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  Own a Vodafone number that hasn’t been used for months? Well, if you want to preserve the number you better start using it because Vodafone is clamping down on inactive numbers. Vodafone in accordance with DoT’s guidelines will terminate the service of prepaid users who have not used their number to make or receive [...]

Airtel today commenced its 3G operations in Karnataka. Karnataka is Airtel’s largest circle by revenue so it’s understandable why Airtel chose to launch their services in the southern state first. However, Airtel has confirmed to launch its 3G operations in rest of the 13 3G license circles by March 2011. Airtel has segregated its plans [...]

  Let’s be honest here – we’ve given our fair share of cusses to our operators who’ve taken its subscribers for granted. The only thing that kept consumers tolerating was the fear of losing their number, until now that is. Mobile Number Portability aka MNP that was available in Haryana is now available nationwide, which [...]

  Well, here it is. After a series of delays Mobile Number Portability (MNP) has been launched in Haryana. Starting today, subscribers in Haryana will be able to change their cellular operators without needing to change their phone number. Consumers can easily change their operator by sending a message “Port ” to 1900 to receive [...]

  This shouldn’t come as a surprise but the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has again delayed the implementation of Mobile Number Portability (MNP). MNP that was scheduled to go live today has now been pushed to November 25 and will be launched initially in Haryana. For the uninitiated, MNP is a service that will allow [...]

  When repeated requests don’t work, Indian telecom ministry has to resort to carrot and stick method. TRAI’s Chairman, JS Sharma has said that Mobile Number Portability (MNP) services will be implemented nationwide from October 31. What if it gets delayed just like previous times? Sharma says there will be no further delay because if [...]

  Indian mobile subscribers if you’ve been waiting to switch your number to different operator, you’ll have to wait till October. Telecom ministry announced to delay the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) implementation until October 31 because the operators are not ready yet. “The government has taken the decision after reviewing the readiness of the various [...]

  The Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) auction has finally come to an end where the Indian government is expected to fetch a whopping Rs. 38,300 crore. This of course, is less than what government earned from the 3G auction but it’s definitely more than what the government had projected. The combined revenue from both 3G [...]

  Indians can expect high-speed 3G services by end of this year as the spectrum auction for the same has been completed. The auction took 34 days and 183 rounds to end that will earn the Government a whopping Rs.70,000 crores, more than double what the government expected to collect. Seven operators manage to win [...]

  UPDATE: Now Home Ministry asks DoT to withdraw the ban. Indian telecom ministry today issued a directive to 12 operators restricting all incoming and outcoming SMSes in Jammu & Kashmir. The directive says the decision has been taken in the “interest of the national security” and will be effective from tonight. – DoT has [...]

  Not the best of analogies I must say but a recent UN report says that Indians have more mobile phones than they have toilets. “It is a tragic irony to think that in India, a country now wealthy enough that roughly half of the people own phones, about half cannot afford the basic necessity [...]

  Vodafone’s Zoozoo have a reason to celebrate. Vodafone India today announced that they’ve crossed the iconic 100m customer mark. This makes Vodafone, the third operator in the country to do so after Airtel and Rcom. Vodafone’s Indian operations is a joint venture between Vodafone and Essar, who acquired the controlling stake from Hutchison in [...]

  Indian consumers waiting to switch their cellular operators will have to wait few months more. The Government has delayed (yet again!) the launch of Mobile Number Portability that would allow users to change the operator without losing their number. The MNP was to be implemented today but since concerned operators failed to complete the [...]

  When everything was going smoothly and it seemed that Indians might finally have 3G service, Central Vigilance Commission’s (CVC) has come in the way by demanding a change in the 3G policy. The CVC is demanding for a change because they claim the current 3G policy is biased towards Indian private players and foreign [...]

  Well, the date is set and hopefully it won’t budge this time. Government has fixed April 9 as the auction date for the 3G spectrum whereas the auction for BWA (broadband wireless access) spectrum, including WiMax will take place two days after the 3G auction. As we said yesterday, the NIA was supposed to [...]