which suggested that Reliance and BSNL lost the...
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Apple Launching iPhone 4 With BSNL In India?

by | posted: February 4, 2011
Technixupdate and My Mobile Scoop have reported on a possible launch of iPhone 4 with our state owned mobile carrier BSNL soon. It was only last week that Apple launched its revolutionary iPad in India...
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BSNL, Reliance Emerge As Early Losers In MNP Race As Vodafone Gains The Most

by | posted: January 25, 2011
We’ve been following the ‘churn’ from Mobile Number Portability pretty closely.(here and here). BusinessLine has another article with some very interesting information about which way...
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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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Recap 2010 : The Great Telecom Saga(s)!

by | posted: December 28, 2010
This year, the Telecom industry gave us more twists and turns than the ever thickening plots of 2 Christopher Nolan and Stanley Kubrick films combined! I’m not sure how that would work, but basically...
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Reliance To Unveil 3G Ready R World On Motricity’s mCore Platform

by | posted: December 3, 2010
More news on the 3G front. Sort of! Reliance Communications has announced that a new R World for the upcoming 3G services will be powered by Motricity. Among other things the portal will provide data services...
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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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To 3G Or Not 3G?

by | posted: November 12, 2010
10 years ago, UK raised $34 billion for the sale of 5 3G licenses. Yes – 10 years ago. In 2010, India raised Rs.67,710 crore (approx $15 billion) by auctioning 3G spectrum in 22 circles. In the months,...
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Indian Search Results Indicate Wireless Internet Breakthrough Soon – Report

by | posted: October 26, 2010
Internet reach in India has grown by leaps and bounds. Mobile phones have been a major contributing factor to this but studies have also shown that the number of PCs in India have also played a substantial...
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RCom’s Debt Increases, With The Loss Of Deal

by | posted: September 9, 2010
Reliance Communication, one of India’s leading telecom companies in India, is in a spot of bother as their debts are rapidly increasing. It was a known fact that RCom had plans of cleaning these...
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Bharti Airtel’s Zain Loses Subscribers – Videocon May Sell 26% of Telecom Arm

by | posted: September 1, 2010
Zain losing ground in Kenya We have been following Kuwait-based Zain Telecom’s Africa unit right since it showed interest to when the deal was finally sealed, to when Bharti decided to pump in $308...
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Mergers On The Cards In Indian Telecom Sector

by | posted: July 13, 2010
From an international point of view, when you think about India, one of the things that strike you is quality products and services at cheap prices. One of the pristine examples is the current scenario...
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MTN Trying To Enter India Through Loop Mobile

by | posted: June 28, 2010
MTN has the habit of being in the news recently. One more instance is that it is in talks with Loop mobile to purchase a stake in the company which operates in 21 circles in India. Loop, initially BPL...
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Mobile Roundup: 4G Won’t Hamper 3G Bidding, Cupid Strikes iPhone, Comics on Reliance Mobiles

by | posted: January 27, 2010
4G Won’t Hamper 3G Bidding We have already talked about 3G bidding here on WAT Blog. Now there has been a lot of buzz created by 4G and people are worried whether the news of 4G coming to India might...
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