Close on the heels of Nokia announcing its plans to set up a plant in India, Hyundai India Telecom Ltd on Friday said it will set up a manufacturing unit and R&D hub in India.
After the success of its wireless-in-local loop (mobile) service, Reliance Infocomm on Tuesday launched another innovative communication product -- fixed phones sans any wire connection.
Reliance Indiamobile has launched Telson TWC 1150, a wristwatch designer phone with plug-in camera from Telson Electronics, for the first time in India
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on Friday said it has sought information from those mobile operators who are offering tariff packages along with a handset.
Reliance Infocomm said on Tuesday that it will expand its CDMA mobile services to 3,600 more towns within four months and expects its subscriber base to touch 10 million by early next year.
Indian cellular companies added 13.7 lakh (1.37 million) customers in January this year, taking its subscriber base to 2.33 crore (23.3 million) even as CDMA based mobile companies added another 218,000 customers during the period in reference.
Reliance Infocomm Ltd will promote movies over its CDMA-based WLL service, IndiaMobile, even as it is set to promote Yash Johar's Kal Ho Naa Ho as its maiden initiative.\n\n\n\n
Indian mobile handset market was worth Rs 8,805 crore (Rs 88.05 billion) in 2004-05 out of which share of GSM handset was 84 per cent at Rs 7,384 crore (Rs 73.84 billion) with Nokia capturing a sizable chunk of marketshare at 62.3 per cent.
Tata Indicom, which is to launch its Code Division Multiple Access-based wireless in local loop services in Mumbai on Wednesday, has priced it below that of its competitor, Reliance Infocomm.
Tata Teleservices is coming with a walkie-talkie like facility on its mobile phones for which it has tied up with the United States-based CDMA giant Qualcomm for acquiring technology.
Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) and Association of Unified Telcom Service Providers of India (AUSPI) have opposed the proposal to compensate consumers.
The big beneficiaries of this move will be the big three -- Bharti, Vodafone and Idea.
Chinese telcos hold 60-100 MHz of spectrum, while Indian companies hold 13-15 MHz of spectrum.
Buoyed by the growth in the wireless market, the telecom equipment market grew by 10 per cent in 2002-03 to touch Rs 28,238 crore (Rs 282.38 billion), according to a latest survey.
Cut-throat competition, high spectrum costs, and frequent flip-flops in government policies have made it difficult for Vodafone to make money in the country.
Its says reconsider lower reserve price, uniform usage charges; GSM players to bear the brunt.
Famous and long believed to be trusted Indian brands have wilted against foreign brands, says Mohan Guruswamy.
After a two year run-in with controversies, telecom sector now looks stable and seems back on its feet with initial investment proposal of over Rs 11,000 crore (Rs 110 billion) received in 2013.
Idea, Reliance and BSNL have call drop rates in the range of 10 per cent or above.
Telecom regulator TRAI has imposed cumulative penalty of Rs 50 lakh on nine mobile operators for failing to meet quality of service benchmarks in the second quarter ended June 2013, official sources said.
Of the two big players, while Bharti Airtel can leverage its existing subscriber base, newcomer Reliance Jio will have to wean away subscribers from the incumbents
Airtel, Vodafone, BSNL increase subscriber share while Idea manages to retain
The call drop rate should not be more than 2 per cent and for worst affected cells it should not be more than 3 per cent.
DoT though failed to implement TRAI's recommendations to levy spectrum usage charge
The groups clashed over the installation of a board and renaming of a chowk (intersection) in Phagwara, police said.
Mukesh Ambani's Jio, high debt and some bad decisions drove RCom to its grave.
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