MUMBAI: Tata Communications has handed the keys to its chairman’s office to N. Ganapathy Subramaniam, the tech wizard who spent four decades cutting code and climbing...
NEW DELHI: Hailing the country’s telecom sector as “one of the biggest success stories of market oriented reforms”, the Economic Survey of India, tabled in the...
MUMBAI: In the era of digital services the mobile phone can well be referred as man’s best friend for the umpteen tasks it performs. Extending the...
MUMBAI: Tata-controlled VSNL International will provide international retail call termination facilities for internet portal Yahoo’s voice services. “Yahoo! has selected VSNL International’s Teleglobe voice peering and...
MUMBAI: Tata group company Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) has inked an MoU with global telecom firms to construct a new submarine cable linking India, Middle...
MUMBAI: Reliance Communications owned Falcon Undersea Cable System has started its operational from today unleashing international bandwidth between India, Middle East and Europe. The Flag Telecom...
MUMBAI: Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (VSNL) has significantly reduced prices for its international bandwidth products – international private leased circuits (IPLC) and internet leased lines (ILL)....
The recent decision taken by the government to allow broadcasters to uplink directly from India seems to have caught the fancy of almost all the television...
MUMBAI: The telecom sector is attracting investments not only in the global market but also in India. Citigroup Inc. has acquired a 6.3 per cent stake...
MUMBAI: Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) is setting up cyber cafes at major railway stations across the country to create user-friendly public internet access points. The...
MUMBAI: Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) is on a shopping spree. The telecommunications giant has bought out the internet business of 7 Star, a major cable...
MUMBAI: Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) is strengthening its broadband presence in the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) segment. The telecommunications giant has agreed to buy...
MUMBAI: Rumours of delays may be rife in the market but Tata Sky – the 80:20 joint venture between the Tata Group and Star India –...
Murdoch mania still is hot in town as speculation about what he really intends to do in the Indian market rising to a fever pitch. He...
MUMBAI: Telecommunications major Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) has been chosen as the network administrator for one of the world’s largest and sophisticated trans-continent cable systems-SEA-ME-WE4...
NEW DELHI: Tata Sky, proposing to start a DTH television service in India, can heave a sigh of relief as a nod from the telecommunication ministry...
MUMBAI: Anil Ambani’s Reliance Infocomm may not have made significant headway in rolling out Internet Protocol (IP)-based television services, but a word of assurance has come...
MUMBAI: Recreate Solutions, a London-based company floated by ex-Zee employee Bhaskar Majumdar, is part of a consortium led by IBM bidding for IPTV projects in the...
MUMBAI: Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) will be associating with technology major Microsoft to make an entry into the ‘triple play’ arena. The two companies have...
BANGALORE: As India readies to take on South Africa at Chinnaswamy Stadium, the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) is getting connected with Wi-Fi technology. VSNL, the...
BANGALORE: California-headquartered Speedera Networks Inc, global provider of distributed application hosting and content delivery services, has entered into a partnership with Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL)...
MUMBAI: 7 Star Care, the only health channel in India, has gone interactive. Three of its shows are SMS-driven, allowing viewers to ask questions on their...
MUMBAI: K Sera Sera productions has signed a broadband deal with VSNL for 10 movies. The production house, which has made a debut in television content...
MUMBAI: Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) has appointed Shashi Kalanthil as head retail broadband business. Kalanthil will oversee the entire business roll out of VSNL’s broadband...
MUMBAI: Indian telecom service provider VSNL, which is a division of the Tata Group has announced that its US affiliate, VSNL America appointed Dave Ryan as...
MUMBAI: Gailtel the telecommunication service wing of gas company Gail has announced that its sales have increased to Rs 200.50 million in 2003-04 from Rs 110.71...
MUMBAI: Mobile satellite company Inmarsat Ventures Plc. is planning to expand its operations in the country as it has recently filed an application with Indian government,...
MUMBAI: Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) and pan-Asian telecommunications services provider Asia Netcom have announced a strategic partnership to enhance our connectivity to the Asia Pacific...
NEW DELHI: Agrani Wireless Services Limited (AWSL) has been awarded the ‘best radio trunking company’ of the year (2003)’ by New Delhi’s Voice and Data magazine,...
NEW DELHI: The government is determined to keep Star News on tenterhooks as it did not take a decision on its uplinking even today. A senior...
NEW DELHI: India’s pubcaster Prasar Bharati Corporation, which has said that Doordarshan is planning a KU-band direct-to-home (DTH) television service foray, will form a consortium with...
Finally, the rules of the news channel game have been spelt out. It‘s as good a time as any to examine the implications. First the rules....
NEW DELHI: Television Eighteen Ltd., the New Delhi-based 49 per cent joint venture partner in CNBC India, has sought government permission to explore whether its teleport...
2002. Now that the Convergence Bill has been tabled, we should have a convergence law by mid to late this year. After five years of wait...
MUMBAI: Even as Star India’s licence for uplinking Star News from Indian shores gets short shrift, Hindi entertainment channel Sahara TV looks to have stolen a...
The Prasar Bharati board yesterday gave the corporation the go-ahead to explore a DTH service in partnership with non-broadcasters. The corporation is believed to be exploring...
NONTHABURI (Thailand): Recently privatised international telecommunication operator Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) and Thailand’s Shin Satellite have signed a contract to provide premium satellite television transmission...
NEW DELHI: The Rupert Murdoch-controlled Star Group has finally applied to the government for starting a news channel and getting allotted a transponder on an Indian...
CALIFORNIA: Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (SingTel) and 12 international telecommunications carriers have signed an MoU in Bali, Indonesia, to jointly plan and initiate the construction of a...
Mumbai, April 24, 2006: In a significant honour, VSNL’s Executive Director, Mr. N Srinath has been named the ‘Telecom CEO of the Year’ by the leading...
NEW DELHI: With the clock ticking towards the 31 March 2003 termination of the NDTV-Star India alliance, Rupert Murdoch’s company is making all the arrangements for...
NEW DELHI:Star India Pvt Ltd, a subsidiary of the Rupert Murdoch-controlled Hong Kong-based Star Group, has applied to the Indian government for permission for a port-to-port...
Star TV made a lot of hulabaloo about how the network would crack down on any one trying to corner the limelight by riding on the...
The floodgates are finally opening up it would seem. Earlier this week, the Union Cabinet allowed 100 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in advertising and...
Direct to home (DTH) television service, more popularly known as direct broadcast satellite service, is coming to India after a government ordained delay of three years....
Zee Interactive Learning Systems Ltd (ZILS), in a pioneering effort which integrates video and television with the interactive capabilities of the Internet, today announced the launch...
Overseas communications carrier and sole uplinking service provider Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd is working on providing digital uplinking facilities to encrypted channels from Indian soil. As...

