BSNL, the former telecom monopoly of India, has lost nearly 8 lakh mobile subscribers, or about 1.5 percent of its active mobile base, due to number portability as of the end of October, government of India’s numbers revealed. There was also a sudden spike in October this year in the number of telecom subscribers using […]
India’s mobile subscriber base, which has grown consistently for the last two decades, has fallen by 30 million in just four months, primarily due to pressure on the operators to ensure full documentation of their subscribers and deactivate zombie accounts. Starting from June, India’s mobile operators, including Tata DoCoMo, Reliance Communications, Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular, […]
At last, China-powered Indian branded tablets can compete with those of Samsung and Apple, thanks to the launch of several new cheap tablets in the dual-core, IPS 10-inch display category over the past few days. Coming less than a week after Mediatek, which supplies the chips for a large number of Chinese manufacturers, announced plans […]
Bharti Airtel leads in the number of mobile base stations in India, while Vodafone comes second and BSNL is placed third, according to official numbers. In all, India had a total of 736,654 mobile base stations as of the end of October, 2012. The highest number of mobile base stations are in Maharashtra, followed by […]
The IT sector will grow in the final quarter of 2012, but at a slightly lowered pace, according to indications from the market leader Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS.) In an ‘analyst meeting’ in Mumbai, the company said it was not worried about missing its targets for this year. However, it guided for a sequential […]
The ‘3G roaming’ controversy, which continues to cast a shadow over services to lakhs of 3G customers in India, may be nearing an end soon. The controversy, involving the sharing of 3G infrastructure between operators, has the potential to disrupt the Indian 3G market in the coming weeks as the government decides to either crack […]
Export growth to the European Union dipped sharply in the financial year ended March 2012, even as imports continued grow fast, according to data for the financial year. Interestingly, the biggest buyer of Indian goods in Europe last year was not the United Kingdom or Germany, but the relatively small Netherlands. Out of a total […]
The Indian government has ordered a massive culling and containment operation to prevent a bird flu epidemic at a farm in its Eastern state of Tripura from spreading. The health department of the government said bird samples from the State Poultry Farm, Gandhigram, Agartala have tested positive for the H5 virus, commonly known as the […]
Get ready to spend this monday. Online shopping companies are bringing the online discount shopping festival ‘Cyber Monday’ to India. About 50 online shopping companies have set up the Great Online Shopping Festival website www.gosf.in promising steep discounts this monday. “Buyers can look forward to exciting deals across a variety of product range,” said Google, […]
Cognizant said it is buying six companies of C1 Group, an independent consulting and IT services firm based in Hamburg, Germany. The terms, including the value and nature of payment, of the transaction were not disclosed. “The companies focus on three industry segments: manufacturing and logistics, energy and utilities, and financial services. Known for their […]
The alleviation of the alleged harmful effects of mobile towers (EMR) on human health has become more complicated with the Department of Telecom rebuffing a suggestion by the Ministry of Environment and Forests on the subject. Apparently piqued over a recent directive by the environment ministry seeking new limits on the number of cellular towers, […]
Anil Ambani group’s Reliance Communications, one of India’s biggest telecom operators, has joined the list of operators who will offer free or cheap unlimited data access to those who use Facebook services on mobile. While many others like Aircel offer free or unlimited access to Facebook on mobile, Reliance Communications has decided to offer unlimited […]
After much waiting, Apple iPad 4, the latest in the series of tablets made by the iconic brand, has hit Apple Stores in India. According to consumer reports, Apple iPad 4, released a few weeks ago in the U.S., is now available in certain Apple Stores, particularly in the bigger cities like Delhi and Mumbai. […]
Government of India seems to have made up its mind on cutting the number of employees in state-owned BSNL by a third, or 1 lakh, in an effort to turn around the loss-ridden company. Responding to a question about how BSNL and MTNL can “manage their affairs with such a huge reduction of staff”, the […]
Micromax, which is placed third in the number of mobile phones sold in India, however, seems to be the hot favorite for those who buy their phones from online vendors, going by numbers from Snapdeal.com, one of India’s top online retailers. The Gurgaon-based company is among the few Indian brands that has survived the initial […]
Videocon has launched two large 3G phones that are the cheapest in their category and are sure to give strong competition to others like Karbonn and Micromax. The 3.5 inch A20 is priced at a jaw-dropping Rs 4,900 and the A30 is priced at Rs 7,200 – much below what similar models are priced at […]
Call it a consolation prize, but India’s goods trade deficit, which zoomed 56% last year to $185 billion, is likely to fall this year due to the poor economy, Crisil Research said. Trade deficit refers to the shortfall between how much a country earns through exports to other countries and how much it needs to […]
Swedish do-it-yourself furniture retailer IKEA may get its way on bringing its large-store format largely unchanged to India, according to latest indications from Anand Sharma, the commerce minister of India. India’s foreign investment promotion board or FIPB, the body that gives approval to big direct investment proposals from outside the country, had “struck off” certain […]
The government has not come across any “irregularity” in the Antrix-Devas deal nor has the deal caused any loss to the government, the office of the Prime Minister, who is charge of Department of Space, told Parliament. The statement has come despite a recommendation by the Cabinet to annul the $300 million deal. Minister of […]
Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s pet project Arasu Cable is likely to get into trouble as the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has come out strongly against allowing any government agency or company to enter the broadcasting space. In its clarification to the government given today, the TRAI said any government company or […]
