The demand for mobile services in India can only be described as ‘insatiable’ following news from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) that the country’s mobile operators collectively activated 16.67 million new lines during October, an average of nearly 538,000 each day. That growth takes the number of mobile connections in India to 488.4 [...]

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Delivering Affordable Broadband in India white paper is prepared to present a comprehensive view of the drivers of Indian broadband wireless market and the key technological factors that allow operators to lead the field of BWA market in India. In this document, we identify the services that service providers would like to offer to Indian [...]

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Telecom Italia has launched pre-commercial trials of a LTE mobile network. The experiment, carried out in Turin with Huawei, is based on 14 new LTE base stations located in the centre of the city and integrated with the existing mobile infrastructure. The new network guarantees a bandwidth capacity of over 140 Mbps per cell, with [...]

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Source : Unstrung French mobile operator SFR launched a 3G femtocell service today using petit base stations from Ubiquisys Ltd. SFR is the second operator to launch a femtocell service in Europe, after Vodafone UK in (where else?) the U.K., and the second commercial customer for femto maker Ubiquisys, after Softbank in Japan. With the [...]

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Metro WiFi is back, according to Ruckus Wireless Inc. , but this isn’t like your father’s mesh network, unless you happen to have relatives in Mumbai. Ruckus is using its deal with Indian carrier Tikona Digital Networks Pvt. Ltd. to highlight its 802.11n-based outdoor access points, customer premises equipment, and backhaul boxes. Tikona is using [...]

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Verizon Business is making a big step in the tele-healthcare arena, introducing new video conferencing and collaboration services specifically developed for doctors and their patients. The new Verizon Telehealth Collaboration Services will enable remote treatment and diagnosis of rural patients, on-demand education and training for doctors, and consultations among medical personnel without the need for [...]

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According to India’s Economic Times, those bidders successful in the upcoming, and long-delayed, 3G auctions, face a further hold-up following revelations that spectrum acquired will only be available to use from June 2010. With the auction now due to be held in January 2010, the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has called on the country’s defence [...]

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