TRAI releases Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicator Report for the Quarter ending June 2010
October 5, 2010
The TRAI released the “Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicator Report” for the Quarter ending June 2010. This Report provides a broad perspective of the Telecom Services and presents the key parameters and growth trends for the Telecom Services as well as Cable TV, DTH & Radio Broadcasting services in India for the period covering April to June 2010, and is compiled on the basis of information furnished by the Service Providers. Read the complete Report on TRAI’s website www.trai.gov.in.
The overall Tele-density in India reaches 59.63
October 5, 2010
The number of telephone subscribers in India increased to 706.37 million at the end of August 2010 from 688.38 million in July-2010, thereby registering a growth rate of 2.61 %. With this, the overall Tele-density in India reaches 59.63
In case of Wireless Segment including GSM, CDMA & FWP, the subscriber base increased from 652.42 million in July-2010 to 670.6 million at the end of August-2010 registering a growth of 2.79%. The Wireless Tele-density stands at 56.61.
For the Wireline Segment, subscriber base declined from 35.96 Million in July-2010 to 35.77 million at the end of August-2010. BSNL/MTNL, two PSU operators hold 83.68% of the Wireline market share. Overall Wireline Tele-density is 3.02.
In Broadband, total subscriber base has increased from 9.77 million in July-2010 to 10.08 million in Aug-2010, there by showing a growth of 3.17%.
Taiwan suppliers enter potentially huge market of India as the demand for its flat-screen TV take off
October 1, 2010
According to market research firm iSuppli, India’s demand for flat-screen televisions is likely to take off as consumers with more disposable income upgrade to the sleek new TV technology that saves energy and space and is the perfect complement to a modern home.
LCD-TV revenue will rise by 94.3 % to US$ 3.5 billion in 2011 from US$ 1.8 billion in 2010, according to iSuppli.
Taiwanese brands such as BenQ are already offering LCD TVs in India. Taiwan makes nearly half of the world’s LCD screens that are used in televisions, computer monitors and other types of displays.
Taiwan has more than five companies making LCD panels, including Chimei Innolux Corp., AU Optoelectronics Corp., Chunghwa Picture Tubes and Hannstar Display Corp. and PrimeView International. Chimei and Hannstar have established the Chimei and Hannspree LCD TV brands.
The increasing demand for LCD-TVs is putting increased pressure on retailers in India to launch exclusive durable-only retail outlets, according to iSuppli. Several players in the market — such as India-based Videocon — are busy forming relationships with retailers and other large-format retail chains in order to develop the appropriate sales channels to accommodate incoming demand for LCD-TVs, iSuppli added.
Motorola Unveils its First Stylish, Dual-SIM Phones in India
October 10, 2010
Motorola's Indian subsidiary, Motorola India Private Limited, introduced its first two dual-SIM handsets in India. The Motorola EX115 is a new, dual-SIM QWERTY phone and the Motorola EX128 is a stylish touchscreen dual-SIM phone with stylus. Both the Motorola EX128 and EX115 will bring cheer this festive season with the offer of social connectivity, entertainment-on-the-go with a 3-megapixel camera, video camcorder, large colour display and an expandable memory of up to 32GB3 micro-SD card. These two dual-SIM (GSM+GSM) handsets empower the consumer with the power of two networks in one device.
Additional Key Specifications of both the MOTOROLA EX128 & EX115:
Preloaded links to Gmail™1, Facebook®1, Myspace1 and YouTube™1.
A 3 megapixel camera and image editor for sharing of favourite moments
Video camcorder
Supports various audio formats: MP3, AAC, AAC+, MIDI, WAV. AMR NB
Supports MPEG4, that makes soundtracks come alive with the music player
Messaging: SMS, MMS, EMAIL (POP3, IMAP) 1
A standard 3.5mm audio jack to enhance the multimedia experience
FM radio
Bluetooth A2DP2
Expandable memory up to 32GB3 on microSD card
Supports Quad bands1 850/ 900/ 1800 /1900; GSM/EDGE (Class10) 1
Hitachi GST launches new family of 750GB mobile hard drives
October 7, 2010
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) announced its new 375GB/platter, 5,400 RPM and 7,200 RPM, 2.5-inch hard drives – the Travelstar™ 5K750 and the Travelstar 7K750 hard drive families.
Featuring the industry’s highest capacities in a standard 9.5mm two-disk design, the new drives come in capacities of 750GB, 640GB and 500GB. The drives are built on Hitachi’s proven platform for quality and reliability, and feature innovative technology that delivers high shock protection, low power and fast performance for a variety of notebook computers, external storage solutions, gaming consoles and other mobile devices.
The Travelstar 5K750 and 7K750 drive families are the first Hitachi GST hard drives that feature Advanced Format. Advanced Format increases the physical sector size on hard drives from 512 bytes to 4096 (4K) bytes. This helps utilize the storage surface area more efficiently, allowing for increased drive capacities and improved data integrity at higher storage densities. By integrating Hitachi drives with the new Advanced Format, IT managers, system integrators and OEMs can take advantage of the latest operating systems to deliver new high-capacity, power-efficient systems.
The Travelstar 5K750 is currently shipping in volume. It will be available through Hitachi GST distribution channels by November 2010.
CommVault introduces Simpana 9 to modernize data management with major gains in IT efficiency, cost optimization & scale
October 5, 2010
The introduction and availability of CommVault’s next generation release Simpana® 9 breaks new ground by enabling companies to deploy for the first time truly modern data management that bridges the physical storage world and the rapidly emerging virtual one.
As enterprises transform their IT landscapes to improve operational efficiency and reduce costs, legacy data management products lack the intelligence, automation and scalability to protect, store and recover vast amounts of data proliferating across physical, virtual and cloud computing environments.
The latest release of Simpana software solves these real-world IT challenges with major technology advancements, including increased virtualization scalability and performance, integrated source and target data deduplication, automatic and transparent integration with hardware array-based snapshots, as well as new tools that ease migration to CommVault’s next generation Simpana 9 platform.
With Simpana 9, CommVault delivers on its forward-looking vision of a better way to manage data, making it easier for customers to buy, deploy and support a data and information management strategy built on the industry’s first modern data management software. By tightly integrating snapshot, replication and persistent copies that are secure, deduplicated and all managed by one protection policy behind a single pane of glass, Simpana 9 makes it easy for companies to not only backup and protect their data, but to quickly and easily find, access and recover it anywhere and at any time.
The announcement came in as the first in a two-pronged launch with additional information management capabilities to be announced later this month.
Tata Communications Expands its Cloud Offering
October 7, 2010
Tata Communications announced the launch of InstaCompute and InstaOffice to further its promise of bringing productivity enhancing services to Indian businesses. The launch marked the company’s expansion in the cloud space to deliver self-service, pay-as-you-use IT application and data center infrastructure services, accessed through the Internet.
Combining its global IP network and 300,000 sq. ft of Indian data center space with its managed services capabilities, Tata Communications will help Indian businesses harness the power of IT infrastructure and applications without them needing to invest capital, manpower and management resources.
The India-specific model provides businesses with a clear understanding of how this new infrastructure can be leveraged and simplifies payment options on a pay-as-you-grow basis.
InstaCompute and InstaApps will free up considerable financial and managerial resources in the transition from a capex-heavy, on-premise model, to a pay-as-you-use model. Customers can focus their energies on pursuing their growth opportunities while relying on Tata Communications to deliver the technology infrastructure to support their business ambitions.
Airtel digital TV launches two attractive offers for new customers this festive season
October 7, 2010
Airtel digital TV, the DTH arm of Bharti Airtel, announced two powerful combos on new subscriptions for customers across India. The Limited Period Offers come on the eve of the festival season.
Offer 1: Customers purchasing a new Airtel digital TV connection @ Rs.1690 need not recharge their Airtel digital TV accounts for the next 4 months. They would be entitled to 4 months free subscription to the Economy Pack (around 150 popular channels, worth Rs.200+taxes) thereby enabling them to make the move to the next generation DTH technology on Airtel, for an effective price of just Rs.806!
Offer 2: New customers who purchase a new Airtel digital TV connection for Rs.999 and get started with an initial recharge of just Rs.200.
Times Internet Limited top Indian network in Indian online space
Sept. 27, 2010
As per the latest comScore data, released for August 2010 for India, Times Internet Limited is the leading Indian internet network, in India. Times Internet limited is ahead of other internet networks and stood seventh overall in India.
As per comScore world wide release for August, 2010, TIL stands at 15.8 million unique visitors, with timesofindia.com at 8.3 million, economictimes.com at 1.67 million and zigwheels at 1.1 million unique visitors.
Spice Digital makes senior appointments to boost growth in the VAS market
October 8, 2010
To strengthen its position in the Indian and the international VAS market, Spice Digital announced the appointment of Mr. Lokesh Gupta as the Chief Operating Officer for Northern & Eastern Region, Mr. Sudhir Kathuria as the Chief Operating Officer for Western Region, and Mr. Pankaj Gupta as the Chief Operating Officer for Southern Region.
This move is expected to help Spice Digital consolidate its Indian operations while capitalizing on its marketing & intellectual capital. These recent appointments are aimed at boosting the overall growth of the company in the ever growing and highly competitive Indian telecom industry.
TTL Launches VAS Portfolio to Take CWG 2010 Updates to Subscribers
October 1, 2010
Tata Teleservices Limited, India’s fastest-growing pan-India dual technology telecom service provider, launched a Commonwealth 2010 Value Added Service portfolio for all its customers across the Tata DOCOMO, Tata Indicom and Virgin Mobile brands. The service ensures extensive Commonwealth Games information dissemination to subscribers, with real-time updates, happenings, alerts, results, interesting facts and much more.
Tata Indicom customers can access four services—Commonwealth Games on SMS, Commonwealth Games Zone, Commonwealth Games Radio and Commonwealth Games Theme as Welcome Tune.
Tata DOCOMO customers can avail four services—Commonwealth Games on SMS, Download of Commonwealth Theme Songs by AR Rehman and Kailash Kher as My Song & CRBT, Commonwealth Games on Radio and a Special Zone on the Tata DOCOMO Dive In portal.
Virgin Mobile customers can avail three services—Special SMS Pack, CWG Special Tring Tunes and CWG Special Zone on the vBytes Portal. These services are applicable across all operating telecom Circles, and each mobile brand will offer differentiated services to both pre-paid and post-paid customers.
Aircel plans US$ 500 million investment on 3G roll out
September 29, 2010
Aircel announced to invest US$ 500 million on the initial infrastructure roll out of the third generation (3G) mobile services in India. Aircel won 3G spectrum in 13 circles for Rs 6499.46 crore and BWA spectrum in eight circles for Rs 3438.01 crore and is expected to cover the top ten cities in each circle where it is present.
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