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• Airtel Seeks Permission For Mobile TV Pilot

  Published: July 31, 2007, 1:54 am

  Tags: 228, 486, 488, 247

  Now that public broadcaster DD has piloted Mobile TV with Nokia, mobile operators don't want to miss out. Financial Express reports that Bharti Airtel has asked for permission for its own mobile TV pilots, demanding a level playing field - currently only DD is allowed terrestrial broadcasting. Airtel intends to use the terrestrial broadcasting

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• Airtel Launches Marathi Voice Portal

  Published: July 30, 2007, 9:11 am

  Tags: 228, 486, 488

  Airtel has launched Assal Marathi, a Marathi voice portal for subscribers in Maharashtra and Goa, offering local songs (Lokgeet, Bhavgeet, Koligeet, Lavnyanchya) for listening and download, reports Indiantelevision. The portal also features devotional songs, ringtones, jokes, news and movie, sports and astrological content. Cost of accessing the

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• Broadband Numbers From Reliance Communications And Airtel

  Published: August 2, 2007, 9:11 am

  Tags: 232, 486, 488, 493

  Reliance Communications The number of access lines increased to 705,000 at the end of the quarter, more than doubling from 322,000 in the corresponding quarter last year. RCOM expanded its wireline connectivity to almost 600,000 buildings from 180,000 buildings in the corresponding quarter last year. The Broadband business achieved revenue

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• Broadband Numbers From Reliance Communications And Airtel

  Published: August 2, 2007, 9:06 am

  Tags: 232, 486, 488, 493

  Reliance Communications The number of access lines increased to 705,000 at the end of the quarter, more than doubling from 322,000 in the corresponding quarter last year. RCOM expanded its wireline connectivity to almost 600,000 buildings from 180,000 buildings in the corresponding quarter last year. The Broadband business achieved revenue

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• RCom, Airtel, Tatas In Bid For Majority Stake in Telkom Kenya

  Published: August 8, 2007, 1:32 am

  Tags: 228, 486, 488, 493

  Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications and the Tatas are in the race to acquire a 51 percent in Telkom Kenya. [via Economic Times] Other bidders include British Telecom and Dubai-based Vtel Holding. Meanwhile, allAfrica.com reports that the Kenyan government is set to issue a fourth mobile phone licence to Telkom Kenya together with a third

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• Going Rural Holds Promises and Problems For Cellular Companies

  Published: August 8, 2007, 5:29 am

  Tags: 228, 486, 488

  Keeping up with our rural India theme, here's an interesting article I came across in the Financial Times [subscription required] that highlights the huge opportunity as well as problems awaiting cellular companies in rural India. Mobile phone operators are facing a catch-22 situation: they have to tap the rural market to sustain the growth they

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• Skype Working To Restore Service After Software Glitch

  Published: August 17, 2007, 10:08 am

  Tags: Voip, 3058, 488, 118

  Fear not, VoIP fans; the nightmare is almost over. Sign-on problems continued to plague Skype users Friday, though the company said in a blog post that an "encouraging number" of users have had their service restored. A worldwide outage prevented customers from logging on to the Internet telephony service beginning Thursday afternoon. Skype

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• Skype: User Re-Boot Prompted System Outage

  Published: August 20, 2007, 10:03 am

  Tags: Voip, 488, 118

  Watch out for those Windows updates; they might just take down your network. VoIP provider Skype said Sunday that its network was "back to normal" after several days of sign-in difficulties. The company blamed a "massive restart" of user computers that occurred after a "routine set of patches" from Windows Update required users to re-boot their

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• Tele-density Inches Up Boosted By Rise In Wireless Subscribers Obviously

  Published: August 26, 2007, 10:01 pm

  Tags: 232, 486, 488, 487, 233

  One in every five persons in India now owns a telephone as the total number of subscribers reached 232.87 million by July, led by an addition of eight million mobile subscribers, according to the Trai. [via PTI] Other data points: - Tele-density rose to 20.52 percent in July 2007 from 19.86 percent in June 2007. - In the wireless

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• Tele-density Inches Up Boosted By Rise In Wireless Subscribers???Obviously

  Published: August 26, 2007, 9:39 pm

  Tags: 232, 486, 488, 487, 233

  One in every five persons in India now owns a telephone as the total number of subscribers reached 232.87 million by July, led by an addition of eight million mobile subscribers, according to the Trai. [via PTI] Other data points: - Tele-density rose to 20.52 percent in July 2007 from 19.86 percent in June 2007. - In the wireless segment,

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• Airtel Asked To Stop Services That Don't Conform To New Short Code Policy

  Published: August 28, 2007, 8:26 am

  Tags: 486, 488, 234

  The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has reportedly asked Bharti Airtel to stop offering those short code services that do not conform to the national numbering plan, as per which all "short" codes should be a five digit number. Airtel has to immediately discontinue services, and migrate them to the new code by September 1st. So I just

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• Airtel, Hutchison Essar, BPL Get Maximum Spectrum Of 10 Mhz

  Published: August 29, 2007, 12:16 am

  Tags: 228, 486, 488, 510, 487, 489, 637, 493, 233

  Bharti Airtel and Hutchison Essar and BPL Mobile have been allotted maximum spectrum of 10 Mhz in Delhi and Mumbai respectively in the latest round of subscriber-based allocation of radio waves by the government. [via Mint] Department of Telecom Spectrum Allocation Figures as on March 31, 2007 Delhi GSM MTNL 8 Mhz Idea

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• Accused shoplifter attempts to escape police in Greenwich Twp.

  Published: September 4, 2007, 10:04 am

  Tags: Breaking News, New Jersey, Police, Warren County, 6488, 2711, 2868, 39757, 488

  A 26-year-old Sussex County, N.J., man was arrested and then tried to flee police Thursday after a store's security officer allegedly spotted him trying to steal six DVDs, a news release says. Greenwich Township police said Troy R. Green concealed...

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• Crash on Rt. 22 in Pohatcong snarls traffic

  Published: September 13, 2007, 9:58 am

  Tags: Breaking News, Lehigh Valley Live, New Jersey, Police, Traffic, Warren County, 1765, 21705, 41964, 12305, 607, 488

  Express-Times Photo SUE BEYERThe driver of a van involved in a crash on Route 22 in Pohatcong Township was transported by helicopter for medical treatment. A child in a car seat was carried to an ambulance to be checked.A...

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• UT Starcom To Offer IPTV Solution To Bharti Airtel

  Published: September 17, 2007, 9:27 pm

  Tags: 486, 488, 247

  Networking services provider UT Starcom is set provide its IPTV solution to telecom major Bharti Airtel. [via ]http://www.contentsutra.com/entry/iptv-industry-may-need-new-breed-of-content-aggregators] The RollingStream solutions an end-to-end Internet Protocol Television solution will allow Bharti to offer new services to its customers

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