Posts Tagged ‘growth’

BANGALORE: The enterprise application major, Oracle, has recently flown in a battery of telecom business heads from various geographies to India for a global business review. Well, that’s the kind of importance the country has on the telecom radar of the company.
Bhasker Gorti, global head (communication business) Oracle India, [...]


NEW DELHI: Mobile operators in the country have added 83.20 lakh new subscribers in November, as compared to 80.05 lakh in the previous month.
“The total wireless subscribers including GSM, CDMA and WLL(F) base stood at 22.55 crore at the end of November 2007. However, in the wireline segment, subscriber base has declined to 3.93 [...]


New Delhi (PTI): LG Electronics India on Monday said it would launch around 20 new handsets next year aiming to strengthen its share in the Indian market and position itself within top three players in the GSM mobile space.
LG, which is a major provider of CDMA mobile phones, is now shifting its focus towards the [...]


New Delhi: Another 275 million people are set to come under mobile coverage area over the next one year.
The Department of Telecom has kick-started the process to roll out another 11,000 cellular towers across 2.4 lakh unconnected villages under the Universal Services Obligation fund. This is the second phase of the rural mobile project being [...]


Although only about one in 20 of the world’s first two billion mobile subscribers live in India, as many as one in every four of the next billion subscribers will be an Indian, a report by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) said.
The report focuses on a distinct group of consumers — the next billion — [...]