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As most corporate honchos rack their brains wondering how to sail through the slowdown, Mr D. Sathish Babu, the founder of Chennai-based mobile phone retailer UniverCell, is charting a course to make use of the opportunity provided by the market downturn.

Telecom and Internet major Reliance Communications has moved the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), alleging that rival Bharti Airtel is not providing access to its Chennai submarine cable landing station.

Google Inc., owner of the world’s most-used search engine, is giving employees mobile phones instead of cash gifts this year as it reins in costs during the recession, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Norwegian telecom firm Telenor on Tuesday said it expects to close the transaction with Unitech Wireless, the telecom arm of Indian realty major Unitech, in January next year.

Nokia released a public beta version of its Mail on Ovi service, which enables users to sign up for a free e-mail account directly from their Series 40 handsets. The new service is available worldwide and available in a dozen languages, after a test period of one month during which users in India, Malaysia and [...]

Intex Technologies (India) Ltd has added IN 3030 to its portfolio of mobile phone products. The phone is a music gizmo equipped with water, sweat and dust resistant technology. It features FM radio, audio player, voice and audio recording.

Nokia India has admitted error in showing Kashmir as part of Pakistan’s territory in its mobile navigation system and expressed regret for the error. An e-mailed statement by Nokia India said, ‘Nokia India, deeply regrets an inadvertent error in depicting certain international boundaries in an older version of its maps.’

Anil Ambani’s Reliance Communications (RCOM) has set aside $1 billion for its 3G (third generation) telecom services rollout. The approximately Rs 4,700 crore investment in 3G, will be funded through RCOM’s internal cash reserves of Rs 12,000 crore.

It is being reported that as many as 25 million mobile phones could be cut off in India from next month - following a security clamp down on unregistered mobile phones following ongoing terrorist attacks in the country. According to the Mobile World subscriber­ tracker, the country ended September with around 315 million mobile phone [...]

Recently we’ve witnessed the emergence of number of smart initiatives tailored towards local communities in emerging markets that push mobile innovation without the need for expensive new hardware or software. Built on existing technologies, services such as Nokia Life Tools and FrontlineSMS have proved that it’s possible to pioneer with even the most basic tools, [...]