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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 [...]

‘TATA NEN Hottest Startups‘ is quite in news for all good or bad reasons. There are about 33 nominations in Mobile/Telecom domain, here is list for the same. Hope winner is from this domain (though chances are rare).

Yes Bank, a commercial bank that maintains 101 branches across India, has completed a pilot of an RFID system enabling branch employees to identify bank customers as they enter a particular location. The technology makes it possible for customers to receive personalized service without having to identify themselves.

Telecom regulator Trai has said that the telephone connections of over 10,000 telemarketers have been disconnected for calling mobile subscribers registered with the ‘National Do Not Call’ (DNC) registry. Of those, 8,602 disconnections are of unregistered telemarketers. Currently, India has about 20,000 registered telemarketers and an equal number of unregistered players.

Here’s what we know about BlackBerry’s “Thunder” Storm - the 9500. It has a 3.25-inch TFT touch screen display with a 320 x 480 pixel resolution and an accelerometer for auto screen rotation. It has a 3.5mm earphone socket (thank you), microSD slot for external memory (8GB cards are good to go) and 1GB of [...]