Articles tagged with: Mtnl

Indian ISP Signs CDMA Reseller Deal with MTNL

Indian internet service provider, IOL Netcom says that it has signed a reseller deal with state controlled Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (mtnl) to provide CDMA mobile services. more

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India May Grant 3G Spectrum to State Owned Firms

India's two state owned telcos may get 3G spectrum allocation before the private companies if new proposals are accepted by the Department of Telecommunications (DoT). While this would give the state owned firms a head-start in rolling out their networks, they will be required to match the price paid by the private companies in the later spectrum auction. more

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India's MTNL - Customer Growth Slows but Revenues Rise

mtnl's Q4 2007 Results reveal a 16.1% rise in annual cellular revenues and a 22.0% annual increase in customer numbers. Having broken through the 3m barrier in November, mtnl finished the year with 3.10m connections in the two territories in which it operates (Delhi and Mumbai), up from 2.54m at the end of 2006. The latest figures from the Indian regulator reveal that the customer base rose to 3.27m at the end of February. more

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Asian Operators Offer Unlimited Data Tariffs While Roaming

The Conexus Mobile Alliance, one of the largest mobile alliances in Asia with a combined customer base of around 160 million mobile subscribers, has announced the launch of Asia's first-ever "pay-per-day" data roaming flat-rate tariff plan and a host of member privileges. more

MTNL - Customer Registration Impacts Delhi Base, but ARPU up

The number of mobile customers reported by state-controlled Indian telco mtnl declined between March and June 2007 as the effect of the customer registration programme impacted growth. The operator provides mobile service on the GSM and CDMA standards in India's largest and third largest cities, Mumbai and Delhi. In both markets, mtnl benefited from a market share gain in March due to disconnections by CDMA operator Reliance in relation to the registration programme, but in April the operator's Delhi business suffered a 21% loss of customers of its own, reducing the size of the overall customer base from 2.87m to 2.60m. more

Related Tags: reliance, mumbai, tata-teleservices, delhi, idea-cellular

Staff at India's BSNL to Strike over GSM Network Expansion Delays

Staff and managers at India's Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) will go on strike next Wednesday in an effort to push the government into placing a large GSM network contract, reports the local Economic Times newspaper. The strike could be extended indefinitely if the government does not confirm the order for some 45.5 million GSM lines immediately. more

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

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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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MTNL Orders GSM Kit to Expand Capacity in Mumbai

Alcatel-Lucent and ITI, India's largest telecom equipment manufacturing company, have announced a contract to supply and install 2 million lines for mtnl (Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited). This multi-million euro contract covers the expansion of mtnl's radio access and next-generation core network in Mumbai, India, and is based on Alcatel-Lucent's GSM/EDGE and W-CDMA/HSPA technologies. more

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Mid-East & Africa Region Reaches 1 Million 3G Users

GSM technology is completely dominant in the Middle East & Africa region, and has always been so since the advent of digital mobile technology. When the legacy analogue networks installed in many of the region's capital cities and main population centres in the 1990s were replaced it was nearly always with GSM based networks. GSM is operational in all 70 of the markets in the region, and accounted for 97.7% of the total MEA customer base at the end of Q3 2006. more

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