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 ...

According to sources, Ashish Chowdhary will head the services division of Nokia Siemens Network from October 1, 2009. He will be replacing Rajeev Suri, who will assume charge as the CEO of the Nokia Siemens Network. Ashish Chowdhary is currently responsible for managed services. He will soon the ...

Tech Mahindra announced on Monday that it will provide telecom operator Etisalat DB with IT solutions and infrastructure requirements for its proposed services rollout in 15 telecom circles.
 
Etisalat DB, earlier known as Swan Telecom, in their statement revealed that the deal would worth ...

The deadline for the implementation of the mobile number portability has been postponed to Dec 31. It had earlier been fixed as Sep 20 by the government. Mobile number portability will help subscribers to change their operators without changing their numbers.
 
"The implementation of ...

Bharti Airtel, the Indian telecom operator with the largest subscriber base, has announced the rolling out of its 3G mobile telephony by October 2010.
 
"If everything goes well on time with regard to spectrum auction, by February or March we should receive spectrum allocation," ...

Indian telecom operator Tata Teleservices has launched a new scheme ton Tuesday which will provide its CDMA subscribers to talk endlessly for just Re.1.
 
This is a break from its normal service, where the CDMA subscribers are charged on a one minute-pulse basis. According to Tata ...

Two major players of Indian telecom sector, Reliance Communications (RCom) and Aircel, will be entering into an infrastructure-sharing agreement worth $300-million.
 
"The deal will offer RCom a revenue upside of over Rs.1,500 crore. It will cover end-to-end telecom infrastructure ...

According to the Telecom secretary, there can be delay in the rolling out of the WiMax, as there is an ongoing dispute between Department of Space (DoS) and Department of Telecommunications (DoT) over wireless access (BWA) spectrum vacation.
 
The disparity of DoS and DoT can impact the ...

According to a spokesperson of the central government, the government has plans for introducing the concept of uniform license fees for the various services that are offered by different telecom operators.
 
According to the Telecom Secretary, Siddhartha Behura, "The DoT (Department of ...

An outsourcing contract worth $500 million has been bagged by Tech Mahindra from Swan Telecom, which is a new player in the telecom industry.
 
The competition to win the outsourcing contract of Swan Telecom was very aggressive which saw major IT players like IBM and Wipro in the race with ...

While India is preparing itself to get immersed in 3G mobile telephones, the US Mobile Manufacturer, Motorola, wants to take a step further by testing the next gen telephony, 4G, in India. If this testing comes into effect, then it will the government’s plan to raise Rs 35,000 crore from ...

The FDI proposals of Unitech Wireless and ByCell Telecommunication have been shelved by government due to security reasons.
 
Hyderabad-based Jayalakshmi Group and ByCell were supposed to enter into a partnership to set up an Indian telecom company in which ByCell will be the stakeholder of ...

Microsoft Corp has plans to enter into an alliance with Nokia so that it can make its Office suite of applications available on Nokia cell phones.
 
Microsoft, the software giant, will be launching its latest Office product next year, which also includes an online Office version that will ...

Tata Teleservices has launched its GSM services in Maharashtra under the Tata Docomo brand.
 
Around Rs.1,000 crore has been invested for the GSM network by Tata Teleservices.
 
A "pay-per-use" tariff has been launched for enabling the customers to pay only for the seconds ...

According to Bharti Airtel and South Africa's MTN their talks for a proposed $23-billion financial alliance have been extended till Aug 31. This decision has been made by both the companies after they were unable to reach a pact within the earlier deadline that had expired on ...

Bharti Airtel and South African telecom giant MTN are yet to finalise their much-awaited merger deal.
 
"There is nothing as of now," a Bharti spokesperson said adding that the company would update markets only Monday. Earlier the companies had said the talks on the deal would be ...

The telecom industry of India is continuing its robust growth story in June by adding 11.91 million new subscribers to take the total subscription base to 464.82 million.
 
The total subscribers in the country as on June 30, 2008 was 325.78 million.
 
The GSM and CDMA segment added ...

Aabar Investments, the biggest investment fund of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and British billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Group are now in a strategic partnership deal.
 
The Abu Dhabi firm told that it would pay about $280 million to buy 32% of shares in  Virgin Galactic. ...

Defending the policy of giving licenses without auctioning spectrum, Communications and IT Minister A. Raja Monday said his decision to issue telecom licenses at nominal rates has led to higher tele-density and fetched huge revenue for the government.
 
Raja said: "We have so far ...

The fixed-line telephone market of India is expected to grow by 22% to reach Rs.5,500 crore by 2013. This information is based on a report by IT research and advisory firm Gartner.
 
"The Indian fixed-line market will see growth from broadband and Internet access sectors, which will ...

Reliance Mobile has joined hands with the US-based Gameloft, which specialises in developing mobile games based on celebrities and Hollywood movies.
 
Under the terms of the agreement, Gameloft will release a mobile game based on the life of American heiress and socialite Paris Hilton, ...

The sale of global telecom firm Nortel's wireless business to Sweden's Ericsson that happened last week may be approved by the US and Canada courts on Tuesday.
 
The Swedish telecom major had purchased Toronto-based Nortel's wireless business for $1.3 billion at a court-supervised bid in New ...

Swedish telecom major Ericsson has bought Nortel's wireless business for $1.13 billion.
In a statement Saturday after Friday's court-monitored auction in New York, Ericsson said it has acquired Nortel's CDMA and futuristic long term evolution (LTE) technology.
LTE will allow carriers to offer ...

Toronto-based Nortel, which is selling its various divisions as part of its liquidation plan, will auction its wireless business on Friday in New York.
 
Till now, Nokia Siemens Networks and America's MatlinPatterson Global Opportunities Partners were the two bidders, with Canada's ...

According to a new rule by the government, new players in the telecom sector will not be able to sell the stakes for the initial three years of getting the licence.
 
"There shall be a lock-in period for sale of equity of a person whose share capital is 10 percent or more in the UAS ...

Bharti Airtel, India’s largest private telecom player, is still holding talks with South African telecom giant MTN for a possible merger.
 
"Talks are going on between Bharti Enterprises, the parent of Bharti Airtel, and South Africa's MTN Group to form a global business ...

Private telecom major, Bharti Airtel, has posted a 22.2% increase in its net profit for the first quarter of 2009-10 at Rs.2,647.95 crore.
 
The company's total income during the period under review rose 22% to Rs.10,448.69 crore from Rs.8,567.8 crore in the same period a year ago, it said ...

MNP, once implemented will allow subscribers to retain their existing mobile number when they switch from one service provider to another or from one technology to another of the same service provider.
 
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) issued a consultation paper seeking ...

Eisalat DB, a joint venture between Dubai-based telecom major Etisalat and Mumbai's Dynamix Balwas group (DB), and the Anil Ambani-promoted telephony operator Reliance Communications (RCom), have entered into an agreement to share infrastructure for 10 years, a RCom statement said on ...