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| Saturday, September 30, 2006 |
| MTNL greas up for 3G rollout |
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State owned MTNL which has to go through the bidding process(without backdoor entry) has finalized its 3G rollout plans. It has placed equipment and networking orders with ITI-Alcatel. In another development, the GSM lobby represented by COAI, has expressed it's unhappiness over 3G rollout recommendations of TRAI and in a release said,
"On the whole, the TRAI recommendations are rather slanted in favour of CDMA and disadvantageous to GSM".
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| Saturday, September 23, 2006 |
| Ortel Cable to diversify into Telecom |
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 Ortel Communications, with Cable TV service as its core business is now venturing into basic telephony services. Ortel also offers broadband internet services. Cable TV operators in India were a secured lot because of no competition and they ruled the space for over a decade with no innovation by just ripping of customers. Since last 2 years they are facing increasing competition from DTH providers like Tata Sky Dish TV , Zee Dish TV and others.
One of the first operators to wake up to competition is Ortel Communications Limited of Orissa. They have paid Rs5 crores license fees for basic telephony operations for the state or Orissa and will provide this as an value added service to its existing Cable TV subscribers. Phone calls between Ortel Customers will be free while to other networks like BSNL, the customer has to bear the charges of interconnect. This means that Ortel call rates are expected to be far lower than existing landline and fixed wireless phone service providers. |
| Published on Saturday, September 23, 2006 at 8:00 PM |
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| Friday, September 22, 2006 |
| Bharti-Airtel the MNC Mobile Service Provider. |
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 Just a week ago, fellow blogger at goBroadband, covering the "
Emergence of Asian Telecom giants"series had left us guessing which of the Indian Telcos would join the rank and file of Multinational Telecom Companies. ET reports that Bharti TeleVentures has won the necessary approval to be a Mobile service provider in "Guernsey" located in the English Channel, northwest of France. Along with Jersey, it forms the collective grouping known as the Channel Islands.
Through this deal, the bottomline of Bharti Airtel is unlikely to be enriched as the total population of Guernsey is mere 66,000 and the area of Guernsey is just 78 Sq Km(20 times smaller than Bangalore) What is important is that Indian companies are going global in search of growth :-)
Excerpts from gobroadband,
"The edge Indian companies have over western telcos is the operational efficiency but severely lack in Research and Development of new technologies which may not be a critical/deciding factor". |
| Published on Friday, September 22, 2006 at 9:07 AM |
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| Monday, September 18, 2006 |
| MTNL WiMaxed |
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 WiMax, the disruptive technology for wireless communications has bitten Indian telecom PSU, MTNL. MTNL which has the available spectrum isn't sitting quiet and has laid the roadmap for IP Mobile and IP Fixed phones to be deployed on WiMax. WiMax is an IP based wireless data application that enables high speed communication. In a typical deployment, WiMax can support users within a radius of 10Kms without line of sight from the equipment at data rates upto 40MPBs.
WiMax will be a killer application for broadband deployment in India and is the best way to go. I am not sure why MTNL is so short sighted that it doesn't want to provide TriBand internet over WiMax as it has directly jumped to IP absed phone services. |
| Published on Monday, September 18, 2006 at 9:42 AM |
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| Thursday, September 07, 2006 |
| Flag Telecom Lanuches FALCON |
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Reliance Communications controlled, Flag Telecom today launched, Falcon. Falcon connects India, Middle East and Europe. It has an initial bandwidth capacity of 90GigaBits which can be scaled to 2.5 TeraBits. Falcon will be further connected to the Flag Global Network which would now become the largest undersea cable system in the world, as Falcon adds 11,589 kms to the existing network of 54,000 kms.
Reliance will very soon join the league of “Emerging Asian Telecom Giants” with global presence. Currently Reliance has significant interests in the lucrative Middle East market as it unveiled RiTV for them in June this year. |
| Published on Thursday, September 07, 2006 at 12:35 AM |
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