Month: May 2010
Airtel Net PC with Novatium – Plans and Details
A year after BSNL introduced the concept of Net PC (Thin Client) slashing the entry cost for going online, Airtel Broadband is also offering Net PC. To start with Airtel is offering this service in Chennai circle and will later expand to other cities. What is Net PC ? It…
Idea Cellular Cares less of Uninor Discount Engine
The management of Idea Cellular sees Uninor’s recent dynamic pricing plans (discounts linked to capacity utlisation) as being factory-oriented rather than consumer-oriented. Idea believes these plans are not impactful so far and hence unlikely to trigger price reaction from other operators. Further, Idea’s top management said that irrational competition has…
Which Equipment Vendors Power our Network ?
The Government of India has been successfully blocking Chinese Equipment being deployed in India’s Telecom network by an indirect means of delaying the approval and certification of equipment indefinitely. This move follows a period of more than 12 months of uncertainty, in which the Home Ministry of India had raised…
Technology Insight into UIDAI – Aadhaar Biomtric ID Project
UIDAI / Aadhaar Project is a Government of India (GoI) initiative to assign a centralised identification number to all residents of India. Headed by Mr. Nandan Nilekani, Founder and ex Co-Chairman of Infosys Technologies. The UID will dispose the need to produce different identity documents for availing various services (opening…