Telecom News Archive...
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Policy and Regulation
Tessera Technologies Inc. says the U.S. agency investigating its patent infringement claims has affirmed that Tessera patents are valid — but not that other companies have violated them....
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Coverage, Offers & Value Added Services
The world's tallest building - Burj Dubai - is now fully covered with mobile network coverage, after being fitted out by local telecoms operator, Du....
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Policy and Regulation
China Mobile Ltd., the Hong Kong listed subsidiary of China Mobile Communications Corp, has announced that its Vice Chairman and Executive Director, Mr Zhang Chunjiang is being investigated by the police for "suspected serious personal violations", wit...
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Corporate / Enterprise
Bangladesh's Grameenphone has announced that it crossed the 23 million active subscriber mark last week, which indicated resurgence in subscriber growth for the Company....
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Handsets
Google has fired the rumour mill regarding a possible Google branded mobile phone by announcing a press conference next week, on the same day that T-Mobile is widely expected to start selling a new Android based smartphone....
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Corporate / Enterprise
Convicted ex-Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee will be granted a special pardon to allow the influential business magnate to rejoin efforts to bring the Winter Olympics to South Korea, the government said Tuesday....
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Coverage, Offers & Value Added Services
The head of mobile phone operator O2 has apologized to customers in the British capital who were unable to make calls after the group's network was swamped by people using smart phones such as Apple Inc.'s iPhone....
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Corporate / Enterprise
Broadcom Corp. said Tuesday it will pay more than $160 million in cash to settle a class action investor lawsuit related to stock option backdating, but did not admit wrongdoing....
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Corporate / Enterprise
Nokia Corp. is broadening a legal dispute it already has with Apple Inc. over the iPhone, saying almost all of the company's other products also violate the Finnish phone maker's patents....
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Special Reports
From the time when just a handful owned mobiles, the decade gone by has brought a cellphone to every second Indian. It’s also been a decade driven by affordability. ...
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Corporate / Enterprise
Bharti Airtel, the country’s largest telecom operator by revenues and customers, will soon enter the WiFi business space. Starting next week, ...
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Policy and Regulation
In a major setback to the expansion plans of state-owned BSNL, the telco’s board on Wednesday decided to put its tender for 93 million lines ‘on hold’ until ‘all allegations of irregularities are investigated,’ a top executive with the PSU told....
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Special Reports
The collapse of tie-up talks between Bharti Airtel and MTN is expected to be only a temporary setback for Sunil Mittal, who has come along way from selling bicycle parts to creating India's top mobile firm.After the wedding of his only daughter in June, t...
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Technology
With number portability, the facility that allows mobile users to change their telecom operator, but retain their cellphone number, being delayed to April 2010, the department of telecom (DoT) now plans to implement this facility across the country simult...
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Policy and Regulation
The Department of Telecom is understood to have decided to slap a total penalty of Rs 132 crore on some major telecom operators for not rolling out services on time after the award of licence and spectrum....
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Coverage, Offers & Value Added Services
Cashing in on the festive season, telecom service provider Vodafone Essar on Wednesday announced the launch of a recharge offer for prepaid customers in Tamil Nadu....
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Coverage, Offers & Value Added Services
BSNL would launch its 3G services in 29 cities shortly in Andhra Pradesh, BSNL Andhra Pradesh Circle Chief General Manager T N Sudhindra Kumar said....
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Corporate / Enterprise
India's state-run Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd aims to add 600,000 subscribers by March 2010, taking its customer base to about 5 million, Chairman R.S.P. Sinha said on Wednesday....
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Corporate / Enterprise
Telecom major Bharti Airtel is close to acquiring a majority stake in the Bangladesh operations of Warid Telecom, with officials of both companies meeting key officials to wrap up the deal, a newspaper report said on Wednesday....
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Deals, Contracts
Consultancy firm, Cybercom has announced that it is to assist an unnamed network equipment provider in designing a next-generation radio base station. The contract runs to 31 December 2010....
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