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India's Aircel Reported to be in Talks to Buy Loop Mobile

India's Aircel Cellular is reported to be in talks to buy Mumbai based Loop Mobile (formerly BPL Mobile), which is owned by the Ruias of the Essar group. Both companies have been holding discussions for around seven months now, two people familiar with the discussions told the Economic Times.  more

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Record Month in India for GSM Lessens Blow of CDMA Cull

On the 31st March 2007 the so-called "re-verification" programme of Indian mobile customers instituted by the Department of Telecommunications came to a close. The re-verification process involved India's mobile companies checking the records of each and every one of their customers to confirm identity and to ensure personal details were correct. Unverified customer accounts would have to be de-activated by the deadline if the operators were to avoid being penalised. Early indications from India's second largest cellular service operator Reliance were that almost 15% of its customer base had not been verified by the time the deadline passed - about 4.2m customers in absolute terms. Reliance was reported to be unconcerned about the impact on its financials as it claimed that the de-activated customers were, for the most part, not revenue-generating - in other words, inactive. Nevertheless, there was some concern that if the story at Reliance was to be repeated across the board then the Indian market as a whole would suffer a very material cull of customers. more

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Significant Drop in Mobile User Satisfaction Levels in 2006

A nation-wide mobile users' satisfaction survey carried out in India shows that there has been a large scale drop in satisfaction of mobile phone subscribers with respect to most service providers during 2006 compared to the previous year. The 4th survey conducted by the publication, Voice&Data, is based on a sample base of 4,524 respondents across 51 Indian cities in 23 states. more

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India medium businesses spent US$596 million on telecommunications

In 2004, more than 20,500 medium businesses in India invested almost US$596 million in various kinds of telecommunication-related technologies. This overall spending is dominated by local, long distance and cellular services that comprise a mammoth 73%. However, the overall telecom expenditure is likely to drop marginally in 2005 due to a rapid price decrease in various fixed-line telecom services like local and long-distance telephony as well as falling cellular tariffs. Overall spending on IP-based technologies like IP phones, IP PBX and IP Centrex display a high anticipated rate of escalation within the next few years. more

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