BSNL had sought higher payment for minimum three years for the facilities provided to cell phone service providers -- BPL Mobile Cellular and Idea Cellular Ltd -- and email provider CG Faxemail (P) Ltd even if they had surrendered the right before the lapse of three years. A bench headed by Justice S B Sinha while upholding the telecom tribunal judgement that came down heavily on BSNL for revising rates unilaterally said: "We do not find that these appeals raise any substanti
Though the controversy over the security of BlackBerry services is yet to be resolved, the four operators that offer these services - Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar, BPL Mobile and Reliance Communications - have added over 50,000 customers in the four months since the problems began. Before this, the push-mail service, which was introduced in India in October 2004, had 400,000 subscribers according to industry estimates.
Bharti Airtel boss Sunil Mittal already heads the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). Former BPL Mobile boss Rajeev Chandrasekhar is slated to take over as Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (Ficci) president.
The service is offered through SMS, call centres and the Internet. Industry experts said 8-10 million people use mobile search. Two million people use the Internet and the rest use SMSs and call centres. The operators' main source of revenue is premium SMS (what they charge for search query). Advertising from the local merchants getting listed in the search is a promising option.
Call blocking is one facility that telecom service providers claim is only for the chosen few, for instance the celebrities. Not withstanding its niche appeal, service providers in the country are in various stages of implementing the technology.
A user can list certain numbers with the operator from which he does not want to receive calls, and calls from these numbers would be blocked. Around 10-15 numbers can be blocked, while the caller will get a "busy tone or a recorded message".
Ex-head of BPL Mobile and currently a Rajya Sabha MP, Rajeev Chandrasekhar will be the new head of Ficci.
The Ruias and other promoters own a 99.99 per cent stake through various companies in BPL Mobile Communications. They have already toned it down to 82.4 per cent, sources close to the development said. Now, the group is looking at further bringing it down to less than 70 per cent. This will make BPL Mobile Communications a shell company and diminish its values making its shares 'worthless,' says Vodafone.
Mobile call rates are declining in face of fierce competition. In this price war, PCOs are likely to be the first casualty.
Hutchison Telecom International Ltd, the Hong-Kong based parent of Hutchison that operates the Hutch-Essar JV in India with Essar group, has said the termination of BPL Mobile Mumbai circle merger deal by its Indian partner was wrong.
The SC on Monday deferred by two weeks the hearing on state-run BSNL's appeal against the order of a tribunal bench that asked it to pay interest to BPL Mobile Cellular for delaying payments toward calls made to the private company's network.
The spat between Essar and Hutchison for the acquisition of BPL (Mumbai) circle is far from over with the Indian corporate maintaining that the Department of Telecom approval for acquisition of BPL shares is yet to come.
Continuing the efforts to strengthen its presence in telecom JV with Hutchison, Ruias' Essar Group is considering buying Max Telecom and IL&FS's 3.16 per cent stake in the Hutch-Essar joint venture.
BPL Mobile Cellular Ltd on Tuesday launched Caller Ring Back Tone facility in its Mumbai circle, and is planning to extend the offering to its other circles within a period of 30 days.
Cellular service provider BPL Mobile is planning to roll out 100 new cell sites in Tamil Nadu in 100 days, a senior company official said on Wednesday, to spruce up its coverage and double its subscriber base.
MobileFirst, an alliance formed by the second rung cellular operators in India, is mulling a slash in mobile-to-mobile STD airtime rates, in line with an announcement made by Idea Cellular on Saturday.
MobileFirst an alliance of BPL Mobile, Escotel, RPG Cellular and Spice Telecom announced on Saturday new cellular tariff for Plan-399 involving a rate of rupee one for local cell-to-cell outgoing call.\n\n
Modelled loosely around the National Highway System of the US, he in 2001 launched the Golden Quadrilateral and the North-South & East-West Corridor projects to build 4/6 lane highways between four top metropolitan cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata as well as from Srinagar to Kanyakumari and Porbandar to Silchar.
It would seem that Indrani's application was not something prepared or maybe even sanctioned by her lawyers and was a courtroom enterprise she had embarked on by herself, perhaps not realising it distracted from the main business of the trial and didn't help her cause.
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