Telecom

UTStarcom sells off its mobile solutions unit, appoints new CEO

Sarin pockets over 25 mn pounds from Vodafone

Modi Rubber cuts Spice Mobile stake to 4.2%

Spice Telecom launches 'People Phone' at Rs 599

Venture capitalists invest $9 mN in PayMate 

Venture capitalists Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Mayfield Advisors and Sherpalo Ventures have invested $9 million in a second round of funding for mobile payments firm PayMate.

The Aditya Vikram Birla group-controlled Idea Cellular is set to acquire BK Modi's 40.8% stake in Spice Communications for around Rs 2,200 crore.

British telecom giant Vodafone, whose Indian origin CEO Arun Sarin is set to resign next month, emerged as the sixth biggest wealth creator in the country ahead of giants like Barclays, BT and Tesco, as per a list prepared by the UK government.

BSNL takes the final call on tariff war, slashes tariffs by almost 50 percent

by Purushottam Darshankar

Video on demand, Triple Play(voice,data and video), Internet Television, the new age thing called IPTV.

Lets get started with what exactly is IPTV,

29 - 30 May 2008

India Overtakes US, Becomes 2nd Largest Wireless Market. The country has added a total of 10.16 million wireless subscribers in the month of March 2008.

India Becomes World's Second Largest Wireless Network

 Fixed line telephony to be exempt from licence fee 

 Move aims to encourage service providers to go rural; BSNL , with 90% of fixed line connnections, to be largest beneficiary

IBM launches mobile web initiatives to transform consumer and business experiences 

Hi all,

TRAI released Quarterly Performance Indicators of Indian Telecom Services for the quarter ending December 2007.