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India: BSNL to share network with private telecom operators

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Chanuka Wattegama
on September 16, 2008
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State-owned telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) Monday said it has decided to share its network with private telecom companies for roaming agreements.

The company will sign the first roaming agreement with new telecom operator Swan Telecom, a BSNL internal circular of the management committee meeting said.

This facility will enable subscribers to enjoy seamless connectivity throughout the country. “The memorandum of understanding (MoU) in this regard may be signed with the seeking operators initially for six months only on non-exclusive and experimental basis,” the circular said.

The circular also added that the company would revise the initial charge of 52 paise a minute for every outgoing call after six months, and the incremental additional cost of the upgrade of equipment to provide roaming facilities will be…

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India adds 9.22 million mobile users in July

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Chanuka Wattegama
on August 26, 2008
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Indian mobile telecoms firms added 9.2 million users in July, taking subscribers in the world’s fastest growing wireless market to nearly 300 million, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said on Monday.

Leading mobile firm Bharti Airtel signed up 2.7 million customers, enough for it to overtake state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd as India’s largest telecom firm by total subscribers, including fixed-line subscribers.

Second-ranked mobile firm Reliance Communications added 1.75 million customers, and No. 3 Vodafone Essar, controlled by Britain’s Vodafone Plc, added 1.76 million.

India is the world’s fastest-growing market for wireless services and the second-largest market for such services after China, with growth fuelled by cheap handsets and call rates as low as 1 U.S. cent a minute.

See the full story in Reuters here.

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Mobile investment boom in India foretold

by
Rohan Samarajiva
on February 20, 2008
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Telecom sector to see funds bonanza, tariff cuts - Business News - News - MSN India - News

India’s booming mobile services market will see investments of over Rs 100,000 crore (around $24 billion) by 2010, the fastest investment ramp-up seen in any telecom market globally even as analysts predict a bruising battle that will see tariffs fall sharply.

The investments include between Rs 48,000 crore and 60,000 crore ($12 billion to $15 billion) from six new telecom players (including Reliance and Tatas’ proposed GSM mobile services) over 12 to 24 months to create capacity for 250 million more mobile subscribers.

This fresh investment will be over and above the estimated Rs 48,000 crore ($12 billion) being put in by incumbents like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone-Essar, Idea Cellular, Bharat…

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TRAI for lower Access Deficit Charge (ADC) to promote growth

by
Divakar Goswami
on December 9, 2004
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Rediff.com Dec 9, 2004
http://in.rediff.com/money/2004/dec/09telecom.htm

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said on Thursday that the current access deficit charge of 11 per cent must be brought down to lower the tariffs and enable the sector achieve higher mobile growth like China.

The ADC is paid by operators to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd mainly to undertake rural telephony services and currently stands at Rs 5000 crore (Rs 50 billion) a year.

“Unless you bring down ADC from the current level, pushing growth in the mobile segment would be difficult. ADC must come down to introduce lower tariffs and unless tariffs go down further, the kind of growth happened in China will not happen in India”, TRAI chairman Pradip Baijal told newspersons in New Delhi.

“Last year, there were 13 million mobiles……

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