Month: January 2008
ATLANTIC-ACM global Best-in-class Award for VSNL
Videsh Sanchar Nigam (VSNL) has announced that the company was presented with the ATLANTIC-ACM global wholesale best-in-class data price award at the 4th annual global wholesale carrier excellence awards. The awards, which were held during the 30th annual pacific telecommunications council (PTC) show in Honolulu, Hawaii, rank all viable carriers…
BSNL Cuts Tariffs for Corporate + Non Retail Customers
With severe competition from private players, BSNL has slashed Bandwidth tariffs for corporates and Non-Retail Customers. Details of new broadband Tariffs [for 12 months] are as follows, A 45 Mbps leased line will now cost Rs 1.8 crore for a corporate who is not an ISP [Earlier this package was…
Largest WiMax Network – BSNL
State Owned BSNL has tied up with SOMA Networks to deploy and provide WiMax based wireless broadband in the states of Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra covering population of 200 million people. The network when up and running will be the largest WiMax deployment in the world beating Sprint-Nextel network….
TRAI’s Formula for Spectrum + CAPEX
Government on Monday informed the Delhi High Court it will implement telecom regulator TRAI’s recommendations for spectrum allocation as an interim measure. As predicted earlier, the Telcos are in a rapid CAPEX mode. RCom hasp laced an order of $600 million to Huawei for GSM equipment. Vodafone Group PLC has…
TRA on ADC + Revised Spectrum Policy + 3G Auction
Telecom regulator TRAI will next week initiate discussions on the fate of Access Deficit Charge, a levy paid by private firms for subsidising rural telephony in the country. “A consultation paper will be released on Monday where the issue of ADC wouldbe discussed in three major points”. Reliance Communication will…
Make Me Over Game attracting Western Girls
The Royal Wedding Celebrations of India turned into games is fast catching attention of European and American girls. In a surprise development, Games2Win, the developer of Make Me Over has reported millions of teenage girls from around the world are logging into gaming portals hosted in India. Alok Kejriwal, CEO…
Big Private Equity + VC Deals in 2007
Here is a list of Indian Satrtups that raised big money from PE or VCs in 2007. Name of the Startup + Name of the Funding Companies Intelenet Global Services – Blackstone Infotech Enterprises – General Atlantic IBS Software Services – General Atlantic ICSA India – Goldman Sachs Telsima Communication…
Innovation atlast from Microsoft in Retail Advertising.
World’s number one software maker, Microsoft was struggling to take on Google on the Advertising platform. Finally, after having acquired aQuantive, the company has come up with innovative advertising mechanism, ofcourse not on the Web but on Grocery Shopping Carts. Microsoft in association with Plano, Texas-based MediaCart Holdings Inc. was…