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May 17, 2012News for the Telecom Industry
 
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Pranab Mukherjee defends Vodafone tax, says company was informed of it
Economic Times
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee defended the retrospective amendment in income tax law that could force British telecom operator Vodafone to pay Rs. 20,300 crore as tax, interest and penalty. Vodafone had been clearly told that it would have to pay tax on its acquisition of Hutchison's stake in the $11.2-billion Hutichison Essar deal executed in Cayman Islands, the Minister said. India cannot be compared with Cayman Islands and the Isle of Man, the minister said, adding, "India is not a tax haven." Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email

Kavveri Telecom eyeing acquisitions to support new business ventures
Hindu Business Line
Telecom equipment manufacturer Kavveri Telecom is looking for overseas acquisitions to support its entry into new businesses such as Defence and Aerospace. The company is planning three acquisitions this year to support new product development, new business initiatives and also to help it become an "end-to-end full service wireless infrastructure product and solutions company," Shivakumar Reddy, Managing Director, Kavveri Telecom Products, said. Kavveri is also investing $2 million to set up a manufacturing facility near Bangalore to manufacture antennas for export, Mr Reddy said. Among its clients, Kavveri counts Alcatel Lucent, Nokia Siemens Networks, Bharat Electronics, RCom, Airtel, Vodafone, Idea, Aircel, and BSNL. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email

India Today
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has disconnected 22,769 mobile connections for sending unsolicited telemarketing SMS. The regulator has also imposed penalty on 94 telemarketing companies for violating the rules on commercial calls and SMS. Four telemarketing firms have been blacklisted. The TRAI has taken action in line with the new regulations on telemarketing calls that had come into force from September 27, 2011. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email

MTNL eyes managed services deals in Africa
Economic Times
State-run MTNL, which operates mobile and landline services in Mumbai and Delhi, is diversifying into the managed services space in international markets. It is about to ink a multi-year managed services deals with mobile phone companies in key African markets like Zambia, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Djibouti, and Mozambique, a top company executive said. MTNL will handle network management, upgradation, planning and maintenance for GSM technology service operators in Africa and will also be responsible for the upkeep of key performance indicators and service level agreements. It will also advice African operator clients on vendor selection to get the best deals. The projects will be executed by MTNL's Mauritius arm, Mahanagar Telephone Mauritius Ltd (MTML). Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email

TRAI may reconsider 2G spectrum auction recommendations
Economic Times
The telecom regulator may be inclined to reconsider its recommendations on spectrum auction if the government asks it to do so, said a senior official aware of the developments. The future course of action of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, would depend on the government's decision and its possible feedback. The course of events is likely to be primarily decided by the Telecom Commission, the highest decision-making body of the Communications Ministry, which is scheduled to meet on May 24 to take a view on these proposals. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email

Maharashtra to form guidelines for radiation from mobile towers
Economic Times
In view of the growing number of mobile towers in villages, Maharashtra government will formulate guidelines for rural areas after studying effects of radiation. The urban development department has prepared a set of guidelines for which views and opinions of rural development, public health, medical education department were sought. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email

Aircel-Maxis, Devas-Antrix cases should go to JPC: CPI(M)
Indian Express
The CPI(M), on May 15, said the Aircel-Maxis and Devas-Antrix telecom cases should be referred to the Joint Parliamentary Committee probing the telecom scam. "The government should find out whether any company bought shares more than the law permits.... the matter should go to the JPC," party leader Sitaram Yechury said. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email
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Delta Electronics likely to delay India plant on poor market conditions
Economic Times
Thailand's biggest electronics firm Delta Electronics (Thailand) Plc., is likely to delay the construction of a new plant in India due to sluggish market conditions. The company will wait and see how the Indian market performed this quarter and the next, before deciding whether to proceed with the new plant in Chennai, Executive Director Anusorn Muttaraid was quoted as saying. The facility, which would be the company's fourth factory in India, was originally scheduled to open this year for assembly of products such as uninterrupted power supplies, but will now wait for the fourth quarter to decide whether to invest in the new plant or not. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email

Ask government to defer call on 2G entry fee: JPC members
Times of India
Cutting across party lines, Congress, BJP, and CPI members of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on telecom have urged panel chair P C Chacko to ask the government to put on hold any decision on enhanced entry fees for fresh 2G auction. The JPC members told Chacko the committee should first question the just retired TRAI Chairperson J S Sarma, who has recommended a 13-fold hike in the base price for 2G airwaves, as well as his successor former Commerce Secretary Rahul Khullar. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email

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Satellite broadband access, crucial to empowering a new India
Hindu Business Line
According to the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), only around 121 million of 1.2 billion Indians are logged onto the Internet and, of these, only 2 per cent, or approximately 2.2 million rural Indians, have access to the Web. Government initiatives are essential to speed up broadband deployment in India, since the current broadband penetration of 5 per cent is ridiculously low. The lack of infrastructure for fixed broadband access is one of the main reasons hampering the widespread use of broadband. Reliable and consistent broadband connectivity is critical for enterprise workforce, and to provide access to various services across rural and urban India. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email

Airtel and Axis join hands to assist unbanked with mobile banking
telecomlead.com
Airtel mCommerce Services and Axis Bank have inked a deal for offering mobile banking and payment services to unbanked people in India. Savings and remittance solutions will be provided to Airtel mobile users in Delhi and Mumbai on the sending side and Bihar and East UP on the receiving side. Airtel and Axis Bank will extend these services to other remittance corridors in the country. Gradually other banking products and services like micro Recurring Deposits, micro Fixed Deposits, small loans and micro Insurance products will also be provided through this platform. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email

Your next smartphone could be safe from water damage
Time Techland
Future smartphones may not be so vulnerable to water damage, thanks to several waterproof and water-repellent technologies working their way into phone makers' manufacturing lines. Three companies that offer these technologies say they're either negotiating or working closely with phone and tablet makers, and they expect to see water resistance as a standard feature for mobile devices within a year. The companies are: P2i, HzO, and Liquipel. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email

Lack of trust in the use of personal data threatens to undermine the digital economy
Cellular News
The Internet economy in the G20 nations is larger than the GDP of Brazil or Italy and is expected to nearly double to US $4.2 trillion by 2016. A new report from the World Economic Forum, produced in collaboration with The Boston Consulting Group, suggests that appropriate use of personal data can create enormous value for governments, organizations, and individuals. It can help achieve new efficiencies in business, tailor and personalize new products, help respond to global challenges, and empower individuals to engage in social, commercial, and political activities more effectively. But this growth could be severely limited without an effective set of "trade rules" to ensure the appropriate flow of personal data.

T-ray: Scientists score wireless data record
Phys.Org
A team of scientists have broken the record for wireless data transmission. They showed that they were capable of transmitting data at 3Gb, at frequencies up to 542GHz. They have done so in uncharted territory, so to speak, the terahertz band, a part of the electromagnetic spectrum that is currently unregulated. They reported success in making Wi-Fi twenty times faster. The terahertz, or "T-ray," region is part of the electromagnetic spectrum between 300 GHz and 3 THz, and with this, broadband users can get impressively high data rates and broadband speeds. Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email

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Heterogenous Networks
Ericsson
As the Networked Society takes shape, providing the right user experience is a top priority for operators. Bandwidth-hungry applications common on smartphones, tablets and other connected devices are driving figures for data traffic sky high. The opportunity for operators arises from people, business and society depending on their devices, mobile broadband access and high-performance networks. Heterogeneous networks, commonly known as hetnets, and efforts to improve and densify existing mobile broadband infrastructure together with added small cells are important when meeting ever-increasing user expectations.
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Indian handset players seek foreign lands (Premium) - View Free Sample
With metros and tier-2 cities in India reaching saturation point, homegrown handset players are seeking greener pastures in foreign lands. Soon after the Indian handset makers anticipated the everyday increasing pressure due to flooding of new handset makers, the smarter ones took a safer route by entering the foreign turf. Many Indian mobile manufacturers have entered the neighbouring global markets and are taking advantage of similar telecommunications scenarios abroad. Our own research suggests that revenues in the Indian mobile handset market grew 15% to touch Rs 33,171 crore in 2010-11 from Rs 28,897 crore a year before. It also revealed that global players such as Nokia had lost market share in low-end segments to home-grown handset makers like Micromax, Karbonn, and Spice. This confidence of upsetting global handset biggies in the home-turf lures the homegrown handset makers to be more adventurous and explore new territories.

Cable TV Digitization- Industry Issues and Interoperable STBs (Premium) - View Free Sample
With uncertainty about the first phase of cable digitization happening within the given timeframe, even ensuring a 60 percent job done will enable India to move forward. A revolution is on the verge of hitting the shores of the cable industry in India. With the president of India has already given a nod to the mandate on completing cable digitization of 4 metros by June 30, 2012, and about 35 cities like Pune, Ahmedabad, and Bengaluru by March 31, 2013, there is no turning back for the stakeholders. But with the first deadline of digitizing the metros around the corner, the industry is likely to miss the bus of digitization.

Ultrabooks- Ready to take on Tablets (Premium) - View Free Sample
Ultrabooks are under-powered notebooks that rival tablets in terms of portability. Take a look at the different models available and select the one that works for you. Until recently, the PC industry was lazily dishing out bulky, 'fat' notebook computers that lacked inspiration. Amidst this occurred an unsettling change sparked by ARM-powered tablets that offered a whole new perspective on usability. As tablets became popular, these began to eat into the PC market share of Intel. The latter realised that it needed a new strategy to gain back the market share it had lost. Intel's strategy took shape in the form of notebooks that rival tablets in terms of portability. Contrary to popular opinion, Ultrabooks cannot be considered a new laptop segment--at least not yet.

The Right Office Suites for Android iOS and Blackberry Tablets (Premium) - View Free Sample
For professionals who want to work on the move, choosing an office suite is not an easy task. We test the best office suites available, and handpick the best one for you. An office suite is one of the important software that every professional user, looks for, in his computing devise. And when you talk about a tablet, which is a portable computing devise, it becomes a must as you need productivity application software to view and edit documents. There are many applications available for different platforms but what each contains and how they will perform is difficult to understand. In this article, we reviewed 12 office application out of which 6 are for Android users, 5 for the iPad, and 1 for Blackberry PlayBook users.

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