Essar Telecom Targets 1.5 Million New Subscribers In Kenya Essar Telecom Kenya Ltd. a unit of India’s Essar Communications, is aiming to quadruple its number of subscribers to two million by March by signing up 1.5 million new customers. Essar is expected to invest around $230 million to expand network coverage outside its current strongholds in Nairobi and Mombasa.Essar is a shareholder in The East African Marine System fiber-optic cable, known as Teams, that connects Kenya to the United Arab Emirates, which is due to be switched on next month. [Bloomberg] Qualcomm To Launch Zeebo, FLO TV in India Qualcomm will introduce its low-cost video game console, Zeebo, in India by 2010. The company will also launch in India its FLO TV, which is size of an iPhone and is a touchscreen-based model which uses Qualcomm’s new terrestrial digital TV service. [Business Standard] Financial Express, NDTV Profit In Talks for Content Partnership NDTV Profit and business daily The Financial Express are in talks to forge a content partnership. The agreement is expected to be finalized by mid-September. [ContentSutra] BSNL Awards Network Contract ITI, Nokia Siemens Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has given a contract worth 1.67 billion rupees ($34.3 million) to ITI Ltd. and another of 1.85 billion rupees to Nokia Siemens Networks for optical-fiber networks. [WSJ] BSNL Disconnects Broadband Links In Darjeeling BSNL has started disconnecting broadband connections in Darjeeling hills, a year after people in the hills stopped paying their bills following a call from Gorkha Janmukti Morcha…
