MSN India, with over 360 million users worldwide, said its new partners were Reliance IndiaMobile (RIM), Reliance GSM, Tata Teleservices, Spice Punjab and Spice Karnataka.
It is boom time for the communications sector with India adding 200.8 lakh (20.08 million) wireless subscribers in the quarter ended December 2006, taking the gross telecom subscriber base to 18.9 crore (189.92 million).
By the end of this year, you might just be able to download your favourite video clip in a few seconds and a whole movie in a couple of minutes on your mobile phone.
Even before the real 3G mobile services takes off, competition at the trial level is hotting up with Reliance Communications applying for the radio waves for testing of interface for both GSM and CDMA based services.
The handsets would have a 1.3 mega pixel camera, 32 MB internal memory, video recording, and everything that people look for while buying a mobile, for less than Rs 3,000.
Motorola on Tuesday said it is in talks with Reliance Infocomm to provide set top boxes for the company's Internet Protocol Television rollout in the country.
The British High Commission has announced this service for Indians travelling to the United Kingdom.
Punjab-based telecom operator HFCL on Wednesday became the first service provider to offer uniform call rates across all telecom networks and announced that all calls from its service Connect would be local calls.
Leading white goods manufacturer, LG Electronics would invest nearly Rs 400 crore (Rs 4 billion) this year in India towards expansion of its existing manufacturing facilities.
Ambani to up ante by $3 bn on Ruia's hint at larger premium.
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.
Mobile handset manufacturer, Motorola has launched an entry-level phone, Motofone, to tap the rural market in India.
Consumer electronics major LG Electronics on Monday said the company would start manufacturing CDMA handsets in India next year and also plans to scale up production capacity of GSM mobile phones to 10 million from current one million by 2010.
State-owned BSNL has rationalised the call charges from its public call office booths under which local and intra-circle calls to any network will be Re 1 per minute for a 60-second pulse, while STD calls will be cheaper by 50 paise.
Reliance Infocomm has launched international roaming services that would allow Reliance IndiaMobile customers to roam internationally on GSM networks across 300 mobile networks in 172 countries.
Telecom operator Vodafone has been the top gainer of customers through mobile number portability facility while Reliance Communications is the biggest loser.
The major area of expansion has been identified as the mobile phones and a 60 million tender for GSM lines has been floated by the company.\n\n
Today is the last date for submitting the applications and companies have the option to withdraw them by January 27.
Tata group chief Ratan Tata on Friday remained non-committal on the ongoing tussle with the Birla group on their GSM joint venture Idea.
Bharti Tele-Ventures Ltd, which runs GSM mobile services under the Airtel brand name, would invest around $1 billion this financial year for its capital expenditure plans.
The government on Monday urged private operators to play a big role in providing rural telephony across the country to reach a respectable level of teledensity.
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