Month: September 2007

Rush for Licenses + Next Gen Network Guidelines

After Sunil Mittal showing the way of success in Indian Telecom industry, everybody wants to be a Telecom Service Provider. First it was Real Estate major Parsvnath Developers which applied for a Telecom license. Unitech Ltd and DLF followed it and now India’s most speculative company IndiaBulls also wants to…

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DoT Freezes Licenses + Bharti DTH + Aircel

DoT freezes unified access applications – Following a spate of new applicants for licences to start telecom services, the department of telecommunications (DoT) on Monday put a freeze on new unified access service (UAS) licence applications from October 1 until further orders. Aircel to invest $2.5bn for pan-India roll out…

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JANET chooses VSNL’s Global Bandwidth

If Google is planning to lay its own optical fibre network on the Trans-Pacific route, UK’s network for research and education, JANET has chosen VSNL for its high bandwidth global internet access across the UK. JANET connects the UK’s universities, FE colleges, research councils, specialist colleges and adult and community…

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RupeeMail – Get Paid to Read E-mails

Anil Lakhwara and his team have setup Rupeemail, an e-mail service, filled with advertisements. You basically get paid to read your e-mails. You earn money by opening and reading the contents of RupeeMail. Senders are known and verified who are paying you to read their e-mails. The money will be…

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Indyarocks introduces Social Money

Mobile and Online social networking portal Indyarocks.com marks a new chapter in the Indian social networking scene by launching first of its kind “Social Money” program. Social Money program is an innovation by Indyarocks where the members will be rewarded for their day to day interaction with friends and family…

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Plugging loopholes in IT Act 2006

We have already seen in a recent survey that Web / Cyber life is a new way of living our digital life and there is no going back as silicon valley continues to innovate and help people communicate and entertain online. The Government of India has decided to plug all…

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Reliance Comm’s unit ties up with Vanco

FLAG Telecom, a unit of India’s Reliance Communications, had signed a deal with UK-based Vanco Plc that will help the Indian firm expand its virtual private network services and add enterprise customers. The five-year agreement will add 81 countries to FLAG’s VPN network, taking the number to more than 100….

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Internet Subscribers Statistics

Number of broadband internet subscribers in India has been very disappointing. Here is some statistics. Number of broadband subscribers at the end of June-2007 – 2.52 million Broadband subscribers on ADSL – 83% followed by Cable – 10% and Ethernet Lan – 3.4% and Fibre – 1%. [Source, Draft recommendations…

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