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Bharti Airtel Ltd, India’s No. 1 mobile operator, launched a venture fund on Thursday with an initial 200 crore rupees ($44 million) to promote content and technology development.

India’s state-run telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) will erect 19,000 towers in two phases to extend mobile phone connectivity to all villages in the country, the government said Wednesday. “Some 8,000 mobile towers will be erected by the end of this year under Phase-I of the shared mobile infrastructure scheme,” India’s Telecommunications Minister [...]

One of the most popular mobile application, SMS, may soon become cheaper. According to a business daily, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has asked mobile operators to reduce SMS charges voluntarily. According to the report, unlike voice traffic, the cost component in SMS is very low — around 2 paise, however, most service providers [...]

BPL Mobile on Tuesday made a Mauritius based equity fund its stakeholder for a consideration of USD 80 million, as part of efforts to raise funds for expansion and purchase of stake in Mumbai-based Loop Telecom. BPL Mobile has issued approximately 17 per cent equity to the company owned by an international equity fund investing [...]

Unitech has raised Rs 1,200 crore for its telecom venture from a syndicate of public sector banks led by Punjab National Bank and Canara Bank. Meanwhile, Norway’s telecom firm Telenor is learnt to have emerged the frontrunner in the race to acquire stake in Unitech Wireless, group’s telecom arm. Unitech is likely to finalise a [...]

Pulling the legs of telecom players who sneakily escape from the regulation for earning more profits, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Monday directed the players to improve transparency in tariff charges for providing better service.
The telecom regulator in this regard issued a Tariff Order and a Direction in the move of protecting [...]

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 [...]

Spice mobile has announced the launch of its new handset S-820 for the music lover, with a Yamaha audio amplifier which ensures 3D surround sound.
The external memory of the phone can be expanded to 1GB which can store music and other multimedia content. With a built in FM player receiver, the phone can record FM [...]

No wonder Sony Ericsson is interested in acquiring India’s Spice Mobiles. Their recently launched gaming phone, Spice X-1, looks like something the Swedish-Japanese handset maker may release in the not-that-distant future as part of its “F” series of mobile gaming friendly handsets.
Back to Spice X-1. It’s clearly a mobile phone designed to appeal to the [...]