BSNL staff union plans nationwide agitation
Economic Times
Employee unions of state-owned BSNL on Thursday said they planned to launch a nationwide agitation beginning next week against its board's decision to accept the Sam Pitroda-led panel's report, which recommended a 30% divestment and voluntary retirement to nearly one lakh staff.

Eye on 3G? Bharti bets on integrated content delivery
Daily News & Analysis
Bharti Airtel, India's biggest telecom company, is aiming big in the media business, but not by creating content or owing TV channels. A relatively new player in the direct-to-home (DTH) broadcasting business, the company has now announced the launch of digital media exchange for integrated content delivery acrossmultiple screens-cinema, TV and mobile handsets-in various geographies.

MTNL to add 2m GSM lines each in Mumbai, New Delhi
Total Telecom
Indian state-run telecom company Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. plans to add two million lines each in New Delhi and Mumbai on its global system for mobile communications technology.

SC asks IT department to quantify penalty imposed on Idea Cellular
Financial Express
Telecom services provider Idea Cellular Ltd on Thursday approached the Supreme Court challenging the income tax department's stand that it should deduct TDS in respect of discounts paid to its distributors on pre-paid Sim cards and recharge vouchers. 

Trai mulls committee to handle consumer grievances
Business Standard
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) is in the process of constituting a committee to address consumer grievances for pre-paid mobile connections. Sources from the telecom regulator say the committee will be set up in the next few days.

Bharti acknowledges receipt of special audit report
Economic Times
The government-appointed special auditors, looking into the books of telecom Bharti Airtel on Thursday said it has always followed highest accounting standards and confirmed receiving a copy of the special audit report submitted by government-appointed auditors to the Department of Telecom.

Norscan Instruments Scans India's Telecom Market
TMCnet
Norscan Instruments has been invited by N.K.Goyal, president of Communication, Multimedia and IT, referred to as CMAI, to be a part of its telecom community. The role of CMAI is to foster growth and innovation through the introduction of best practices, technology and services from global technology leaders, and to create a platform where all stake holders of Telecom, Multimedia & IT Industry can work together in order to create value and to provide quality yet affordable products and services to Indian consumers.

Number portability may get delayed again
Economic Times
BIndia is set to miss the March 31 deadline for implementing mobile number portability (MNP), the facility that allows customers to retain their cellphone numbers, but change their operator. This will mark the third instance of the country missing out the deadline to offer its 550-million cellular users this facility.

July Systems to bring IPL on mobile internet
Mobiletor.com
Indian Premier League and its licensing partner Global Cricket Ventures (CGV) declared a collaboration with July Systems to release an IPL mobile internet service, particularly catering to the Indian segment.