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During November 2008, the Indian police by a strange co-incidence stumbled upon the technology of SIM card cloning while investigating the Assam blasts. Since the SIM cloning is an illegal activity, the police in their defence said that they had no expertise in the area and SIM card cloning was a "technological surprise".

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At a Glance  News DoT may not cancel licences for rollout failures Vodafone to launch Webbox in India Telecom, IT firms get breather on raising invoice for services Ericsson, ZTE bag Aircel's services deal Komli acquires Zestadz, enters mobile ad market IDG Ventures India invests $ 3.63 million in Vserv Asus launches Transformer tablet in India Idea continues to be Kerala's top operator Airtyme brings a budget 3G slider phone for Rs. 5999 One97 Communications invests Rs 3.6 crore in TMG Singapore SSTL expands its Board of Directors Trends & Insight Cloud computing: 1 lakh additional jobs by 2015 Mobile commerce awaits a rural destiny in India Enabling the next wave of telecom growth in India   News DoT may not cancel licences for rollout failures Business Standard In what could give a big relief to new mobile players, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) is unlikely to cancel 53 licences - as recommended by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) - for non-fulfilment of rollout obligations. "As a statutory requirement, DoT has to refer back Trai's recommendations once. Trai has given its recommendations again. We can either accept them or not accept them. It is unlikely that DoT will cancel all the 53 licences suggested by Trai," a senior DoT official said. "The regulator's methodology for assessing network rollout is different from DoT's," he added. This will mean a major respite for Uninor, Sistema, Loop, Videocon, Etislat-DB and Aircel. Most of them were given licences in 2008. Vodafone to launch Webbox in India Times of India Vodafone, India is all prepared to bring its innovative keyboard to India, the Vodafone Webbox, which the mobile operator announced in South Africa back in February this year. The Webbox is Vodafone's solution to bring affordable Internet access to emerging markets, and hence it is making its way to India. While it may looks like a standard QWERTY keyboard, this is actually an Android 2.1 based device with some hardware inside it and an antenna which supports EDGE and 2.5G networks. The device connects to a TV wih a standard RCA cable and brings a unique UI, which allows users to browse the Internet with no extra set-up. Telecom, IT firms get breather on raising invoice for services Economic Times Companies operating in the telecom, IT, software and BPO sectors will now have some flexibility in raising invoices for services provided by them, as the government has relaxed the stringent service tax rules that had put their Chief Executives at the risk of prosecution if they did not issue the bill on time. The Central Board of Excise and Customs, the apex indirect tax body, has issued a circular clarifying the conditions that would determine when a service has been completed or delivered. Ericsson, ZTE bag Aircel's services deal Times of India Chinese telecom equipment maker, ZTE Corp has bagged a managed services deal from Aircel, the country's fifth largest mobile phone company. According to a report in Light Reading India, Aircel has awarded managed services deal for three circles to ZTE. Incidentally, the Chinese telecom gear maker got just one circle from Aircel in last year's 3G contract. ZTE bagging three circles for managed services this year is being seen as an indicator to a shift towards multi-vendor contracts. Similarly, Swedish telecom major, Ericsson has reportedly been awarded the contracts for six circles. Komli acquires Zestadz, enters mobilead market Economic Times Online media network platform, Komli Media has acquired mobile advertising and publishing network, Zestadz that will help the company enter the mobile advertising network market. The acquisition the fourth in over a year for the digital company that has bought over digital start-ups in markets such as Australia, UK and Singapore in the past. "There is significant potential in mobile advertising and this was missing from our portfolio of products," said Prashant Mehta, CEO, Komli Media. IDG Ventures India invests $ 3.63 million in Vserv Moneycontrol.com Mobile advertising company, Vserv on Tuesday said that it has received USD 3 million funding by IDG Ventures India. "With the funds, we plan to expand our sales and engineering teams to drive sales growth in India and internationally, as well as further develop our monetisation solutions for the global application developer community," Dippak Khurana, Founder and CEO, Vserv said. The investment represents the first venture capital investment in mobile advertising in India since 2008 and is the first institutional investment into Vserv, the statement said. Asus launches Transformer tablet in India The Mobile Indian Asus Technology has rolled out its Eee Pad Transformer TF101 tablet in India, which can be made a full-fledged notebook by fitting it into a docking station. The docking station features a full Qwerty keyboard, a multi-touch touchpad, two USB ports, a 3.5mm audio jack, and a built-in SD card reader. A key highlight of the docking station is its own batteries which act as a booster enhancing the stand-by time of the whole unit from just 6 hours to 16 hours. Idea continues to be Kerala's top operator India Infoline.com IDEA Cellular, the no. 1 mobile operator in Kerala, and the third largest in India, has achieved another landmark in its relationship with mobile consumers in the state, by crossing the 70 lakh subscriber base, recently. With this, Idea has further strengthened its leadership position both in terms of revenue market share and customer market share. IDEA Cellular, an Aditya Birla Group company, started services in Kerala in 2004, and is at present, the highest penetrated mobile network in the circle, reaching out to over 97 percent of the population. Idea has played a significant role in the development of telephony services in the state by reaching out to 3,280 towns and villages in Kerala, through an unmatched network of nearly 5,000 sites. Airtyme brings a budget 3G slider phone for Rs. 5999 MSN India The company already distributing Motorola XT800 as well as HTC Pulse CDMA handset, Airtyme Communication is planning to launch its own two new 3G mobile phones in India. The upcoming devices are dubbed as Flaunt and Torrid and will be embedded with 3.2 and 2.8-inch screens respectively with full Qwerty slider keypad. In-fact, both the gadgets will include Java based touch operating system. The Flaunt is a 3G budget phone, which will sport a 3-megapixel camera and Flash. There will also be an Opera mini browser, 3.5 mm Jack and stereo speaker. Moreover, device supports number of popular music and video formats. One97 Communications invests Rs 3.6 crore in TMG Singapore Economic Times India-based value added services provider to telecom companies, One97 Communications on Tuesday, said that it has invested SGD 1 million (about Rs 3.6 crore) in Singapore-based TheMobileGamer (TMG). One97 said that the investment is part of plans to expand in South East Asia, and the move will also help TMG in increasing their services. The Indian firm invests in early stage mobile companies out of its One97 Mobility Fund worth USD 100 million. SSTL expands its Board of Directors Economic Times Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd (SSTL), the mobile JV between Russia's Sistema and Shyam Group of India, on Tuesday, expanded its nine-member board by inducting four new Directors. To start with, two Sistema management board members, Feliks Evtushenkov and Alexey Buyanov, have been appointed SSTL directors. This apart, former Tata Sky MD & CEO, Vikram Kaushik and Indian Society of Advertisers (ISA) Chairman, Bharat Patel have been roped in as independent Directors.   Trends  Cloud computing: 1 lakh additional jobs by 2015 NDTV.com The cloud market in India is expected to create 1 lakh additional jobs by 2015, creating a huge demand for skilled manpower to address cloud computing implementation in India, according to a recent study. The number of jobs in the private cloud market, which is around 10,000 at present will jump up significantly following increased preference in cloud adoption in the next five years in India, a study by EMC Corporation and Zinnov Management Consulting, a leading management consulting firm said. The $400-million cloud market in India is expected to reach a market value of $4.5 billion by 2015, of which private cloud adoption will dominate and account for $3.5 billion in revenues, growing at over 60 percent. Mobile commerce awaits a rural destiny in India Deccan Herald NFC is gaining popularity across the world and is set to revolutionise mobile commerce. Though NFC is in nascent stages in India, it may hold the key to make mobile commerce popular in the country. Early this year, Bharti Airtel launched prepaid cash cards in India, the Airtel Money service. The service, which allows customers to use their mobile phones to make payments, is now available in Gurgaon and Airtel plans to launch it across the country. Mobile money providers typically charge transaction and subscription fee and face the challenging task of ensuring universal acceptability of their 'money'. The law also limits the amount of money which can be transacted through mobiles.   Insight  Enabling the next wave of telecom growth in India Ernst & Young The liberalization of the domestic economy and increasing integration with the global economy has positioned India as the second fastest expanding economy of the world. After embracing a closed, centralized economic model for four decades, India shifted to a market-oriented model. Liberalization initiatives, especially in the 1990s, resulted in an improved business climate and in an increase in investment across the country, boosting the industrial growth over the past decade. Indian telecom is an economic miracle in the making. Connecting such a vibrant economy of more than a billion people together and with the rest of the globe is an extraordinary achievement in terms of a nation's socioeconomic development. With plenty of strong potential value remaining, the sector requires much attention and a robust policy framework to address the challenges that exist in the present scenario as well as help to capture the opportunities that the sector holds for the country.

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