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Madhusudan Mandyam has been appointed chief executive officer of Virgin Mobile India. Virgin hopes to capture 10% of the Indian Mobile Telecommunications Market. See what Mr. Mandyam thinks about how Virgin can do it and also see how Richard Branson sees this as a part of the overall strategy HERE. 
 
In other news, Interaction has appointed Shekhar Sharma [...]

this article in The Hindu Business Line Shyam Telelink has been allocated the spectrum to start CDMA service in Maharashtra. Shyam Telelink is partly owned by Russian conglomerate Sistema.
Shyam already has the spectrum for the following 12 circles :

Number Portability allows one to retain one’s number while switching the operators. So, if your Reliance Mobile customer care is a waste, the billing is erroneous (to put it politely) and there are just no Nokia N-Series handsets available, you can happily switch over to a Vodafone network, while still retaining your three year old number, just in case you ex decides to call you sometime.

That Richard Branson’s Virgin group had plans to enter India was knows for a while now. The entry is announced now. Virgin will be entering India in collaboration with Tata Teleservices. Virgin will be using its brand name. And Tata will be providing the infrastructure.
 
Globally, Virgin Mobile is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO). What [...]

 
The worlds fastest growing telecom company is entering the Indian market in partnership with the Tata group telecom arm.
It is to be a 50-50 partnership. Virgin will exclusively license the Virgin Mobile brand and technology expertise in the area of value-added services (VAS) and handsets to TTSL. This will allow TTSL to use Virgin’s core [...]