Telecom
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DoT to discuss mobile services in border areas
(ET)
High-powered teams
from DoT, BSNL and the vigilance department will meet here on March
27 to discuss mobile services in areas bordering China, Bhutan,
Nepal & Bangladesh and its impact on the country?s security. In
Nathu La, the Bangladesh mobile network is believed to be stronger
than BSNL?s.
BSNL launches 3G service in
Orissa (BS)
The services were launched in Bhubaneswar
and Puri today and it will be expanded to four more towns namely
Kuurda, Jatnai, Cuttack and Jharsuguda in April this year. The
company has chalked out plans to roll out the 3G services in 48
locations in the state by July 2009. This includes 30 district
headquarters and 18 other towns having industrial and tourist
importance.
Sistema offers million minutes free talk time
(HBL)
Sistema
Shyam TeleService Ltd, which has licence to offer mobile telephony
services in 22 circles in India, today launched its first greenfield
service in Tamil Nadu, under the brand ?MTS?. As an introductory offer, SSTL gives away one million
minutes of free talk time to its customers.
NTT DoCoMo completes Tata Tele stake buy
(ET)
Tata Sons Ltd said on Thursday
it had completed the sale of a 26 percent stake in India's No. 6
mobile telecom operator, Tata Teleservices Ltd, to Japan's NTT
DoCoMo. NTT DoCoMo is now preparing to buy 12 percent in the
Indian firm's listed unit, Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Ltd,
through an open offer, it said in a statement.
Hinduja partners with Sistema Teleservices
(ET)
Hinduja
Global Solutions Ltd. (HGSL) would manage the customer care
operations of Sistema Shyam TeleServices's CDMA brand 'MTS', Hinduja
Global Solutions Global Human Resources Strategy Executive Vice
President Patrick David told reporters here.
BK Modi group mulls merging its twin mobile retail
entities (ET)
EThe Rs 2000-crore
plus BK Modi group is weighing the possibility of merging its twin
mobile retail entities, HotSpot Retail Pvt Ltd and Cellucom India,
and bringing them under the Spice brand. The move, that is
still being debated upon internally, comes barely two months after
the group concluded a 100 % buyout of Cellucom India.
Telenor eyeing more infra sharing
deals
(HBL)
Norway-based Telenor,
which acquired a controlling stake in Unitech Wireless, is looking
for more infrastructure sharing deals in a bid to roll out its
services across the country. The
company has already struck a deal with Tata Teleservices for renting
space in 40,000 towers, but needs 20,000 more to cover all the
circles.
Chinese co ZTE Telecom keen to set up facility in
India
(HBL)
According to the
company?s Chairman and Managing Director, Mr D.K. Ghosh, Tamil Nadu
is a preferred destination, thanks to availability of skilled man
power. For this purpose, ZTE seeks about 30 acres of land near
Sriperumbudur. Mr Ghosh said that the company may bring in $500
million, over 2-3 years.
Telecom International....
Huawei wins US 3G contract: report
(TA)
Chinese vendor
Huawei has won its first US 3G contract and is in the running for
another, the Wall Street Journal reports. It will supply a W-CDMA
contract to Cox Communications, who is planning a wireless network
to supplement its cable system, and is in the mix to win an even
bigger Wimax contract from Clearwire, the paper said.
Vodafone Australia Prepares to Switch on National 3G
Network (C-N)
The upgrade
expands 3G services to Vodafone customers in areas including Albury-
Wodonga, Ballarat, Ballina, Bunbury, Byron Bay, Cairns, Darwin,
Hobart, Kiama, Lismore, Mackay, Newcastle, Toowoomba, Townsville,
Wollongong, Bowral, Nowra and Wagga Wagga.
Telecom Research....
For Wireless Handsets, 2010 Will Be the Year the
Bleeding Stops (C-N)
?ABI Research estimates that worldwide handset
shipments will fall by at least 8% in 2009,? says practice director
Kevin Burden, ?and we believe that flat growth in 2010 is the best
the market will deliver.
Telecom Story....
Telecom hogs limelight in M&A
activity (ET)
The biggest deal
in the APAC telecom space in the YTD period was Vodafone's USD 3.1
billion acquisition of Hutchison 3G Australia, followed by South
Korean telecom firm KT Corp's USD 1.38 billion acquisition of KT
Freetel, according to the global deal tracking firm
Dealogic.
Telecom tower firms under pressure to scale up
tenancy (Mint)
Despite that healthy outlook for towers
demand, the key to be able to be firmly on the path to break even
for tower firms, they say, is to increase tenancy on each tower to
1.5 to 2, up from the current 1.1.
Telecom Product....
Sony Ericsson Shows Off New Clam-Shell
Phone
(C-N)
Sony Ericsson has
announced its latest mobile phone, the clam-shell T707, a phone that
lights up when you receive a call and you can personalise the light
settings to each of your friends, so you always know who wants
you.
T-Mobile Starts Selling ZTE Touch-Screen
Phone
(C-N)
Vairy Touch is a low-cost
handset with a PDA-style touch screen. The dual-band GSM GPRS
900/1800 handset offers a 1.3 megapixel camera, Bluetooth and an FM
radio function, in addition to voice, SMS, MMS and Multimedia
Entertainment features.
Telecom People....
Airtel once again rejigs top deck to retain
talent (ET)
Raghunath Mandava,
CEO for the Rajasthan circle, is being elevated as chief marketing
officer (mobility), replacing Sanjay Gupta. Mr Mandava will report
to president (mobility) Atul Bindal. Meanwhile, Syed
Safawi who was executive director (North), will now be executive
director for the eastern and western regions.
Telecom sector buzzing with
expats (ET)
Among the latest
is Marten Pieters, who leaves Africa?s secondlargest mobile operator
Celtel, to take over Asim Ghosh?s mantle at Vodafone Essar. At least
three more companies - Shyam Telelink-Sistema , Unitech
Wireless-Telenor and Swan Telecom-Etisalat - will soon have foreign
nationals heading them.
Vodafone freezes pay, lays off mobile ads
chief
(TA)
Busy times at Vodafone as
the company announced it had frozen the pay of its 10,000 UK staff
and scrapped all bonuses in another attempt to rein in costs - and
this after cutting 500 jobs less than a month
ago.
Telecom Award....
VNL's WorldGSM Shortlisted For CTIA E-Tech
Awards (EFY)
VNL, the
innovator of zero opex networks and pioneer of microtelecom, has
announced its solar powered GSM system is one of just four entries
short-listed in the 'Green Network Hardware and Infrastructure'
category at the CTIA's E-Tech awards.
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