Despite its massive marketing frenzy while launching Uninor in India in the December quarter, its owner, the Norwegian telecom operator Telenor, has reported a sharp and un-anticipated drop in capital ... Continue_Reading

Today, Uninor flipped the switch on its network to launch in 7 circles simultaneously – Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, UP East, UP West, Bihar and Jharkhand. It covers ... Continue_Reading

Open Sourcing Chrome OS & Potential Android Convergence (by Nikhil Pahwa) Last week, Google decided to open source the Chrome OS, built primarily for netbooks with web applications in mind. As the ... Continue_Reading

(by Diwaskar Chettri & Nikhil Pahwa) Norwegian telecom operator Telenor expects services in India to contribute marginally to group revenues before the turn of the (calendar) year, since the company plans ... Continue_Reading

Update: According to the press release issued by the government (details below), the approval is subject to certain conditions put forth by India’s Foreign Investment Promotion Board. We’ve requested Uninor ... Continue_Reading

New telco Unitech Wireless has been renamed Uninor following the collaboration between Norwegian telecommunications giant Telenor and realty firm Unitech Ltd. Telenor’s subsidiaries also have different brands – Digi in ... Continue_Reading

IBN18 Broadcast Board to consider Right Issue IBN18 Broadcast Ltd has informed the BSE that a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Company will be held on September 24, ... Continue_Reading

After several meetings where a decision on Telenors proposed Rs. 3740 crore investment in Unitech Wireless was deferred, India’s Foreign Investment Promotion Board has referred the decision to India’s Cabinet ... Continue_Reading

Telenor, the Norwegian telecom operator, which owns 49 percent in new telco Unitech Wireless  hasn’t yet received an approval from India’s Foreign Investment Promotion Board to increase its stake to ... Continue_Reading

Growth in all of Telenors Asian operations slowed down in Q1 2009, compared to Q1 2008. “A key operational priority in 2009 is the start of our Indian operations.  We clearly ... Continue_Reading

Telenor Group has cut the value of the acquisition of controlling stake in Unitech Wireless by 11%. The investment of Rs 61.2 billion (around $1.2 Billion) initially announced now brings ... Continue_Reading

Telenor expects that Unitech Wireless, the Indian telecom license holder which it is acquiring 60% stake in, will launch mobile services in Q3. While the details of the rollout have ... Continue_Reading