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The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. 13 Fact Info 89 12 2. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch or clock is usually 10:10. 3 Fact Info 74 14 3. Colgate's first toothpaste came in a jar. 2 Fact Info 59 10 4. Dell Computers was started by a 19 year old with only $1,000. 4 Fact Info 79 31 5. The founder of McDonald's has a Bachelor degree in Hamburgerology.

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3. The founder of McDonald's has a Bachelor degree in Hamburgerology. 6 Fact Info 36 6 4. Yahoo! was originally called 'Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web'. 4 Fact Info 38 15 5. Walt Disney World generates about 120,000 pounds of garbage every day. 9 Fact Info 42 9 6. There is no tipping at restaurants in Japan. 10 Fact Info 46 7 7. The most productive day of the workweek is Tuesday. 1 Fact Info 29 6 8. The man who created the Thighmaster was once a Bhuddist Monk. 9 Fact Info 48 14 9. The creator of the NIKE Swoosh symbol was paid only $35 for the design. 1 Fact Info 25 9 10. The average company saves over $7,000 for each employee suggestion that is enacted! 3 Fact Info 25 8 11. Over 4.6 million Whopper sandwiches are sold at Burger King every day! 2 Fact Info 27 7

12. Nearly 22,000 checks will be deducted from the wrong account over the next hour. 13 Fact Info 89 12 13. In most advertisements, the time displayed on a watch or clock is usually 10:10. 6 Fact Info 34 9 14. In Australia, Burger King is called Hungry Jack's. 4 Fact Info 17 12 15. In 2004, The Japanese Ice Cream Association promoted "raw horse flesh" ice cream in hopes that it would boost the popularity of ice cream! 4 Fact Info 34 6 16. If Wal-Mart was classified as a country, it would be the 24th most productive country in the world. 2 Fact Info 14 7 17. Henry Ford, father of the Automobile, is also father of the charcoal briquette. 1 Fact Info 9 11 18. Harrods have three private wells to supply their water! 4 Fact Info 11 7 19. Cow is a Japanese brand of shaving foam. 3 Fact Info 74 14 20. Colgate's first toothpaste came in a jar. 0 Fact Info 18

10 21. 90% of all restaurants fail during their first year of operation. 1 Fact Info 7 13 22. 80% of Publishers' Clearing House $10 million winners did not purchase any magazine subscriptions! 5 Fact Info 17 5 23. 7-11 sells 10,000 pots of coffee an hour, every hour, every day. 1 Fact Info 12 6 24. 20% of tuxedo rentals take place in May. 8 Fact Info 21 6 25. 'Bimbo' is a brand of soft drink manufactured and marketed by Coca-Cola, Inc. 4 Fact Info 19 5 26. When Scott Paper Company first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment. 6 Fact Info 16 5 27. Warner Chappel Music owns the copyright to the song 'Happy Birthday'. They make over $1 million in royalties every year from the commercial use of the song. 2 Fact Info 12 9 28. The first product that the toy company Mattel came out with was picture frames. 3 Fact Info 31 6 29. The first product that Sony came out with was the rice cooker.

4 Fact Info 22 10 30. Oil tycoon, John D. Rockefeller, was the world's first billionaire. 0 Fact Info 22 5 31. Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation. 1 Fact Info 50 11 32. Duracell, the battery-maker, built parts of its new international headquarters using materials from its own waste.2Get news via RSS

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Telecom companies dial country numbers as urban growth slows
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Mobile phones in India to stream $350 billion by 2015

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Indian telecom equipment revenues down 2.5% in 2010-11

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Indias mobile phone subscriber base up by 20.2 million in February news

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Indian mobile ad market grows by 27% in 90 days to 7.3 bn impressions monthly

03 Apr, 2011 | Author: admin | Comments Off InMobi, the worlds largest independent mobile ad network, today revealed that the Indian mobile ad market grew by 1.5 billion ad impressions (27%) between October 2010 and January 2011. The [Continue]

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Finance Ministry asks DoT to auction broadband spectrum
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Investors wary of India telecom

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Tata Teleservices to raise $670m via rights issue

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Vodafone to buy out Ruias for $5 billion

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Telecom investments pegged at Rs 5 lakh crore in 2012-2017

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Ethernet in the Cloud Unifying Force or Lowest Common Denominator?
12 Apr, 2011 | Author: admin | Comments Off The key role of Ethernet in enabling Cloud services became a hot topic on the first day of this years NetEvents APAC VIP Service Provider Summit as Informas Principal Analyst, Camille Mendler, challenged carriers to see beyond the dumb cloud model and think in [Continue] More from Emerging Trends TATA detects sweet spot in Cloud services to SMEs at NetEvents APAC Summit Tata Communications bets cloud strategy on SMEs Telecom: Looking brighter

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India Will Ship 210M Mobile Handsets In 2011
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Research
Telecom companies dial country numbers as urban growth slows
16 Jul, 2011 | Author: admin | Comments Off The famous Indian telecom juggernaut is slowing down. With the urban pockets getting saturated and competition intense, subscriber addition has lost a fair bit of pace, forcing mobile telephony firms to drive deeper into the cost-conscious countryside to keep the numbers [Continue]

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Infrastructure
Government and Industry Unite to Support Mobile Broadband in India
13 Apr, 2011 | Author: admin | Comments Off The Honourable Minister for Communications & Information Technology of India, the GSMA, the Cellular Operators of India (COAI) and the Telecoms [Continue]

TRAI to announce new telecom infrastructure policy next week news

25 Mar, 2011 | Author: admin | Comments Off The chairman of telecom regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), J S Sarma, today said the regulatory body would announce its [Continue]

No IPOs Yet for Bharti Infratel, Indus Towers

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New telecom policy to delink spectrum from licenses
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Telecom investments hit FIPB roadblock

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Etisalats India deal violated foreign investment rules-lawyer

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Spirent Enables Wireless Operators and Mobile Device Vendors to Successfully Launch Location-based Services (LBS) on LTE Devices
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Saturday, August 13, 2011

Latest Telecom News (1st August - 8th August)
1. RIM unveils new Black Berry handsets.

Research in Motion (RIM) has announced the launch of new Black Berry handsets viz. Bold 9900, Torch 9850/9860, and Torch 9810 each equipped with Windows 7 OS. The Bold models come with Near Field Communication (NFC), a technology that will equip the mobiles to pair among themselves, with other accessories (which are also NFC enabled), read smart poster tags etc with a simple tap of the smart phone.

2. Tata Walky Groove Station launched at Rs 2999.

Tata Indicom announced the launch of Tata Walky Groove, a CDMA fixed cordless color handset with an unparallel feature of a Pod docking, globally.

It has other features like Color screen, USB/Micro SD slot, FM station and MP3 player, thereby combining different features and brings them down to a single platform. It also comes with stereo speakers, alarm, calendar etc. So it serves dual benefits of a handset as well as an entertainment tool.

3. Nokia plays traffic cop comes out with Tselina with Nokia E5.

Nokia has tied up with the Gurgaon Traffic police to launch a traffic management project called 3RD EYE. The pilot project has been going on since June 2011 and the traffic cops are equipped with the software Tselina enable Nokia E5 handset. The software helps the cops to capture and report traffic violations.

4. Bharti Airtel net down 28%.

Bharti Airtel announced a dip in net profits for the quarter ended in June 30, 2011. Net profits dipped 28% to Rs 1215.2 Crores. But the total sales, at Rs16982.8 Crores, were up by 38%. Revenue from African Operations has been steady with annual growth of 21%. Income before taxes reduced on account of higher interest payments (Rs 344 Crores), 3G investments and amortization (Rs 159 Crores). The tax effective rate in India was increased to 29.9%, mainly due to reduction in tax holidays, which hit the net profits in a negative manner.

5. 100% mobile penetration in 97 countries.

Ninety seven countries have achieved the feat of 100% mobile penetration, out of which 17 countries have crossed the 150% level penetration, according to International Telecom Union (ITU), a UN body. In 2002, only two countries achieved the feat of 100% penetration namely Israel and Luxembourg.

Those which crossed 150% include Kuwait, Oman, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Libya, Hong Kong, Maldives etc.

ITU said mobile spread in the developing world has reached 70% at the end of 2010, with Africa registering 45.2% growth and Asia-Pacific 69%. Europe registered 118% and the Americans 94.5%.

6. Telecom Panel Okays new licence fee for operators.

Telecom Commission, the apex decision making body of DOT, has given its consent for imposing a uniform fee of 8.5% on all telecom operators. Currently the fee ranges from 6% to 10%. For big operators in metro areas, this move will boost their revenues as currently they have been paying 10%. Now, Internet Service Providers and Long Distance Telephone operators would have to pay more.

7. Telecom Commission upholds DOTs views.

Telecom Commission has upheld DOTs claims and rejected TRAIs suggestion that the operators should cover 10,000 people with two years and 2000 to 5000 in the next 4 years. DOT has said that as per the pre-existing terms, geography not population was a criteria and it would be legally untenable to change the norms at this juncture. TRAI had also suggested it is seeking more powers to scrutinize spectrum usage by Government agencies like defence forces. This too was shot down by the apex decision making body of DOT and said that TRAI should only look at spectrum usage by operators.

8. BSNL and MTNL lose to private players.

 Mobile Number Portability launched this January has inflicted considerable ill effects on BSNL and MTNL. For BSNL, due to MNP, it added 3.49 lakh users and lost 9.33 lakh users. For MTNL, which operates in Delhi and Mumbai, it has added 11,593 and lost 67,198 users. These two companies faced a similar issue due to the advent of mobile communications 6-7 years ago. In March 2008, BSNL had a market share of 80% in landlines and 15.64% in mobile phones. In December 2010, it was 73.71% and 11.53% respectively. For MTNL, it had a market share of 65% in Delhi and 78% in Mumbai in March 2008. As on December 2010, the figures are 55% and 64% respectively.

9. ZTE ties up with BSNL.

ZTE Corporation, global provider of telecommunication equipment, has entered into a strategic partnership with BSNL to advance the broadband services across the country. Under this venture, ZTE will deploy high speed ADSL2 + next generation VDSL2 + broadband devices across BSNLs network.

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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Latest Telecom News (28th -31st July)
1. Karbonn to unveil tablets.

Bangalore based Karbonn mobiles plans to launch its tablet PC. Priced at Rs 10,000, the tablet will be launched this October The tablet will be available in three forms 7 inch, 9 inch and 10 inch.

 Under its expansion policy, Karbonn has also tied up with Disney for its expensive phone segment with Disney features. The Rs 1,500-crore Karbonn Mobiles, which has about seven per cent of the mobile phone market share in India, targets to sell one million mobile phones a month by October this year and hopes to see a growth of 30 per cent in revenues by next year. Also Karbonn is planning an IPO in next 2-3 years.

2. Supreme Court seeks details of Interconnection usage charges (IUC).

The apex court has asked TRAI to explain and inform about the methods for computing charges for interconnectivity among operators for carrying calls of one network through another. The Supreme Court directed TRAI to give the figures reached by computation of IUC by including capital cost and also without it.

3. MediaTek invests $20 million in Spice Digital.

Media Tek Inc, a semiconductor company for wireless communications invested $20 million into Spice Digital, a BK Modi promoted company. Spice Digital offers mVAS and has over 30 million subscribers. Mobile Internet is the way forward and presents a wealth of opportunity for Media Tek. Indias IVR and mVAS market is booming and according to Analysys Mason, mVAS is expected to be Rs 67100 Crores market. Media Tek is looking to capitalize on Spice Digitals market potential and strong operator relationship. For Spice Digital, the investment would help to enrich its digital services offered to the customers and therefore increase its subscriber base.

4. mVAS to become a Rs 67100 Crore market.

 Mobile value added services (mVAS) has the potential to become a Rs 67100 Crore market by 2015, contributing over 31% of the overall wireless revenue, according to Analysys Mason. A research paper was released by the research firm Analysys Mason, in association with IAMAI, which charts the evolution of mVAS in India. The mobile platform will account for 54% of overall mVAS market by 2015. It is mentioned that with increasing pressure on margins and decreasing ARPU, the growth is stunted and it the right time to focus on mVAS for the carriers. The paper also discusses about the issues plaguing the mVAS sector. It includes the billing mechanism for Off Deck VAS providers, lack of standards for local language text SMS etc. The paper also states that the Mcommerce market is expected to touch Rs 20 Billion by 2015. The core segment for mVAS currently remains mobile information and social networking.

Vodafone, Idea increase per second tariff.

Following in the footsteps of Airtel and Tata Communications, Vodafone and Idea have increased their tariffs by 20% to 1.2 paise per second. It is understood that the biggies of Indian telecom operators are trying to see the market reaction before making rolling out the new prices on a pan-India basis. Vodafone has raised the prices in Delhi, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh. Idea has raised the prices in Delhi and few other circles for Off-Net calls.

5. Nokia unveils Nokia 500

Nokia has officially has brought out Nokia 500, the latest addition to its Symbian Anna family. It comes along with a 1GHz processor, 5 MP camera, and 3.2 inch touch display.

6. MTNL Delhi to launch Independence Day Recharge.

MTNL has announced that it will launch two Independence Day recharge vouchers for its Trump prepaid service subscribers to commemorate the 64th Independence Day in Delhi telecom circle. Recharge vouchers (RCV) are priced at Rs. 64 and Rs. 1508. RCV 64 enables full talk time and RCV 1508 provides talk time of Rs 1947. The offer is valid only for 7 days from 12th to 16th August 2011.

7. Smart Browser to counter the Data Cap.

With the spectrum crunch and increasing number of users using the mobile internet, there has been a spurt in congestion. Operators are planning fighting this global menace. The operators are also requesting the customers to reserve their heavy duty jobs for their home broadband. Data cap has been the latest trend in the recent times. To resolve the above issue, Opera Software has come up with its own browser named OPERA TURBO. Turbo is meant for the server side compression to help users browse the web by using far less bandwidth than other browsers.

8. Windows phone Mango given a go ahead for manufacturing.

Windows teams signed off on the release to manufacturing (RTM) build of Mango the latest version of Windows Phone OS and the one to power the first Nokia device. The phone comes with IE 9.0, Apps multitasking and support for new HTML 5 websites.

9. Smart phones and Tablets on the rise.

The tablets market is booming with both local and international brands crowding the market. MNCs have already launched their tablets in India. Apple iPod, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Dell Streak, HTC Flyer, Motorola Xoom, Acer Iconia Huawei Mediapad etc. Not to be left behind are the Indian companies. Olive has launched Olivepad a year ago. HCL, Spice, Beetel etc are all in the race. The Smart phones segment is also on the rise with a 72% jump in 2010 as compared to 2009 courtesy Gartner. Posted by SITM STUDENT'S BLOG at /11:48 PM /0 comments Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Latest News

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Latest Telecom News (24th to 27th July)
1. Telecom services segment grew 15% in 2010-11.

The Indian Telecom services grew by almost 15% to post revenues of Rs 1, 66,168 Crores, up from the previous fiscals Rs 1, 44,600 Crores. The services include cellular, fixed line, broadband and VSAT. The mobile services market, the largest among all the communication services offered in the country, saw revenues grow by 16.6% to cross the one lakh crore mark. As a whole the total revenue of the Indian telecom sector grew by 7 per cent to Rs. 2, 83,207 Crores for 2010-11 financial year. But the revenue from telecom equipment segment declined by 2.52% due amendment in security norms.

2. Telecom stock bullish following tariff hike.

Telecom stocks rose by 0.8% (148.99 points) on 25th July.

It was mainly due to the hike in tariffs by Bharti Airtel last week. Airtels stock increased by Rs 22.05 or 5.37% Reliance Communications stocks rose by 14.9%. Recently, Bharti and Vodafone announced a 20 per cent hike in tariffs for on-net calls (onnet traffic accounts for 25 to 30 per cent of the total traffic). Aircel, Idea also followed suit.

3. 2G scam: Behura drags in RBI Governor

Former Telecom Secretary, Mr. Siddhartha Behura has dragged in the RBI governor, D.Subbarao in 2G scam. He has blamed Subbarao for not revising the 2G spectrum price in 2007 as the then Finance Secretary. However, as reported by Business Line earlier, Dr Subbarao, the then Finance Secretary in a letter dated November 22, 2007, had in fact asked the Department of Telecom to justify how it was taking an entry fee of only Rs 1,650 Crore from operators in 2007 as this amount was fixed in 2001. Behura also added that a meeting was convened by Subbarao on Dec 4, 2007 and mentioned that the fee were finalized. He insists that he joined as the Telecom Secretary in Jan 2008 and hence he should have been a witness instead of being behind bars as the decisions were taken before he took charge. But the Govt has defended Subbarao and in fact hit back at Behura saying that it was really strange and unbecoming of a top official to make references to a meeting which he had no personal knowledge and no supporting documents to claim the same.

4. Bharti Airtel launches 3G services in Kerala. Key cities included are Kochi, thiruvananthapuram and Kozhikode.

5. BSNL: Spectrum costs and delay in execution of plans pulls down revenue.

State run telco BSNL is likely to announce a substantial revenue loss in 2010-11. It is because of high spectrum costs and a long delay in execution of projects. 3G spectrum and BWA was given to BSNL and MTNL before the auctions took place and kept out of auction process. The spectrum to both public sector companies was given under condition that the two will have to match the best price paid by the highest bidder in the respective telecom circles. BSNL paid Rs 10,186.58 Crore for 3G spectrum and Rs 8,313.8 Crore for wireless broadband spectrum. Deadlines for Various tenders like managed lease line network, Mpls Based Next Generation Transport (MNGT), mobile network expansion couldnt be met.

6. British Telecom set to exit Chennai Company ACCEL.

British Telecom (BT) is set to exit the 330 Crore Chennai based IT company Accel Frontline, listed on the BSE, in which BT has 51% stake. BT acquired 51% stake in May 2007. Back in 2007, the acquiring of stake by BT was hailed as the greatest moment in Accels history and believed that it could ride the BT wave to gain substantial business. But that did not happen and this is seen as the reason as to why BT had decided to part ways.

7. Tata Sky mobile access launched.

DTH service provider, Tata Sky, in association with Ryz Media Inc, has introduced Tata Sky mobile access, for Apple devices. This application would allow/enable iPhones, iPads and iPods to remote control consumer electronic devices at home. In addition subscribers can read upcoming programme information, read about movies and search for programmes based on title.

This application will also enable users to record their favorite programmes when on the move, which will coerce the users to use this feature of Tata Sky. To use this application, an accessory needs to be plugged into the audio jack of the Apple devices. Separate applications for Android devices will also be launched soon.

8. Vodafone Essars mobile newspaper.

Vodafone Essar has announced its launch of mobile newspaper for its customers across TamilNadu. The news will available in the form of a MMS and covers many genres of news. It is available at Re 1 per day, Rs 5 per week and Rs 20 per month.

9. Telecom the next big call for Loyalty Service providers - Accentiv.

Accentiv, an end-to-end loyalty solutions provider, has said the growth in organised retail and airlines is fuelling the growth of loyalty service providers in India. The company is looking to invest in Analytics an area which provides data on customer buying behavior and also track return on investments for corporate. DTH and telco, Airlines and Retail Industries are fuelling growth in India and therefore Accentiv is looking forward to provide loyalty programmes to as part of the organizations customer retention programme. It estimates that the loyalty market in India is anywhere between Rs 5000 Rs 8000 Crores. Given the hyper competitive environment in the Indian Telecom sector and very high customer churn in this sector, it is a good commercial venture for Accentiv. Posted by SITM STUDENT'S BLOG at /9:44 PM /0 comments Email This BlogThis! Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to Google Buzz Labels: Latest News

Monday, July 25, 2011

Latest Telecom News (19th -23rd July)

1) DOT may soon allow unlimited calls via Internet. DOT is considering opening up the Internet Telephony and allow unrestricted calls using internet connection. DOT was contemplating to do the same in 2008 for ISPs without any additional licence fell but was rejected on the grounds that it would not be a level playing field for those who have paid money as entry fee.

DOT is planning to include this scheme in the new telecom policy to be launched in November 2011. This scheme would enable Internet companies to offer voice services along with data services and thus would kick start another pricing war among the operators. Reliance Infotel would benefit the most as it has only a broadband wireless spectrum. Currently Net Telephony is allowed only for PC-PC or international calls and operators with UASL are allowed to offer domestic calls but not implemented by any. 2) Bharti Airtel to concentrate more on its core activities in Africa. Bharti Airtel has decided to concentrate only on its core competencies, which can be ascertained by the recent developments.

Service Management management of networks across given to Ericsson (5 year deal). IT solutions provider for its African operations IBM (10 year deal). $400-million order to a Chinese telecom vendor Huawei for modernizing and expanding its 2G and 3G network infrastructure in African countries. 3) Mobile Payment volume to touch $86 Billion in 2011 Gartner. The volume to increase from $48.9 billion in 2010. Mobile payment users also to surpass 141.1 million in 2011 as against to 102.1 million in 2010. The above phenomenon is favorable in developing economies due to high mobile penetration and low banking services. 4) Wrist Mobile Phone unveiled. Wireless Gadgets Manufacturers India Pvt Ltd has launched a wrist mobile phone TB007. Priced at Rs 8499, it has Bluetooth, USB port, supports upto 4GB external card. Last the company introduced projector phones.

5. 3.5 % quarterly revenue growth at Vodafone. Vodafone, UKs telecom giant has posted a quarterly growth rate of 3.5% in the April June quarter based upon a good show in emerging markets like India. Its revenue grew to a 11.7 billion pound with a free cash flow of 1.2 billion pound. It was basically driven by strong service revenue growth in India (16.8%), Turkey (32.1%) and South Africa ( 7.8%).Vodafone performed good in emerging market like India where its revenue growth was 9% to 1.03 billion pound which was mainly due to rise in its customer base. But its southern Europe (including Spain and Italy) business remained challenging due to price reduction. Currently on 1st July 2011 Essar Communications (Mauritius) Limited (ECML) and Essar Communication Holding limited (ECHL) agreed a term under which they will sell their direct and indirect shares holding in Vodafone Essar Limited (VEL) to Vodafone UK.

6. Panchayats across the Country to get Broadband service in next 3 years.

Telecom Commission on 22/07/11 cleared a project with a vision to connect all Panchayats of the country with a optical fibre network in next 3 years for providing broadband services . Project values upto 20,000 crore Rs. Project is waiting for an approval of Union Cabinet. This National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) project will be financed by Universal Services Obligation Fund (USOF). All mobile phone companies contribute 5 % of their annual revenue toward USOF for supporting rural telephony. With this USOF has a total capital of 15,000 with 6000 Rs being added every year.According to a world bank stat a 10% increase in broadband penetration leads to increases in GDP growth by 1.4%.Indian telecom regulator has set a target of 75 million broadband connections in next two years and 160 million by 2014.

7. Apple displaces Nokia as Smartphone leaders Apple has overtaken Stephen Elops led Nokia in the Smartphone race to become new leaders in this phone category.

Nokia sale volume remained at 16.7 million units whereas Apple Inc sold about 20 million units of I phones in the April- June quarter. Nokias revenue fell by 7% from 10 billion last year to 9.3% billion posting a loss of 523 million $( 2nd quarter,2011) against 227 million $ in 2nd quarter of 2010. Nokia mobile phone market also feel as its sale fell down to 88.5 devices in 2nd quarter as against 111 million in same quarter last year and 108.5 million the last quarter. Nokia working on cost cut through cut in staff, outsourced professional, Facility cost and improvement in efficiency. It also need to come up with innovative products to remain in the battle.

8. DOT under pressure to release spectrum.

 DOT has recently revealed that it has 211 MHZ of 2G spectrum for GSm operator and 75 units for CDMA. This admittance has surmounted DOT with pressure of releasing this spectrum to the operators who are in great need of it. DOT had earlier announced that after the auctioning of 2G frequencies in 2008 it had exhausted spectrums in some regions. Lack of spectrum has adversely affected service quality of operators, rolls out plans, and pushed up costs for some.

Finance ministry to gather around 25,000 crore Rs from auctioning these spectrums. 9. Airtel hikes prepaid tariff by 20%. Airtel taking a bold step forward raised their prepaid tariff rates in 5 leading circles.

The changes will be implemented on calls and SMS rates within the Airtel network even as tariffs remain unchanged for calls and text messages sent from Airtel to other operators. Subscribers of the Advantage pack will now pay 60 paise instead of 50 paise per minute for local and STD calls and 90 paise for calls to landlines. It is taken as a move which will set the trend and end the low margin and low profitability which is hurting the entire telecom industry. Five circles namely New Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh will witness rise in tariff of Airtel prepaid connections. Hikes are considered to cause major implications on pricing as prepaid constitutes of 95% of the total subscriber base. Tata Docomo had earlier announced that subscriber joining their network after 16 June 2011 will have to pay more for using STD services after one year of activation and also increased the SMS rates. It is also speculated that Airtel has restricted this hike in 5 circles to watch consumer sentiments and if the churn is not too much then they can roll out this hike for the entire Pan India network.

Airtel currently reported fifth straight drop in their quarterly profit majorly due to low margin in African operations and increasing interest cost in acquisition of 3G licence.

10. Apple surpasses lenevo in Chinese market. Apple may dismantle lenevo (biggest Chinese computer maker) in Chinese and surrounding market in terms of renenue. Lenevo revenue may lag behind Apples $3.8 billion in China, Hongkong and Taiwan.

Lenevos revenue in china was $3 billion and its Hongkong and Taiwan revenue will not take the total past $ 3.8 billion mark. Lenevo had acquired IBMs personal computer business in year 2005 whereas Apple had introduced I phones in Chinese market in 2009

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