In a development that would hit telecom operators' profits, the government announced an up to 50 per cent increase in spectrum charges for all GSM and CDMA technology based service providers.
Liberalization and telecom reforms are known to be necessary to hasten growth in tele-density.
Targeted at the growing young audience, Samsung India vice-president-HHP division Hendrick Lee said the phone has direct access to social networking websites. It also enables the users to access website at a speed of 2.4Mbps data speed on CDMA operators.
The company has won the award under the 'Operator Leadership' category for having demonstrated leadership in the wireless community through the expansion of 3G CDMA system deployments and the unique implementation of 3G CDMA technologies in a specific market, a release issued by the company stated.
From a policy point of view, India's telecom industry is getting exciting once again. After a lull of a few years, we're back to the same half-truths from regulators/policy makers, and the all too familiar attempts to help favoured firms.
Confirming the development, Chairman Venugopal Dhoot said, "We will use the CDMA technology for mobile services in the country."
CDMA technology developer Qualcomm on Tuesday said it was not negotiating with Indian telecom players, including Anil Ambani group company Reliance Communications, on lowering the royalty paid by them.
In a letter sent to DoT last week, a senior ministry official said the Rs 1,650 crore did not reflect the current value of spectrum, the radio waves that enable wireless communications.
Top brass of Qualcom, developer of CDMA technology, will be visiting India next week and may hold discussions with the company on royalty obligations.\n
AT&T has also applied for a universal access service licence (UASL), which allows operators to offer services in both GSM and CDMA technology, with the Mahindra & Mahindra group, for 22 circles. The US company, however, has stipulated that it wants a majority equity stake in the mobile venture.
Shares of CDMA technology pioneer Qualcomm have come under tremendous pressure over the past one month, losing a market cap of $11.7 billion on the back of Reliance Communication, one of its major customers, mulling the option of switching to GSM.
Code Division Multiple Access technology major Qualcomm Inc on Friday announced the opening of a research and development in Hyderabad, to support its chipset development activities.
In a move to capture a slice of the rapidly growing domestic mobile phone market, public sector telecom equipment major ITI Ltd on Tuesday said it was contemplating manufacturing GSM cellular phones, besides WLL-CDMA instruments in the country.
State-run Mahanagar Telephone Nigam, which had acquired the licence to offer telecom services in Mauritius in 2004, has started operations with international long distance services to begin with.
The cellular phone companies using the WLL-CDMA technology will increase their subscriber base by 86.6 per cent in 2004-05 as against the expected growth of 40 per cent in GSM customers, according to a study.
Tata Docomo, the mobility and business services brand of Tata Teleservices, on Tuesday launched a mobile advertising application 'GET' that allows users to get free voice minutes for viewing ads on their handsets.
Airtel, Vodafone, BSNL increase subscriber share while Idea manages to retain
Also, the combination of a new entrant and new technology is not necessarily good.
Firm makes Rs 4,858-crore loss on Rs 10,799-crore income.
The big beneficiaries of this move will be the big three -- Bharti, Vodafone and Idea.
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.
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