S Tel on Friday said that it has achieved financial closure for its Rs.2, 000-crore project and that it would start rolling out services this year. S Tel is one of the new entrants in the Indian mobile telephony space.
 
In a statement, S Tel mentioned that an eight-bank consortium led by ...

Vodafone Essar has joined the list of telecom service providers who have launched the per second billing, after it rolled out the service for its prepaid customer of New Delhi and adjoining regions.
 
The users will be charged 1 paisa per second for all local and STD calls. The current ...

According to officials from BSNL, the people of northeast India will continue to enjoy the prepaid mobile telephone facility. The home ministry had restricted the use of prepaid connections in Jammu & Kashmir as well as north-eastern Indian states citing "serious security ...

Minister of State for Communications and IT Sachin Pilot has mentioned that the auction of 3G spectrum will take place according to the fixed schedule.
 
"The 3G spectrum allocation process will go on as per schedule in January," Pilot said, while addressing the media on the ...

According to reports from reliable sources of telecom industry, there are chances that the Internet search giant, Google Inc, may bid for forthcoming WiMax radio waves auctioning.
 
The telecom ministry had announced on Monday that the auctioning of 3G spectrum and WiMax will be held in ...

The telecom ministry has set Jan 14, 2014 as the date for the auctioning of third generation (3G) radio spectrum.
 
The memorandum issues has asked the potential bidders to submit the bid by Dec 21 for the 71 spectrum blocks spread across 20 of India's 22 telecoms zones.
 
This ...

The import of CDMA mobile phones, which do not contain the unique serial number, has been banned in India. The unique serial number is a provision which helps in keeping track of the users.
 
"Import of CDMA mobile phones without Electronic Serial Number(ESN), Mobile Equipment ...

Minister of State for Communications and Information Technology Sachin Pilot has mentioned that pre-paid mobile connections will not be banned from Jammu and Kashmir in the near future.
 
He also mentioned that there are plans for implementing said mobile towers in the borders along the line ...

The dispute between the defence ministry and DoT has once again resulted in the putting off of the forthcoming 3G and BWA spectrum auctions.
 
Sources from DoT mention that the Defence Ministry along with showing reluctance for vacating additional spectrum is also claiming that the vacant ...

Rick Simonson, who is currently the chief financial officer of the Finland-based mobile giant Nokia, will now lead the mobile phones entity of the firm, which is under the devices unit. This will be effective from the next month.
 
Timo Ihamuotila, currently global head of sales, will take ...

Nokia has launched the 'Khareedo Now Ya Pachhtaao' offer, which is the firm’s first ever ‘Cash Back Offer'. This will enable the Nokia customers to get money back on selected Nokia mobiles. It is also offering numerous customized Diwali apps like firecracker, auto SMS, SMS timer and ...

iPhones to the list of a smartphone customer satisfaction poll, with users all in praises for the user friendly handset.
 
iPhones tops the JD Power’s survey with 811, with consumers using the phone for no-work purposes praising the ease of use, features and form of these Apple ...

Sunil Mittal od Bharti and N Srinath of Tata Communication are a part of the global telecom power list, which has been compiled by Global Telecoms Business.
 
N. Srinath, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Telecom Communications, grabbed the 8th position whereas Vinod ...

Tata Teleservices, a major player of Indian telecom industry, and its Japan-based partner, Docomo, has plans for developing a R&D centre in India.
 
"The company (Docomo) is interested in developing certain amount of value-added services which will be available on the Tata-Docomo ...

Dell Inc, a major PC manufacturer, has mentioned that it will enter the US mobile phone market with an Android-based Smart phone, which will be made available over the AT&T's carrier network.
 
Dell is the latest addition to the list of the tech makers who are trying to leave a mark in ...

Verizon Wireless mentioned on Tuesday that it has plans for developing and selling mobile phones, which will be using the Android operating system of Google.
 
Google, which has already been trying to foray into mobile phone market, has plans for selling targeted advertising over ...

TRAI, the telecom regulator of India, has plans for urging the telecom operators to provide per second billing instead of per minute billing, which currently exists. This proposal, if implemented, can be a thrash to the revenue of the telecom service providers.
 
Tata Teleservices, who ...

Tech Mahindra, IT services arm of Mahindra & Mahindra, has won the IT implementation deal from Saudi Telecom. According to the reports from Economic Times, the deal is worth somewhere between $40 million and $50 million.
 
Economic Times have cited an unnamed person close to the ...

Union Commerce Minister Anand Sharma on Monday mentioned that India definitely lends a supporting hand to the Indian-based companies while they opt for international mergers and acquisitions, but added that the rules cannot be changed according to the requirements of the firm. He was pointing out ...

With the $23-billion Bharti-MTN telecom equity swap cum strategic alliance deadline set to Sep 30, it is expected that South African government might adopt a decision regarding the same today.
 
Bharti Airtel and South Africa's MTN had resumed the talks regarding the deal since 25 May, after ...

Vodafone has launched a new internet service Vodafone 360, which will offer access to a pack of applications like integrated social networks and other applications. It will help the service providers to enhance its revenue stream and compete with the other service providers.
 
Vodafone 360, ...

A. Raja, the Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology, has mentioned that the third generation wireless spectrum service will be rolled out in South India in November.
 
Raja, who addressing the media on the margins of the regional cyber security forum for Asia-Pacific, ...

The telecom regulator of India has issued guidelines related to the mobile number portability which will now enable the subscribers for changing the operators without changing the numbers within a particular circle.
 
According to a statement issued by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of ...

Tata has once again created a new race among the telecom providers with the unveiling of unlimited internet browsing from the handset. Tata DOCOMO, with its seamless internet browsing plan, enables customers to be in touch with information 24X7. This scheme has been adopted by DOCOMO in an attempt ...

Aircel, a major player of Indian telecom, has entered into an agreement with Datacom Solutions of Videocon group, to share the towers. The deal is worth $400-million.
 
The deal will enable Datacom, which will roll out its services later, to use the 5,000 Aircel towers for a period of 16 ...

The auction for 3G and WiMax licenses will be held in India in December 2009. This information was announced via a notice on the website of India’s Department of Telecommunications.
 
The auction which had been scheduled to take place in January 2009 had to be put off due to the ...

A conference for deciding on the procedures as well as schedule of the 3G mobile spectrum auction will be held on Oct 12.
 
"Department officials are going to Geneva to attend a conference, so the pre-bid meet will be held around Oct 12," said IT and Communication Minister A. Raja ...

Nokia Siemens Networks and Juniper Networks, Inc have received regulatory approval for entering into a joint venture to foray into the Carrier Ethernet market.
 
Juniper Networks is the market leader in networking whereas Nokia Siemens Networks is the global leader in the segment of ...

With an increase of 9.31 million subscribers in August, the net GSM subscriber base of India now stands at 335.5 million.
 
The report released by the Cellular Operators Association of India, the ruling body of GSM operators, Bharti Airtel has maintained its top position with an addition of ...

The GSM arm of Tata Teleservices, Tata Docomo, has launched a new SMS service, Diet SMS, on Tuesday. The customers now will be charged according to the number of characters in a SMS they send. Each character is charges 1 paisa.
 
"The cost of any Diet-SMS will be only one paisa per ...