MTNL to go International With appointment of MTNL’s new chairman and managing director Kuldip Singh, it’s plans of entering overseas markets have been revived. MTNL now plans to enter Africa by acquiring a new licence or buying an operator.
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Telecom RoundUp: MTNL To Go International, BSNL 3G In TN, 3G Bidders To Pay In INR
Just inspected the source of the page http://events.nokia.com/countdown/ to get the entire list!! I’m listed too, but not yet contacted by Nokia! Nobody has any clue on what Nokia is going to announce! I made the list just to reduce the pain of scrolling on the countdown page quern Antoniablue alastair_hm enigmaster reafshaism pfellas KindersK rhyswynne tatty73 caronmlindsay belovedeleanor scottm MadeleineYork Stevey warriorwoman domburf WilliamTM thirstforwine Elizabeth Edwards olliebray gabe devra brandice ms-teacher stevehargadon csessums hildygottlieb loonyhiker Beau and Meggan andyabramson Kevin Chiu martin_j001 Alexander Wrege amandagravel coreymcl garrettmurray Krazykritter mikealive Jeremy Toeman PaulSwansen Sahas Katta Christopher Price Sarah Dopp Wirehead Dave Andrew Mager dayene Neil Gorman Kevin Buckstiegel daynah MG Siegler Trey Ratcliff Josh Bancroft benspark kertong CLRana9017 seeminglee howardgr Adam Shoes radical24 Dr Tran mindofandre solacetech zugaldia barbara iverson ben CaliLewis caaarlo chasehx zpower spanaut wirebook communicatrix pamon yeswap Derek Coleman ILikeMyNok Eric Zeman Gwapz allaboutgeorge gletham unfuccwittable jebbrilliant Ms.
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Bloggers who are in Nokia’s invite list for super secret announcement!
Seriously, been using free anti virus since years, but my computer is still vulnerable & keep getting affected again & again. I don’t understand why they aren’t powerful. For me, an anti-virus software should be “Install & Forget”, it should be capable of taking care off all sorts of malicious bad software, trojans, spywares & let me concentrate on work! Norton Internet Security 2010 does just what I wanted to
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Norton Internet Security 2010, makes life easier!
Tata Docomo has announced five new GPRS packs as follows: -To pull internet settings please sms “INTERNET” to 52270 and save them as default settings on your mobile -To get Recharge Instruction for all packs: Call 12526(toll free) OR Dial *135* # OK -To activate the Rs. 5/- Daily Pass, SMS ”GPRS” to 121 -For more information on the TATA DOCOMO GPRS Packs visit: www.tatadocomo.com/gprs.aspx Related posts: Tata Docomo GPRS Settings Finally! Tata Docomo launches unlimited GPRS plan for just Rs.95 per month! Tata Docomo isn’t serious about GPRS yet!
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Tata Docomo launches 5 new GPRS packs
With every passing day the telecom space becomes more and more crowded. Even though the regulators are making it difficult for newer players to enter this space more and more large corporates in India have set their eyes on the telecom space. One such group is the Future group which is in the news lately for foraying into the telecom servives bandwagon.
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Future Group Wants To Be Future Of Telecom Too – Plans Telecom Foray
It seems comics are becoming a serious business these days at least for telecom service providers as they gear up to innovate their comic offerings. TATA DoCoMo in partnership with NTT DOCOMO has launched Docomics , a comic viewer app for mobiles
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TATA DoCoMo Launches Comic App For Mobile – DOCOMICS
Aircel has announced that they are partnering with Infosys to launch mobile application store. The partnership will see Infosys implementing the app store on Telco’s behalf leveraging its ‘Flypp’ platform, a ready-to-go application platform developed specially for telecom operators. App stores are attracting attention from handset makers to telecom operators as soaring smartphone and mobi-internet usages finds its way into mainstream telecom market
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Aircel To Launch Mobile App Store In Partnership With Infosys
Bharti Airtel invests $300 million in Warid Telecom Bharti Airtel has received approval to invest around USD 300 million in Abu Dhabi Group’s Warid Telecom. Warid Telecom is the fourth largest mobile operator in Bangladesh. Bharti would acquire a 70% stake in the company through this investment.
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Bharti Airtel invests $300 million in Warid Telecom
Google has announced it’s own phone “Nexus One”. Following are the key features of the phone: Powerful 1GHz SnapDragon processor 3.7 inch AMOLED touch screen 512MB of RAM 512MB of ROM (Internal Memory) MicroSD slot expandable up to 32GB 5 Mega Pixel camera Google Android OS GPS, Google Maps Accelerometer, Light sensor & proximity sensor Active Noise Cancellation for clear calls Google Earth debuting on this handset & will be available to other Android devices soon via Android App Market Nexus One is priced at USD 529 & not yet available in India. Check out the phone at http://www.google.com/phone .
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Google announces it’s own phone “Nexus One”
BSNL Bangalore is offering a scheme for celebrating Christmas & New year called ‘Gift a Broadband…’. You can just walk in to any BSNL customer service center & purchase a Greeting Card enclosed with gift voucher to avail a new broadband connection
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‘Gift a broadband’ with BSNL! No charges for first month! No installation charges!
Vodafone has recently launched unlimited national SMS packs for both prepaid & postpaid subscribers. Following is the pack details for Pre-paid customers: Unlimited local and national SMS (upto a max of 500 SMSes per day) at a recharge of Rs 52 (Validity : 30 days) Unlimited local and national SMS (upto a max of 500 SMSes per day) at a recharge of Rs 34 (Validity : 15 days) For postpaid customers monthly unlimited national SMS pack is Rs.80 per month
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Vodafone launches unlimited national SMS packs
This has been an interesting decade for sure. If we were to keep this in retrospect, I would stared in wide eye wonder had I known that I would someday work on 1Mbps unlimited broadband. This has definitely come after a big fight but for sure, there has been a lot of resistance from entrenched lobbies to change
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TRAI:Asshole of year 2009
Bharti Airtel to setup Wi-Fi zones around the country Bharti Airtel has announced that they are soon going to enter into the Wi-Fi market by setting up zones around the country. Tata is currently the leading internet service provider in the country through such Wi-Fi zones. BSNL is also in the process of setting up similar services throughout the country.
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Bharti Airtel to setup Wi-Fi zones around the country
It looks like the picture of 2008 mayhem is still afresh in the minds of bureaucratic leaders. Department of Telecom (DoT) has hinted that telco’s winning 3G licenses will need to submit license fees well within stipulated time of 20 days.
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Operators To Fork Out 3G License Fees Before Spectrum Allocation: DoT
As per the media reports, the mobile number portability is delayed because BSNL and MTNL were not ready for it. In any case, I am toying with the idea of filing a second RTI application but my attention is fixated on academics and it would be impossible to keep a track of the same. In case anyone among the readers feels motivated enough, please let me know through feedback on drapuri (at) gmail (dot) com and I would happily guide the way out including help with drafting of the application.
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Mobile number portability and TRAI: Suckers
After receiving no reply from the morons, I have filed a second appeal with CIC, New Delhi. The best part is that it’s free, it’s as easy as it can get by typing in the required information in the drop down boxes and all you have to upload is the copy of the letters sent to the earlier PIO
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TRAI: Second appeal filed with CIC
We had questioned at the time of the sale of Burrp to Infomedia18 on whether this deal was a strategic sale or a distress one! Well now the cat or the amount in this case is out of the bag . Burrp was sold for 4.25 crores as per the SEBI filing by Infomedia18.
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Burrp Was Sold For 4.25 Cr – Expensive Or Cheap?
Brace yourself people. By the start of 2010, India would have around 500 Million (50 Crore) Mobile Phone connections, second only to China in total numbers. Overall Telephone connections in India is currently pegged at around 550 Million connections , but considering that fact that many people have dual connections in their name and not all of them are in use at the same time, the number of Mobile connections India has, has been pegged at around 488.40 million mobile connections at the end of October 2009 and hence will be breaching the half billion mark quite soon
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India now has 500 million mobile phone connections
Linkedin announced its first office in APAC region in Mumbai yesterday on its blog . It also announced a partnership with the Network18 group. On this we spoke to Hari V Krishnan who is the newly appointed Country Manager of Linkedin and also Arvind Rajan who is VP of International Operations at Linkedin on Linkedin’s India plans, Mobile plans, Monetization plans and more.
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Linkedin India Launches Office In Mumbai – We Spoke To Them On Their Plans For India
Well twitter has a lot of celebrities but there are some people who have become celebrities purely because of their presence on twitter and their continuous stream of tweets.
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WATShow With Twitter Celeb Netra Parikh On Tweetups, Twestival & More