On Premise PABX to stay in India

Recently, during my visit to Indian Telecom 2009 exhibition, I have met many people working in PABX industry in India for last 20 years or so. Interaction with them has been very informative for me.

Almost everybody was anonymous that, on premise EPABX will not vanish from Indian market for many years to come. According to many people, as long as Indian railways and PSUs do not opt for hosted PBX solutions, it is difficult for hosted PBX to grab substantial market share in Indian PBX market. Presently, Indian Railways, government offices and various government enterprises constitute the majority users of PABX in India. They constitute all high cost PABX market share in India.

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India Telecom 2009 : Exhibition in New Delhi, India

I had visited Indian Telecom 2009, exhibition held from 3rd Dec 2009 to 5th Dec 2009 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.
I reached rather late at 1:30PM from Rajiv Chowk ( previously Connaught Place) as the traffic was heavy. When I entered, I was surprised to find the registration counter almost empty! Any exhibition or trade fair that I had attended so far, I never experienced empty registration counter. I thought it must be the time as 1:30PM is normally lunch hour.

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BSNL – the lone ranger

Have you thought about Indian Telecom industry and BSNL ? You will realise, in this growth of Telecom subscriber and addition of new Telecom operator, BSNL is one telecom operator in India, which is losing subscriber on monthly basis as well as market share! It is the only one telecom company in India who is swimming against the tide – a lone ranger!

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Automatic Speech Recognition in voice portal

Automatic Speech Recognition in voice portal

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Will voice mail go Email Way ?

Will voice mail go Email Way ?

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Some tips to increase twitter followers that work

Having more and more twitter followers help you increase visibility of your blog as well as new posts. So, having a big number of twitter follower can surly bring in visitors to your blog which will at least increase your Alexa ranking if you consider Twitter visitors are not useful for your kind f blog!

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Usage of SMS in Telematics

What is Telematics ?
Telematics is remote monitoring, measurement and presentation of data at a centralised location. Various information like weather, temperature, water level etc. information are collected and transferred in real time and those information are stored and displayed at a centralised location. This is telematics or telemetry.

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Official Google Blog: The future of mobile

Official Google Blog: The future of mobile

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Govt maps out 3G availability; auctions may earn Rs 21,480 cr

The department of telecom (DoT) has finally mapped out the availability of third generation (3G) airwaves that can be put up for the upcoming
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auctions across the country. The plan shows that the government can earn over Rs 21,480 crore if the frequencies are auctioned according to the finance ministry’s formula.

The finance ministry wants all available radio frequencies to be auctioned and the base-price for the airwaves to be doubled. On the other hand, the communications ministry wants to limit the base-price at Rs 2,020 crore per player and restrict the number of players to a maximum of seven.

Spectrum or radio frequencies are airwaves on which telecom signals travel. The availability of 3G spectrum, vital for high-end services, such as video conferencing and high-speed internet on the mobile, varies across different regions of the country, according to an internal note of DoT.

The telecom ministry’s latest assessment reveals that only four private players can be given airwaves for offering these high-end services in Delhi, while in Mumbai, there is enough frequency for eight players. Key circles, such as Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, have space for 11 private players each. A minimum of six private operators can be given these airwaves in all circles except in Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, North East, West Bengal and Rajasthan. (refer table).

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BSNL drops plan to bid for Tunisia license

NEW DELHI: BSNL has dropped its plans to bid for telecom licence in Tunisia as the PSU finds the returns not enough to enter that market through bidding of licence.
"We did not bid for Tunisia... we did not find returns on our investment," a senior BSNL official said.

Earlier the PSU's CMD Kuldeep Goyal had said BSNL was planning to bid for telecom licence in Tunisia and get a footprint in the African market, which has immense potential.

But not bidding for Tunisia does not mean BSNL has lost sight of the potential of the African region, which it says has growing mobile usage.

BSNL official said the minimum bid price was understood to be $10 million but the Tunisian market is well- penetrated with 80 per cent of the population owing mobile phones leaving not much scope for more penetration.

BSNL has shortlisted eight consultants, including Ernst & Young, McKinsey, KPMG and PriceWaterHouseCoopers, for its plans of mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships and overseas forays.

The state-run firm, which so far concentrated only on the Indian market (except Delhi and Mumbai), has decided to expand overseas. Sources said BSNL has a cash surplus of over $10 billion and would use part of these resources for its overseas foray.

After being denied entry to Delhi and Mumbai, BSNL was finally granted permission by the government to venture outside the country through acquisitions, JVs and licence buys to expand.

BSNL has already set up a separate international business division to explore telecom opportunities abroad.

Last year, Bharti Airtel and Reliance Communications entered into negotiations with the South Africa-based telecom giant MTN to expand in the African continent, but the talks failed. Bharti again has revived talks with MTN for a cash- cum-stock acquisition.

Earlier this year, Tata Communications announced plans to expand its operations in Africa through acquisitions, joint ventures, and new projects, and in January increased its stake in South African fixed-line operator Neotel to 56 per cent.

BSNL's sister concern MTNL has already forayed into Nepal and Mauritius. Analysts said BSNL may be exploring the possibilities of bidding for mobile licences in Egypt, Rwanda, Malawi, Turkey and Iran. All these countries will open bids for licence auction within the next couple of months.

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Operators to stop services to phones sans IMEI no from Apr 15

NEW DELHI: About 250 lakh handsets are expected to be out of service from April 15, as GSM service providers, including Airtel and Vodafone, gear
up to deny connectivity to cell phones without International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number.

Concerned over the national security, the Department of Telecommunications
(DoT) has asked operators to disconnect services to handset that does not have an IMEI number. IMEI is a 15-digit code which appears on the operator's network whenever a call is made.

If all service providers adhere to the deadline given by DoT, nearly 250 lakh handsets, which are almost 10 per cent of the total GSM mobile phones in use in the country and mostly China-made, are likely to go out of service, industry sources said.

Analysts feels that the move is also likely to hit the revenue of telecom firms as phones which have no IMEI numbers are usually low-cost and unbranded and used by low-end subscribers.

To get these subscribers back on the network would be a challenge for the telcos as they have to provide these subscribers subsidised or free handsets.

In October 2008, DoT had set December 31, 2008, deadline to stop services to handsets without IMEI numbers. The deadline has been extended to April 15, 2009.

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BSNL to roll-out 3G in 700 cities by June

MUMBAI: Public sector telecom major, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), is all set to launch its 3G operations in 700 cities across north and
east India by June and in the south by July, a senior company official said.

"We plan to bring 3G to north and east India by June," BSNL Deputy Director General (VAS) S S Sirohi told reporters here today.

The services would be launched in east and west Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Bihar, Jharkhand and Assam. We plan to cover over 700 cities in the next three months (by June)," Sirohi said.

The company is also targeting its 3G launch in Kolkata next month.

The net outflow towards launching this service in the 700 cities is around Rs 2,700-crore, he said.

BSNL, with a huge presence in the northern and eastern parts of India, has 42-million mobile subscribers presently.

"By March 2010, the number of our 3G subscribers will go up to about 60-million in the country," Sirohi said.

The state-run telecom behemoth would focus on mobile broadband, mobile television, online gaming, video streaming, full track downloading and video telephony, he said.

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BSNL lowers mobile tariffs to 50 paise for local, STD, SMS

CHENNAI: Initiating another round of tariff war, state-run BSNL on Sunday announced a new plan offering local and STD call at just 50 paise a

minute across all the network, while the charges would be 20 and 30 paise for BSNL to BSNL.

BSNL's new tariff plan "India
Golden Fifty", offering local and STD call at just 50 paise would be available from March 1. and the scheme, along with BSNL's 3G mobile services in the state, was launched by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi.

BSNL Chairman Kuldeep Goyal told reporters that the Golden Fifty plan would be available to consumers for a monthly rent of Rs 375 inclusive of taxes.

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