National News: March 2009

[This article was published in the March 2009 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]

Centralised IT Processing Centre in Bangalore

VAS for Rural India

The low awareness of value added services (VAS) restricted the growth of value added services in rural India, says a study carried out by Lirneasia, a regional information and communication technology (ICT) policy and regulation capacity-building organisation active across the Asia Pacific region.

10.29 Million More Telephone Connections Added

As per the data disclosed by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) another 10.29 million telephone connections (Wireline and Wireless) have been added during October 2008 …

TRAI’s Reach in Sept. 2008

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in a recent press release disclosed that,a total of 9.79 million telephone connections (Wireline and Wireless) have been addedduring September 2008…

Connecting through Integration of Services : Pramod Saxena, Oxigen, India, India

Our ultimate aim in all these initiatives is to connect with the mobile user because mobile telephony will continue to grow at a faster rate, as we have witnessed in the recent past.

Gujarat (India) to Connect All Villages via Satellite

Gujarat will be the first state in India to provide high-speed connectivity through satellite-based data connections to all its 13,693 gram panchayats by July this year, enabling video, voice and data offerings in the areas of e-Governance, distance education, telemedicine, agriculture and interactive advisory and counselling services.

Airtel pins hopes on e-Governance

Airtel is looking for 25 per cent growth for its back-end enterprise service in e-Governance projects in India. Currently, Airtel Enterprise Services (AES) is contributing 30 percent to overall Bharti Airtel.

Indian teledensity hits 23.9%

The teledensity of India has marked 272.88 million at the end of December. In December, 2007 India has added 8.17 million telecom subscribers according to the data released by telecom regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).

DoT begins phase II rural mobile project in India

The Department of Telecom is planning to roll out second phase of the rural mobile project. In its second phase, DoT will roll out another 11,000 cellular towers across 2.4 lakh unconnected villages under the Universal Services Obligation fund.

DoT setting up another panel on spectrum allocation

The Department of Telecom has constituted a new committee, headed by its member technology K Sridhara to study the spectrum panel