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Articles tagged with: Bsnl and Coai
Court to Hear Radio Spectrum Complaint Against Reliance Communications
India's Supreme Court has admitted appeals by the Indian GSM networks trade body, COAI and state owned operator, bsnl challenging the telecom tribunal ruling that permitted Reliance Communications to offer both GSM and CDMA services over the same telecoms license. more
Related Tags: rcom, reliance-communications, India
India Adds 6.3 Million New GSM Subscribers in August
India's GSM subscriber based (excluding Reliance Telecom) added 6.3 million new subscribers in August according to statistics from the Cellular OperatorsÃ' Association of India (COAI). The total for the country has now reached 225.6 million. more
Related Tags: rsa, cdma, vodafone, reliance, essar, vodafone-essar, India
Reliance India Base Sees 2007 Growth Fall Behind 2006
The latest figures from the Indian operators' associations the COAI and AUSPI show that the Indian mobile market has seen a net 20.55m new customers in the first four months of 2007 - less than the 20.96m recorded in the same period in 2006. The reason for this is two-fold. Firstly, in April 2006 Reliance Communications made an adjustment to the way it counted mobile subscribers, including its fixed-wireless customers in the figures for the first time and boosting its ranks as a result. Secondly, March 2007 saw the termination of India's customer re-verification procedure whereby the personal details of all of the country's mobile subscribers had to be checked by the operators - and a procedure which saw the same operator, Reliance, disconnect some 4m unverified customers. more
Related Tags: reliance-communications, reliance, mtnl, maxis, aircel
India and China: December Customer Numbers
The two large Chinese mobile operators both reported their December customer numbers last week, on the same day that the COAI published the same data for the Indian GSM operators. The two sets of data make an interesting comparison. Previously, we have suggested that while the Chinese market has the appearance of a controlled economy, with its near linear growth, the Indian market's expansion looked to be becoming exponential. more
Related Tags: china-unicom, reliance, bharti, hutchison
Indian Regulator Orders Tariff Changes
India's regulator, TRAI has issued an order to the mobile network operators in the States of Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh not to charge differential tariffs for calls terminating in bsnl network and other service providers networks. Following a license amendment, calls between Mumbai Metro & Maharashtra Telecom Circle, Chennai Metro & Tamil Nadu Telecom Circle, Kolkata Metro & West Bengal Telecom Circle and UP (East) & UP (West) Telecom Circle Service Areas were treated as intra-service area calls for the purpose of call routing and levy of ADC. more
Related Tags: mumbai, trai, chennai, maharashtra, kolkata, west-bengal, tamil-nadu