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Telecom Updates: July 2006
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Sunday, July 30, 2006. Cellular mobile network congestion rises at alarming levels: TRAI. The staggering additions to mobile phones in the country are resulting in Indian phone users struggling with the increase in network congestion, which has shot up from 390 to 616 Points of Interconnections (PoIs), TRAI said on Friday. The POIs congestion in the network is on account of inadequate junctions between the two networks and this leads to loss of calls and consequent poor quality of service to the consumers.
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Telecom Updates: June 2006
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006. Qualcomm refuses to bring down royality. Tata group chairman Ratan Tata and his seven-member delegation in a meeting with Qualcomm chief Paul Jacobs have failed to convince him to bring down the 7% royalty charged on CDMA handsets sold in India. Tata group's Tata Teleservices Ltd (TTSL) is the second largest CDMA operator in the country. Qualcomm chief met with a seven-member Tata delegation, which included Tata and TTSL's CEO, Darryl Green, and discussed ways and means to furth...
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Telecom Updates: October 2006
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Tuesday, October 31, 2006. Bharti Airtel inks $400mn network deal with Nokia. Bharti Airtel has signed an estimated $400 million contract with Nokia to expand its networks in 8 Airtel circles and deploy WAP solutions across its pan-India networks. The network monitoring operations will be carried out from Nokia’s Global Network Services Center in Chennai. Nokia will also deploy its WAP solution across Airtel’s national network to enhance its mobile packet core network capabilities. The department of tele...
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Telecom Updates: August 2006
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Thursday, August 31, 2006. FLAG returns to global tribunal. Reliance Communications-owned FLAG Telecom has re-approached an international tribunal seeking damages and determination of reasonable and cost-based access charges from Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL). In a notice to stock exchanges, Reliance Communications said the failure of the negotiations would harm ITeS and BPO companies in the country due to the high bandwidth prices and landing station access charges maintained by VSNL. The access charg...
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Telecom Updates: September 2006
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Thursday, September 28, 2006. 3G spectrum will fetch Rs 1,500 cr; Trai makes recommendations. Spectrum for next generation mobile telecom services (3G) will be auctioned and will fetch at least Rs 1,500 crore in one-time acquisition fees and an additional annual spectrum charge of 1% of the gross revenues of telecom operators. Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Bharti Mittal has reacted negatively to the Trai recommendations. The reserve price has been fixed way too high. It will be a serious hindrance...Trai ...
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Telecom Updates: May 2006
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Wednesday, May 31, 2006. TRAI has asked The Department of IT to take steps for Interconnection of all the four nodes of NIXI (National Internet eXchange of India) with each other and to restructure the board. The Interconnection of the nodes will boost the internet speeds in India because it will help India's Internet traffic to remain in India rather than moving all over the world to reach another destination in India. Posted by Nishant Mohan @ 5:57 AM. BSNL moves to TDSAT. Tuesday, May 30, 2006. All th...
