Gurugram police have dismantled a cyber-fraud racket with links to the Philippines and Cambodia, arresting five individuals involved in the use and distribution of illegal SIM boxes.
Gurugram police have dismantled a cyber-fraud gang with links to the Philippines, arresting a key operative involved in the distribution of illegal SIM boxes used for cybercrimes.
Kolkata has emerged as one of the key concerns for the telecom companies providing GSM services.
On receiving the award at a glittering function, Mittal said: "This is a tremendous honour and I would like to thank the GSM Association for considering me worthy of this award."
GSM operators may face the music as DoT considers the decision of taking away excess spectrum.
New telecom operators who have been given licences to operate pan-India GSM mobile services are all set to fight a bitter battle with the established GSM players like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular.
The apex body of CDMA operators, has shot off a letter to the telecom ministry alleging that the GSM operators were given spectrum "way beyond their licences".
Indian GSM telecom operators added 11.25 million new subscribers in the month of May, taking the all-India cellular subscriber base to 444 million, according to cellular operators' association COAI.
India is expected to have 100 million GSM (global system for mobile communications) customers by 2007-08 compared to 26 million subscribers as on March 2004, according to the Global Mobile Suppliers Association.
Ambani termed COAI's appeal to the telecom tribunal against the government granting RCom dual-use technology (CDMA and GSM) as "unnecessary and unwarranted". RCom, the country's largest provider of CDMA mobile services, recently received permission to start GSM services under its existing licence for which it paid a fee of Rs 1,651 crore (Rs 16.51 billion).
The CDMA and GSM operators in the country are at loggerheads once again, this time over the implementation of mobile number portability.
The Cellular Operators Association of India, industry body representing GSM operators, had argued that TTSL's spectrum was allotted through the same press release issued on January 10, 2008, which led to the cancellation of 122 licences.
The GSM-based mobile operators in the country added 8.3 million subscribers in May taking the total subscriber base to 306.4 million.
Reliance Jio accuses COAI of malafide intention.
Taking the government head on, four GSM mobile operators -- Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Idea and Spice -- have decided to "unitedly" approach the Delhi High Court against telecom tribunal TDSAT's interim order not to stay the spectrum allocation process.
The COAI decision comes in the wake of Anil Ambani group company Reliance Communications and two other CDMA players receiving approvals to offer GSM services in their respective circles of operation from the Department of Telecom on Friday.
With a sharp spurt in growth, the GSM industry has witnessed the highest ever subscriber additions in September at 4.4 million, taking the cellular subscriber base to 91 million.
Sunil Bharti Mittal's Bharti Airtel retained the top rank with a market share of 33.21 per cent and a total user base of 77.48 million. Vodafone-Essar added 1.87 million and maintained a market share of 23.41 per cent. COAI, which does not include Reliance Telecom, estimates RT added at least 370,000 subscribers in the month,
The lobby group of CDMA mobile players like the Reliance Communications and the Tatas has accused that the government was favouring the GSM players while deciding the criteria for spectrum allocation and in its pricing.
In contrast to the stand by GSM operators, CDMA players like RCom and Tatas hailed telecom regulator TRAI for its "balanced, progressive and transparent" spectrum proposals.
This could be a setback to the Home Ministry's plans to secure the country against any misuse of its vast telecommunication network by terrorists.
This weekend, the mobile phone industry will connect the 2nd billionth GSM mobile phone user in the world, the GSM Association said in an official release issued on Tuesday.
Concerned over the high international roaming rates at a time when domestic rates have reached rock bottom, Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran asked worldwide GSM operators to bring down the roaming rates.
The GSM-based mobile subscriber base has gone up by 15.08 lakh
Cellular operators across the country are working on a plan to set up a common mobile advertising exchange that will allow companies to advertise on mobile phones, based on their niche requirement of target audiences.
There are over 200 million people worldwide who live and work away from their homes and these people, in 2005, remitted over $230 billion.
In a strong pitch for limiting cut-throat competition, GSM operators have urged the government to limit the number of telecom operators per circle.
The GSM Association, a union of 650 GSM mobile phone service operators, asked India not to allocate spectrum at 1900 MHz to CDMA operators like Reliance.
Global pilot project set to revolutionise remittances.
Industry body COAI plans to approach DoT citing Supreme Court's 2012 order
Nothing works better than a price cut in a price sensitive market like India. A GSM Association study says that for every one dollar cut in prices, no fewer than 20 million subscribers could be added.
With the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) refusing to reserve 900-MHz spectrum for incumbent telcos, asking them to vacate the quantity held and win back through bidding, GSM operators, led by the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), have decided to propose a compromise formula.
Cellular Operators Association of India, the association for GSM operators, has taken legal opinion which clearly states that the government cannot go in for auctioning of 2G spectrum and deprive them of additional spectrum.
GSM operators (excluding Reliance Telecom) in the country added 6.3 million subscribers in August, taking the total number of users to 225.6 million. In July, the total GSM subscriber base in the country was 219.30 million.
The Cellular Operators Association of India, the GSM-based operators' lobby, on Friday pulled out of an official panel for reviewing spectrum allocation norms, alleging that the committee had a "predetermined mindset" and was ignoring all its suggestions.
Globally, the mobile connections are expected to reach the six-billion milestone by the end of this month.
The Cellular Operators Association of India said it would not take any legal step on the issue, unlike what it had said earlier.
The new platform allows subscribers to be on instant messaging even if they are overseas and roaming in one of the member-operator's service.
According to the latest data released by Cellular Operators' Association of India, the total GSM subscriber base rose to 257,85 million, up from 249.35 million in November 2008, a growth of about 3.25 per cent in December.
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