Friday, October 15, 2010

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[Video] Nokia N8 TV Commercial

Posted: 15 Oct 2010 02:37 AM PDT

As we reported earlier, Nokia has launched its most expected smartphone N8 in the Indian market earlier this year. Nokia N8, priced at Rs. 26,259 comes up 3.5-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 12 MP camera, 3G ready. Here is the official TV commercial of Nokia N8 which is already on air.

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Roaming charges to go away soon ?

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 09:19 PM PDT

According to this ET report, DoT panel has recommended to abolish roaming charges for the customers travelling outside their home circle. As a first step towards this, the panel has recommended to divide the country into four regions (East, West, North & South) and thus remove the roaming charges when the customers are traveling within a region.

At present the country is divided into 22 circles and telecom companies are charging the customers Rs. 1.4 / min (Local incoming) to Rs. 2.5 / min (STD Outgoing) when the customer is travelling outside his/her home circle. This constitutes a major chunk of revenue for the telecom operators as they are earning close to Rs. 12,000 crore annually from these charges.

As expected, telcos are strongly opposing against this move as this will hit their revenues strongly and will try to put this move in backseat as they are doing with the Mobile number portability plan. DoT panel which recommended this plan hasnt specify any time frame for the merger of all circles into four region and then to single region but is expected to ask TRAI to work out the modalities for this. Let us hope this will happen soon.

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Nokia C5-03 Official Pictures & Video

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 05:37 PM PDT

[First Look] Nokia launches C5-03, a budget Symbian touchscreen phone

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 05:26 PM PDT

In the C5 series of budget phones, the Nokia C5-03 is another one however those crafty Finns have added a dash of quality by sticking a touchscreen, Wi-Fi and 3G on it at a low price.  The 3.2-inch touchscreen of the C5-03 is the clunky resistive kind that might be familiar with from old devices such as the Nokia 5800. And the newer, pricier Symbian handsets such as the X6 generally sport capacitive touchscreens. There’s no Symbian 3 love here either and the C5-03 is trapped with the dated Symbian S60 5th edition OS. The C5-03 comes with Wi-Fi, a significant upgrade from the Nokia C5 that only had 3G.

A decent 5-megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom is available however no flash is present. It will come with a compass and assisted GPS, with free Ovi Maps and there’s just 40MB of memory but it supports microSD cards up to 16GB.In weight and size, the C5-03 is similar to the upcoming C6-01, the upcoming Symbian 3 phone that will land in the UK before Christmas for around £220. The C5-03 is available in white, black, lime green and blue.

Nokia keeps churning out the handsets, with the Touch and Type X3 and C3 anticipated this year, but things have changed dramatically in the last few months. Android has the advantage of a huge number of apps and is generally more user-friendly than Symbian. The phone when launched (mostly in the last quarter) in India will be priced around Rs. 10,000.

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Airtel announces special festive season offer for its customers

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 05:14 PM PDT

Bharti Airtel, one of the Asia’s upcoming telco has announced the festival season offer with one paisa for 2 secs tariff plan for all new and old customers. From this month this offer begins and that enables Airtel prepaid customers to dial at nominal prices.

With every new connection of prepaid, a customer will be able to dial at 1 paisa per 2 seconds. By default, this tariff will be applicable to every new customer. To use the offer, the present prepaid customers will have to recharge with Rs 27/- that has validity for 30 days.

Further, the customers purchasing new post-paid connections till 31st December 2010 will get free offer like a trolley bag and Airtel Digital TV Connection for just Rs 999 that otherwise available for Rs 1599 without any offer.

Bharti Airtel, strongly make out with the spirit in which festivals are celebrated in the region. It is our privilege to be able to put in in a small way towards the state celebrations through such offers, said Mr. Shivan Bhargava, COO, Bharti Airtel – Gujarat Circle.

For Airtel customers, this festive season would be more enthusiastic and they can gain various VAS products related to the festive season like caller tunes, wallpapers, ringtones, voice blog etc.

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Aircel to rejig Rs 11k-cr loan

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 05:10 PM PDT

Aircel, the Telecom service operator is jigging again its fund-raising plans in a bid to finance its 3G rollout. And the operator would be taking an extra loan of about Rs 2,000 crore and will reorganize its short-term loans worth Rs 11,000 crore ($2 billion) into a long term debt of about Rs 13,000 crore.

In this year 2010, Aircel has paid about Rs 6,500 crore for 3G spectrum licenses in 13 circles and about Rs 3,800 crore for broadband wireless access (BWA) spectrum licenses in 8 circles.

A senior official from the company has said that the company had funded the 3G and BWA spectrum licenses through commercial papers, that are short term instruments, worth about Rs 11,000 crore ($ 2 billion), with a year’s maturity. It was expended by Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and HSBC Bank.

He added that the papers would mature by mid of the year 2011 and the company is anticipating at restructuring the debt. And this loan would be surrogated through a long term debt from a consortium of banks led by SBI. The company is working towards it and the long term debt should be around Rs 13,000 crore.

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Nokia Siemens Networks to Acquire IRIS Telecom

Posted: 14 Oct 2010 05:08 PM PDT

Nokia Siemens Networks is to create a deal that will augment its network planning and optimization business throughout the region. The telecom equipment vendor has plans to acquire Turkish network service firm IRIS Telecom and transaction amount has not been revealed.

During the first quarter of the year 2011, the deal that is subject to regulatory approval, is expected to be completed.

Presently, IRIS Telecom supports roughly 630 employees. Sources from Nokia said that the company will keep on operating independently and under its own name.

The company’s regional head of Services, Geert Buijk, said that Nokia Siemens Networks (News – Alert) will use IRIS Telecom’s localized operations and strong position in [Network Planning and Optimization] to get better service delivery model in Turkey, Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

IRIS Telecom got the interest, with the release of research findings that Turkcell, a communications and technology company in Turkey, has the highest average mobile Internet speed among operators tested in Turkey, France, Germany, and the U.K.

Considerable value to Nokia is gained with this functionality and the ability to test the integrity and speed of a network. Nokia will be able to lead the market with proven technologies that can deliver measurable results.

Nokia has outcomed that it has started shipping C7, the "new smartphone for the design-conscious social networker." C7, the second Nokia smartphone based on the new Symbian (News – Alert) platform, follows on the heels of the company’s entertainment powerhouse, the Nokia N8 that started shipping in September.

Moreover in the month of August, China Mobile, a telecom carrier chosen Nokia Siemens Networks, a global enabler of telecommunications services, to put into practice its IMS Core platform, hiQ MMTel (News – Alert) application server and Session Border Controller to bring in this converged communications experience focused at improving end-user satisfaction.

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