The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, May 14, 2008

NEW BUSINESS
C&W bags £300-m deal from Aviva
New Delhi, May 13 Cable&Wireless Europe, Asia & US has signed a new six-year contract with Aviva, the world’s fifth largest insurance group, worth £300 million. The contract will see Cable&Wireless providing a ... More

AWARDS & HONOURS
Business incubator at Technopark wins national award
Thiruvananthapuram, May 13 The technology business incubator at Technopark Thiruvananthapuram has won the national award for the best Technology Business Incubator in the country for the year 2007.According to an official press note, Mr ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Spectrum pricing: DoT admits to differences with Finance Ministry
New Delhi, May 13 Admitting that it was at variance with the Finance Ministry over issues related to pricing of spectrum for both 2G and 3G mobile services, the Department of Telecom has sought the intervention of the Prime Minister’s ... More

Tatas to launch tele services in North-east, Assam
Kolkata, May 13 Tata Teleservices Ltd will launch telecom services in the Northeast and Assam by August this year. In the process, the company will expand its footprint in the region to cover all eastern and north-eastern States with ... More

Bharti-MTN talks veer towards ‘combining strengths’
New Delhi, May 13 Bharti Airtel on Tuesday indicated that negotiations with South African major MTN would possibly be steering towards a merger of the two rather than an outright acquisition. The largest cellular operator in India said that ... More

Airtel to focus on rural expansion
Madurai, May 13 Airtel, the leading mobile service provider, has planned to increase the pace of its network expansion in rural Tamil Nadu during 2008-09.The network has already covered over 88 per cent of the 15,500 census villages in ... More

Knotty issue
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SOFTWARE
Rupee depreciation offers breather to IT companies
One-time hedging losses for some companies likely More

IT TRAINING
Intelligroup in pact with JITM
Technology services provider Intelligroup has recently signed a memorandum of understanding with Orissa-based Jagannath Institute for Technology & Management (JITM). The Chief Operating Officer of Intelligroup, Mr Kalyan Sundaram Mahalingam, ... More

NEW PROJECTS
Moser Baer arm completes trials for thin film modules
New Delhi, May 13 Moser Baer India Ltd has announced that its subsidiary, PV Technologies India Ltd (PVTIL), has completed deposition trials for Gen 8.5 Amorphous Silicon (a-Si) thin film modules, at its new 40 MW facility in Greater ... More

CBC Corporation sets up arm
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ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES
Bharti Airtel forays into managed data services
To partner global players for offering enterprise communication solutions More