The Hindu Business Line : Tuesday, December 24, 2002

PM to launch telecom scheme for rural sector
The project will provide accessibility of public telephone to the rural population at their doorsteps by using Wireless in Local Loop (WLL) technology. In the initial phase, the pilot project would cover about 8,000 villages in 21 telecom circles. More

TRAI discusses Reliance tariff
THE Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has concluded its consultation process on the limited mobility tariff plans of Reliance Communciations which are due to be launched later this week. While it had already consulted the cellular ... More

Choosing the right mobile plan made easy
ARE you a mobile phone subscriber in doubt as to whether the plan you have chosen is the right one for you and would like to have some expert advice? Or is the fear of running a high mobile phone bill gnaws at you and you would like to get an ... More

Bharti may have to cough up Rs 500 cr on JT Mobile row
IN what could be a major setback to the Bharti group, it may have to part with over Rs 500 crore to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) as outstanding dues (following its acquisition of JT Mobile's Punjab cellular licence) which was under ... More

Reliance, Tata Tele may mostly get new cell users
LIMITED mobility service providers such as Tata TeleServices and Reliance Infocomm are likely to get most of their subscribers from new connections rather than wean away existing cellular phone users, a study by International Data Corporation ... More

`Mobile tariff may not fall drastically'
WHILE the imminent entry of Reliance Infocomm has set off expectations of a drastic fall in NLD and local telephone rates, the mobile phone tariff may not be affected in a big way. The mobile phone tariff is already very low and a further drop ... More

Aircel unveils `earn as you talk' plan
AIRCEL Ltd, cellular operators and part of the Chennai-based Sterling Group, has launched earn as you talk - Talk and Take - tariff plan for five years and also a reward programme to its existing post-paid mobile customers. Both the plans ... More

Hutch's new pre-paid offer
HUTCHISON Essar South Ltd, has announced it is introducing an unique offer this festive season wherein a customer buying a pre-paid pack worth Rs 249 will reap the benefits of additional talk time of Rs 100. The offer is valid between December 24 ... More

SOFTWARE

Polaris officials still in Jakarta
POLARIS Software Chairman and Managing Director, Mr Arun Jain, and his colleague, Mr Rajiv Malhotra, spent yet another day in Jakarta with the local police not returning their passports on Monday, an official at the Indian Embassy in Jakarta told ... More

Flexcube for Kosovo bank
BANGALORE: i-flex Solutions Ltd has announced that Banking and Payments Authority of Kosovo (BPK), which functions as a central bank in Kosovo, has selected its flagship product Flexcube to centralise its banking operations. "The BPK ... More

INTERNET

There's no flavour in this tea dotcom
IT is probably time for the last bubble in teauction.com to burst. Industry sources say it is dead and defunct although the owner is continuing to claim that the dotcom is fighting to survive in a tough market. Teauction.com, the only online ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES

Big names, huge pays luring away ITES staff
THE HR woes of the ITES industry, which has an unenviable average attrition rate of 26 per cent, has only become worse with the entry of new players in the field. Companies are now losing employees to competitors who are paying more. AOL, ... More

TCS to recruit 5,000 in a year
TATA Consultancy Services (TCS) has said that its Banking and Financial Service (BFSI) division was growing at a rate of 40-50 per cent annually. The BFSI vertical also is the single largest contributor to revenues, accounting for 40 per cent ... More

SECURITY

AP State gears for cyber policing — CM opens crime analysis lab
WITH the convergence era demanding new methods of policing, the Andhra Pradesh Forensic Science Laboratory (APFSL) here has established the State's first computer crime analysis lab to tackle new era computer-based attacks and problems. APFSL ... More

EVENTS

`Storage networking, billion-dollar market'
STORAGE networking could be the next big opportunity for the Indian IT sector, said the Karnataka IT Minister, Mr D.B. Inamdar, here on Monday. Announcing the Storage Networking Summit, a four-day international storage networking event which is ... More

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

TiE to open shop in Dubai soon
THE IndUS Entrepreneurs (TiE), the Santa-Clara, US-based global non-profit organisation that promotes entrepreneurship, is to establish its Dubai Chapter at Dubai Internet City. TiE Dubai is a non-profit global network of entrepreneurs ... More

STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS

Mascot gets security certification
BANGALORE: Software services firm Mascot Systems has announced that it has secured the BS7799 Security Standards Compliance Certification. The company claimed that it has the singular distinction of becoming the first Indian company ... More

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