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More India Telecom Flip Flopping

Shailaja Neelakantan, Saturday, September 30, 2006 at 9:12 AM PT Comments (3)

Following up on our previous report: When in doubt, extend deadlines and postpone decisions. That’s just what happened. While India’s Finance Minister turned down the telecom department’s ‘We give up’ proposal to cancel the increase in FDI in telecom and averred that, “the decision to increase FDI to 74 percent stands,” he left it [...]

India’s Telecom Policy Flip Flop

Shailaja Neelakantan, Thursday, September 28, 2006 at 5:56 AM PT Comments (7)

What does the Indian government really want? First, last year, it hikes the limit of foreign direct investment (FDI) in Indian telecom companies to 74 percent from 49 percent. Then several government agencies bung a spanner — no, make that several spanners — into the works, pushing the beleaguered Minister of Telecommunications close to reversing [...]

Seventymm, India’s Netflix?

Shailaja Neelakantan, Friday, September 22, 2006 at 7:43 AM PT Comments (33)

This could be pretty big in movie-mad India. By the end of next year, India’s Seventymm, an online movie rental and delivery service like Netflix, could become the country’s first national DVD rental company—online or brick-and-mortar. That’s right, folks, we’re skipping Blockbuster and getting our own Netflix.
Seventymm is already up and running in Bangalore [...]

Who says broadband is easy

Shailaja Neelakantan, Tuesday, September 19, 2006 at 12:01 AM PT Comments (22)

An excellent article on the status of broadband in India in The Hindu Business Line argues that private broadband players face, and will continue to face, problems because state operators BSNL and MTNL aren’t willing to share their last mile networks.
That leaves the private guys two options: invest huge amounts of money to build their [...]

Forget 2G, India has 3G Plans

Shailaja Neelakantan, Thursday, September 14, 2006 at 7:38 AM PT Comments (22)

Indian operators are aiming to roll out 3G even before earlier generation services like GPRS take off. The country’s telecom regulator is already beavering away on issues like the price of 3G licenses, the allocation of spectrum and how much companies can charge for value-added services, and now it has allowed Bharat Sanchar Nigam [...]

Cricket Godfather Talks Podcasting

Shailaja Neelakantan, Sunday, September 10, 2006 at 6:08 PM PT Comments (6)

Sunil “Sunny” Gavaskar is a living legend, someone whose preeminence is equal to the likes of Reggie Jackson amongst those who play with flat bat. The man who set many records on the cricket oval, has become a well read columnist, as precise with his pen as he was with his square cut. He has [...]

BlogCamp India: Day One Report

Shailaja Neelakantan, Saturday, September 9, 2006 at 9:38 AM PT Comments (27)

Our India correspondent is in Chennai, India covering the first Blogcamp, India’s largest unconference of bloggers. She will be filing occasional updates and indepth reports on the event - Om
Chennai, India: Atul Chitnis credits blogging for spurring Domino’s to open a branch near his house in Bangalore. He said his posts about Domino’s not delivering [...]

Band of Angels Help Indian Start Ups

Shailaja Neelakantan, Tuesday, September 5, 2006 at 1:30 AM PT Comments (9)

After the dot-com bust and IT slowdown nearly crushed the startup he co-founded, entrepreneur Alok Mittal realized India’s business environment had a major shortcoming. There was no money for early stage companies. He survived–selling the startup he co-founded, jobsahead.com, to Monster.com for $9 million in 2004—but his five-year roller coaster ride gave him [...]

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