Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has plans to connect 80,000 villages with wireless broadband.
Rajesh Kumar, joint DDG, strategic planning, BSNL informed that the project would be undertaken in phases. The organization has formed a cluster of 1,000 block headquarters, scattered across India, for the first phase. These blocks will cover around 10,000 villages. WiMax installation will [...]
Finally! A mobile that’s made in India.
Bangalore-based Digibee Microsystems (Digibee) is all set to take this pioneering step in the next few weeks.
Announcing the investment of $8.5 million (about Rs 38 crore) by Clearstone Venture Partners and SIDBI in the firm, Mr Vijay Balakrishnan, Vice-President of Marketing, Digibee, said the amount would be used to [...]
In a bid to make the consumer complaint redressal mechanism more effective, the Communications and IT Minister, Mr Dayanidhi Maran, will be meeting senior officials from Department of Telecom and the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to discuss giving more powers to the telecom regulator.
TRAI has proposed a slew of measures including increasing the [...]
The department of telecommunications (DoT) on Friday invited bids from all telecom operators and 22 stand-alone tower companies for setting up about 8,000 telecom towers across the country at an estimated cost of Rs 4,000 crore.
The government will provide the capital to set up these towers from the Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) through [...]
The Chennai-based Aircel Business Solutions (ABS), a division of telecom service provider Aircel, on Thursday launched WiMAX in parts of Bangalore city.
ABS is in the final stages of implementing WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) across Bangalore’s prominent locations such as the Electronic City, Airport Road, St Johns Road, Jaya Nagar, Rajaji Nagar, and Koramangala [...]
Africa is the new battle ground for the Tatas and Reliance Communications. While Reliance’s 100% subsidiary Flag Telecom plans to build a cable system linking South Africa to Madagascar and Mauritius to expand its global network, Tatas-owned VSNL is in talks with the EASSy cable consortium, Africa’s upcoming cable system, to offer global connectivity on [...]
Tata Teleservices Ltd (TTSL) is expecting to sell 10,000 to 15,000 post-paid connections per month through its online retail store, i-choose, that was launched here today.
Separately, the CDMA-based telephony service provider is also planning to increase the number of its branded outlets to 3,000 in next two months.
Launching i-choose, TTSL CEO Darryl Green said, “this [...]
IBM Corp is launching an ambitious marketing campaign in the hip virtual world “Second Life.”
Big Blue has developed 12 “virtual islands,” and most will be open to anyone with a Second Life account starting next week. Other areas will remain private haunts for about 800 IBM employees - including the CEO - who have [...]
The department of telecommunications (DoT) has rejected the plea of software service provider L&T Infotech, a wholly-owned subsidiary of engineering major L&T for dropping criminal prosecution against it for alleged routing of international calls from its leased line circuit to the PSTN network.
In its representation to the DoT, the company had urged that the [...]
Motorola has launched a new low-cost handset, the MOTOFONE for the Indian market, in both GSM and CDMA formats. E Ink is providing the display technology behind MOTOFONE’s ClearVision. The changeable electronic ink display is easy to read in bright sunlight or dimly lit environments from virtually any angle - just like paper. Additionally, the [...]