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OUTLOOK: New Year may see 20-30% drop in mobile tariffs
TRAI indicates lower inter-operator charges in consultation paper. New Delhi, Dec 31 If the telecom regulator’s proposal to bring down various charges payable between operators goes through, mobile tariffs could come down by 20-30 per cent ...

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: A Satyam hole in market cap
Chennai, Dec. 31 It is a ‘hole’ that Satyam’s Computer Services management is going to find as hard to fix as Harry Belafonte felt about his bucket in that memorable song, ‘There is a hole in my ...

CONVERGENCE: Is it smart phone or shrunk PC to get online?
As more personal tools migrate to the Web, customers will decide. Bangalore, Dec. 31 There are two ways to design a new product: top down or bottom up. And 2009 will decide which one paying customers prefer, when it comes to the single device ...

SOFTWARE: Satyam has time till June 27 to fill up board vacancies
Reply in a week to Upaid case notices. Hyderabad, Dec. 31 Satyam Computer Services appeared to be gearing up to face some daunting challenges that confront it at the turn of the year, even while trying to wriggle out of the ‘messy’ ...

PERFORMANCE: IT, BPO market in for ‘slowest’ growth
New, innovative services to drive Phase 2 growth: IDC. New Delhi, Dec. 31 After exports, there seems to be bad news in store for the domestic IT and BPO ...

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS: TCS pays $512 m for Citigroup’s BPO arm
Two/three major deals in near future. Mumbai, Dec. 31 Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) completed the acquisition of Citigroup Global Services Ltd (CGSL), the India-based BPO arm of Citigroup Inc, in an all-cash deal worth $512 ...

ISPS: BSNL rolls out Internet TV services
New Delhi, Dec. 31 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd on Wednesday launched its Internet Protocol Television services, which will enable consumers to watch TV channels using their fixed telephone line at ...

SOFTWARE: Satyam moves up on hopes of a positive change
Mumbai, Dec. 31 Heavily beaten shares of Satyam Computer Services moved up by six per cent on Wednesday as the company’s management assured investors and its staff of corrective measures to salvage their badly damaged reputation ...

From eWorld

BROADBAND: Twin tracks to broadband nirvana
With the upcoming auction of spectrum in 3G and WiMAX Indian telecom is at historic cross roads. Anand Parthasarathy suggests why these technologies need to complement, not compete.. Remember the nursery rhyme about a child offered a choice ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Recession and telecom
No call for despondency, says this mobile retailer.. As most corporate honchos rack their brains wondering how to sail through the slowdown, D. Sathish Babu, founder of Chennai-based mobile phone retailer UniverCell (
BROADBAND: India enters the broadband era
Wireless tech pioneer shares his take. For his co-development of key technologies behind MIMO (Multiple In, Multiple Out), which sharply increases the speed of wireless systems, Dr A. Paulraj, Professor at the Information Systems Lab of Stanford ...

OUTSOURCING: Opportunity in the midst of crisis
BPO predictions for 2009. Predictions about the future are both easy and hard. Easy because no one can prove you wrong; hard because if you run a BPO business, as I do, you will end up making resource allocation decisions based upon your view of ...

TELECOMMUNICATIONS: Take your call!
Well, no one would believe it, but I have been hit by my personal technologies’ obsolescence. The mobile phone I had for a very long time finally gave up and I had to buy a new ...

INTERNET: Fitness in store
Playgroundonline ( http://www.playgroundonline.com/index.aspx) is for sports buffs who have no time to run to the store to pick up sporting equipment and accessories. Besides offering ...

CYBER QUEST: Quiz
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