Cellular companies of Pakistan are facing some tough time inside, as reported by an inside official of a cellular company. They are apparently facing bunch of problems in parallel. These problems are making Think Tanks to decisively operate their minds and bring the lost glory of mobile phone companies.
Mobilink is worst hit of current situation, [...]
Several more deals are in the works for expanding iPhone distribution, says Thomson Financial News. The group first writes that Orange, owned by France Telecom, is seeking to sell the iPhone outside of its home territory, where the device has been available since November. Orange CFO Gervais Pellissier says his company is currently in negotiations with Apple on the matter, and is looking to
NEW DELHI: Getting a new mobile phone connection is not going to be the same again. The apex advisory council for telecom in India (ACT) has decided to form a common code of conduct for verification of mobile connections. The new code would be applicable across the country. If any dealer or retailer is found violating the norms, the entire industry would blacklist the retailer or dealer.ACT, a joint council of the cellular operators association of India (COAI) and the association of unified telecom services providers of India (AUSPI), has asked the department of telecommunication (DoT) not to impose any penalty on the industry for at least six months as the new guidelines would automatically bring down the rate of non-compliance.ACT would also hand over the name of the black-listed dealers
It's been fun watching this story unfold. As a former Comcast customer, I was frustrated by Comcast's blocking of specific kinds of traffic. Bittorrent was pretty much useless, and the network speed was barely reliable enough for online gaming. A few months back I switched to Verizon's Fios service and have been extremely happy with the quality. To put it simply, everything works.
Now that net neutrality groups and the telcos are beating the investigation drum, Comcast's future is looking a little bleak.
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Yesterday I had a short meeting with an industry executive in my hometown Utrecht. Another very valuable meeting - by way of reality check.
We mainly discussed two topics.
1. Wholesale
I think of wholesale as a very attractive business. Obviously, there is a strong connection to the separation stance.
In the old days, incumbents like KPN instructed managers pretty explicitly to frustrate
After writing (mostly directing you to what Cringely wrote,) Cringely tells us why we have crappy Broadband I was again surprised to read what (a bit old post at IP Inferno) calledBroadband Data Improvement (S.1492) "Ah, the boring but important department. What is your government doing for you? Passing pork barrel funding for rural telcos and failing to demand better data connectivity from the protected telecom monopolies that they have created... What, you ask, is this 1984?"Please read the articleTags: broadband, Broadband Data Improvement, S.1492
According to ABI Research, The market for mobile fund transfers will grow to a revenue opportunity of nearly $8 billion for wireless carriers by 2012, up from some $10 million last year.By enabling subscribers to send and receive money using their wireless phones, wireless carriers have the opportunity to bring local banking services to millions of people around the world. Such services also could deliver a valuable new revenue stream. Mobile networks offer a number of advantages over existing fund transfer offerings, but most convincing is the high level of adoption and reach of wireless services both geographically and demographically. However, wireless carriers can't do this alone. The need for a banking license to offer such services in most countries means carriers must partner with e
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, which last week had directed all landline, mobile and internet service providers to set up to set up a three-stage redressal mechanism and improve transparency in billing with immediate effect, will carry out surprise checks, if necessary, to ensure compliance.Trai has directed all operators to maintain complete and accurate records of redressal of grievances by its call centres, nodal officers and appellate authorities. Trai, if necessary, will direct any of its officers or employees or through an independent agency appointed by it to inspect the records maintained by the call centres, offices of the nodal officers and the secretariat of the appellate authority.Trai had asked all operators to three-stage redressal mechanism -1) Call centres will be the first level of customer redressal and must address all customer grievances within a maximum period of seven days.2) At the next level, service providers must appoint a nodal officer, whom the c
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has issued rules mandating all telecommunications companies - landline voice, cellular and broadband - set up a three- tier system to address consumer grievances.The regulator pointedly specified that the rules apply to the two large government-owned phone companies as well as to all others.Indian communications companies, in theory, are supposed to have been addressing grievances via their call centers. However, earlier this year in a series of hearings leading to the new regulations, Trai learned that Indian consumers have been frustrated and, in some cases, have been unable to even find out who to go to with their complaints.Under the new rules, carriers have just one month to appoint so-called "nodal officers," two months to set up call centers to receive consumer complaints, and three months to appoint "appellate" authorities who will serve as the final arbiters of complaints. The rules also set strict new requirements regarding the
Reports from Italy suggest that a group of local banks are looking to form a consortium which would become the largest shareholder in the country’s dominant telco, Telecom Italia. Intesa Sanpaolo and Mediobanca are hoping to gather together other local investors to win control of up to 29.9% of the operator, local business daily Milano Finanza reports. The consortium may include AT&T Inc and América Móvil, which are looking to take 33% each in Olimpia, a holding company which has an 18% stake in Telecom Italia; the Olimpia stake is being sold by Italian industrial group Pirelli.Banking and Telecom services can reap in wonderful partnerships. Does this gives hint for other Telcos or service providers?http://telecomsector.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Leading research firm Gartner predicts that Mobile TV will be an opportunity for operator to replace dwindling voice revenue. Mobile TV will become a mainstream service in most developed markets by 2010 with close to half a billion subscribers worldwide.The marketplace for mobile TV will vary widely by country and will be shared between TV services that are delivered via cellular and broadcast methods. TV services over cellular will grow from 38 million users in 2007 to 356 million in 2010. TV broadcasting will reach 133 million subscribers by 2010 - due in the main to the growing availability of broadcast-enabled phones - with Japan as the region leading the way followed by Western Europe.The uptake of mobile TV services will grow at a considerable rate over the next few years, but most subscribers will receive mobile TV as part of their mobile subscription, Garner says. Gartner estimates that only 30 percent of the total number of mobile TV subscribers will ask for the service while
Executive members of the state-run Chunghwa Telecom Co. Workers' Union have charged that telco's management of ongoing "inhumane" worker layoffs aimed at cutting costs. At the same time in Europe a German labor union sanctioned brief walkouts in protest of plans by Deutsche Telekom to institute longer hours and lower pay for thousands of workers.In China, protesters demanded that the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC), which holds a 36-percent stake in Chunghwa, should replace its designated chairman, Ho Chen-tan. Workers claim Ho has resorted to "inhumane" means "of all kinds" since 2006 to lay off workers in order to "please" foreign investors. If Ho is not replaced, the union threatens to mobilize 5,000 workers to protest at the ministry headquarters May 1.According to the workers union, some 1,600 workers were scheduled to be pink-slipped this month, with Chunghwa Telecom Workers' Union Secretary-General Chuang Ping-tang saying the carrier has a "layoff quota"
Ars Technica offers a tutorial:First things first: the venerable set-top box, on its way out in the cable world, will make a resurgence in IPTV systems. The box will connect to the home DSL line and is responsible for reassembling the packets into a coherent video stream and then decoding the contents. Your computer could do the same job, but most people still don't have an always-on PC sitting beside the TV, so the box will make a comeback. Where will the box pull its picture from? To answer that question, let's start at the source. Most video enters the system at the telco's national headend, where network feeds are pulled from satellites and encoded if necessary (often in MPEG-2, though H.264 and Windows Media are also possibilities). The video stream is broken up into IP packets and dumped into the telco's core network, which is a massive IP network that handles all sorts of other traffic (data, voice, etc.) in addition to the video. Here the advantages of owning the entire net
