Tata Comm has had a fairly active quarter, besides launching CDN services in partnership with BitGravity, it’s done a decent job of posting a 40% rise in net profits quarter-on-quarter. However, pay close attention to the same quater last year and you notice both total revenues and net profits have…

netCore has tied up with Tata Teleservices to provide SMS based value added services in Mumbai. The service will include information on public events and emergency updates. As per the release, TTSL will be helping them expand in other territories while netCore will build platforms for their enterprise customers.  The…

Tata Communications has hiked its stake in South African telco Neotel by 30% by acquiring stake in two state-run firms Eskom and Transnet reports ET. Tata had previously acquired 26 percent, bringing the total to a majority 56% stake. Commercials of the acquisition have not been revealed. Neotel had recently…

If I were mean, I’d say that Tata Indicom’s idea of location based services (LBS) is probably a wireless data card connection that actually works. But I’m not, so I won’t say that. There’s news, however, from the telco on the LBS front - Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) has announced that…

Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) India has appointed Madhusudan Mandyam as its CEO, reports Afaqs. Mandyam was earlier president of Tata Teleservices. Branson had earlier stated Virgin was open to alliances with other partners, will these change things considering the lineage of the CEO and that TTSL and Virgin are currently…

A thought-provoking comment from Ajit Balakrishnan, Chairman and CEO of Rediff at the NDTV New Media Congress, yesterday - “underpinning the whole convergence argument is that the TCP/IP protocol needs to become common over TV. When all three channels, Internet, Mobile and TV, offer TCP/IP, it will allow a return…

Tata Teleservices plans to raise $1 billion by selling 15-30% of its stake to private equity and strategic investors reports ET. Tata, as per the latest TRAI report, holds 35.41% of the CDMA market, the second largest in the sector after Reliance. The money raised will be used to finance…

Tata Indicom and Paymate have tied up to provide Indicom subscribers with flight ticketing services. The agreement is currently limited to domestic air tickets. Paymate has also partnered with Kingfisher for an SMS based ticketing service says thisET report. Nikhil adds: Will there be such a thing as exclusivity in…

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…

Tata Comm and BitGravity, a CDN solutions provider based out of California, have partnered to co-brand, resell and jointly market BitGravity’s technology platform in Europe and Asia, as a value-add over Tata’s Global Network. While currently most publishers in the Indian market space use either Akamai (NSDQ: AKAM) or Limelight…

Tata Communications, the recently constituted retail and broadband entity from the Tata Group is looking to raise money to fund its $1 billion investment over the next three years. Mint reports that Temasek, the investment arm of the Singapore Government, is the leading candidate for the stake. Tata Comm is…

Well, it’s official, and the website says - “It’s time to think hatke” (differently): The Virgin Group has announced a ‘brand franchise’ agreement with Tata Teleservices in India for Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM). The Virgin-TTSL joint venture is called Virgin Mobile India, but Virgin’s investment or share were not disclosed.…

[by Cerius Shah Tata Comm, the integrated brand comprising of the fomer VSNL, VSNL international, Teleglobe, Tata Indicom Enterprise Business Unit (TIEBU) and Cipris brands worldwide, has announced a $2 billion plan over three years to fund global expansions. The NYSE listed TATA Comm will make investments to the tune…

[by Cerius Shah] Yash Raj Films (YRF) and VSNL (now Tata Indicom Broadband) have tied up for the web premiere of the SRK starrer Chak De India. Tata Indicom apparently has a library of over 300 Hindi and language movies and 600,000 songs. You need to be a Tata Indicom…

Some data on Tata Teleservices (TTSL) on VAS, from a release by Qualcomm: 9.4 percent of TTSLs overall revenue is from value-added-services (VAS). Around 80 percent of this VAS revenue is from non-SMS services. From Qualcomm’s (NSDQ: QCOM) perspective—TTSL has received 30 million downloads of BREW content and applications in…

—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.…

A fairly significant move, which makes content on the mobile more accessible to the masses: CDMA operator Tata Indicom has launched Tata Zone, a BREW based content portal in local language Hindi. The portal offers a catalogue of applications, instructions and pricing, with content like ringtones, games wallpapers, and information…