To Increase Mobile Coverage DoT Offers Incentives In Rural Areas

by | posted: July 4, 2011
Lately it was reported that around 96% of rural population in India are active internet users.  Now it is reported that around 74% areas is covered by different type of mobile operators and only 9 % of...
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SMSGupshup’s Platform To Remove Spam Calling And Spam Messages

by | posted: June 24, 2011
The government’s crackdown on bulk messaging threatens to harm a lot of businesses which revolve around text messages. To tackle this and at the same time keep cellphone subscribers’ interest...
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TRAI Delays Telemarketing Regulation Indefinitely

by | posted: March 21, 2011
We have been blogging about how TRAI is trying to tackle the issue of unwanted calls by instituting a separate number for telemaketers. But just like we saw delays one after the other for MNP and then...
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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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Expect More Unsolicited Calls While Regulators Wrangle Over Authority

by | posted: December 23, 2010
Last month, we wrote that TRAI has issued new guidelines for unwanted calls. These guidelines proposed to do away with National Do Not Call Registry and replace it with a Customer Call Preference Regulation....
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Mobile Number Portability’s Data Churn And How Telcos Will Implement It!

by | posted: December 7, 2010
Well, Mobile Number Portability has been here for 12 days. Ok, not here. Only in Haryana. Nevertheless, 12 days should give us a sneak peak into what trends are likely to unfold when it spreads across...
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Mobile Phones – What Indian Teenagers Can’t Live Without!

by | posted: December 7, 2010
Every person in this world has his or her most valuable asset in life, so called the thing that he or she cannot live without. Indian teenagers today seem to have a big obsession for Mobile phones that...
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TRAI Issues New Guidelines For Unwanted Calls

by | posted: November 30, 2010
Everyone has probably faced a situation where they are waiting for an important phone call or message. And when that phone finally does come to life, it turns out to be a telemarketer selling you some...
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Happy Mobile Number Portability Day? – MNP Kicks Off In Haryana

by | posted: November 25, 2010
Finally! After delays, delays, delays, delays and delays followed by some more delays, it is here. Mobile Number Portability has been launched in Haryana today. By now, I’m sure you know the drill,...
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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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Telenor To Sweat It Out In India

by | posted: October 7, 2010
Cut. Pain. Endure. Heal. This is the story of the Indian telecom sector. Last time around, Telenor was bleeding and we dripped that here. Now, it is not that it has stopped bleeding but the commitment...
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Bailout Alert – Govt. May Reduce Failing Telcos’ Pain

by | posted: September 27, 2010
Normally, you would associate ‘bailout’ with the painful recession of 2008. This one is not so much about that. Over the past 12 – 18 months, news has consistently flooded us with launches of mobile...
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Curb On Bulk SMS, National Broadband Plan, MNP Coming Soon – TRAI

by | posted: September 9, 2010
India is a country on the move. The country is moving ahead slowly but surely towards a brighter future; a future where the customer is king and all his preferences are given more priority than it is...
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Telenor – Indian Telecom Sector This Decade’s Dot Com Bubble?

by | posted: September 6, 2010
India’s highly lucrative telecom sector has started testing operators in a serious way. Norwegian company, Telenor is having to face investor flak in a big way with regard to its Indian operations. The...
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Bharti Airtel Stops Bulk SMS Business – Other Service Providers To Follow?

by | posted: September 2, 2010
When you get a SMS these days, in most likelihood it will be something like the one I got today morning which said “Best Buy for Property in Pune: Laburnam Park. Pls Call 26****00“. As much...
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TRAI Advocates 10 Digit Fixed Line Numbers From 2012

by | posted: August 24, 2010
It is time for Indians to sharpen their memory as the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has put forward a proposition (that was being contemplated on earlier) of elaborating the Fixed Line numbers...
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