Broadband

Will Unbundling BSNL’s Local Loop Truly Bring About A Broadband Revolution In India?

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 18th, 2010 |

I’ll believe it when I see it, but that it’s up for discussion again brings with it hope for broadband in India: Business Standard reports, quoting unnamed sources that BSNL ... Continue_Reading

Qualcomm To Bid For India’s Wireless Broadband Spectrum In Upcoming Auction

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 17th, 2010 |

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So the first hat, it seems, is in the ring. Qualcomm has announced that they’ve filed an application to bid in India’s upcoming 3G and Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) auction, specifically ... Continue_Reading

eGov: Expensive Internet Services For Farmers; eDistricts CSCs Behind Schedule

By Diwaskar Chettri on March 12th, 2010 |

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One would expect that pricing of Internet access to farmers would be highly subsidized, and not as expensive as cybercafes: the Agriculture Department of Andhra Pradesh is running pilot programmes ... Continue_Reading

BSNL Drops 3G Data Card Rates Across India: Tariff War?

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 11th, 2010 |

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Don’t you just love price wars? BSNL, the government owned telecom operator, has thrown down the gauntlet by launching 3G EVDO plans that substantially lowers access charges for consumers on ... Continue_Reading

BSNL Inflating Subscriber Numbers, Says Director: Report

By Nikhil Pahwa on March 9th, 2010 |

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J.S. Deepak, a government nominee on the board of public sector telecom operator BSNL has said the company was inflating its subscriber base, according to a report in Business Line. ... Continue_Reading

Budget 2010 Economic Survey: UID, Telecom, FDI, USO Fund, Prasar Bharati & e-Governance

By Diwaskar Chettri on March 2nd, 2010 |

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The Economic Survey 2010, which was presented in the Parliament a day before the general budget was announced, proposed a number of initiatives – from a coupon system to be ... Continue_Reading

Jose Felix On Cricket Nirvana’s Experience With Live Streaming Cricket Matches

By Nikhil Pahwa on February 17th, 2010 |

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Launched in 2008, Cricket Nirvana was probably the first website in India to experiment with live streaming of Cricket matches. It began with a subscription model, and later switched to ... Continue_Reading

Bharti Airtel Partners With Limelight Networks For CDN Services

By Diwaskar Chettri on February 15th, 2010 |

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Bharti Airtel has announced a partnership with Limelight Networks for Content Delivery Network (CDN) services in India. With the agreement Bharti Airtel will be able to deliver rich content from Indian ... Continue_Reading

Hathway’s 13 Anchor Investors, IPO Proceeds To Repay Loans, Build Infrastructure

By Diwaskar Chettri on February 9th, 2010 |

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Cable TV and Broadband service provider Hathway Cable and Datacom Limited’s IPO which is opening on February 9, 2010 will be used to repay loans and to step up its broadband ... Continue_Reading

Zylog’s Net Profit Up 18.5%, Rev Up 5.6%

By Diwaskar Chettri on February 4th, 2010 |

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Zylog Systems Limited, a subsidiary of US based Zylog Systems has registered a net profit of Rs 247.9 miliion for the quarter, up 18.5 percent QoQ and up 15.4 percent ... Continue_Reading

694 CSCs Non Operational, 8 States Get SWANs

By MediaNama on February 3rd, 2010 |

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(By Diwaskar Chettri & Preethi J) 561 out of 1159 Common Service Centres (CSC) are non operational in Haryana and 133 in Tripura: and the reasons are growing. First, it was ... Continue_Reading

Cable Operator Hathway Files For IPO, Challenges

By Preethi J on February 3rd, 2010 |

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Following competitor DEN Network, cable operator and ISP Hathway Datacom has decided to go public and filed a draft Red Herring prospectus with the SEBI on January 27, 2010. ... Continue_Reading