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… Read More »
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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,… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
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A 256 kbps broadband connection can cost upto $40 a month. There are only 1.7 million broadband users, and yet most Indian telecom operators are dreaming about an IPTV future. Talk about Unreality TV! India’s state owned telecom operators BSNL and MTNL have been making a… Read More »
There is a lot of talk about India’s growing dominance in the Indian media these days. The Financial Express says India is, “taking over the world wide web in a big way (and) outpacing the world.” The recent surge in the growth of Internet connections might… Read More »
A 28-year-old Indian woman who last December started www.crorepatipage.com, an advertising billboard on the Internet for Indians alone, has already earned around $5000, not an insignificant sum in India, The Hindu Business Line reports. Sunaina Bansal hopes to emulate the success of Briton Alex Tew’s… Read More »
A mere Web site or a laptop doesn’t empower the underprivileged. Developing countries like India need technology, yes, but what they need more are coherent projects with reliable delivery systems that link technology to the country’s needs. A Reuters story, ‘Indian village uploads itself onto… Read More »
Introducing, Shailaja Neelakantan, our India correspondent. A seasoned journalist, Shailaja is an old friend, and we worked together at Forbes, where she was a staff reporter. She did stints for Fox News and Dow Jones. She will write mostly about start-ups, venture capital, telecom and… Read More »
By Shailaja Neelakantan
Aug. 11, 2006, 2:30pm PT
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Helion Venture Partners that recently debuted its $140 million India fund has made its first investment: $2.2 million in JiGrahak Mobility Solutions, reports Business Standard. NG Pay, the Bangalore-based startup’s product, is a downloadable mobile application that allows users to make payments and buy things using… Read More »
If you plan to visit beautiful Bhutan, do so early next year and you will be able to use the country’s new broadband network, reports kuenselonline.com. India’s ORG Telecom Limited will build, integrate and test the network which is expected to be operational from… Read More »
A few days after in announced plans to set up a R&D Center in China, Google has now decided to invest up to $1 billion on a back office in Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, according to news reports. The proposed center, which the… Read More »
Bangalore, often viewed as the hub of India’s Silicon Valley, is looking to join a growing list of cities with wireless broadband everywhere, according to news reports. The Indian Institute of Information Technology in the southern Indian city has been studying the project for the last… Read More »
The Central Tibetan Administration and Tibetan diaspora have launched Tibet Online, a web television site that will devote most of its coverage to the teachings of the Dalai Lama. However Tibetans inside Tibet may not be able to access the Web television site due… Read More »
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