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 […]
Indian 3G Auction finally ends, Govt. will earn about Rs. 70,000Cr
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 […]
Indian Department of Telecommunications limits SMS in J&K
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 […]
UN says India has more mobile phones than toilets
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 India crosses 100 million customers
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 […]
Mobile Number Portability pushed back to June 30
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 […]
Indian 3G auction faces a new hurdle
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 […]
India sets April 9 as the 3G Auction date
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 […]
Indian 3G auction process to start from this week
I know you’ve heard this lot of times before but this time it’s real. The first step towards the delayed 3G auction process is expected to start by end of this week when the ministry will issue Notice Inviting Application (NIA), the policy guidelines for 3G auction. NIA is the preliminary step and contrary […]
Indian 3G auction to complete by March-end
Jan 14 came and went but as expected there were no signs of 3G auction. Now, the Indian telecom minister, A Raja has spoken again, claiming that the 3G services auction will be done by the March-end. Yeah, he assured us the same thing every time but eventually an auction was delayed. “A notice […]