Mature markets such as Western Europe, USA, Japan and South Korea continue to generate the most revenue for mobile operator groups, according to a new Wireless Intelligence operator ranking study. European-based operator groups Vodafone, Telefonica, Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom all made the top ten, as did the four nationwide US operators. Operators in Japan and South Korea also scored highly in revenue terms despite having significantly fewer customers than most other groups in the ranking. By contrast,  [read more →]

The United Arab Emirates again delayed mobile number portability on Tuesday, the chief executive of telecom operator du told reporters.

The deadline had already been extended to the end of this month and would have allowed customers of du and Etisalat to have switched operators without having to change their phone number.

Now, the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) had previously stated number portability would have been available by mid-2008, but it remains to be manifested in a country known for its technological  [read more →]

Leading digital research firm comScore has ranked AT&T AdWorks among the top five online ad networks, according to comScore’s latest Media Metrix report. With its network of owned and operated web sites and partner inventory, AT&T AdWorks online audience network now ranks among the largest in the industry.

“AT&T AdWorks is committed to delivering valuable intelligence on aggregated and anonymous audience segments at scale on behalf of its advertiser clients,” said Greg McCastle, senior vice president of AT&T and head of  [read more →]

For years, Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) generally avoided mentioning Juniper Networks Inc. (NYSE: JNPR) by name.

That changed Monday when Cisco unveiled a special Juniper-ragging website at www.overpromisesunderdelivers.net.

Cisco’s claim is that Juniper has yet to deliver on some of its most highly anticipated products, such as QFabric, and hasn’t technically come through on certain promises, such as the claim of a single operating system for all products.

This is new. For years, Cisco avoided discussing its competitors directly, at least  [read more →]

Amid requests from various countries for launch of their satellites, India has decided to set up one more launch site to expand its capacity in this aspect.

At a meeting held by the Prime Minister`s Principal Secretary T K A Nair here to review performance of the Department of Space, it was decided that a feasibility study would be conducted for a new site, sources said.

The decision to find a new site was taken after the meeting was told that ISRO  [read more →]

The outcry over the 2G spectrum scam has prompted the government to prepare a draft Spectrum Act, which could well become India`s first ever legislation to govern management, pricing and allocation of a scarce national resource.

Distinguishing between spectrum for commercial and non-commercial or strategic/public interest use, the draft states that for “spectrum for commercial use, the Commission shall follow fair, transparent, equitable, non-discriminatory market-based competitive assignment which may include (but not limited to) methods such as auction, tender, bidding”.

The draft,  [read more →]

Mobile operator STel is finding it difficult to provide “connectivity” to its customers as its network vendors have started disconnecting services over non-payment of dues.

The telecom service provider, which is 49 per cent owned by Bahrain Telecom (Batelco), has been unable to pay its network vendors over the last few months because of a cash crunch.

Mobile operators have been unable to secure loans from financial institutions and banks because of the uncertainty prevailing in the telecom sector. STel is one  [read more →]

Etisalat DB`s international long-distance telephony plan is in trouble with security agencies yet to give clearance to the company for setting up gateways in the country.

Intelligence agencies have raised security concerns about Etisalat DB`s parent company – the UAE-based Emirates Telecommunications Corp.

This comes even as the company`s mobile licences are under the scanner for alleged involvement in the 2G spectrum scam.

According to the International Long Distance (ILD) license conditions, Etisalat DB is supposed to set up at least one gate  [read more →]

Telecom tribunal TDSAT has dismissed the petitions filed by Idea Cellular challenging the show-cause notices issued by the government on merger of Spice Communication with the Aditya Birla group firm.

The TDSAT rejected Idea Cellular`s plea after observing that it would be “improper” to pass any order as the Department of Telecom (DoT) is yet to pass the final order. The Telecom Disputes Settlement a! nd Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) also made it clear that after the DoT passes an order in  [read more →]

Tata Teleservices intends to invest over Rs 100 crore every year in developing and marketing solutions for small and medium businesses.

The company has carved out a special business unit in order to give the desired degree of focus to this practice so that target the numerous SMB clusters in the country can be systematically targeted, according to Mr AG Rao, Executive President, Enterprise Business & Technology, Tata Teleservices.

“We see huge potential in the SMB space given that every unit is  [read more →]