India will allow wireless broadband airwave holders to provide voice services if they pay an additional $306 million, a senior government official said on Monday, a move likely to boost billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd. ...
11:21 AM, Feb 19, 2013
Industry body ISPAI today said that rates of internet and broadband services may go up under new licenses framework due to high entry fee proposed by Department of Telecommunications (DoT). ...
11:50 AM, Feb 18, 2013
New Delhi: Acting on complaints received from consumers and consumer organisations, Telecom regulator TRAI on Friday directed telecom companies to provide broadband services in a transparent manner and through updated information. "Authority has been receiving complaints...that service providers are not delivering broadband services in a transparent manner as they are not providing adequate information to the consumers regarding broadband services," Trai said while asking telecom service providers to take care...
07:29 PM, Jul 27, 2012
Mumbai: Reliance Industries (RIL), which has pan-India spectrum for broadband services, today said it is finalising plans to offer digital services in key areas of education, security, financial services and entertainment. Updating the status of its broadband and wireless access business, Reliance Industries chief Mukesh Ambani said that the initiative will be an additional and significant value creator for Reliance and its shareholders, but did not give any specific dates...
06:12 PM, Jun 07, 2012
Chandigarh: BSNL broadband users in Punjab and Chandigarh have been unable to access internet since morning today due to a server problem. "The server in Noida, which caters to the northern region was not functioning because of some power supply issue. As a result of which the broadband users could not get internet connectivity," official sources in BSNL said. BSNL officials maintained that efforts are being put in restoring the...
11:09 AM, May 28, 2012
Kolkata: Bharti Airtel has launched Broadband Wireless Access or BWA services in Kolkata, becoming the first company to offer 4G services in India. The services will also be available in Pune, Chandigarh and Bangalore soon. The services on offer include those which can be intercepted by and made available in the required format to the security agencies. Airtel had announced last week that it has roped in Chinese telecom equipment...
11:37 AM, Apr 10, 2012
I expect at least two major metros, Mumbai and Delhi, will show significant uptake in Internet access on the cable network as well as wireless broadband. Also, 4G rollout will be a major driver for 2012. Even as broadband 4G rolls out, data consumption over cable is (already) increasing. In the cable broadband business, there's a lot of focus on providing Internet broadband services to consumers. So, either through wireless...
12:10 PM, Jan 10, 2012
Mumbai: Tata Communications has launched mobile broadband solutions enabled by 'Internet Protocol Exchange' (IPX+) framework. Seventy mobile network operators (MNOs) across the globe have signed up for the new framework which is designed to help capitalise on the latest technology innovations in the mobile broadband space, the company said here. "MNOs need solutions that deliver tangible benefits and improved efficiencies while tackling accelerated data growth. While IPX is a key...
09:34 AM, Dec 08, 2011
New Delhi: Indigenously developed by the Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), the Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) technology is now set to be transferred to the country's telecom manufacturers. "GPON technology is the pivotal component required for broadband connectivity over optical fiber. The GPON technology has been tested, validated, field evaluated and then became operational in the BSNL Network at Ajmer, Rajasthan and is being transferred to seven public...
09:26 AM, Dec 05, 2011
New Delhi: Loss-making BSNL may get financial compensation for maintaining unremunerative services, like its offerings in rural areas as part of the Universal Service Obligation, or would be allowed to take a commercial decision to continue or exit from such services. "...if BSNL is being asked (by DoT) to maintain an uneconomic service and not to exit from it even if its commercial decision is to exit then they (BSNL)...
11:37 AM, Oct 30, 2011
India, for Paul E Jacobs - CEO of $ 11-billion telecom research and hardware company Qualcomm - has been like a box of chocolates, in a very Forrest Gump way. The good surprise came on June 11, 2010, when Qualcomm won the licence to offer broadband wireless access (BWA) in Mumbai, Delhi, Haryana and Kerala for $ 1 billion. The nasty one arrived on September 7, 2011, when the Department...
11:23 AM, Oct 20, 2011
New Delhi: Global telecom infrastructure firm Nokia Siemens Networks Tuesday launched a new way to deliver broadband - the "liquid net". "The new method allows a network operator to set up a self-adapting network that can serve variable capacity and coverage requirements, based on demand," the company said in a statement. Some of the aims of the new approach are to share resources to meet unpredictable broadband demand, and to...
08:47 AM, Sep 21, 2011
London: South Korea was the world's most advanced Internet and telecommunications economy in 2010, with high levels of access, usage and skills, while high-speed Web access remained unaffordable in many low-income countries, the United Nations said on Thursday. Mobile subscriptions grew 20 per cent over the past year to more than 5 billion, with penetration of over 100 per cent, or more than one mobile device per person, in developed...
11:42 AM, Sep 16, 2011
New Delhi: Telecom giant Bharti Airtel on Wednesday said it has appointed two new Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) for its broadband and direct-to-home services. "Both these verticals are part of the consumer business group that will lead the overall strategy for the business-to-consumer segment (B2C), with a clear focus on customer experience, product and service innovation and building an ecosystem around the B2C services," the company said in a statement....
04:09 PM, Aug 10, 2011
Stockholm: Mobile broadband subscriptions are on track to surpass 1 billion in 2011 only months after reaching half a billion, Ericsson said on Tuesday, highlighting a key growth driver for the telecom sector. "During the course of 2010, a significant milestone in terms of mobile broadband subscriptions was reached as their number surpassed the half-a-billion mark globally," Ericsson, the world's biggest mobile network gear maker, said in a statement. "Ericsson...
11:15 AM, Jan 12, 2011
New Delhi: All 250,000 village panchayats in the country will be connected with broadband by mid-2012 under a $4-billion project to take the benefits of technology to the poor, tech evangelist Sam Pitroda said on Friday. "I can assure you that in 18 months every village panchayat will have broadband. It will significantly change the way we deal with people in villages," Pitroda, who also serves as the prime minister's...
05:00 PM, Jan 07, 2011
New York: High-speed Internet has had the greatest technological impact on society over the past decade and is the technology most people say they cannot live without, according to a new poll. Twenty four percent of 1,950 US adults questioned in the online survey conducted by Zogby International said high-speed Internet had the greatest impact on their lives, followed closely by Facebook at 22 percent and Google with 10 percent....
12:07 PM, Dec 22, 2010
New Delhi: India's telecom regulator called for massive expansion of broadband in the country and wanted the government to set up a nationwide broadband network that would cost about Rs 600 billion ($ 13 billion) to take high-speed Internet to rural hinterlands. In its proposals released on Wednesday, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) recommended the government should fix a target of 75 million broadband connections by 2012 and...
11:11 AM, Dec 09, 2010
London: South Korea has surpassed Hong Kong and Japan in broadband quality for the second consecutive year, setting a new global benchmark for speed and penetration, a study said on Monday. The annual survey by the universities of Oxford and Oviedo and sponsored by Cisco Systems found that broadband quality, as measured by download speeds, upload speeds and penetration across 72 countries had improved by 24 percent in a year,...
11:36 AM, Oct 18, 2010
New York: Half of the world's population should have access to high-speed internet within five years, the UN said Sunday. The world's governments should put internet access at the top of their agendas, said Hamadoun Toure, secretary general of the UN's International Telecommunications Union. "The leaders of the world are unified: the future will be built with broadband," he said. Even in developed countries, broadband access has yet to reach...
11:30 AM, Sep 20, 2010
