Month: September 2006
MTNL WiMaxed
WiMax, the disruptive technology for wireless communications has bitten Indian telecom PSU, MTNL. MTNL which has the available spectrum isn’t sitting quiet and has laid the roadmap for IP Mobile and IP Fixed phones to be deployed on WiMax. WiMax is an IP based wireless data application that enables high…
Online Cell Phone Retailer, AtLast
My desperate search for an online Mobile Phone retailer has finally come to an end. UniverCell the largest mobiel phone retailer in TamilNadu wants to be the largest in India. UniverCell is selling mobile phones through their website, UniverCell.In. All you need is a Credit Card to shop your favorite…
Telecom Crimes – Reliance Industries Top Management Chargesheeted
Top management of Reliance Industries which include Akhil Gupta(Left, Ex-CEO Reliance Infocomm) and Manoj Modi(Current Head Reliance Retail) have been chargesheeted by the CBI for their involvement in Multi-Crores Telecom scam. The Kingpins deviced a plot to mask international calls as local calls and then diver them to BSNL networks…
Why e-Commerce Sucks in India ?
My online shopping experience in India so far has been awful. It sux to shop online with Indian Portals especially FirstandSecond.com, online book retailer. I ordered a book on Saturday(02-Sept) and they asked me not to pay until they make sure the book was available. WTF ? If you don’t…
Flag Telecom Lanuches FALCON
Reliance Communications controlled, Flag Telecom today launched, Falcon. Falcon connects India, Middle East and Europe. It has an initial bandwidth capacity of 90GigaBits which can be scaled to 2.5 TeraBits. Falcon will be further connected to the Flag Global Network which would now become the largest undersea cable system in…
Indian Internet companies minting cash
It’s just not ICICIDirect or 5paisa.com’s online stock trading thats booming, other Indian Dot Coms – BharatMatrimony, Shaadi, Naukri, eBay India and others are busy counting cash. Business Standard reports that, Bharat matrimony is growing at the rate of 100% YoY. Murugavel Janakiraman, CEO, BharatMatrimony saidWe will be a Rs…
Tata Telecom plans to be amongst top 3 in 5 years
Tata Indicom plans to be amongst the top 3 telcos in India within the next 5 years.“Tatas don’t enter a market to be number five or six. We have to be number one or two. We have a scenario that’ll get us there by 2011” said Tata teleservices CEO, Darryl…
Mobile Retailing in India
Branding and Retailing is the new buzzword in corporate India. After Bangalore based Mobile NXT, Pantaloon quietly ventured setting up ConvergeM mobile retail chain under the brand name M Bazaar, M Port and Gen M. It is now Essar groups turn to enter cell retailing. Esaar Telecom has done due…