Symbian Creamation 2012 + Nokia Looted Indian Customers – Can 2 Losers Make a Winner ?
The Nokia Forum has announced that the Symbian OS will be cremated by Dec-12 paving way for a Nokia and Microsoft partnership to work. It is evident to me that Steve Ballmer injected the deadly Microsoft Virus into the Nokia and scheduled its termination like Cancer disease. Stephen Elop, CEO of Nokia was former President @ Microsoft Business Vertical.
Lets have a quick look at Nokia and its Indian connection. Nokia setup a dedicated manufacturing unit in India realizing the market Read more
India National Telecom Policy 2011 – Government’s Views
The first National Telecom Policy was written in 1994 and subsequently changed as the New Telecom Policy in 1999 and amended in 2004. With the 2G Wireless Spectrum Scam at the helm of affairs in Parliament, Supreme Court, CBI, the Government will unveil India’s National Telecom Policy 2011 shortly. April 2011 is the deadline the Minister has set for himself. We already know that at the roundtable with Telecom operators, every operator was busy protecting his interest and thus the opinions were divided to extremes when it came to Spectrum, Licensing and yearly recurring fees on the same.
Here is the sense which I get from Minister’s underlying Read more
Voice of Airtel + Vodafone + Idea Cellular + Uninor in metting with Telecom Minister
The Minister of Communications and IT, Kapil Sibal held a roundtable with all the Telecom Operators in India. Here is a brief excerpt on who said what in the meeting and eventually we will analyze what was the tone of the Telecom Minister – Kapil Sibal.
2G / 2.5G Spectrum Limits and Future Allocations:
Currently TRAI has suggested 6.2Mhz as the committed spectrum for GSM telcos beyond which an excess charge would apply. DoT will accept it or not will be seen very soon. Here is how various stake holders responded.
- Reliance Communications agrees with TRAI.
- Vodafone disagress and believes that this is artificial.
- Airtel believes all spectrum allocated is in line with the policy, rules and regulations and the policy is for 15Mhz, so a 6.2Mhz cap should not apply. They do not believe that those with 4.4Mhz waiting for 6.2 should be given priority as allocation criteria (subscriber linked) applies to all.
- Idea Cellular echoed Airtel’s views.
- Aircel stated that 6.2Mhz should be awarded immediately or as and when the telcos reach the subscriber linked criteria. Telcos who have received start-up spectrum and have met the subscriber linked criteria should be given priority.
- Sistema Shyam / MTS contracted spectrum (5MHz for CDMA, 6.2 Mhz for GSM) should be given without any extra charge.
- Uninor believes that it is Read more
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