Billionaire Gautam Adani to two Union Ministers and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis among others on Sunday hailed India crossing $4 trillion mark though there was no official confirmation if the country has achieved the landmark. The finance ministry and the National Statistical Office did not immediately comment on the viral social media post on India's GDP crossing $4 trillion. Highly placed sources said that the viral news was incorrect and India was still shy of that landmark.
Telecom players are set to use 3G technology to woo the ever-expanding mobile user base with value-added services and much higher speeds.
With the mobile value added services market pegged at around $45 billion, the latest trend is 3G spectrum which is expected to create a paradigm shift in the VAS market in India.
At SUGAR, the emphasis will be on prevention, timely diagnosis and treatment of diabetes.
Six decades and more later, we are now captives of our identities. Every poll is based on elaborate calculations of electability of candidates on the basis of their castes and other narrow definers. That, along with voter promiscuity, is what defines our political culture, which remains stubbornly resistant to any change, asserts Shreekant Sambrani.
With Ganesh Chaturthi, Maharashtra's biggest festival, set to begin in mid-September, many companies are providing value-added services to cash in on the occasion and for brand promotion.
Mobile operators awaiting for spectrum availability from the defence ministry to start 3G mobile services may be disappointed to know that armed forces are far from vacating any radio waves in the near future
'...similar to the 2008 global financial crisis, the 2012 taper tantrum, or the 2018 midcap crash.' 'This could lead to a substantial decline in activity and revenues for the broking industry.' 'When this will happen is uncertain, but as brokers, we must be prepared for such a downturn.'
Verizon Communications, the second-largest US telecommunications group, is to expand its global communications network to provide its multinational corporate customers in fast-growing markets like China and India with additional services. The decision comes as US telecommunications groups including AT&T increasingly look outside their domestic market for revenue growth from higher value added services.
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has directed Vodafone Essar Mobile Services to refund value-added service (VAS) charges that were levied without "explicit consent". However, the regulator did not specify the amount the GSM major has to refund to the consumers.
State-owned Mahangar Telephone Nigam's (MTNL) ambitious drive to become a major player in the internet protocol TV (IPTV) services sector is facing a roadblock. IPTV is a technology that uses telephone lines to provide TV programming to viewers.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call to make this decade a "techade" for India and the push for 5G, semiconductors and transformation through digital services is going to boost the technology sector in the country, industry players said on Monday. Modi, in his speech on the 76th Independence Day, touched upon all-round development of technology in the country, from 5G to push for electronic chips, laying of optical fibre cable (OFC) network across villages and enablement of digital entrepreneurship in villages through Common Services Centres, making the present decade as "techade" for India. Homegrown mobile devices maker Lava International's Chairman and Managing Director Hari Om Rai said electronics and technology sectors create about $4 trillion of revenue.
After the FBT was introduced in 2006, the industry has been appealing to the finance ministry to exempt sales promotion schemes from its ambit since the incurred expenditure cannot be treated as employee benefits.
For 33-year-old Amit Lakhmani, the chief executive officer of Kolkata-based wireless and internet value-added service provider Max Mobility, embarking on a business outside of the then booming manufacturing and services sector was a natural choice.
At a time when others car makers are planning price hikes, Tata Motors on Saturday announced discounts and freebies worth up to Rs 1.5 lakh on purchase ofdifferent models which are valid till the end of this month.
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Now, watch customised election news on your TV. Big TV, a Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group venture, is launching election-based interactive services that will be provided by its content partner CNN-IBN.
Telecom major Tata Teleservices said it will offer comic books on mobile handsets to Tata DOCOMO subscribers.
Bharti Telesoft, a supplier of value added services platforms to wireline and wireless carriers, has been ranked as one of the country's fast growing 50 technology companies by Deloitte Technology.
This is slated to improve telephony service penetration in the country due to increased affordability and could be a precursor for similar moves for other value added services.
The government is likely to refer the controversial issue of Blackberry mobile phones to the Telecom Commission to decide whether operators can continue offering this service. The issue of Blackberry was raised after Tata Teleservices recently said they have been denied the permission to offer this value added service by the Ministry of Home Affairs due to security concerns. Telecom operators like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone & Reliance are offering Blackberry services to users.
Faced with competition from low-cost locations and inefficiencies associated with unwieldy growth in head count, Indian IT companies are exploring non-linear growth strategies.
The country's largest software exporter Tata Consultancy Services Ltd will not merge its subsidiary CMC Ltd. with itself, chief executive officer and managing director S. Ramadorai said Wednesday.\n\n\n\n
Tata Teleservices, owner of Tata Indicom brand, unveiled on Thursday the country's first full-fledged web-browser for mobile phones.
The service is aimed at communicating with ease and on time. With 'Talking SMS' a subscriber could talk and send SMS, giving a 'personal touch and feel' to the communication, an Aircel release said.
'Revision of the base year for both CPI and GDP are long overdue.' 'The basic data that went into the 2011-2012 series were mainly from surveys done in 2011 or earlier.' 'We have since seen the emergence of new sectors like platform-based work and online marketing.' 'The employment surveys and the consumption surveys need to reflect these adequately.'
Users can use the 'Search' option for searching videos across various categories and download it to their GSM mobile phones, while the 'Upload' option makes uploading videos from mobile phones easier.
After making its network EDGE-enabled, cellular major Hutch has joined hands with NDTV, allowing its subscribers to download TV content on their cell phones.
Telecom regulator TRAI has raised the need to look at the option of auctioning, as followed in Europe, to price the 3G spectrum -- a move that has been opposed by the operators as it could cost a mind-boggling Rs 10,000 crore.
Encouraged by the response, UAE postal service has re-launched its parcel service to India, which guarantees delivery to the destination within two weeks and more value-added features complemented by attractive prizes in weekly draws.
The mobile value added services are poised to grow by over 65 per cent to touch Rs 8,200 crore (Rs 82 billion) by the end of this fiscal from Rs 4,950 crore (Rs 49.50 billion) in the last fiscal, according to an estimate by industry body Assocham.
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