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With an eye on tapping the lucrative value added service market in India, Nokia has launched an innovative campaign called “Make My Map” which encourages consumers to give suggestions for their dream mobile applications. Winners of the contest will get the latest N8 mobile from Nokia and the contest is also seen as a build [...]
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It’s not being a happy-happy ride for Vodafone in India! The telecom giant has now moved to the Supreme Court to challenge the decision of Bombay High Court that upheld the showcause notice issued by the Income Tax Department asking the company to pay around $2 billion in taxes over the Hutchison Essar acquisition deal. [...]
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Apple Incs newest iPhone to stay ahead of its competitors in an excessively competitive market of smartphones. Apple’s Chief Executive Steve Jobs was on the stage at its annual developers’ conference in San Francisco amid great anticipation of the first glimpse of its fourth generation iPhones. Shares of Apple have already risen by more than [...]
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Nokia Siemens (a joint venture between Nokia Corp and Siemens AG) is thinking on acquiring fraction of Nortel to strengthen its position in American Market. Post the capturing of this Canada based company, Nokia is looking forward to have Nortel’s research unit (involved in creation of a third generation wireless technology) and carrier networks unit [...]
Telecommunication services provider Vodafone has announced that it has marked 100 million customers in India, following Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communication in achieving the landmark. Now, it has become fifth largest mobile operator in the world after China Mobile and China Unicom. Vodafone India, which is a subsidiary of Vodafone Group, had commenced its operations [...]
With an eye on reaching out to a larger audience, mobile giant Nokia has introduced a very low priced 3G model in India christened as the Nokia 2730 Classic for just Rs 4499 only. The move by Nokia to introduce an easily affordable phone that be used to tap into 3G services is seen by [...]
An inadvertent mistake on part of Nokia wherein its mapping application showed Kashmir as a part of Pakisthan has led to violent protests in some part of the country. Protestors in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh have burnt a Nokia store protesting against the wrong depiction. Incidentally Nokia has officially admitted to its error and has mentioned [...]
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Even after rescheduling of the auctioning for auctioning of 3G spectrum on 30 Jan, yet another delay has come in its way. The reason is the decision of DoT (Department of Telecom) to have Trai’s legal opinion on Finance Ministry’s suggestion of doubling the reserve price. Originally, the process of auctioning the spectrum- radio frequencies [...]
With a series of good Q3 results coming up from different sectors, it is now the turn of Indian Telecom Major Bharti Airtel which posted a net profit of Rs 1976.41 crore for the third quarter ended on December 31, 2008. The company experienced a growth rate of 15 percent in net profits from quarter-to-quarter [...]
Analysts expressed chances of the Centre missing the revenue target of 3G spectrum by a significant amount of Rs.20,000 crore, when the expected collections were estimated to be Rs. 40,000 crore. A brokerage firm’s telecom giant opined that the aim of being able to raise anywhere between Rs.30,000crore- Rs. 40,000 crore has always been unrealistic. [...]