Articles tagged with: Chennai
India Telecom Regulator Recommends 3G Service Guidelines
NEW DELHI -(Dow Jones)- The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, or TRAI, Wednesday recommended guidelines for allocation and pricing of spectrum for third generation, or 3G, services in the country. more
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MVNOs May be Next Entrants in Indian Telecom Market
Strong local or global consumer brands might be the next entrants into India's urban wireless telecom markets in India, predicts Diamond Management & Technology Consultants in a new report. While the wireless business in India is growing about 75 percent year-over-year, regulatory requirements around industry structure, spectrum allocation, and licensing and operations currently present formidable barriers to the MVNO model in India. more
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India Needing Fewer Handset Imports
India could stop importing mobile phone handsets by the middle of next year says India's IT and Communications Minister, Dayanidhi Maran. Speaking at a meeting of the Indo-German Chamber of Commerce (IGCC), Maran said that 80% of mobile phones needed in the country will be manufactured in chennai. more
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Texas Instruments Talks Open Standards to Drive Indian Mobile Growth
At a meeting with press yesterday hosted by Thiru Dayanidhi Maran, the Honorable Minister of Communications & IT for India, Texas Instruments (TI) outlined how continued support of open technology standards will enable India to reach its goal of 500 million mobile phone subscribers by 2010. Gilles Delfassy, TI's senior vice president of its Wireless Terminals Business Unit, also announced that TI is increasing its wireless design presence in India with a new research and development (R&D) center in chennai. more
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Nokia Opens Indian Handset Factory
Nokia has inaugurated its new manufacturing facility in Sriperumbudur, chennai, India. The manufacturing facility in chennai is Nokia's fifteenth manufacturing facility globally. Nokia is the only company in India whose facility manufactures both mobile devices and network infrastructure equipment. Nokia commenced commercial production of mobile handsets at its India factory on the 2nd of January 2006 and has achieved the milestone of manufacturing over one million handsets in India to-date. more
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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
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Nokia Opens New Office in India
Nokia has announced that it is to locate its new Nokia Global Networks Solutions Center in chennai, India. The Solutions Center will perform network operation tasks for selected operator customers in the Asia Pacific region as well as Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and play a key role as part of Nokia's expanding and innovative managed services offering. It will start operations in the first half of 2006 and initially employ around 100 people, with this figure expected to rise in the next few years. more
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Nokia To Expand Mobile Device Production In China
STOCKHOLM -(Dow Jones)- Finnish telecommunications equipment maker Nokia Corp. Thursday said it plans to expand its mobile device production in Dongguan, China. more
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Nokia Gets $141 Million Contract From Bharat Sanchar Nigam
STOCKHOLM -(Dow Jones)- Finnish telecommunications equipment maker Nokia Corp. Thursday said it has received a contract worth around $141 million from Indian telecommunications company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. for a GSM/EDGE and GPRS network expansion project in North India. more
Nokia To Invest $100 Million To $150 Million In New India Plant
STOCKHOLM -(Dow Jones)- Finland's Nokia Oyj (NOK) Wednesday said it will invest between $100 million and $150 million to set up a manufacturing facility for mobile devices at chennai, India. more
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