Tuesday, February 22, 2011

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Development in Indian telecom not to impact plans: Telenor Top
Norwegian telecom firm Telenor, whose Indian partner Unitech Wireless is facing charges of being a beneficiary in the 2G spectrum scam, today said the allegations will not impact its India plans. Unitech Wireless had inducted Telenor as majority partner after the Norweign firm picked over 67 per cent stake through equity and formed 'Uninor' as a joint venture for Indian operations. Source
 
AT&T in talks with Qualcomm for licence to 4G Top
AT&T, the world's largest telecommunications firm by revenue and the largest cellular operator in the US with revenues of $124 billion in 2010, is in talks with chip maker Qualcomm, which holds the licence and spectrum to offer fourth generation or 4G wireless broadband services in four telecom circles in India, according to a person familiar with the development. AT&T had exited Indian mobile telephony market in 2006, when it divested its stake in favour of its partners — the Tata group and the Aditya Birla Group — and failed in its attempt to gain an entry in 2008. Source
 
Alcatel-Lucent sees LTE in India by 2012 Top
Alcatel-Lucent predicts that commercial LTE services will roll out across India by 2012, a development that markets in Western Europe should see as a warning that they are losing ground in the mobile broadband race. "The people that bought [BWA licences] paid enormous amounts of money for them, so they're going to have to build something with it if they want to see a return," said Rajeev Singh-Molares, president of Alcatel-Lucent's Asia-Pacific operations. Source
 
India set for mobile boom Top
India could become the first "truly mobile digital society", with ad agencies, brand owners and media companies all expected to play a key role in such a process, McKinsey has argued. The consultancy stated that just 7% of Indians are currently connected to the web, measured against 32% in China, and 77% regarding the US. "Yet India has an opportunity to lead the world … by becoming the first truly mobile digital society," it added. Source
 
India adds 13 mn GSM subscribers in January Top
India's GSM subscriber base grew 2.53 percent in January with the addition of 13.71 million mobile phone users, of which telcom giant Bharti Airtel alone signed up over 3.3 million. The total number of subscribers in the country crossed 556.68 million as against 542.97 million the previous month, data released by Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) showed. Source
 
India Calls for Parliamentary Probe on Telecom Scam Top
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday agreed to opposition parties' demand to form a multi-party parliamentary panel to probe allegations of corruption in the allotment of licenses and bandwidth to offer second-generation mobile telephone services. "Our government is committed to root out corruption and has acted expeditiously and transparently in this direction," Mr. Singh said at parliament. Source
 

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