February 22, 2012

Telecom Sector

Idea Explains Its Stand On Supreme Court’s Order Of Cancellation Of Its 9 2G Licenses – Sir Jee, You Are Right!

Idea Mobile

Supreme Court on Thursday canceled all 122 telecom licenses allotted under the 2G spectrum on or after January 10, 2008. All additional spectrum given to incumbents on or after January 10, 2008 have also been canceled. A penalty of Rs 5 crore has been imposed on Unitech Wireless Ltd (Uninor), Swan Telecom and Tata Telecom. [...]

TRAI Instructs Telcos To Block Violators Sending Pesky Calls And Smses – Telcos Should Act Fast

TRAI - Ineffective DND List

The ghost of  pesky calls and smses does not disappear despite various measures of  Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). TRAI has told telecom operators to identify and block those violators sending commercial calls and messages through the Internet from servers located outside India. If intent is there, telecom operators can certainly identify and block the unsolicited [...]

Airtel Hikes Tariff On International Calls And Curtails Few Other Benefits

Airtel On The Loosing Side

Airtel, the  private sector telecom giant, facing pressure because of declining profit for the 7th consecutive quarter, has increased international call rate tariffs by up to 10% for some destinations for all customers and reduced certain benefits on add-on services for its prepaid subscribers. Airtel had over 171 million mobile phone subscribers by end of August, [...]

Non Professional Response By Airtel To Pesky Call, Spam SMS Complaint’s

Pesky Calls

Despite registration with service providers for Do Not Disturb (DND) service, there was really no disturbance initially  for few days by unsolicited calls and Smses. But of late, it appears, unsolicited calls and Smses are back with vengeance. I have been receiving lot of pesky calls from telemarketer’s and spam Sms’s from real estate agents, [...]

Nokia – Reconnect With Indian Users, Fast. Opportunities Are Plenty!

Time to consolidate Indian market share.

As per Telecom Regulatory Authority of India – TRAI – there are 865 million mobile subscribers in India and out of which 206 million are active rural subscribers. India’s rural population is 700 million and which means approx. 500 million rural Indians are still outside the mobile network. These figures presents a massive challenge for the [...]

121 Million Internet Users In India By Year (2011) End – Numbers Growing!

Internet and Mobile Association of India

After China and United States, India has maximum number of internet users – 112 million by September, 2011 and another approx. 9 million more would be added by year end. This is the result of survey carried out by IMRB and the Internet and Mobile Association of India. The profile of users is evolving fast [...]

TRAI To Penalize Pesky Callers And Spam SMS Senders Using Individual Numbers

TRAI

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Friday said if pesky calls or messages are sent through individual numbers then notice will be served to the customers while the number will be disconnected on second violation. According to TRAI, 1122 subscribers have been issued notices while 111 subscribers have been disconnected. In case of telemarketers, [...]

2G Spectrum Scam – No Bail To Kanimozhi & Other Accused – Legal System Works In India!

2G Scam Convicts

All bail applications, including DMK leader Kanimozhi and seven others, in the 2G spectrum allocation scam have been dismissed on Thursday by the special CBI court. The court also announced that the trial will begin on November 11, 2011. Special Judge O.P. Saini dismissed the bail pleas, saying the charges leveled against them were of “very serious [...]

Limit Of SMS’s Raised From 100 To 200 Per Day By TRAI – Some Relief!?

There is a good news for the SMS lovers in India! Earlier TRAI had imposed a restriction of sending 100 text messages per day in lieu of ever increasing spam messages. However now, consumers will be able to send up-to 200 SMSes per day from a SIM, as against the earlier limit of 100 SMSes [...]

Research In Motion (RIM) Sued In USA And Canada Over Recent BlackBerry Outage

Consumers in the United States and Canada have sued Research In Motion (RIM) for service outages for days long  recently on BlackBerry devices that rippled across the world. The system wide failures of the services had left tens of millions of frustrated Blackberry users on five continents without email, instant messaging and browsing. RIM’s co [...]