After the Indian government gave green flag to launching 3G services in India, Airtel has taken this story further. The company will be launching 3G services soon. Airtel has recently tested 3G applications with various suppliers and will be soon launching 3G services in India. Initially the company will be launching these services in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore cause these are the 2 places where Airtel has testes their 3G applications, reports Economic Times. The DoT will be allotting 3G spectrum to various mobile service players in India and Airtel will be taking good advantage of this opportunity. Airtel has also partnered with SingTel who has experience is offering 3G services. By the way, many countries have started adopting 4G when India is on its way to embrace 3G but I am sure that India will catch up soon.
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Bad news for BlackBerry users
The DoT (Department of Telecommunications) Government of India has issued a stern warning to telecom companies to put the required security system in place within 15 days or stop the services.
Officials in DoT said a directive had been issued to service providers to work with officials of Blackberry licensor Research in Motion (RIM) of Canada to provide fool-proof security system.
Vodafone India loosing to Airtel
In a recent report released by COAI its evident that Airtel making Vodafone India (formerly Hutch) go nuts !!
Bharti Airtel’s net addition in Jan 08 were better than the previous best !!
Vodafone’s net additions are getting lesser..
So the question is whether Airtel is growing at Vodafone’s expense ?
Would it have been better if Vodafone stayed as Hutch Continue reading “Vodafone India loosing to Airtel”
Nokia Siemens Networks bags multi-million Euro IVR deal from Bharti Airtel
If your on Airtel Network , You can expect a lot of Voice Based services from Bharti Airtel in the coming years
Nokia Siemens has just bagged a multi-million euro deal from Bharti Airtel for deployment of a single Interactive Voice Response (IVR) . Bharti Airtel awarded this pan India contract to Nokia Siemens Networks for deployment of a single Interactive Voice Response (IVR) platform across all 23 circles. The three year turnkey and multi-million Euro contract includes designing, planning, systems integration and optimization services to enhance overall customer experience. The new IVR solution will enable Airtel to deliver Services such as Voice SMS, Televoting, Call Management Services (Reach-me service / Missed Call Advisor), Caller Ring back Tone (CRBT) and Voice Portal among others on a faster time-to-market basis, reduce OPEX costs due to optimized network utilization, and increase security by creation of a layered architecture towards Interactive Voice applications.
Nokia Siemens Networks will deploy and integrate the latest state-of-the-art platforms to provide a multi-technology, multi-vendor integrated solution that includes systems integration services. The platforms are HP OCMP (Open Call Management Platform), Video Gateway, Televoting Application and ASR/TTS (Automatic Speech Recognition / Text-to-Speech Engine. The solution will be ready for commercial operation by April 2008 and is expected to scale up to one billion minutes of usage per month in three years for Bharti Airtel. Continue reading “Nokia Siemens Networks bags multi-million Euro IVR deal from Bharti Airtel”
Vodafone India plans JV to expand operations in India
Vodafone is currently in expansion mode in India. According to a Wall Street Journal report
Vodafone is planning Joint Venture to speed Indian Expansion.
Theres a lot of rivalry between telecom operators in India but when it comes to cutting costs they seem to be joining hands. Setting up towers is a very costly deal for the tel cos.
Continue reading “Vodafone India plans JV to expand operations in India”
Nokia and Bharti Airtel sign contract for network expansion
Press Release
Nokia and Bharti Airtel sign USD 400 million network expansion, managed services contract
Espoo, Finland – Bharti Airtel Limited has awarded Nokia an estimated USD 400 million contract to expand its managed GSM/GPRS/EDGE networks in eight Airtel circles and deploy a pan-Indian WAP solution across its networks.
As per the three-year contract, Nokia will provide managed services and expand Airtel networks to cover all towns and cities in the eight telecom circles of Mumbai, Maharashtra & Goa, Gujarat, Bihar (including Jharkhand), Orissa, Kolkata, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh (including Chattisgarh). The network monitoring operations will be carried out from Nokia’s state-of-the-art Global Network Services Center in Chennai.
3G might soon be rolled out in India
The Government has alloted low power 3G spectrum to MTNL, BSNL, Hutch and Bharti for testing.TRAI will finalize pricing and allocation details by end of this month.Sources say that 3G spectrum allocation will be made available for less than a month. Strength of spectrum allocation will be 1,000 times less than the actual 3G spectrum.
TATA Teleservices had sought 3G trial spectrum but was not considered.Reliance had sought the 1900 MHz Band which did not conform to the International CDMA 3G trial norms.
But if Reliance sought the 800 Mhz band for Testing EVDO , it might be considered
The government’s spectrum allocation to telcos is mainly for equipment testing and
interference measurement.
via [ibn-live]
Airtel GPRS plans
I would like to take you through the various plans available from Airtel for GPRS.
Airtel does not advertise supporting EDGE through their Mobile Office service but you
cansee a noticeable difference in the latency if your handset supports EDGE like my Nokia
6630. Airtel has a Data Card service which competes with Reliance CDMA Data Card and
Tata Indicom CDMA Data Card.
Here are the plans for Airtel Postpaid User
Plan 1
Rs.399 per month
100 MB Free Usage
Rs.5 per extra MB
Plan 2
Rs.599 per month
1GB Free Usage
Rs.3 per extra MB
Plan 3
Rs. 799 per month
1.5 GB Free Usage
Rs.3 per extra MB
The tarrifs are taken from Airtel’s site
The above plans not only allow you to connect to the internet from your mobile phone but also allow you to use your Laptop or PC . Its can be be a life saver in a place where you dont have internet access otherwise and cannot find a cyber cafe.
Zero Rental GPRS
Airtel and Hutch are coming up with Zero Rental GPRS service as pointed out by Mobile Pundit.
Airtel Chennai offers a zero-rental GPRS service for its post-paid customers at pay-per-use rate of Re 1 per 100 kilobytes. Which works out to Rs 10 per 1MB.
Hutch is also planning to bring out something similar.
Its great news for those people who wish to try the service but not willing to shell out a monthly rental.
Airtel Microsoft tie up to offer Windows Mobile 5.0
Bharti Airtel president Manoj Kohli announced that Microsoft Windows
Mobile 5.0 will be available to Airtel customers on the latest HP I-Paq
and I-Mate handsets. He added that this tieup puts Bharti Airtel among
115 mobile operators, who offer the Windows mobile solutions worldwide.
Indian Telecom giant Bharti Airtel has announced a tie up with Microsoft, which will enable Airtel users to access various MS Office applications and other multimedia products on their handsets. Microsoft Windows Mobile 5.0 will target an estimated four million small and medium enterprise potential users with access to MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Internet Explorer), multi media functionalities like camera, MP3 and video recording.
via [money control]
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Airtel in $100-mn deal with IBM
Airtel -cellular telephony operator, on Thursday announced a 100-million dollar deal with software major IBM to deliver a suit of new product services and applications under a single delivery platform.
“Bharti has partnered with IBM to deliver India’s first “service delivery platform” to enable it to deliver a suit of new range of services to its over 25 million customers,” Manoj Kohli, Bharti-Airtel President, said. The cellular operator is also investing over 100 million dollars in this delivery platform, he added.
IBM, which has been managing the telecom network operations of Bharti-Airtel for a while, will develop, manage and operate the service delivery platform for Airtel.
The platform will enable Bharti to have an integrated environment that will incorporate all of Airtel’s content and application services under one platform, Kohli went on to say.