In a major relief to Tata Tele Services, state-owned BSNL on Wednesday decided not to disconnect interconnection with the private telecom operators and also asked its officials not to encash the bank guarantee to recover dues.
In a major blow to Tata Tele Services, telecom tribunal TDSAT on Friday said the company's fixed wireless service Walky would be treated as WLL (mobile) service and ordered it to pay a fee called access deficit charge to state-run BSNL.
It has been reported that Richard Branson's Virgin Mobile and Tata Teleservices are joining hands to launch Virgin in India.
Will give up extra airwaves in 15 service areas but will retain 3.75 megahertz in the Delhi and Mumbai.
Spectrum is critical for Tata Tele because in some circles, Rajasthan for example, it has spectrum only in 60 per cent of the geography, while allocation for the rest has yet to come from the government.
The service - Photon TV - is available to the Tata Photon plus users across 22 states, Anil Sardana, Tata Teleservices Managing Director, told reporters here.
TATA Tele services Limited, a leading telecom service provider, said on Wednesday that it would launch its services in over 25 centres in Tamil Nadu soon and cover the entire state.
TTSL is now behind only Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications and Vodafone, the company said in a statement.
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.
The deal between Bharti group and Tata Teleservices is yet another example of how swiftly things can change in business.
In line with its target to ramp up its subscriber base to 8 to 10 million in the next fiscal and provide better customer care service, Tata Teleservices has inducted three key management personnel from the Tata Group and one from Telstra, Australia,
RCom and Aircel have permits for 3G services in 13 out of 22 service areas while Tata Teleservices has permit in 9 circles.
Tata Indicom on Thursday launched a dual mode handset, Samsung Duo, which can run both GSM and CDMA based mobile connections.
Subscribers will get free talk-time based on their purchases at the group's stores.
A bench headed by Justice H S Kapadia, while dismissing Tata Teleservices and Reliance Communication's petitions, has upheld telecom tribunal TDSAT's order of September 2005 that held these services are not fixed lines telephones, but limited mobile. The Supreme Court had earlier reserved its judgement on a petition filed by Tata Teleservices challenging the telecom tribunal's order which classified the company's fixed wireless phone service 'Walky' as limited mobile.
As per the terms of the partnership, Quippo telecom would hold 49 per cent in the new entity, while Tata Teleservices's Wireless-TT Info-Services Ltd would hold the remaining. Despite a low stake, Quippo would control the management. Quippo Telecom Infrastructure, which is a Srei Group company, would have to pay Rs 2,400 crore (Rs 24 billion) cash upfront for 30 per cent stake in WTTIL.
Nasdaq-listed wireless and broadband equipment major UTStarcom has announced its agreement with Tata Teleservices for supplying 56,000 lines of AN-200 platform to the largest private basic service operator in India.
The clearances are for three proposals submitted to the Foreign Investment Promotion Board by Bharti Telemedia, which offers direct-to-home television services, Tata Teleservices, in which Japan's DoCoMo has picked up 27.3 per cent equity, and SKR BPO Services, which has made downstream investments in Sparsh BPO. Press notes 2 and 4, issued in February this year, changed the way indirect foreign equity is treated while computing the total foreign investment.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday stayed the state-owned telecom major Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd's move to levy Rs 95 lakh as interconnectivity charges on the 'Walky' service provided by private player Tata Indicom.
Confirming this, Chief Financial Officer S Venkatesan said that the company has passed an enabling resolution to raise around $200 million from foreign investors either through an FCCB or a private placement.
Global communications major Motorola said on Wednesday that it has bagged a $43 million contract from basic operator Tata Teleservices for deployment of Code Division Multiple Access network in Maharashtra, Mumbai and Goa.
In these two cities, TTSL has 5 MHz of spectrum but will surrender only 1.25 MHzy. Company executives say 3.75 MHz in these two high data usage markets will be adequate to ensure services like Tata Photon Max, the bulk of whose revenues come from these two cities, are not impacted.
The move gains importance after two new telecom players -- Swan and Unitech -- sold stakes to foreign companies at high premiums after the allocation of spectrum. The Left parties had also accused Telecom Minister A Raja of underselling spectrum that cost the national exchequer around Rs 60,000 crore (Rs 600 billion).
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