Arun

@tanveer: Fixed WiMAX is wireless (last mile) broadband. Instead of using cable from the provider's end to your home, the provider installs towers called BTS (Base Transceiver Station) at various points in the city/town and then installs an antenna called CPE (Customer Premise Equipment) on the top of your house to receive signal from the tower. The antenna is connected directly to your PC's network card via CAT5 cable using a PowerOverEthernet splitter device.

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Have you used both Nokia E71 and BlackBerry Bold?

Are you an Archeologist? You just excavated something from March 2004 I don't have a siggy to test

Nope, no chance of that!

The Indian resellers offers payment options in INR. Maybe he doesn't have Credit Card/PayPal.

Voting is over now, at midnight... they have ended at 52nd rank.

Live Mint Aug 21 2008. 4:39 PM IST Meridian Mobile, a player in the telecom industry has tied up with Reliance Communications Ltd to market its FLY brand dual-SIM card handset models at Reliance outlets. A FLY handset bought from a Reliance outlet will be cheaper than those available at other establishments . The association will be at two levels. Initially, it will be a national tie up with 2,000 Reliance Web stores selling CDMA and CDMA/GSM dual range handsets. The process of placing the first lot of V 80-I handset models in Reliance web stores across India is already on. At the next level, there would be a local tie-up within the Delhi circle, under which the V 80-I will be supplied along with a free Reliance lifetime SIM card. Currently, FLY phones are available at Subhiksha and Mobile Store.

It looks like many people are getting such calls from +50977: http://www.consumercomplaints.in/complaint...aid-c44293.html

Lower margins reflecting costs for GSM rollout: Reliance Communications CNBC TV18 Interview excertps with SP Shukla, President - Wireless Business at Reliance Communications Monday, November 03, 2008 at 13:10 SP Shukla, President - Wireless Business at Reliance Communications said that lower margins are reflecting costs for GSM rollout. He said that GSM commercial rollout is likely by the year-end. Shukla said that they have GSM spectrum for eight circles, and that they have allocated another 14. The company has got fresh GSM spectrum in North, West and South India, he added. Shukla further said that the company is operating at 25% market share in GSM and CDMA together. He said that they will not scale back capex, and that the decline has been due to completion of the rollout. Shukla added that bulk of capex will be completed by middle of 2009. He further said forex loans are long-term in nature; they are due starting 2011. Here is a verbatim transcript of the exclusive interview with SP Shukla on CNBC-TV18. Also watch the accompanying video. Q: Could you detail the slip in margins in this current quarter and do you expect this slippage to continue? A: We have a strong margin at 38.9% in our wireless business. What one is seeing here is the cost which has already been incurred for our GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) rollout which is running very much on schedule. The upside from GSM rollout will start kicking in as soon as we go for our commercial launches. Our commercial launches will begin towards end of this year, and will be concluded by middle of next year. So, we will be participating in the upside from GSM in three–four areas. First, today, in India 7–8 million subscribers have been added in GSM segment where there will be a national participation. Second, we will participate in the GSM ecosystem which provides a wide variety of handsets. Third, we will be able to participate in the international roaming segment––both outgoing and incoming––that is another huge revenue upside which we will be able to participate in a big way. So, when one looks at the number of opportunities where GSM ecosystem will allow us to participate in the time to come all that revenue upside has to be factored in going forward towards end of this year. Today, what one is seeing is cost build-up which has already happened and the beauty is that in spite of all that cost build-up we are still operating at 39% upwards of margins, which is a very healthy margin. Q: How many circles have you been allocated in spectrum for GSM in specific, and by which quarter do you see that impacting margins or beginning to impact EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization) margins? A: We operate in eight circles for GSM but that is mostly Eastern and North-eastern parts of India. Another 14 circles have been already given to us from the spectrum point of view. These 14 circles cover the North, West and the South, and that is where there are large metros ‘A’ circles all located and this is where we will have the revenue upside as soon as we start our commercial launches towards end of this year itself. Q: How did you capitalise for the capex that you need to undertake now. Have you tied up all the financing because capital is little difficult to come by in these market conditions? A: Our Chairman made the point that Reliance Communications, due to its strong balance sheet, has been well-placed. All our financing arrangements are fully in place. Q: Can you give us an update of what the current GSM performance has been for Reliance Communications in the circles where you have GSM already. Just to get a sense of how well you are doing with GSM versus competition? A: There are five circles where we have both GSM and CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access Player) participation. One will find that they are continuously operating at 25% market share between GSM and CDMA put together which has been above industry participation anywhere in the country. Going forward as we enter that in the rest of India, that participation will make all the difference. Q: You did indicate in that same conference call though that you expect to see a significant decline in capex. Where is it that you are scaling facilities plans––is it for the tower facilities or is it for rollouts for GSM. Where is it that you are going to be cutting costs? A: In capex there is no scale back; capex will be completed. What we meant was the GSM rollout which is underway and which is today reflected in work in progress all that capex will get completed by middle of next year and hence after that we will be adding capex only for additional coverage wherever there maybe coverage requirement and additional capacity as we fill up our capacity installed between now and middle of next year. So it will be an incremental requirement post second half before that we are doing the GSM rollout as phase one. Thus, bulk of our capex requirement will be completed by middle of next year. Q: Could you confirm for us how much the total debt for Reliance Communication is at this point, and which currency most of that has been raised in? A: I will not be able to give that detail; it’s multi-currency. But we had indicated that most of the foreign exchange requirement and foreign exchange loans are of long-term nature. Bulk of it is falling due only beyond 2011. Q: What do you sense from market in terms of feedback from the analysts fraternity. Are they worried about your earnings going forward because your stock has been punished quite a bit more than your sector peer Bharti Airtel over the last few months. Are there any concerns that you hear from your investors? A: We do not have any such concerns. Whenever large capex are undertaken by any company there can be a short-term impact that is what most people will worry about and we are happy to say that we see no such concern. We are confident that our capex is going to give us wonderful returns in the time to come with participation in 80% of the mobile market which is GSM. Today, our growth is led by CDMA where we have done exceedingly well as the largest player in CDMA space and that is a success story we want to repeat in GSM.

Already voted! Chirag for President!

BSNL Maharashtra circle has announced a Diwali bonus for BSNL Broadband subscribers. Get double the current data limit during the month of November 2008! http://www.maharashtra.bsnl.co.in/MHScheme...nus23102008.asp Not sure if other circles have announced anything similar yet.

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As per this article TATA is expected to complete GSM trials by the year end. So maybe early next year it could be available.

That does seem to be Reliance GSM.

Economic Times 1 Nov, 2008, 0029 hrs IST Reliance Communications (RCOM) has posted a 17.3% growth in net profit in the July-September quarter, beating estimates, due to higher number of customers. Its consolidated net profit grew to Rs 1,531 crore in the second quarter of the current year as over 5.2 million users signed up for services during the period. The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) company saw 23.3% rise in revenue to Rs 5,645 crore. Of this, Rs 4,119 crore (65%) came from wireless business, which includes both GSM and CDMA services. Its global business, comprising national and international long distance voice, video and data services, contributed Rs 1,526 crore or 24% to total revenues. “The GSM rollout (in remaining 14 circles) is on schedule and despite the liquidity crunch in the financial markets, the funding requirement is fully in place,” RCOM chairman Anil Ambani said at the earnings conference call after the results. The RCOM stock gained 13.7% to close at Rs 220 on BSE on Friday. RCOM president-wireless SP Shukla said: “There will be rise in revenues from additional subscribers which will reflect as soon as we launch GSM.” The commercial launch will be in December with a target to complete rollout in all the 14 circles by the mid-2009" RCOM’s total EBITDA moved up over 17% to Rs 2,302 crore, with EBITDA margin standing at 40.8%. However, the company’s wireless EBITDA margin has declined for the second straight quarter. “This is a cause of concern,” said an analyst. Wireless EBITDA was 38.9% during the reporting quarter as against 40.4% in the April-June 2008 period. Average revenue per user per month (ARPU) was also down to Rs 271 compared to Rs 282 last quarter. The telco invested Rs 4,773 crore for network expansion during the quarter, it said in a statement on Friday. RCOM expects its capex to start declining beginning next year as most of its projects have already reached the execution stage. The company hopes to benefit from department of telecom’s decision to reduce the contribution of opertors to Universal Service Obligation Fund (USOF) by 2%. “We are confident of achieving the laid down criteria to get 2% USOF reduction when it becomes applicable and it will translate into margin increase,” said Mr Shukla. The reduction is scheduled to come into effect from April next year. It has set up 25,000 towers in the past 15 months and is targeting to end the fiscal with a portfolio of 48,000 towers. However, RCOM has not yet signed any sharing agreements with other operators. “We are in advanced talks with multiple operators,” said a company official, adding that the current internal tenancy ratio per tower is 1.3. “We expect strong growth across segments, with margin expansion of 2% in each of the next two quarters. New revenue will flow in high margin services like IPLC and VPN...WiMax services will rollout in the quarters to come,” said Punit Garg, CEO, Reliance Globacom, RCOM’s subsidiary for international operations. The company’s broadband business added Rs 560 crore to the total revenue. It has set up new data centres in Chennai and Mumbai during the reporting quarter. RCOM launched its direct-to-home services under the BIG TV brand in August. Its revenues have been reported under the head ‘other income’ and will be shown separately from the next fiscal. Other income, which also includes earnings from webworld services and RCOM’s subsidiaries, was Rs 234 crore during the quarter, said an official during the earnings call.

Thanks for the detailed steps, I will try out the original ROM!

Blackberry Bold (GSM) was already launched for Reliance. So once Reliance launches GSM nationwide, it will be available everywhere. The GSM service might get officially launched nationwide by this year end. You can follow this topic: http://www.rimweb.in/forums/index.php?showtopic=13051 Blackberry Bold CDMA is not announced yet by RIM (Research in Motion).

That was already posted before. See post #16 in this topic (first post in this page). You missed Madhya Pradesh.

Merged and Pinned topic... Thanks Prabhat!

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Exactly, thats what "Google Search for RIMweb" is meant for. I was able to find the topic in the first result link using the keywords "find operator circle". The "Google Search for RIMweb" appears on the top of all pages.

India Says Carriers in U.S., U.K. Keen on 3G Permits Bloomberg October 29, 2008 India's phone regulator said operators in the U.S., U.K., France, Italy and Australia ``are interested'' in bidding for a permit to offer high-speed services in the South Asian nation. The bids by the ``well-known'' operators may allow India to have its first third-generation service by September 2009, Nripendra Misra, chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, said in an interview in Hong Kong today. The country may have 40 million 3G users by the end of 2009, he said. ``Foreign investors are all the time knocking, all the time wanting to enter,'' Misra said. India, whose mobile-phone users exceed the U.S. population, may allow as many as 10 operators to offer 3G services, Communications and Information Technology Minister Andimuthu Raja said Aug. 1. An auction for radio spectrum in the world's fastest-growing major mobile-phone market is planned before the year-end, he said at the time. New entrants to the Indian mobile-phone sector will face competition from existing operators including Bharti Airtel Ltd., Reliance Communications Ltd. and Vodafone Essar Ltd., the three biggest local wireless carriers. ``It will be very tough competition, as the incumbents in India are highly efficient,'' said Misra, in Hong Kong to attend a conference organized by the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia. Joint Ventures Foreign companies will need to form ventures with local firms to bid for the 3G licenses in order to comply with government limits on overseas investments in the telecommunications industry, Misra said. India has a 74 percent cap on foreign ownership in phone companies. State-controlled Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd. were allotted spectrum on Aug. 7 to offer the high-speed services, ahead of the planned auction. Bharat Sanchar plans to start 3G services by January, Chairman Kuldeep Goyal said in the same month. India added 10.1 million wireless users in September, taking its total to 315.3 million, according to data from the regulator. The country is seeking to increase wireless users to 500 million by 2010, Misra said today. So even the TRAI officials are now looking forward to September 2009 for the start!

The login status is already there. For example, means the member is offline and means that the member is online. If you have any better icons for online/offline status, please send it to arun (at) rimweb.com !

HTC Touch may be available with Sadik if he has stock. So contact him and see. He doesn't run a company, but is just a "gentleman" as you said and he is based in Mumbai. He can courier it anywhere in India. He may have stock of HTC Touch, so contact him and check. Not yet