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For Bharti Telesoft, the acquisition is a part of the company’s growth strategy, which is focused on strengthening its service offerings in new and existing markets.
With the acquisition, Bharti Telesoft reinforces its position as a world leader in the integrated VAS space. Jataayu’s wholly owned subsidiary in the USA and offices in the UK, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea will be added to Bharti Telesoft’s existing operations across Africa, the Middle East and AsiaPac regions.
Global presence
Bharti Telesoft will now have a presence in 14 countries worldwide, further consolidating its position as the leading Indian mobile VAS company in terms of global presence, revenues and employee base.
Jataayu’s current management team will continue to work within the combined company and contribute to its success, and Jataayu Managing Director Mahesh Jain will continue in an advisory role for the coming year.
There will be no changes to Bharti Telesoft’s Board of Directors.
New Delhi: Taking the government head on, four GSM mobile operators -- Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Idea and Spice -- have decided to 'unitedly' approach the Delhi High Court against telecom tribunal TDSAT's interim order not to stay the spectrum allocation process.
"The Department of Telecom (DoT) decision is an attempt to pass off second and new GSM license to CDMA operators in the garb of dual technology allocation," GSM lobby Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) said in a statement.
COAI said it has decided to approach the High Court, as TDSAT has not given any justification for its interim order not to stay the spectrum allocation process.
The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT), on December 12, had refused to stay the issuance of new licenses to those who had applied as of September 25.
Appearing on behalf of the government, Solicitor General G E Vahanvati had said before TDSAT that the government would go ahead with the allotment of start-up spectrum to the new players. He also said that Tata Teleservices' application for use of cross-over technology would be considered favourably.
On COAI's plea to stay the process of issuing new licenses, TDSAT Chairman Arun Kumar had said, "This is a matter of public policy. I would not decide, let the government decide on it."
According to COAI, the TDSAT order would allow the government to proceed with the allocation of GSM spectrum to CDMA operators, creating irreversible third party rights and thus rendering entire petition of COAI infructuous.
Mobile user base up 8.3 million in NovemberOver eight million mobile subscribers were added by the mobile operators in the month of October as against the addition of 7.80 million mobile users in Septmber taking the teledensity in the country to 22.52 per cent as opposed to 21.85 per cent in the month of Septmeber.
According to the latest update in the telecom subscriber figures released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), the fixed line subscriber base decreased marginally to 39.41 million in October as against 39.58 in September.
For the month of October, the total number of both wireless and landline users stood at 256.55 million with 217.14 million mobile users while the rest being fixed-line users, Trai report said.
The total broadband subscribers also increased marginally to reach 2.69 million in October against 2.67 million at the end of September 2007.
India cellphone base to cross US in Q1 2008India added a record 8.3 million wireless users in November, taking the total subscriber base to 225.5 million, the telecoms regulator said.
In October, new wireless subscribers numbered 8.05 million.
Fixed-line user base continued to dwindle as more and more users shift to mobile phones. In November, the total user base fell to 39.31 million, from 39.41 million in October.
India, which added 60.35 million new wireless users in April-November, is the world's fastest growing mobile services market.
In data released on Monday, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) said the country’s mobile phone subscribers crossed 225 million at the end of November.
According to COAI officials, United States had 250 million subscribers at the same time, up from 248 million in August, as a market near saturation moved slowly.
Compared with that India is adding about 8 million wireless subscribers every month. At the current run rate, in about four months from November, India’s mobile phone penetration would be matching that of the US.
HYDERABAD: Here's some good news: Those numerous SMSes that you paid for may well become free in future. No, it isn't because the mobile service providers have had an attack of altruism, but rather a new technology allows advertisements to be tagged along SMSes and, hence, the advertisers are willing to pick up the tab.
Everyday about 5.5 crore SMSes are estimated to be moving across the network in the country. And by 2010, it is expected to go beyond 18,000 crore per annum, allowing advertisers to reach a huge audience.
"Every message is personal to the user and he pays great attention while reading it. This presents advertisers an opportunity to send across their message too," an industry source said.
Mobile service providers are also game for free SMSes and see in it a means to make a kill - they could charge advertisers higher for SMSes. Moreover, free SMSes would make users send more messages.
"We are evaluating various options for free SMS. While mobile advertisement potential is huge, it depends on right content and relevance. Else, subscribers may not take to the service even if it is free," Reliance Communications spokesperson Krishna Durbha said.
Another industry source who heads the value-added services segment, however, said: "There are still some gaps in the technology. For instance, while appending the advertisement to a message there is a chance of the message being tampered. This is a typical security flaw if the technology provider is not competent. It might take some time to sort this out."
Several technology companies, including a few from the city, are working on helping the advertisers tap this area.
"The nascent free SMS service segment would see a huge growth in the next couple of years as advertisers are increasingly shifting from online to mobile space," SMS Country Networks CEO Satyam Yerramsetti said.
In the free SMS model, the original message would come in the existing format but it would have an advertisement at the end. The technology companies are already in talks with mobile service providers for working out the model for sending messages and revenue sharing.
In the free SMS model, once the message is sent, it would go to the service provider's server first and then to the content aggregator's server for tagging on the advertisement. Then it would be sent to the receiver.
The technology companies would monitor the advertisement tags using specially-designed softwares and the advertisers would be charged based on the number of sponsored messages.
According to another technopreneur, Vebtel MD Kusumba S, mobile-to-mobile free SMSes could become a reality soon as declining average revenue per user (ARPU) in voice mode and increasing competition are forcing telecom players to look at value-added services like SMS.
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BSNL already offers 8 Mbps Broadband service under the business plan.bart wrote:Bharti has been offering 8 Mbps broadband (at least in Chennai) since last month.
This is to home users starts at 1500 pm, has a data limit of 4 GB free download for the above plan.Rudranathh wrote:BSNL already offers 8 Mbps Broadband service under the business plan.bart wrote:Bharti has been offering 8 Mbps broadband (at least in Chennai) since last month.
Are Airtel's data speeds reliable? My friend always had problem with airtel and switched over bsnl. The speed that airtel advertizes in their plans somehow dont seem to materalise when you get their connection.bart wrote:This is to home users starts at 1500 pm, has a data limit of 4 GB free download for the above plan.Rudranathh wrote: BSNL already offers 8 Mbps Broadband service under the business plan.
In Chennai I have found Airtel to be very reliable, and their service and support is in a different league. The line is pretty stable as they use proper infrastructure, and though I have no idea about other plans, I have a 256 k unlimited plan and am a heavy downloader and I have always got the full bandwidth committed.Rudranathh wrote:Are Airtel's data speeds reliable? My friend always had problem with airtel and switched over bsnl. The speed that airtel advertizes in their plans somehow dont seem to materalise when you get their connection.bart wrote: This is to home users starts at 1500 pm, has a data limit of 4 GB free download for the above plan.
Bsnl offers 256 kbps/Upto 8 Mbps at 2000pm with free download limit of 12 GB, after that additional usage charges/MB 0.70ps.
India plans a $10 billion initial public offering of the nation's former telecommunications monopoly, betting the world's fastest-growing major wireless market will lure investors.
As much as 10 percent of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. may be sold in India and overseas, Finance Director S.D. Saxena told reporters in New Delhi today. Telecommunications Minister Andimuthu Raja said the government may sell part of its stake in an IPO that would quadruple India's current record.
Vodafone Group Plc overtook Bharat Sanchar as India's third-largest mobile phone operator in July as a lack of equipment stalled growth at the state-run carrier. The IPO would make Bharat Sanchar Asia's biggest wireless company by market value after China Mobile Ltd.
``The growth potential in India is huge,'' said Sumit Modi, telecom analyst at Emkay Share and Stock Brokers Ltd. ``The mobile penetration is just less than 20 percent.''
Vodafone took control of Hutchison Essar Ltd. in May for $10.7 billion to expand in a market where 874 million of the nation's 1.1 billion people don't own a mobile phone. Prospects for subscriber growth drove a 58 percent gain in Bharti Airtel Ltd. and Reliance Communications Ltd., India's two biggest wireless operators, last year on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Indian mobile phone firms signed 8.17 million subscribers in December, taking the wireless subscriber base in the world's fastest-growing telecoms market to 233.63 million, data from the telecoms regulator showed.
That was slightly below the 8.32 million users added in November, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said in its monthly report released on Tuesday evening.
Wireless subscriber numbers surged 56 percent in 2007 from 149.62 million at the end of 2006, the report showed.
India's mobile firms have been signing about 8 million users each month since July, lured by call rates as low as 1 U.S. cent a minute and by cheap handsets.
This will not happen, parasites are going on strike already. Chief union comrade Namboodri says BSNL is worth $1,000 billion (that too at conservative estimate, thanks very much) and should not be privatised!Suraj wrote:BSNL plans $10 billion IPO
January 29 2008
New Delhi, Jan 29: The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has urged the Delhi High Court to not to allow the Government to allocate GSM technology to Reliance Communications till the case was pending before it.
Counsel for the COAI, Abhishek Manu Singhvi urged Justice Gita Mittal not to allow the Department of Telecommunications (DOT) to cross over spectrum from CDMA to GSM till the case was not solved. The petition is scheduled for hearing in the Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appelite Tribunal(TDSAT) on February 12.
Solicitor General G E Vahanvati, appearing for the Central Government, had told the court earlier that it would take minimum three months to allocating spectrum to the eligible parties.
The COAI had accused Reliance Communications of crossing over of spectrum from CDMA to GSM technology whereas other members have been kept away from the spectrum deal.
Urging the Government to provide a level playing field to all the enterprises, Dr Singhvi cited many discrepencies in the manner Reliance was given the GSM technology.
''We are not opposed to the competition, but we challange the back door entry of Reliance'', he said.
Dr Singhvi said the government should ensure that no services should be launch for two months till TDSAT decides the case. This will prevent chaos and create investors confidence, he added.
COAI has challanged the new norms of Government set up by the official panel to review the recommendations made by the telecom engineering centre that oversee the radio frequencies in the country.
Senior Lawyer Harish Salve arguing on behalf of Reliance Communications today denied the charges of any foul play in allotment of additional spectrum to them. The matter will continue in the High Court on January 31.
This has big implications !Huge swathes of the Middle East and Asia have been left without internet access after a vital undersea cable was damaged.
A fault in the pipeline, which runs between Sicily and Egypt, has dramatically reduced access in countries including Saudi Arabia, Dubai and India, leaving millions of workers struggling to get online.
It is not yet clear what is wrong with the undersea cable, but the effects are already being felt across the region. Reports from the Middle East suggest that most countries are almost completely without access to the internet, while authorities in Mumbai have said that more than half of India's bandwidth has been lost.
"There has been a 50 to 60% cut in bandwidth," Rajesh Charia, president of the Internet Service Providers' Association of India, told Reuters.
From the pic below:
The optical fibers seem to be well-protected, I would think that the fishing trawler would capsize first before the cable would break ...
Cross-section of a submarine communications cable.
LAYERS:
1--Polyethylene
2--"Mylar" tape
3--Stranded metal (steel) wires
4--Aluminum water barrier
5--Polycarbonate
6--Copper or aluminum tube
7--Petroleum jelly
8--Optical fibers
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Wow, what if terrorists were to start targetting India's offshoring/BPO/IT industries by attacking these vulnerable telecom cables? They could really hit us where it hurts.Ovum analyst Matt Walker said undersea cable networks are highly vulnerable to deliberate attack and need enhanced security.
"If ports, railways, gas pipelines and other types of networks are being secured against possible sabotage, we must similarly increase the security of undersea optical highways," Walker said.
Middle East Undersea Cable Cutting A Zionist-NeoCon
Covert Operation?
With several undersea fibre optical cables snipped under mysterious circumstances, the global IT security community is abuzz with conspiracy theories.
No one seems to know how the cables -- connecting North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia to Europe -- were clipped.
The Egyptian government dismissed initial reports a wayward ship anchor was responsible for the first two breaks. Curiously, they offered no alternative explanation of how the fibre optic connections were damaged.