Now Apple will be with Bharti for iPhone rollout

We know that Apple is one of the most famous product and it is not need to introduced here. Here is a news that are a contract between Apple and Bharti to sell the iPhone in India. However this contract is with Vodafone also. We know that from last year when iPhone was launched in US has been sold about 7.5 million iPhones since its launch.

Now it is undecided its price but sources told to ET, “Here, Apple will make money only on the device. The iPhone is being subsidised by operators whereever it has been launched. However, it will not be so in India.” Further ET says, “The 8GB iPhone is available outside India for $399 (Rs 16,700). The device will be priced between Rs 25000 and Rs 2800 in Inida while the 16GB version will come at a higer price tag.”

Now mobile number portability offer from telecom industry

In India now it will be possible to change networks without replacing your mobile number. You can keep your desired number run after changing your networks. It has been announced some day before by TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority Of India). It can be possible from June, 2009.

In this context TRAI says, “There will be 'break before make' arrangement for completion of porting process I.e. connection from donor network to be disconnected first and then connection with recipient network will be make. However, efforts should be make so that break period should not be for more than two hours.”

Suppose you have a prepaid mobile and you are using a number by the Airtel network after some times if you want to change your Network like Vodafone, Reliance or Idea then you can switch off your network which you are currently using and without changing your number you can get a desired networks on your mobile.

Nokia is going to be new in mobile phone industry

Infotech.indiatimes.com had published a review on Nokia phones news. The magazine writes, “As the internet goes mobile and companies like Apple and Google find cool ways to embrace the trend, the mobile market leader Nokia is rewriting its product development rulebook. Instead of working in secrecy and isolation, it wants to start sharing…”

In this news there was another things also, “…A popular video on Youtube shows a ‘concept phone’ that could -- literally – bend to fit your wrist. Called Nokia Morph, it’s also on image of how the world’s largest mobile phone maker to change…”

It all shows Nokia’s popularity that Nokia mobile phone going on popular. About it a word is famous that Nokia is probably the biggest throw of the dice since they entered the cell phone business. And another thing is that Nokia has invited bloggers and tech-savvy media specialists to brainstorm on future mobile products.

Nokia in mobile phone industry has revamping its business model which is known by above magazine also, “…As the personal computer commoditised, IBM and HP similarly sought new business. Little doubt then that several of Nokia’s launches aim to direct users to its internet services instead of Google’s or to its music stores instead of Apple’s iTunes…”

After Apple iPhone all the manufactures of mobile phones has started to upgrade their hardware and software services. Telecom industry news aware us about the mobile phone news day by day specially about manufacturers and networks it shows here after reading the news about Nokia. It is going to meet with new update to stay in market competition.

Telecom Industry revenue growth in 2007-2008

After hearing the news it is truth that Indian telecom is world’s fastest growing telecom. Department of Telecom (DoT) has said in its annual report for 2007-2008, “Production in telecom equipment has increased from Rs 17,833 crore in 2005-2006 to RS 23,656 crore in 2006-07 and the projected figure for the year 2007-08 is RS 26,253 crore. Rising demand for a wide range of telecom equipment, particularly in the area of mobile telecommunications, has provided excellent opportunities to domestic and foreign investors in the manufacturing sector. The last three years have seen many telecom companies setting up manufacturing units in different parts of India.” The news has been reported by ET.

Further has been said by economics times, “At the current growth rate, the Indian telecom equipment manufacturing sector is set to become one of the largest globally by 2010. It is great news on growth of telecom industry in India.

Especially in manufacturing equipments growth rate are much higher than others. In spite of International payers like Nokia, Sony Ericsson, LG and others are on market head rather than Indian company.

On the other hand by the TRAI (telecom regulatory authority of India) a hit has been punched on service provider. That was a fine up to Rs 20,000 for allowing unsolicited commercial calls from telemarketers if you are getting calls after Do-Not-Calls registration.

This is good news for users but it can be as well as good for telemarketers? And the question is also that after this it will be grown up like 2007-2008 growth. It is really like that telecom industry is in boom or collapse?

Telecom Industry - boom or collapse

Some days before there was a news to banning research in Motion’s BlackBerry services but now on Friday economic times has announced, “India is not considering banning Research In Motion’s BlackBerry services at this point of time, the top official in the telecom ministry said on Friday.” It was coverage and headlines as recent news in the section of telecom.

About the services of BlacBerry Satchit Gayakwad the company’s spokesman for India said, “BlackBerry services were offered in India by four providers, Vodafone, Bharti Airtel, Reliance Communications, and BPL Mobile. BlackBerry had 12 million customers worldwide in December.” Further Business Standard had explained that it had an estimated 400,000 subscribers in India.

Some days before there were news about an agreement of investment by Airtel about 100-mn Dollar. BSNL has also recovered over Rs 3,600 cr from subscribers. It is the story of booming in telecom industry.

Other hand there is something different. Today in all news papers there was a head lines about value-added service charges which was charged by Vodafone-Essar to its subscribers without seeking their approval. This was big news and TRAI also had said a statement, “The authority had received complaints from the subscribers of Vodafone-Essar Mobile Services Ltd regarding provision of value-added services without consent.” For the mistake by the company there was an excuse, “technical error.” It was a big issue otherwise subscribers know how they are charged by these networks providers.

In this context there was others news by ET, “Korean electronics giant Samsung is luring major distributors of world’s largest cell phone player Nokia to switch side in its bid to double the market share to over 15 per cent in India this year.” It shows market war in telecom industry. Samsung are calling to Nokia distributors for selling their mobiles.

In the world what is the situation of telecom industry describe BBC, “The decay of the once-proud telecoms sector has continued on Monday with bad news and allegations of corporate misdeeds on both sides of the Atlantic.”

Further says, “The bad news helped trigger falls in London as well, as Vodafone slipped 2.8% to 87.5p, its worst level since January 1998.”

What shows it? The graph reveal one hand its boom and other hand market war, decay of this industry, value-added charge without approval etc. Can we say that telecom industry is in boom?

A great investment by Airtel telecommunication

The Economic times in a news column has written about investment of Airtel. It writes, “Bharti Airtel Lanka (Pvt) Ltd, a subsidiary of Indian telecom giant Bharti Airtel, has signed a 100-million dollars investment agreement with the Board of Investment (BOI) of Sri Lanka to begin Lankan operation by this year.”

The huge investment shows the boom of telecom industry. Before some months ago Vodafone had take over Hutch telecom. It was a very big deal and in world Vodafone is one of the big players. The globlisation and take over also indicate of worlds biggest telecom industry booming players.

About the investment a statement from BOI is, “The investment will enable Airtel here to roll out all passive infrastructures necessary to gear up the company for launch of its services.”

In this context one of the big manufactures Nokia has announced about Indian telecom boom, “We are targeting a big growth in the Indian market. Around 50 per cent of customers are welcoming the navigation capabilities in this market,” it was Devinder Kishor Nokia India’s director (marketing) who said this news.

Garmin sat nav devices are well known brand

GPS navigation is known as Global Positioning System. There are many manufactures which introduce it but from Garmin GPS are well known in market. The brand has created its own identity in this sphere. You can opt it for decide your position globally.

You can take in example of Garmin Nuvi 310. This sat Nav Devices is with sophisticated capabilities for route allocation between a numbers of destinations. You can install the device in your cars. It goes a long way in ensuring a safe journey for many people.

There are many features in Garmin sat nav devices. These are with wide screens, one touch controls, FM modulators, Bluetooth connectivity, pre-installed speed cameras and street level maps of different places.

Now a day GPS devices are famous in mobile phones. Sat Nav Devices can be future of Telecom industry.