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Articles 321 through 420 of 500:
- The Line Is Busy (Business Standard, Editorial, Business Standard, Apr 14, 2006)
Even as the telecom market grows exponentially (40 per cent last year), the regulation of this vital industry is coming up short. For many months now, mobile phone service providers have been demanding more spectrum allocation—for free, to be . . .
- Bsnl Earns Rs. 60-Cr. Revenue (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 14, 2006)
The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, Nizamabad unit, has earned a revenue of Rs.60 crores through its landline and cellphone services in the just concluded financial year as against Rs.52 crores during the previous financial year.
- Bsnl Shortlists 8 Cos For Ild (Business Line, Thomas K Thomas, Apr 12, 2006)
France Telecom, MCI, SingTel, Telekom Italia among others in the fray
- How To Enhance Growth And Competitiveness (Business Line, Pradeep S. Mehta, Apr 12, 2006)
Government policies need to be framed and implemented in harmony with the market process and not in a manner that stalls it.
- Rejuvenating An Idea? (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Apr 11, 2006)
The decision of Aditya Birla Novo Ltd (ABNL) to hike its stake in Idea Cellular marks the first stage in the resolution of differences between the Tata and AV Birla camps over their stakes in the telecom company.
- Bsnl Pegs Revenue Loss At Rs 2,000 Cr (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Apr 11, 2006)
BSNL will lose Rs 2,000 crore to the drop in tariffs, lower Access Deficit Charge (ADC) receipts and the government’s refusal to refund as much license fees as the telecom giant wants.
- Bsnl Challenges Order On Adc (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 31, 2006)
Opposing the massive reduction in a fee paid by private operators, state-owned BSNL has challenged the rate cut announced by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), saying its rural operations would be severely hit as a result.
- E-Seva, The Citizen-Friendly Face Of E-Governance (The Financial Express, S SADAGOPAN, Mar 31, 2006)
A key component of e-governance is to provide governments with a citizen-friendly face.
- Trai Exempts Small Players From Accounting Separation (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 28, 2006)
Only for cell operators, fixed line and long-distance providers
Separation norms
TRAI has decided that the Accounting Separation Regulation will be applicable to only those service providers that had minimum turnover of Rs 25 crore for the . . .
- Bsnl To Raise 3g Toast In $5 Bn Gsm Tender (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 24, 2006)
Bsnl’s $5 billion (Rs 20,000 crore) tender for 60 million GSM lines has kept a 25 per cent capacity for 3G services in the hope of a policy thaw.
- Bsnl Suffers Loss From Data Access India Deal (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 20, 2006)
Possibility of recovering money is remote as the company is in the process of liquidation: CAG
Bank guarantees not submitted by private firm for 10 of 17 PoIs
52 post-dated cheques worth Rs. 85 crores bounced
BSNL failed to disconnect PoIs in time
- Bsnl Gets Flak Over Hazardous Waste (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 18, 2006)
Environmentalists might have been successful in forcing the French to stop the asbestos-laden Clemenceau before it made it to the shipbreaking yards in Gujarat, but our own BSNL seems to be adding to the danger posed by hazardous waste in the country.
- Mobile Phone Companies To Share Infrastructure In Metros (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 14, 2006)
Working group to be set up shortly to determine the modalities of sharing
Sharing will start with Delhi and Mumbai
Impact of sharing will be seen within eight weeks
BSNL, MTNL form part of the agreement
- No, Your Honour (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Mar 13, 2006)
Why are we being forced, by order of a judge, to a system that 95 of every 100 people, when given a choice, have declined? For, that is exactly what the Delhi high court order to implement within four weeks in Delhi, Mumbai . . .
- Bsnl To Give Ofc Network In Five Cities (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 13, 2006)
The Rs. 20-crore plan is likely to be completed by 2007
250 km of optical fibre cable to be laid
95 new mobile towers to be installed across the State
ECS to be extended to mobile phone
- Bsnl Cuts Isd Rates Under Oneindia Plan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Calls to U.S., U.K. to cost Rs. 6 a minute
- Election Commission To Look Into Complaint Against Bsnl (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 10, 2006)
Allegation that advertisement attached to latest phone bills violates model code
Ad claims reduction in subscriber trunk dialling rates under `OneIndia plan is an achievement
It carries pictures of Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi, Karunanidhi and Dayanid
- Bsnl Cuts Isd Tariff (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 09, 2006)
BSNL today slashed international long-distance call rates to Rs 6 a minute, with 10 seconds pulse, for users opting One India tariff plan.
- Bsnl Struggles To Cope With Demand For Wll (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Mar 08, 2006)
Efforts on to complete installation of 18 towers for CellOne services by March-end
Authorities contemplating a change of software in the functioning of WLL phones
BSNL plans expansion of broadband connections
240 broadband connections were sanctione
- The Blunted Strike Weapon (Daily Excelsior, Tushar Charan, Mar 04, 2006)
The Left affiliatedwtrade unions will perhaps do well to mull over their age-old strategies now that the airport workers strike that they had engineered in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata had brought only egg on their face.
- The Blunted Strike Weapon (Daily Excelsior, Tushar Charan, Mar 04, 2006)
The Left affiliatedwtrade unions will perhaps do well to mull over their age-old strategies now that the airport workers strike that they had engineered in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata had brought only egg on their face.
- Set The Interconnect Issue Right (The Economic Times, Rajesh Kalra, Feb 28, 2006)
Communications minister Dayanidhi Maran’s ‘India One’ scheme has everyone excited. While the minister himself cannot stop gloating over the Re 1 per minute call from anywhere to anywhere in India, several others see it as no more than a political stunt.
- The Adc Switch (Business Line, Editorial, Business Line, Feb 27, 2006)
The long-awaited changes to the Access Deficit Charge regime have finally come through, after nearly a year of intense debate, since the last major alteration in this subsidy.
- Bsnl To Add 46,000 Broadband Connections In One Month (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 24, 2006)
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) today said it will add 46,000 broadband connections in a month to finish the current fiscal with 85,000 broadband customers in Maharashtra and Goa circles.
- Trai Issues Changes In Interconnect Charges (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 24, 2006)
Long distance call tariffs to come down
No ADC on rural revenue of operators
Monitoring mechanism of payment to be strengthened
- Telecom Sector Comes To The Rescue Of Chidambaram (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 24, 2006)
He plans to earn over Rs. 5,000 crore from the segment this fiscal too
Subscribers pay 10.2 per cent to the exchequer on every phone call made or a SIM card purchased
- Std Rates Set To Fall Further (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 24, 2006)
The reduction could lead to a revenue loss of about Rs 1,800 crore per annum for the BSNL.
- Bsnl To Offer New Package From March 1 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 22, 2006)
Applicable to rural and urban customers
The BSNL is launching on March 1 a new package, `One India' plan which will enable the customers of BSNL to call to any place in India at any time at a cost of Re. 1 per minute.
- Pcos Book Rs 500 Cr Private Call (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 20, 2006)
BSNL losing big money in commissions for personal calls.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is losing over Rs 500 crore in commission every year due to owners of public call offices using PCOs for personal business.
- Should Mlas Be Made Board Chiefs? (Deccan Herald, Krishna Prasad, Feb 17, 2006)
Expanding the Council of Ministers this afternoon will be easy for H D Kumaraswamy.
- One India (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Feb 15, 2006)
The PSUs have carried the fight into the competitor’s camp
- More The Merrier (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Feb 14, 2006)
India's telecom story underscores an elementary point with more competition, the consumer emerges an unequivocal winner.
- The Real Thing (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Feb 13, 2006)
It’s only apt that state-run companies Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) should have kicked off the uniform nationwide rates announced earlier by IT and communications minister Dayanidhi Maran . . .
- Telecom Psus Launch One-India Plan (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 11, 2006)
STD call at Re 1 a minute across the country
In a major bonanza to subscribers, telecom PSUs, BSNL and MTNL, today launched “OneIndia” plan charging maximum tariff of Re 1 for a call to any place in the country.
- Re. 1 Call From March 1 (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 11, 2006)
`OneIndia Plan' made possible with higher rentals; no free calls
Distinction between fixed line and cellular tariffs will vanish
New tariff expected to stem surrender of landlines and help growth
- Lower Phone Rates On The Cards, Says Maran (Hindu, SANDEEP DIKSHIT, Feb 11, 2006)
OneIndia tariff plan is to meet rural India needs
Claiming credit for the countrywide common call rate, Union Communications Minister Dayanidhi Maran said on Friday that private companies would also reduce phone charges as soon as the Government . . .
- Call Anywhere In India For Re 1 (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 11, 2006)
BSNL and MTNL announced the “OneIndia” plan which introduces a uniform Re 1 per minute tariff for all long-distance calls made anywhere within the country anytime of the day.
- Ringing In A Rupee-A-Minute Regime (Indian Express, Ravi Visvesvaraya Prasad, Feb 11, 2006)
The share prices of BSNL and MTNL rose by about three per cent the instant Telecom Minister Dayanidhi Maran announced his pet ‘One India’ plan, under which BSNL and MTNL lowered their STD tariffs to Rs 1 per minute . . .
- Bsnl, Mtnl To Cut Long Distance Call Rates (Reuters, Nigam Prusthy, Feb 11, 2006)
State-run telecoms firms BSNL and MTNL on Friday cut long distance call rates to one rupee per minute under a new tariff plan aimed at boosting usage and matching their competitors.
- One India, One Query (Indian Express, Editorial, Indian Express, Feb 11, 2006)
Good news rings again for consumers. But when will BSNL and MTNL merge?
- Oneindia Tariff Likely On Monday (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Feb 05, 2006)
BSNL and MTNL are likely to announce the much-awaited Re. 1-a-minute STD rates for their fixed line users under OneIndia plan on Monday.
- Non-Tax Revenues — Correcting The Fiscal Imbalance (Business Line, Vipin Agarwal, Jan 31, 2006)
The fundamental problem behind arresting the revenue deficit is the rising expenditure unmatched by corresponding means of finance. Although the tax rates have been moderated, the incidence of indirect taxation remains high.
- Bsnl Puts Off Uniform Call Rate Plan (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 27, 2006)
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited's (BSNL) much-awaited plan to launch a country-wide uniform calling rate that would have reduced STD rates by up to 70 per cent from Republic Day was called off due to technical and legal difficulties.
- Bsnl Board Discusses Oneindia Plan (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 26, 2006)
Deliberations went on late into the night, but a full board of state-owned telecom company BSNL failed to deliver OneIndia to the Ministry of Communications.
- Corporate Responsibility Award For Bsnl (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 25, 2006)
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) has bagged an award for corporate social responsibility instituted by the Institution of Directors. BSNL's Director (Finance) S. D. Saxena received the award from Delhi Chief Minister, Shiela Dikshit.
- Bsnl Ties Up With Malaysian Co For Axia Handsets (Business Line, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 24, 2006)
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has entered into an exclusive agreement with Malaysia-based Fifth Media to launch the world's smallest PDA handset using Microsoft Windows platform — Axia, in India. The mobile handset will be branded as CellOne-Axia and ..
- Sog Men Worked For Harkat, Bank Officials For Lashkar (Daily Excelsior, Ahmed Ali Fayyaz, Jan 23, 2006)
Days after Police unearthed the "coalition of terror" involving two councilors of the PDP and Congress parties in Srinagar, a deadlier Police-militant nexus has surfaced in Shopian area of south Kashmir.
- Takeoff! (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jan 20, 2006)
Jet-Sahara deal may lead the way for more
It’s official. After weeks of speculation, Jet Airways on Thursday announced its take-over of Air Sahara.
- Grey Area Busted (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jan 19, 2006)
Fixed wireless phone is limited mobile: TDSAT
The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) judgement declaring Reliance Infocomm’s fixed wireless terminals (FWTs) as a “limited mobile” service has resolved one of the biggest . . .
- Cheaper Servers In India By June (Hindustan Times, Shailesh Shekhar, Jan 18, 2006)
The Government is working on a plan to create speedier and cheaper servers to host websites and also create an Indian language translation browser.
- Bsnl Sell Off Plans Hit Another Hurdle (Indian Express, PRAGYA SINGH, Jan 17, 2006)
Adding fuel to the ongoing fuss over the government’s desire to sell off shares in telecom PSU BSNL, a majority Union of the PSU has extracted an assurance from the government that there is no proposal for its disinvestment.
- Bsnl May Pay Up To Rs 5 Bn Interim Dividend To Govt (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 07, 2006)
As part of its resource generating exercise, Finance Ministry is expected to start consultations from tomorrow with some profit-making PSUS, including BSNL to discuss and determine interim dividend for the year 2005-06.
- A Good Start, Indeed, To The New Year (The Financial Express, S SADAGOPAN, Jan 06, 2006)
BSNL, the public sector telecom giant, gave its landline customers a New Year gift by slashing rentals by as much as 28%, from Rs 250 per month to Rs 180 per month, ...
- Bsnl To Introduce Latest Hi-Speed Broadband Tech — Floats Global Tender For Gpon (Business Line, Thomas K. Thomas, Jan 06, 2006)
You will soon get broadband connection with speeds greater than one gigabit per second with Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd floating a global tender for supply of the latest in broadband technology — Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Network (GPON).
- Bsnl May Pay Up To Rs 5 Bn Interim Dividend To Govt (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 06, 2006)
As part of its resource generating exercise, Finance Ministry is expected to start consultations from tomorrow with some profit-making PSUS, including BSNL to discuss and determine interim dividend for the year 2005-06.
- Bsnl Adds One Million Mobile Users (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) on Wednesday said it added more than a million mobile users in December 2005. This is the largest-ever monthly addition by a single carrier in the fastest-growing wireless market.
- Pdd Fails To Restore Power In Valley (Daily Excelsior, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 05, 2006)
Making a mockery of their tall claims and assurances to Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad here yesterday, Power Development Department (PDD) authorities have failed to restore electricity to the winter-hit Kashmir valley.
- Indian Chip Plans Unlimited Chip Plans Unlimited (Hindu, P. Manoj, Jan 04, 2006)
`Desi' silicon chips to bring cheers to Indians `Desi' silicon chips to bring cheers to Indians
- The Devil Is In The Detail (The Financial Express, Ravi Visvesvaraya Prasad, Jan 03, 2006)
India’s telecom subscribers rece-ived welcome New Year gifts in the form of reduced rate plans from various service providers. These new plans have been driven by three major factors.
- Pampered, But Not Yet King! (The Financial Express, Editorial, Financial Express, Jan 03, 2006)
Reliance Infocomm’s Re 1/min long-distance plan is not only the most aggressive reduction in mobile call rates seen in a long time.
- Bsnl Likely To Cut Ild Rates From March (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2006)
International long distance (ILD) telephony call rates of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) are likely to fall by up to 20 per cent after March as the telecom monolith is all set to install its own long distance infrastructure in the four metros and....
- Bomb Scare In Cm’S House (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2006)
A call claiming that a bomb would go off at Anugraha, the official residence of Chief Minister N Dharam Singh in Bangalore in the wee hours of Monday morning, turned out to be hoax.
- A Wireless Future, Mostly Mobile (Indian Express, MAHESH UPPAL, Jan 03, 2006)
With Motorola manufacturing “ultra-cheap” mobile phones in India for Indians, the most heartening outcome of telecom reforms — the urban poor with cell phones — has got a new dimension. More urban Indians from low income groups will be “mobile” now.
- State-Run Bsnl Is Set To Invite Bids By January 15 From Equipment Providers To Add 60 Million Mobile Lines, The Largest Ever Tender In India's Telecoms Sector (India Daily, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 03, 2006)
State-run BSNL is set to invite bids by January 15 from equipment providers to add 60 million mobile lines, ...
- Bsnl Joins Tariff War, Cuts Monthly Rentals By 28% (Business Standard, Correspondent or Reporter, Jan 01, 2006)
India’s largest telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) today responded to tariff cuts by private players by announcing a 28 per cent reduction in monthly rentals for fixed lines and a pre-paid scheme with life-long validity for its mobile . . .
- Bsnl Cuts Fixed Line Rental By 28% — Airtel, Tata Tele Snip Cell Rates (Business Line, CP Bhambhri, Dec 31, 2005)
IT'S New Year's eve and telecom operators could not be far behind in adding to the consumer's party.
- Bsnl Cuts Rentals (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) on Friday announced a 28 per cent reduction in the rentals for fixed line phones and a lifetime validity mobile card. The Rs. 949 lifetime prepaid card will have a talk time of Rs. 99.
- Bsnl’S Festival Bonanza (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
Worried over its shrinking customer base where it is losing 10,000 subscribers a day, Bharat Sanchar Nigal Limited today announced a festival bonanza — 28 per cent reduction in its fixed line tariff and lifetime pre-paid connections for its mobile . . .
- Bsnl Cuts Fixed Line Rentals, Launches Lifetime Card In Mobile (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 31, 2005)
Taking the ongoing tariff war from mobile to fixed lines, state-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd today announced up to 28 per cent cut in the tariffs for fixed line telecom services by reducing the monthly rentals.
- Kerala Telecom Scores Another Point (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2005)
What do you do when you end a particular year in a blaze of glory? Start the new year with a song on your lips.
- Bsnl To Offer Full Talk Time On Recharge Coupon (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 25, 2005)
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited is offering full talk time on recharge coupon of Rs. 1,000 up to December 31. Recharge coupons of Rs. 200 and Rs. 3,000 will have 25 per cent more talk time.
- Govt To Consider Merger Of Bsnl With Mtnl (Press Trust of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 25, 2005)
The government is going to consider the issue of merger between BSNL and MTNL on the basis of suggestions made by a financial consultant appointed by the Centre, chairman and managing director of BSNL A K Sinha said today.
- Tata Tele Recharges Itself (Business Standard, Shobhana Subramanian, Dec 23, 2005)
CEO sees subscription growing 3-times by 2007.
With 1 million subscriptions from its “Non-Stop Mobile” scheme in just 45 days, Tata Teleservices has increased its market share in the mobile wireless space to 4.5 per cent in November . . .
- Maran Sees Foreign Investment Boom In Phones, It (Reuters, Shailendra Bhatnagar and Terry Friel, Dec 22, 2005)
Planned foreign investment in India's booming telecoms and information technology sector is expected to double to $22 billion in 2006, as the world's top companies focus on the country, its IT and telecoms minister said.
- Bsnl Sees Red As Govt Mulls Change Of Operator (Business Standard, Joji Thomas Philip, Dec 21, 2005)
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has slammed the finance ministry’s recommendations that all government departments, ministries and officials be permitted to use the services of all private telecom operators.
- Bsnl, Mtnl May Tie Up For Cable Link (Business Standard, Joji Thomas Philip, Dec 20, 2005)
At present, both PSUs use VSNL for international traffic.
Even though merger talks between Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd and Mahanagar Telecom Nigam Ltd have been put on the back-burner, the government is exploring the possibility of forming a joint ...
- Get Going On Rural Telecom (The Economic Times, Editorial, Economic Times, Dec 15, 2005)
The department of telecommunication (DoT) has reportedly agreed to let telcos share infrastructure in rural areas.
- Now, A Waiting List For Mobile Phones!bsnl Has 1.4 Million Seeking Connection (Business Standard, Thomas K. Thomas, Dec 12, 2005)
Cellular uptake in the country is picking up so rapidly that operators now have a waiting list, something which consumers used to dread when fixed line telephones were popular.
- Bsnl Planning Rs 800-Cr Undersea Cable To West Asia (Business Line, Thomas K. Thomas, Dec 11, 2005)
In a move that could further erode Tata-managed Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd's international long distance business, State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd is embarking on a Rs 800-crore plan to lay an undersea cable linking India and West Asia.
- Kodagu Bsnl To Set Up 20 More Towers (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 10, 2005)
Cellphone connections to go up by 12,000; improvement in efficiency promised
There 15 working mobile stations now
Cellphone connections number 14,600
CDMA-enabled WLL technology commissioned
Over 100 applications received for Broadband connections
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