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Despite a moderately lower contribution to the overall teledensity of the country, rural areas have succeeded to beat the metros with a comparatively high subscriber additions rate. Based on the TRAI figures, the four metros together added 10.3 million subscribers in the first nine months of 2008, while the rural areas added over 11.3 million.

During these times of cutbacks there’s one thing which Indians are buying in abundance-mobile connections. During the month of October the country added the highest-ever addition to the mobile subscriber base at 10.42 million taking the total number of mobile users to over 325 million, according to the data released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority [...]

Residents in the Republic of Ireland spent the most time on their mobile phones and sent the most text messages per head in the world in 2007, according to a report which examines changes in the communications industry.

Sony Ericsson, a 50:50 joint venture between Sony and Ericsson, on Thursday launched its touch-screen smartphone, ‘Xperia X1’. Priced at Rs. 44,500, the new multimedia device has been launched to cater to users’ need of converged entertainment and mobile web communication experience.

With Union Communications and Information Technology Minister A. Raja clearing the file related to “mobile number portability” (MNP) on Wednesday, mobile phone users would soon be able to change their telecom operator without changing their phone number.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has demanded an enquiry into what it claims is a Rs 60,000 crore (Rs 600 billion) financial scam involving the manner in which 2G spectrum was allocated by the Union ministry of communications.

Norway’s leading telecoms operator, is considering abandoning a $1.8bn rights issue that is supposed to fund much of its expansion into India because of investor opposition. Jon Fredrik Baksaas, Telenor’s chief executive, told the Financial Times the company was looking at alternatives to a rights issue that some shareholders had put forward.

Norwegian telecoms group Telenor announced a bold move to enter the Indian mobile market through a $1.1 billion deal financed by a rights issue, sending its shares down sharply on Wednesday. Telenor, already the second-largest foreign operator in Asia after Vodafone, also reported third-quarter core profit slightly below forecast and affirmed its 2008 financial targets.

As new-generation software applications are built to help doctors connect with staff, patient information and resources over mobile devices, hospitals are expected to invest heavily in clinical information systems to revolutionise patient care and improve productivity.

Everyone and anyone related to the telecom industry these days talks only about third generation or 3G services. But what does 3G really mean for the end consumers? eWorld caught up with Parag Kar, Senior Director (Government Affairs), Qualcomm-India, to break through the technical jargon and explain the basics of this new mobile technology, which [...]