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Phone rentals hiked for commercial subscribers
COMMERCIAL subscribers of basic telephone services will have to shell out higher monthly rentals. The increase varies depending upon the line capacity of their telephone exchange, starting April 1. As per the 20th amendment to the Telecom ... More

Rental hike to offset basic operator losses
THE increase in monthly rentals for commercial telephone subscribers has been greeted with a sigh of relief by basic telecom operators, who have been reeling under the impact of huge revenue losses due to the slashing of STD tariffs ... More

Malappuram abuzz with cell-phones
FOUR towns in Kerala's Malappuram district, which has the highest number of cellular phone users, have more cell-phone subscribers than the land-line connections. All the major towns in the district are cellular-covered and in the first four ... More

RPG Cellular in expansion mode
RPG Cellular Services Ltd plans to invest Rs 50 crore to expand its infrastructure in Chennai to increase its penetration in the city. According to Mr Dilip R. Mehta, Managing Director, RPG Cellular, the expansion programme will be carried out ... More

Bharti Tele signs licence pact for international calls
BHARTI Telesonic Ltd has signed the licence agreement with the Department of Telecommunciations (DoT) for international long-distance (ILD) services, which has been opened up for competition starting April 1. This makes it the second telecom ... More

Prepaids to propel cellular growth
PREPAID connections will account for 60 to 70 per cent of total new entrants into cellular telephony in India for the next two to three years, according Ms Kobita Desai, Senior Analyst, Telecom & Mobile, Gartner India. ``Prepaids offer a lower ... More

HARDWARE


IBM launches eServer
Tasks such as searching vast databases, servicing thousands of Web transactions per second and providing database engine for business intelligence are some of the business application areas that would benefit by this new system. More

INTERNET


TCS ties up with InternetSpeech
MUMBAI: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has entered into an agreement with InternetSpeech to offer its voice Internet technology — netECHO. According to a company release, netECHO is the only software to date that allows ... More

IT TRAINING


Ved Soft, Cheetah programme for project managers
THE Michigan-based Ved Software Services Inc and Cheetah Learning (Connecticut, US) will commence in India the Accelerated Cheetah Learning Programme for PMI's (Project Management Institute, Pennsylvania, US) PMP (Project Management Professional) ... More

Online financial training
MUMBAI: FT Knowledge Financial Learning, part of the Pearson plc family of companies which includes the Financial Times and The Economist, has tied up with the Walchand Centre for Financial Excellence to distribute online ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS


QuEST scouting for acquisitions
``We have almost finalised the deal with one of our clients for whom we are doing the pilot project,'' Mr Ajit A. Prabhu, said. More

E-COMMERCE & E-BUSINESS


Karnataka has been a good sport for Playwin's biz
THE e-game is on. Zee Group-owned Playwin Infravest has launched its online lottery — or `gaming' as it is called. It has started off with marketing the online lottery of Sikkim, while Karnataka, the first to get into the online game, is ... More

EVENTS


German industry seeks legal framework for green cards
``THE green cards must be embedded in a comprehensive legal framework. We cannot afford to ignore the issue of immigration either in Germany or in Europe'', according to Dr Volker Jung, President of the Berlin-based German Association of IT, ... More

STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS


Sasken achieves SEI CMM Level 5
BANGALORE: Sasken Communication Technologies, a telecom software products and services company, has announced that it has achieved the SEI CMM Level 5. Sasken has been ISO 9001 certified since 1996 and was re-certified for ISO 9001:2000 ... More

TRENDS


PC sales growth at snail's pace
AFTER growing at over 40 per cent in the previous two years, desktop PC sales in the country crashed in 2001 to clock a meagre 10 per cent growth as depressed economic conditions took a severe toll on the industry. Total PC sales in 2001 stood ... More
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