If you can’t compete, legislate. In terms of telco, the policy seems to be giving a clear hand-out to PSU’s MTNL and BSNL. A report by the Standing Committe on IT this year stated BSNL was losing 8% market share every year to private telcos. Both telco’s perform averagely on…

Reliance Globacom, a division of Reliance Communications, has signed an alliance with Internap (NSDQ: INAP) Network Services to launch a Content Delivery Network. Under the alliance, Internap would set up a ‘point-of-presence’ in India which would be established and managed by Globacom. We had previously covered Tata Communications tying up…

Looks like it’s a swayamvar for MTN, right? After negotiations with Bharti-Airtel broke down, it appears that MTN is now in talks with Reliance Communications. RCom has informed (pdf)the BSE that the ADA Group telco has entered into exclusive negotiations for a period of upto 45 days, for “a potential…

Some updates from The Times on Reliance Globalcom’s (RGCom) proposed IPO: The company, into which the Reliance ADA Group had integrated its entire global telecom operations, is planning to list in London, though it’s not specified whether they’ll list on the LSE or the AIM. Apparently, the company is valued…

Reliance Communications, the CDMA telecom operator from the ADA Group added 18 million subscribers this year, compared to 8 million last year. This brings its total tally to 46 million customers. Anil Ambani, Chairman of ADAG repeatedly reiterated the grand scope of the GSM rollout: the company aims to set…

Indian telecom major Reliance Communications has acquired 90 percent stake in UK based WiMax co eWave World. The acquisition has been made through Reliance Infocom BV, a division of Reliance Globalcom, which is a subsidiary of Reliance Communications. The value of the deal has not been disclosed, though, as always,…

Over the past couple of years, Reliance Communications (RCOM) executives have often spoken about Cadbury’s promo they did around exam results - students were shown Cadbury’s Dairy Milk advert if they passed the exam. Exam results appear to have made money for RCOM. Now they’ve launched Exam Guru with exam…

What is that they say about throwing out the baby with the bathwater? Concerns around security concerns have become a cause for concern for mobile operators and Blackberry users in India: the Department of Telecom has written to mobile operators providing Blackberry services in India, asking about whether there is…

Update: The Hindu reports that Reliance Communications has acquired Uganda based Anupam Global Soft, which holds telecom licenses for Uganda: a public infrastructure provider licence (PIPL) and public service provider licence (PSPL), which allow it to offer mobile, fixed line, Internet, National and International Long Distance services, as well as…

[with inputs from Cerius Shah] —BSNL has decided to reduce tariffs for leased line Internet ports by up to 33 percent, which might result in a reduction of Internet access costs. A one mbps connection will now cost ISPs Rs. 5.1 lakh, down from Rs. 8.5 lakh. Whether this reduction…

Times Financial Services (TFS) has tied up with Reliance Communications International (RCI), the US based subsidiary of Reliance Communications (RCOM) to offer mobile remittance services, reports ET. The alliance apparently allows users to remit money from bank to bank while on the move. RCom currently offers Reliance Global Calling services.…

—Mahesh Prasad, President of RCom’s Applications, Solutions and Content group has told Business Standard in an interview that the net contribution from VAS (the story says ‘network contribution’) each month is in the range of 10-15 per cent. Mobile advertising is a very small component of this. —The Department of…

There’s much controversy about Reliance Communications being allowed to jump queue and pay just Rs. 1651 for a GSM license and the valuable spectrum that comes with it, while GSM existing players are struggling to provide quality services. I don’t know about you, but I’ve had several instances of dropped…

“There’s no game deck management guru around today”, said Krishna Durba, Head VAS, Business & Marketing for Reliance Infocomm, responding to my questions on deck management - what kind of experience do their deck managers have in content development or gaming. On further prodding, he suggested that he’s open to…

The Zee group has come out all guns blazing on the issue of allocation of licenses and spectrum for Mobile TV in India. The group has told the TRAI in comments submitted on Mobile TV that just having the capability to transmit TV content doesn’t mean that Telecom operators do…

—Tata Indicom has tied up with Japan based NTT to allow NTT subscribers to use Indicom’s WiFi network in India. Indicom already provides a similar service to roaming subscribers of Singapore based Starhub. Indicom has over 350 WiFi hotspots in India, and has plans to increase that number to 1000.…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is in early stages of negotiations with Reliance Communications (RCom) to lease 500 GB bandwidth of group company Flag Telecom’s trans-Pacific undersea communications cable, reports Business Standard. Can’t be too certain of this report, though - at one point the story says that it’s a long term…

And they’re expected to launch this service “shortly, if not within a week” very soon, if you go by this Business Standard report. Reliance Communications (RCOM) and ICICI Bank have apparently completed trial runs in metros. The service enables consumers to transfer up to Rs. 5000 per transaction to other…

Surya Mantha, CEO of Web 18, writes on agencyfaqs.com that one major hurdle for mobile TV in India will be inadequate battery life. “If people are going to watch a lot of videos on their mobiles, then where is the juice left for making calls and playing games etc,” he…