2009
July
National Telecom Awards 7 pm, Friday, July 24, Hotel Le Meridien, New Delhi
Mobile Money Transfer World Conference 2009 28-30 July, Hotel Shangri-La, New Delhi, India
August
Next Generation Broadband Wireless Architecture (4G & LTE) 13th – 14th August, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
September
Number Portability 2009 21 – 23 September, Hotel Barcelona Princess, Barcelona
Taking Your Strategy to the Next Level: LTE 24-25 September, London, UK
Smart Event 09 22 - 25 September, Sophia Antipolis, French Riviera
October
Optical Transmission Vision APAC 19 -21 October, Suntec International Convention Centre, Singapore
November
EXPO COMM ITALIA 2009 24-25 November, Fiera Roma, Rome, Italy
Past Events
January IPTV World Forum Latin America 09 27-28 January, Intercontinental Hotel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
February SIMagine 2009 16-19 February, Mobile World Congress 2009 Gemalto booth, stand 8A102, Hall 8 Barcelona March 17th Convergence India 2009 18-20 March, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India
Femtocells Asia 23-24 March, Four Seasons Hotel, Tokyo
April Mobile Payments & NFC World Summit 2009 1-3 April, Hotel Imperial, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Next Generation Networks Europe 20-22 April, Bath Spa Hotel, Bath, UK
Green Basestations 2009 23-24 April, Bath Spa Hotel, Bath, UK
WiMAX Forum Congress Asia 09 WiMAX Leads the 4G Race – APACs First-to-Business Transformation 28-29 April, Suntec, Singapore
Mobile Marketing Forum Asia 28-29 April, Suntec Convention Centre, Singapore
May Mobile Broadband Asia Pacific Summit 2009 05 May, Sheraton Imperial Kuala Lumpur
India & South Asia Com 12-13 May, JW Marriott, Mumbai, India
Mobile Backhaul Strategy Summit (MBS) 2009 12-14 May, Le Meridien Hotel, Jakarta, Indonesia
June
Telecoms Pricing Masterclass by Salvo Global 08 – 09 June, Johannesburg, South Africa CommunicAsia2009 The 20th International Communications and Information Technology Exibhition & Conference 16-19 June, Singapore Expo,Halls 2-6, Singapore
Femtocells World Summit 23-25 June, Radisson Edwardian Heathrow Hotel, London, UK
Telecom Event Updates
What's new in telecom ?
Telecom News - National
India added 11.59 million wireless subscribers in May 2009 The total wireless subscribers (GSM, CDMA & WLL(F)) base stood at 415.25 million at the end of May 2009. A total of 11.59 million wireless subscribers have been added during the month of May 2009 as against 11.90 million wireless subscribers added during the month of April 2009. read more....
Telecom News - National ALU-RCOM managed network services joint venture completes one year The initial phase of the JV spanned through July to September 2008 wherein CDMA and GSM Operations & maintenance of 5 circles were successfully transitioned. In the second phase, on October 2008, Reliance Communications handed over the Rest of India’s operations. read more....
Telecom Information Box
Global Telecom Market Overview : World top 10 World telecom market overview from top 10 mobile countries to top 10 mobile operators all available here in simple readbale format. Also see more statistics related to technologies like 3G, Wimax along with an overview of handset market. Click here to see world telecom statistics & figures
SAARC Telecom Market Overview : India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri lanka, Nepal.... SAARC countires telecom subscriber numbers shown in tabular & chart format. Indian leads with mobile subscriber reaching close to 400 million mark followed by Pakistan crossing 90 million mark. Click here to see the SAARC Telecom data
Indian Telecom : GSM operators monthly subscriber additions in FY 2008-09 GSM Operators added total of 96.23 subscriber last year with average monthly additions of almost 8-9 million subscribers. Airtel lead with 31.94 million subscriber addition followed by Vodafone with 24.79 million monthly additions. Check here all GSM operators month wise performance. Click here to know more....
Indian Telecom : CDMA operators monthly subscriber additions in FY 2008-09 CDMA Operators added total of 34.06 subscriber last year with average monthly additions of almost 3-4 million subscribers. RCOM lead with 22.74 million subscriber addition followed by TTSL with 10.79 million monthly additions. Check here all CDMA operators month wise performace. Click here to know more....
Telecom Vendors performance in year 2008 in India : List of the Vendors based on the orders they were successfull to get from Indian Operators in 2008. Click here to know more....
Major deals in Indian Telecom Market in 2008 : Big global names entered Indian market this year and FDI was at its best. A summary of major happenings. Click here to know more
Lineage Power recognised best in India by Indus Towers
Reliance BIG TV enters into an alliance with “Oxigen”
UTStarcom a Leader in India, China IPTV Markets
Reliance Globalcom saw strong growth in global managed services in 2009
Reliance Mobile to offer BBC World Service Radio Live on R-World
Sterlite Technologies to expand Optical Fiber capacity to 20 Million-km
RCOM to introduce sachet pricing to drive VAS usage volumes
UTStarcom ranked no. 1 in Indian broadband equipment market
more press releases....
Ericsson to modernize Kyivstar's network for mobile data in Ukraine
Hans Vestberg appointed President and CEO of Ericsson as of January 1, 2010
New European regulation causes mobile operators to seek solutions
Ericsson powers interactive TV for Ucom in Armenia
Ericsson confirms first LTE license agreem-ents
Ericsson provides converged IP solution to O2 in Germany
Synchronica launches self-care push email solution for businesses
Teleca partners with SVOX
Indian telecom market is one of the fastest growing market in the world. This section provides latest updates of telecom sector like montly additions, total subscriber base, market share. Check out the latest statistics of Indian Telecom. Click for May stats.....
Asia-Pacific drives global mobile revenue growth
Nokia signs agreement with Intel
Vodafone launches femtocells in the UK
Mobile application stores : key success factors
iPhone 3GS : ‘lack of innovation’ hides true assets
Smartphones: the silver lining of the declining handset market
Mobile Unified Communications : high on the vendor agenda more analysis....
In Country long term plans for Indian Telecom Vasu Reddy from Chicago
Mobile banking in India - perception & statistics Team, Vital Analytics
Insights on Mobile Gaming in Urban India Naveen Menon, Co-founder, Vital Analytics
Indian Telecom – The Case for Faster Growth Vasu Reddy from Chicago
Evolving Landscape of Mobile Broadband in Asia Frost& Sullivan
CMAI on 2009-10 Budget expectations N K Goyal, President, CMAI
more articles....
Operators are missing a trick Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica In my view, they should be clawing back some of this lost revenue from Smartphone shipments by offering Value Added Services (VAS) that work on legacy handsets and not just on the latest and greatest Smartphones.”
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