Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc has received the green signal from India's cabinet to acquire 20.25 percent stake in Tata Teleservices (TTSL). The approval of the cabinet will allow DoCoMo to buy 384,241,919 equity shares in Tata Teleservices for Rs 9.45 billion. The alliance of the major telecom companies ...

In a landmark announcement on Monday (9th February) Vodafone Ltd. and Hutchison Whampoa Ltd said that, they will merge their Australian mobile telecommunications businesses. Both the parties will have 50:50 shares in the joint venture which is to be renamed as VHA Pty. Ltd.
 
The JV will be ...

After being at the helm for over 10 years, Vodafone Essar chief executive Asim Ghosh has decided to retire on March 31. But he will continue to be a non-executive member on the Vodafone Essar board.
 
Marten Pieters will take over from Mr Ghosh. Mr Pieters is currently a director on the ...

The Spice group has acquired 100 percent stake of the Indian subsidiary of Dubai-based mobile handset retailer Cellucom. The deal however allowed Cellucom to procure 26 percent in Spice Group’s mobile retail venture HotSpot. The chairman of the Spice Group B.K. Modi said that after the ...

A joint venture company of India-based Shyam Group and Russian telecom giant Sistema, Shyam Telelink Ltd will now be called Sistema Shyam Teleservices (SSTS).The company on Friday (January 23) announced the change of name. Commenting on this, SSTS president and chief executive Vsevolod Rozanov said ...

Abdul Khan has been appointed as the chief of marketing department of Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra Limited) TTML. He will be the Head Marketing for the soon to be launched GSM-based mobile services of TTML. The company informed that Mr Khan will also offer his services as the advisor to the ...

With a view to expand its business in Africa, Tata Communications has picked up 30 percent stake in Neotel of South Africa. In addition to it, the Indian telecom operator has also acquired the stakes from two other operators, Eskom and Transnet. The South Africa-based company, Neotel is engaged in ...

According to a survey, Virgin Mobile managed to top the service benchmark set by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). The survey conducted by Voice&Data in association with JuxtConsult also revealed that five out of 11 telecom operators could able to meet TRAI's benchmark. Telecom ...

In a bid to reach out to the consumer segment in Indian market, Research in Motion (RIM) signed an agreement with Redington. The tie-up with Redington with enable RIM to market its BlackBerry handsets in retail outlets across nine cities including Mumbai, Delhi, NCR, Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore, ...

According to Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) the country's GSM mobile operators added 8.12 million new subscribers in December 2008. With this, the total base of GSM subscribers has expanded to 250 million-mark and stands at 257.85 million. The COIA also said that the four ...

Mobile service provider Virgin Mobile has struck a deal with MySpace for providing social networking services. According to a press release, MySpace will offer its social networking services on Virgin Mobile's WAP-enabled phones. The new deal with MySpace will enable the young customers to have ...

In a bid to create a strong telecom infrastructure company, Tata Teleservices Ltd. (TTSL) has merged its passive infrastructure business (mainly towers) with tower company Quippo Telecom. TTSL seems to be aiming at the launch of its pan-India GSM service. Commenting on that, TTSL Managing Director ...

The Blackberry maker, Research In Motion (RIM) has sued Motorola claiming that the mobile maker is blocking RIM from hiring employees Motorola has already fired or plans to terminate. Both RIM and Motorola had signed an agreement in February this year which says that two the companies will abstain ...

Mumbai-based BPL Mobile has entered into a deal with Motorola to optimise its network. The deal will enable Motorola to provide its Multi-Vendor Intelligent Optimisation Service to minimise traffic loss, increase service coverage and improve service reliability. Speaking about the new network ...

Prime Minster of India Dr Manmohan Singh unveiled India's first third generation (3G) mobile services in national capital on Thursday (December 11). The high quality service was inaugurated by making a video call to Manmohan Singh with the help of 3G enabled handset. The call was made by the ...

PM Manmohan Singh will launch the 3G services on December 11 in Delhi; Mumbai would get it later. Also, according to media reports state run telecom firm would launch mobile video surveillance. The two services would be merged into one and would be availed to facilitating better surveillance to ...

Pelephone, an Israeli telecom service provider revealed that it has started a “Koran” text service that enables the subscribers to read Koran text onscreen with scrolling through chapter and verse.
A Fox News report quoted Pelephone Product Content Director Moti Cohen as saying that ...

The telecom companies like Tata Teleservices, Aircel, and Idea Cellular may face some serious troubles, if the proposal of a three year lock-in-period on the sale of equity in new licensee companies, is implemented. The proposal states that no firm will be allowed to sell equity within a time-span ...

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) are at war over the subject of issuing licences to new telecom operators on a first-come-first-served basis. The DoT has said that it just followed the recommendations framed by the TRAI.
However, ...

To offer a new service that will enable prepaid users to recharge their accounts while roaming on a third party operator’s network, Bharti Telesoft, a part of the Bharti group has tied up with Telecom Italia Sparkle (TIS), the international business development arm of Telecom Italia.
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After its alliance with Japan's largest telecom service provider, NTT DoCoMo, Tata Teleservices has announced to launch the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) technology by January 2009. The company has also announced to launch developed handsets. This announcement of next generation ...

Tata Teleservices (TTSL) announced on November 12, 2008 to enter into a strategic partnership with Japan's DoCoMo under which the Japanese company will acquire 26 per cent stake in TTSL. According to a joint statement, the alliance of the major companies will enable to expand the mobile ...

India is likely to have 230 million 3G subscribers by 2013. This steep rise in 3G subscription is the result of decline in prices of third generation (3G)-enabled mobile phone handsets. According to reports, the prices of these hand sets have come down to Rs.2, 000. All the predictions were made by ...

Tata Teleservices Pvt Ltd has launched its CDMA services in Assam. The company is likely to invest an amount of Rs 1 billion for accomplishing its telecom project in the Assam circle. According to a statement issued by the company, the current decision is taken with a view to expand its business in ...

Aircel has announced to give the responsibility of revenue assurance and fraud management to Wipro Ltd and Subex Ltd in its 23 circles across India. Subex Ltd is supposed to be one of the most proficient OSS/BSS solutions provider in the world. Aircel will use the Subex platform to carry out its ...

BSNL has lowered ISD call rates to some member countries of the SAARC (South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation) by 15-35 percent. The policy decision would be effective from Saturday. Under the changed scenario BSNL users of mobile and landline would be able to call to Pakistan, Bangladesh, ...

The telecom branch of Anil Ambani's ADA Group, Reliance Communications (RCOM) is all geared up to introduce its GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) service in the key cities of India.  On September 28, 2008, the company soft introduced GSM in Mumbai and Delhi in participation with ...

Etisalat, the telecom company from UAE is negotiating with Swan Telecom to buy 51 per cent stake in it. Interestingly, Mumbai based Swan Telecom recently won license to offer telecom services in the India. Factually, the major shareholder in Swan Telecom is Tiger Trustees Pvt. Ltd. Mauritius-based ...

BSNL is negotiating with private telecommunication companies for roaming agreement where subscribers of private operators would be able to roam under BSNL's network all across India. Currently, only subscribers of state-owned MTNL are allowed to roam on BSNL’s networks. Evidently, MTNL ...

The global arbitration tribunal ICC (International Chamber of Commerce) has awarded Tata Com to pay Globalcom Ltd (Reliance) a compensation of $19 million+ interest. The dispute was submitted by plaintiff party Globalcom Ltd (Reliance) (then known as FLAG) against Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd or VSNL ...