May 19, 2013
Telecom Lead America: Sprint has completed its transaction with U.S. Cellular to buy 20MHz of PCS spectrum. Sprint will gain from spectrum in Midwest markets including Chicago, South Bend, Ind., and Champaign, Ill., and 10MHz of PCS spectrum in the St. Louis market. The mobile operator says the ...
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Telecom Lead India: Uninor, a subsidiary of Telenor, has become the first mobile operator in the world to be certified for its workplace practices. Uninor, which serves 31.6 million customers in six telecom circles of UP (West), UP (East), Bihar (including Jharkhand), Andhra Pradesh, ...
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Telecom Lead India: BSNL is set to launch 4G / Y-Max 4G in Indore on World Telecommunication Day on Friday. The speed of the 4G internet services vary from 512 KB to 2MB. The cost of various plans in 4G internet service varies from Rs 220 to Rs 7000 per month. The connection to the... Read More
Telecom Lead Europe: Deutsche Telekom has drafted new business models and strategies to transform to telco plus by focusing on new business areas. Deutsche Telekom focuses on growth areas such as mobile Internet, connected home, intelligent networks, and cloud services to combat revenue losses ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Singapore Telecommunications is planning to spend $1.6 billion on acquisitions. The acquisition, which will take place within the next three years, is part of the Southeast Asia’s biggest phone company’s strategic initiative to boost growth after fourth-quarter profit fell 33 ...
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Telecom Lead India: Sistema Shyam TeleServices (MTS India) announced 10 paisa per minute voice service (MTS to MTS) in Kerala. Price of local calls to other networks will be at 10 paisa per 20 seconds and STD calls at 10 paisa per 15 seconds. However, there are conditions. The mobile customers ...
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Telecom Lead India: Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, TeliaSonera and Vodafone will conduct pilots of voice over IP eXchange (IPX) in 2013. The pilots are part of a new initiative announced by the GSMA and i3forum to accelerate the take up of IPX based interconnect through ...
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Telecom Lead India: Vodafone offers over 90 percent discount on data and 64 percent on outgoing local and international calls on certain international roaming. The pack offers over 90 percent discount on data with rates Rs 50/MB while roaming overseas. Outgoing local and international calls ...
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Telecom Lead Africa: Bharti Airtel has received approvals from the Uganda Communications Commission for buying Warid Telecom The strategic acquisition enables Airtel to have a mobile customer base of over 7.2 million and market share of over 39 percent in Uganda. Bharti Airtel will continue to ...
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Telecom Lead India: Out of 12 mobile service providers, 5 posted decline in their gross revenue in the third quarter of fiscal 2013 as compared with the previous quarter, according to TRAI data released recently. TRAI data says Airtel’s adjusted gross revenue decreased 2.32 percent to Rs 7871 ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Idea Cellular CTO Anil Tandon on Friday said its 100G DWDM system with OTN based ASON in backbone optical network will enable the mobile service provider to address the data explosion in coming years. “Idea has always been leading in new technologies’ deployment and this is ...
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Telecom Lead America: AT&T is launching a prepaid cellphone service — Aio Wireless. The new subsidiary will offer nationwide wireless service to value-conscious customers interested in unlimited talk, text and data plans without an annual contract. Aio launches in select stores in Houston, ...
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Telecom Lead Europe: Telecom Italia’s Capex (Capital expenditure) decreased 3.1 percent to €878 million in the first quarter of 2013. Italy’s largest mobile phone service provider says the decline did not impact the deployment of next-generation networks. The €878 million Capex includes an ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Vodafone has filed a petition in the Delhi HC against DoT’s rejection of Vodafone’s applications for license extension in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata mobile circles. Vodafone India on Thursday said it is taking all required actions, including legal, to ensure extension and ...
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Telecom Lead Asia: Almost all telecom operators have met the call drop rate benchmark set by TRAI. The government-run BSNL, however, did not meet the Call Drop Rate benchmark in North East service area. As per TRAI’s Cellular Mobile Telephone Service Regulations, 2009 dated 20th March 2009, the ...
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Telecom Lead Europe: Telefónica’s Capex (capital expenditure) rose 13.4 percent to €1.94 billion in the first quarter of 2013. The European mobile operator’s Capex included €695 million for buying spectrum in U.K. (€671 million) and Uruguay (€24 million). The telecom giant has spent around 82 ...
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