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he is indeed planning big . . .

DoT allots additional spectrum to Bharti with rider on pricing NEW DELHI: The government has allocated additional radio frequency 2 MHz to Bharti Airtel in Tamil Nadu but with a rider that it would be subject to pricing of spectrum beyond 6.2 MHz which is under consideration, whereas there is no such condition for the new telecom operators. Allocating additional spectrum of 2 MHz, the Department of Telecom (DoT) said that the additional allotment of spectrum is subject to revised pricing as and when finalised and is also to subject pending court order. Reliance Communication has filed a petition in the telecom tribunal TDSAT saying that GSM operators have been given spectrum beyond the contracted quantity of 6.2 MHz and the extra radio frequency held by them should be returned so that the same could be distributed to new players. No decision has been taken by the TDSAT as yet. Communication and IT Minister A Raja has already asked the Telecom Commission to review annual spectrum charges being paid by service providers as license fee. According to sources, DoT is likely to raise the charges to a minimum of eight per cent beyond 6.2 MHz and a final decision in this regard is expected soon. Government has been allocating spectrum to the service providers based on subscriber-linked criteria as suggested by the telecom regulator TRAI and going by that most of the existing GSM players have more than 6.2 MHz in various circles. Sources said that the operators may be asked to pay higher spectrum charges beyond a particular level and in case the total quantity goes up to 10 MHz the DoT may levy charge of 10 per cent of firm's revenues.

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No more small buys, Bharti wants a big global footprint MUMBAI: Bharti Airtel, India’s largest telecom operator, has come a long way from the days of tiny acquisitions. The Sunil Mittal-led giant is now eyeing bigger and more visible companies to expand its global footprint. “I think the company is now ready to go further. Anything that is medium-to-meaningful will form a part of Airtel as and when the opportunity arises. Seychelles is very, very tiny,” Mr Mittal said at the earnings conference call after announcing the telco’s results. Bharti’s joint MD Akhil Gupta said: “The size (of acquisition) is something we determine from time-to-time. For international acquisitions, our consideration will be that the company should be value-accretive and good for Bharti Airtel and for the shareholders.” It should not be so “tiny” that it does not attract attention, he added. Mr Mittal said the company was in talks with bankers and others (for acquisitions), but is not in a position to share anything at the moment. Media reports on Friday said Bharti was considering a bid for South African telecom major MTN. “We will be prompt in responding to investors as and when there is something more concrete to report,” Mr Mittal said when asked about the bid for MTN. With 68.2 million subscribers in 20 countries, MTN has a market valuation of $33 billion. The operator too denied having received any “specific proposal” from Bharti. Mr Mittal said Airtel has built a strong position in India and is growing at a rapid pace. “The business model we have invented at Bharti needs to be transferred globally. We always remain open to opportunities outside India. Now, the company is in a position where it must have ambitions to grow beyond the Indian shores,” he said. In Seychelles, the company operates as Telecom Seychelles in which Bharti’s partner is Emtel, the top GSM operator in Mauritius, besides some private investors. This firm offers third generation (3G) services. Besides, a subsidiary of Bharti, Jersey Airtel, offers mobile services in Jersey (Channel Islands) over its full 2G, 3G and HSDPA enhanced network. In Sri Lanka, Airtel plans to launch 2G and 3G mobile services by February next year.

NEW DELHI: The government said on Friday that the fixed line telephony will be exempted from the license fee to encourage service providers especially in the private sector to go to rural areas. "I have already asked the Telecom Commission to deliberate on the issue to exempt fixed line telephony from license fee, charged as percentage of Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR)," Telecom Minister A Raja said at a function organised by Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI). Despite a teledensity of nearly 25 per cent, 70 per cent of the population does not enjoy the fruits of telecom revolution, he said adding, "I call upon all the stakeholders (PSUs and private operators) to come forward and connect all the villages." On behalf of the government, "I assure you all the help to go to rural areas." State-run BSNL would be the single largest beneficiary of Raja's announcement as the PSU was having nearly 90 per cent of the fixed line telephone connections but India's largest private operator Bharti Airtel welcomed the decision saying "fixed line telephony needs encouragement and it should not be burdened by taxes." Commenting on the decision, Sunil Mittal of Bharti Airtel told reporters, "I am delighted. Fixed line telephony must become recipient of funds and the operators should not be burdened with a host of levies like license fee of contribution to the Universal Service Obligation (USO) Fund."

NEW DELHI: The government today said 16 companies have signed telecom license with it for rolling out services. Out of the 121 Letters of Intent (LOIs) issued in January this year, 120 Unified Access Services (UAS) licence agreements have been signed with 16 private companies, Minister of State for IT and Communications Jyotiraditya Scindia said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha. In addition, five LOIs were also issued to ByCell Telecommunication India Ltd in February though the UAS licence agreements with ByCell have not been signed till date, he added. Moreover, the government has also cancelled the LOI of Datacom Solutions as it has not submitted compliance of LOI for Punjab Service Area, he said. As per terms and conditions of the UAS licence agreement, the licensee has to commission the applicable systems within one year from the effective date of the licence. To another query the Minister said that to combat competition from the private sector telecom players, state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigan Ltd (BSNL) is planning to expand its capacity by adding 33.5 million lines in the next one year. He said, BSNL has planned to add 33.5 million lines capacity in next one year. Agreeing that the telecom PSU is facing decline in its market share Scindia said, "Decline in market share of BSNL in wireless segment is due to increase the number of private players and fierce competition among different service providers."

the government has also cancelled the LOI of Datacom Solutions as it has not submitted compliance of LOI for Punjab Service Area, sad it is a very milking circle which has one of the largest subscribers with the most competetive tarifs

but to me it hardly matters who endorses the brand, i better go with quality and my choice. . .

Raja allocates spectrum to new telcos in Orissa NEW DELHI: Government on Thursday allocated start- up spectrum to new telecom players in Orissa, a move that would further increase the competition in the sector. Earlier the Department of Telecom had distributed the radio waves in Tamil Nadu. Five new players -- Videocon-promoted Datacom, Idea Cellular, realty major Unitech, Swan Telecom and Loop Telecom -- have been given start-up GSM spectrum of 4.4 MHz in the Orissa circle, official sources said. Sources said that Communication and IT Minister A Raja today signed the file giving green signal to allocate GSM radio frequency to new players. The DoT is also looking at other circles where spectrum is available in abundance and can be allocated to all the aspirants simultaneously. Some of the players, especially Idea Cellular and Spice Communications, had questioned Raja's first-come-first-serve policy to allocate spectrum, saying this should be done on the basis of application and not the payment of required fees. Besides Tamil Nadu and Orissa, according to sources, spectrum for all is available in circles of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Kolkata and the minister may distribute it soon.

NEW DELHI: State-run telecom giant Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd is planning to launch BlackBerry services once the controversy surrounding its operations is settled. “We are in dialogue with BlackBerry services. We will be ready to launch its services once the controversy is resolved,” BSNL chairman and managing director Kuldeep Goyal told reporters on the sidelines of a conference here Thursday. BlackBerry's services were introduced in India in October 2004. However, it came under the government's scanner last year when an application by Tata Teleservices Ltd to launch a similar service was rejected over security concerns. On April 16, Minister of State for Home Affairs Sriprakash Jaiswal told the Lok Sabha that the government asked telecom operators not to offer "certain" BlackBerry services until a proper monitoring system was put in place. "The government has issued instructions to all mobile service providers, inter alia asking them not to connect or provide/run certain BlackBerry services unless the required monitoring systems are in place," Jaiswal said. By "certain" services the government meant that the four service providers currently offering BlackBerry services in India - Airtel, Vodafone, BPL and Reliance Communications - should temporarily stop the services between one BlackBerry to another BlackBerry user. This is because calls and e-mails exchanged within BlackBerry handsets cannot be intercepted as the servers are based in Canada. India has asked Research in Motion (RIM), the licensor of BlackBerry, which has over 12 million users globally, to route all its calls and e-mails through servers based in India to allow security agencies to read them as it fears its usage by terrorist outfits. RIM officials are believed to have sought time till the end of the month to explain their position and address the issues voiced by the government.

Telcos to seek clarifications on new merger norms NEW DELHI: The government, read the department of telecom (DoT), may have a lot of explaining to do over its merger norms announced on Wednesday. This comes as the telecom industry association—Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI)—is set to meet DoT to seek clarity on several ‘grey areas’. First, sources said that operators want DoT to clarify if the minimum period of three years, which a licensee must complete before it can contemplate merger, applies only to the new entrants, or even to existing operators, in the circles where they got new licences recently. This is because, if this clause were to apply across-the-board, several existing players such as Idea, Aircel, Spice and Vodafone Essar, who were recently awarded licences in many circles, can’t go in for mergers in these zones. This implies, an existing licensee can’t acquire Idea, Aircel, Spice and Vodafone in the circles where they recently bagged licences. “Telcos are scheduled to meet shortly through the industry associations— COAI, the body representing GSM players, and the Association of Unified Service Providers of India (AUSPI). They will seek clarifications on several issues including details on spectrum transfer fees and why a pre-approval is required for any merger,” an industry executive told ET. “The industry feels that DoT will be required explain several issues, especially if the guidelines will apply in the case of an acquisition,” the executive added. When contacted by ET, executives with two telcos also said that they would also seek changes to certain guidelines — pre-approval for the merger clause and the three-month time frame by which operators would have to return extra spectrum in case of a merger. “Pre-approval for any deal cannot be obtained as talks between companies are conducted at the highest levels of secrecy. As per law, if the DoT were to be informed of this, then the same information must also be provided to the markets (SEBI). This, in turn, violates the ‘non disclosure agreements’ or confidentiality agreements that two companies enter into when they are in talks for a merger. The other dimension is that, in most occasions, as in the case of the Hutchison-Vodafone deal, several players were in the running and each of the companies cannot therefore obtain pre-approvals,” explained an executive with a top telco. An executive with another operator pointed out that telcos would also tell the DoT that post-merger entity being asked to return excess spectrum within a period of three months was not technically feasible. “The network deployments of the acquired/merged operators will be based on the existing spectrum allotments. Global examples have shown that when telcos surrender spectrum, it takes between 12 - 24 months for the service provider to migrate subscribers on that frequency,” the executive added. Industry sources also said that telcos would propose an alternate framework where the DoT works out a mechanism to charge operators for this excess spectrum until they reach the subscriber-linked eligibility criteria for holding on these frequencies.

Vodafone honcho to lead Indus Towers MUMBAI: GSM giants Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar and Idea Cellular have put together a team to lead their joint venture Indus Towers, which is the world’s largest telecom tower company. Indus has appointed Stefan Langkamp as the chief executive officer, sources told ET. He comes from British telecom major Vodafone, where he has served as director for global IT & service operations besides holding other positions. Sunil Ranka, who was in the finance team of Vodafone Essar, will be the chief financial officer (CFO) for Indus Towers, which has nearly 70,000 towers across 16 circles where Vodafone has a presence. P Swaminathan will take over as chief operating officer (COO) of the company. He was earlier the executive director for Bharti Infratel (Bharti Airtel’s tower arm) and, prior to that, led the integrated Tamil Nadu as a director & CEO for Bharti. Sources said Indus was hiring aggressively and had already put together around 500 people for various operations across India. “Some of these people came from the three companies while others have been hired from outside. The major part of hiring is almost over now,” one of the sources said. The Delhi-headquartered company has offices across the country and is now working towards getting tenants on its telecom towers. “Indus is likely to attract many mobile operators as tenants due to the high visibility of the three players and the availability of three assured tenants in the form of JV partners,” an analyst said. New operators who have received spectrum as well as the old players who have been allocated airwaves in new circles are looking at tower companies to expand operations. It will save them capex as well as the time to market. The impending rollouts by players like Unitech, Videocon-promoted Datacom, Loop Telecom and Aircel provide significant opportunities for Indus. Also, Indus has a large number of towers in rural areas, where setting up towers is difficult. These towers are expected to generate good revenues for the company. “Indus is also likely to undertake a major part of passive infrastructure expansion required by Bharti, Vodafone and Idea, giving it ample business,” the source said. Bharti Infratel and Vodafone Essar have transferred around 30,000 towers each to Indus. Infratel continues to operate the passive infrastructure of Bharti Airtel in seven circles. Bharti and Vodafone each have 42% equity stake in Indus while the balance 16% is held by Idea, which has pooled in with 10,000 towers. Indus Towers also plans to make an initial public offering in the next two-three years to double its tower strength. The company’s competitors include Reliance Telecom Infrastructure, Tatas’ Wireless Tata Telecom Infrastructure (WTTI) as well as independent tower companies like Quipo and GTL

i just ask one thing that when all operators aka airtel, reliance, hutch are offering blackberry , what the hell is problem in tata, why every time rules are different for CDMA operators not GSM operators why the hell is this partiality in industry, rukes are rules they are to be followed by all

last night gace some dose . .aint it ali! was a bit busy in business . . .

i think this wd be the ali's wallpaper in his 6275 . .aint it ali

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NEW DELHI: The Government said on Tuesday that no mergers and acquisitions of telecom licenses would take place if the number of service providers reduce below four in a circle consequent upon the M&A. Announcing the guidelines for mergers and acquisition of telecom licenses in a circle, the Department of Telecom (DOT) in a statement here, said that its prior approval for the M&A of the licenses is necessary and the combined market share of the merged entity shall not be greater than 40 per cent in terms of subscriber base or in terms of revenue. Following the merger, the entity shall be entitled to the total amount of spectrum held by the merging entities, subject to the condition both the licensees will meet within three months from the date approval of merger by DOT.

@ jagan who said the set doesnt supports mp4 video from external source.... read the forum . .there is a way posted by me it supports gif files.... there is a web browser but the setting are of tata indicomm(now it wd have been changed)

well yes there is a feature but never tried it . .do onew thing when you are talking to someone simply press the camera button on the right side of the handset and the call recording will be started about duration no answer as never tried it

well the company is quite good in its landline customers the voice clarity is superb . . .it was the major holding company in Oasis Cellular, which was latter purchased by airtel . . and rebranded it to AirTel. The company has a good share i nthe landline market though in wll its not too good but still customer base is quite good.

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NEW DELHI: State-run telecom giant BSNL is losing eight per cent of its market share every year mainly in wireless operations to private companies, says a report of the Standing Committee on IT. "As on October 2007, 273 million connections have already been provided... However, what concerns the Committee is that the share of public sector has declined to 27.6 per cent as on December 2007, whereas the share of private sector has increased to over 72 per cent," said the report, which has been tabled in Parliament. "The CMD, BSNL's statement that the company has been losing around 8 per cent market share in a year is a matter of serious concern," the Committee said. According to sources, BSNL had lost its share during the last year mainly due to delays in finalisation of 45 million GSM lines, which was later reduced by 50 per cent. Till now the PSU has not been able to get the additional capacity and has thus lagged behind the private operators especially in the mobile operations. "The PSUs should focus on technological upgradation and innovative marketing strategies to appropriately cater to the customer requirements so that their network expansion catches up to the private operators, especially in the wireless segment in the coming years," it added.

am happy to hear this the way they take their customers . .this shd always happen to them

well active cal recording a good feature in samsung MAX