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There’s good news for new telecom entrants such as Swan, Unitech, Datacom and Shyam, among others, on the rollout obligation front. The department of telecommunications (DoT) is likely to link the time frame by which these telcos have to launch services in pre-determined geographical areas to the “date of allocation of spectrum’ and not the [...]

Sistema, one of the largest public diversified corporation in Russia and the CIS, on Tuesday announced that it would invest over $1.5 bn in India next year to build a pan-India telecom network on the CDMA platform. The Russian major, which holds a majority stake in Shyam Telelink, also announced the launch of CDMA services [...]

Already crowded telecom space is becoming over crowded - 6 more operators will join the scene. Though Bharti in GSM and Reliance in CDMA dominate the space, the new operators will add to the competition. Indian telecom industry is seeing an explosive growth with 9.22 million new mobile subscriptions in July. This would take the [...]

Mobile operator Shyam Telecom, in which Russian communications major Sistema holds a majority stake, has become the first of the new telecom players to get pan-India spectrum for launching mobile services. The company has been allotted radio frequencies on the CDMA technology platform. New GSM licensees such as Datacom, Unitech, Loop Telecom and Swan have [...]