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Articles tagged with: Tata Teleservices
Tata Blocked from Offering BlackBerry Services in India
India's government has blocked an application by Tata Teleservices to offer BlackBerry services until the ongoing argument about how the local security services can intercept emails sent via BlackBerry's servers in Canada. more
Related Tags: encryption, reliance-communications, rcom, blackberry, reliance, India
Quippo Plans $3 Billion Investment in Indian Telco Infrastructure
India's Quippo Telecom Infrastructure (QTIL) expects to invest US$3 billion in fiscal year 2008-2009 to boost its telecoms infrastructure business. The expenditure would be split along internal expansion and acquisitions, QTIL Managing Director Arun Kapur told reporters. more
Related Tags: infrastructure-sharing, towers, India
India's Interconnection Congestion Declines Again
A report from India's telecoms regulator has found that congestion on the country's mobile networks is continuing to decline - indicating that the network operators are improving their networks even faster than they are adding new subscribers. more
Related Tags: reliance-communications, reliance, bharti, trai, India
No BlackBerry Ban in India - Yet
Indian government officials and local operators have reportedly agreed not to carry out threats to block the use of the BlackBerry handsets within the country - for the time being. There has been a problem with the BlackBerry servers as components of the service are hosted in Canada and are therefore outside the reach of Indian security services who might want to tap into the communications. more
Related Tags: encryption, reliance-communications, blackberry, rim, reliance, India
India's Tata Teleservices Considers Divesting Tower Ops
India's Tata Teleservices, a CDMA operator says that it will join the rush to divest its tower operations and plans to sell up to 49% of the company. According to earlier reports, the company had appointed Lehman Brothers and Citibank to evaluate bids for buying stake in its telecom tower infrastructure business. more
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Opera to Port their Mobile Web Browser to BREW Handsets
India's Tata Teleservices has secured an agreement with the Norway based, Opera Software to port their Java based mobile web browser onto Brew-enabled handsets which will be supplied by Huawei. The new browser will also be multi-lingual to support the various local languages in India. more
Related Tags: huawei, opera, mobile-web-browser, java, India
Asia Pacific in Q2 2007: The dominance of China and India
China dominates the Asia Pacific mobile market, with more than two in every five mobile subscribers in the entire region living in the world's largest country. However, China's contribution to the continental total has declined now for 13 successive quarters, from a high of 48.0% at the end of March 2004, to just 40.6% at the end of Q2 2007. more
Related Tags: asia-pacific, China
Indian Operator Launches Hindi Language BREW Mobile Content Portal
India's Tata Teleservices has unveiled a Hindi language version of it's "Tata Zone", the infotainmentspace on Tata Indicom BREW-enabled mobile phones. The company says that this is the first Hindi language mobile portal in India. Tata Teleservices says that the rationale behind this is simple: - 66% of all Indians speak Hindi, while less than 5% understands English. As the majority of English speakers are in the fast-growing middle-class sector, adding a Hindi language service should help the company expand its mobile content sales to the rural markets which have traditionally focused on voice and SMS only. more
Related Tags: India
India's CDMA2000 Subscriber Base Surpasses 50 Million
Related Tags: reliance-communications, reliance, bsnl, cdma-development-group, cdma2000, cdg, modem
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, mtnl, mumbai, delhi, idea-cellular