Alcatel-Lucent plans foray into managed services in India
24 Apr, 2008, 0425 hrs IST, Joji Thomas Philip

For Alcatel-Lucent, the foray into managed services, will be seen as another attempt by the company to break into the lucrative GSM space in India. New phones for 2008!

Vodafone honcho to lead Indus Towers 
24 Apr, 2008, 0348 hrs IST, Rashmi Pratap

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.

Telcos to seek clarifications on new merger norms 
24 Apr, 2008, 0043 hrs IST, Joji Thomas Philip

The government, read the department of telecom (DoT), may have a lot of explaining to do over its merger norms announced on Wednesday.

Middle East players eye Datacom 
24 Apr, 2008, 0041 hrs IST, Kausik Datta

A string of Middle East telecom companies are interested to take a majority control in Datacom, the Videocon Industries-promoted cellular firm with a pan-India licence to start operations in 22 circles.

No resolution of Blackberry issue yet, says Raja 
23 Apr, 2008, 2147 hrs IST

The Home Ministry is still not convinced by the security solution offered by Blackberry stakeholders and concerns about the service being a security threat are yet to be resolved.

Govt denies permission to Tata for Blackberry service 
23 Apr, 2008, 1547 hrs IST

Govt has asked Tata Teleservices not to offer Blackberry services unless the required monitoring system being insisted for by security agencies are put in place.

IKSL to launch mobile marketing services in TN before Sept 
23 Apr, 2008, 1436 hrs IST

IFFCO Kisan Sanchar Ltd (IKSL), a fully owned subsidiary of IFFCO, and telecom service provider Airtel will jointly launch mobile marketing services across Tamil Nadu before September.

Govt tightens telecom M&A norms 
23 Apr, 2008, 0908 hrs IST

The new M&A guidelines are a tightening of the earlier regulations, which stated that the market share of the merged entity cannot be more than 67%. Wacky gadgets

BlackBerry crisis: DoT comes up with interim solution 
23 Apr, 2008, 0720 hrs IST, Joji Thomas Philip

DoT has proposed an interim solution where all data between BlackBerry users are stored on the servers of the telcos like Bharti, Vodafone, for a year. Wacky gadgets

AT&T in talks with Malaysia's Maxis for Aircel stake 
23 Apr, 2008, 0253 hrs IST, Rashmi Pratap

AT&T's India move is in line with its global strategy of focusing and expanding the wireless business while shrinking the traditional landline biz. The Golden Chariot