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oh man this is a big big shock for me!.....

simple insert the RUIM and boot the phone thats it, is there any special way guys he he,

MUMBAI: India's chances of meeting a 2010 target of 20 million broadband subscribers relies heavily on going wireless and telecoms companies are tripping over themselves to spread the net. Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMax) provides high-speed internet connections to fixed and mobile telephone users over a wide area using radio spectrum. "Broadband coverage would increase with WiMax -- it is one of the key technologies that would really expand the growth of broadband in the country," said Cisco's advanced tech business development manager for South Asia, Paramjit Puri. Research and advisory firm Gartner has estimated that India will have 6.9 million mobile and fixed WiMax connections by the end of 2011. And the scramble is on. Tata Communications, which offers WiMax for business customers in about 30 cities, is investing $500 million in further rollouts. Bharat Sanchar Nigam had announced a similar investment of its own. Reliance Communications is offering WiMax in Pune and Bangalore, while Mahanagar Telephone Nigam is expected to announce its WiMax plans shortly. At present broadband access mostly uses the dominant DSL technology over copper loops. The state-run firms, MTNL and BSNL, are the leading players but still short of their own targets. "See, ultimately you cannot put so much copper on the ground because the cost is going to go up," said Intel's Lil Mohan, director for WiMax, Emerging Markets. "Subscribers will go up, price of customer equipment will drop, making it cheaper than DSL - and you can get it whenever and wherever you want, including rural areas," said Mohan. It will also ring in more revenues per user with greater bandwidth to offer more services. But not all is rosy. India has alloted 3.3 giga hertz frequency while the worldwide standard is 2.5 GHz, which means vendors will have to build special equipment for India. It is also more expensive to deploy WiMax in the 3.3 GHz frequency, in terms of more base stations, transmitters and equipment, says Intel's Mohan. Low PC penetration too would be limiting in fixed Wimax, especially for the retail segment. "WiMax is still a niche technology and limited to enterprise and high-end residential users in urban India," said Gartner analyst Naresh Singh in the report. But the hurdles have not discouraged the Tatas from investing in fixed WiMax. BSNL is betting on mobile Wimax, while Reliance hopes to take its fixed services into the mobile segment. "There is currently a huge unmet demand for fixed connectivity for homes, small offices, education centres," Tata Communication's president, retail & broadband, Shankar Prasad, said. India's growing mobile subscriber base, the third largest in the world, is the easiest way to reach the retail segment. While fixed would be the starter, its full potential would be realised with mobile, says Cisco's Puri. "Our view is growth will happen in both segments. However fully mobile widespread usage of WiMax, especially in India, will probably happen two to three years from now," said Mohan.

hi guys and gals, sometimes back i was quite happy with my new samsung max, as i was a huge fan of samsung , and after rainbow when samsung had a break with reliance and joined hands with tata i was afraid that i wont be able to use samsung, then i came accross nokia 2865, a good phone but with joystick problem, when i got to know that max is with rim, i was rejoiced untill now when i came across this problem that you cant send any file from bluetooth to another phone, means we can only get not send and that too finding is quite difficult, for you people i have some new foundings 1) wanna create slideshow of many pics just open the folder contents box>photo album>My album>options>make slide show/slide show for all..save it and then goto options and assign it as wallpaper 2) while slider is down wanna search something or wanna do something just press camera button for 2-5 seconds, there would be a message wanna key lock free, choose yes and bingo its done this can also be done when MP3 player is playing songs, why slide the phone everytime up! any person knowing something about bluetooth pls reply

it would be called if rules are followed and come to realisation

aha 2MB memory great man . . .

for any s/w updates contact mahesh, he has done some r&d into it

MUMBAI: State-run Mahanagar Telephone Nigam has joined hands with Aksh Optifibre to offer subscribers a bouquet of 100 interactive personalised television channels and video phone calling services in Mumbai, a top company official said on Thursday. "We will be offering IPTV-Aksh-Tel and video phone calling services-V Spyk to our subscribers in Mumbai and Delhi in April," MTNL Executive Director J Gopal told reporters while launching the IPTV services on Thursday. The services will be available to subscribers at Rs 499 per month, which includes IPTV, VOIP and 50 free calls and 50 MB broadband services, Gopal said adding that MTNL will launch mobile TV by this month-end. Aksh-Tel, Aksh Optifibre's interactive personalised television delivers TV programming, which comes with a high quality reception and several add on features like time-shift television, video on demand etc. V Spyk launched by Aksh is a real time video-phone calling service between two users, enabling real time communication at a more personalised level. Both the services are easily available to all MTNL broadband subscribers. MTNL is hopeful of targeting 10,000 subscribers by December 2008.

well where i have to complain for several calls that i receive inspite registering in DNC. and indeed consumer should get money not govt

COAI renews attack on Virgin entry NEW DELHI: GSM operators on Thursday approached the Department of Telecom (DoT) raising fresh concerns on the Tata-Virgin tie-up. They have said that Virgin Mobile was providing full range mobile services, including sale of handsets, tariff plans, value-added services and after sales, which only license holders are eligible to offer. While the Tatas have said that the partnership does not amount to Virgin Mobile entering India as a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) because it did not involve selling of airtime, GSM players have pointed out that ‘in the global context, to be classified as a MVNO, purchase of airtime was not essential’. Indian regulations do not allow MVNOs. It must, however, be pointed out that despite objections from the GSM players, the DoT has already cleared the Tata-Virgin JV after seeking additional details from both companies. Responding to Tata’s version that Virgin was entering India as its franchisee, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), the body representing all GSM players, in its communication to the DoT said, “We suspect that going by the concept of franchising as understood worldwide, it is Tata Teleservices that may be acting as a franchisee of the Virgin Group for the use of the Virgin Mobile brand and business format expertise in India, instead of the other way round. This obviously has implications on whether this arrangement has been designed so as to allow Virgin Mobile India to offer mobile services in India, without owning a telecom licence.” Further, the COAI has also told DoT that the mobile services launched by Virgin Mobile in India were similar to that offered by the Virgin Group (as an MVNO) in other parts of the world such as UK and Australia. GSM operators also want to explore if the Tata-Virgin partnership is in breach of the country’s foreign direct investment (FDI) policy. It has said that the current policy completely bars foreign investments in the telecom retail space. “It is important, therefore, to examine whether the mobile service being provided by Virgin Mobile India meet the restrictions imposed by the FDI Policy. At the same time, the COAI has also pointed out that it was not opposed to the entry of MVNOs in India, but was in favour of innovation and consumer benefit. “However, to ensure a level playing field, it is imperative that comprehensive guidelines be issued on mobile services by MVNOs, before they are permitted. Backdoor methods which have the effect of subverting policy must be avoided, ” the COAI said.

HTC to launch sub-Rs 10,000 smartphones, ties up with RCom MUMBAI: HTC Corporation, the leading makers of Windows-enabled smartphones, will launch a mobile device in the sub-Rs 10,000 range to address the lower end of the smartphone segment. "We are developing a product, a smartphone, to hit below the Rs 10,000 mark. We hope to launch it in the next six months," HTC India Country Manager Ajay Sharma told reporters on the sidelines of a news conference. The HTC smartphones are now available at price points of Rs 11,500 to Rs 34,000, which is competitive to those manufactured by firms like Blackberry and Nokia. Last year, the company sold about 10 million devices worldover. "India remains to be our fastest growing market and the sales in second half of 2007 grew by as much as 300 per cent over the first half," Sharma said. We have set ourselves an ambitious target of one million smartphones in India by 2009," he added. Earlier, HTC announced its foray into CDMA technology in a tie-up with Reliance Communications. HTC launched two new devices - HTC P3000 and HTC S720 - exclusively for Reliance customers. RCom President S P Shukla said the alliance was in line with our intent to offer high-end devices to customers to help them access email, internet and data applications on the move. HTC President Peter Chou said India was an important market for the company and it will launch many more products shortly.

chat with samsung CC says new software release is slated in few weeks

well the packs are good but still i suggest india card is the best 1.25 to any phone is the best!....

HAPPY HOLI TO ALL OF YOU

NEW DELHI: Vanu, the telecoms solutions provider that has caught global attention with its software solutions that allows telcom networks to tune to any frequency (GSM or CDMA) without change of hardware or having to set up different radio transmitters for different technologies, is of view that the first large scale commercial deployment of its solutions will happen in India. The company on Tuesday also broke new ground in wireless infrastructure solutions by unveiling its multiRAN solution — this unique software platform will enable telcos to share their active infrastructure while enabling each operator to maintain independent management control. This Anywave MultiRAN allows each operator sharing the system to independently monitor and modify network parameters like a traditional standalone network. Additionally, the individual operator independently controls upgrades to their network without affecting other operators using the same system. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Vanu, is founded by Vanu Bose, son of Amar Bose who set up the audio systems firm Bose. Vanu’s software-defined radio, where software and not hard-wired circuitry is used to control the operation of radio transmitters and receivers has so far seen limited commercial deployments in the US. “We are doing a pilot with the state-owned C-DoT. We are also in talks with operators here to deploy our software-defined radio. Perhaps, our first large scale deployment will be in India,” the company’s executive vice-president, business development, John Winn, told ET. Several Indian telcos, including BSNL, Tatas, Reliance Communications already offer or are set to launch services on both GSM and CDMA platform in the near future. With many new telcos being granted licences in India and incumbent operators expanding operations to rural India, Mr Winn sees huge business opportunities here: “So far, Vanu software radio is the only wireless infrastructure solution to enable individual base stations to simultaneously operate GSM, CDMA and beyond. This will enable new and existing players to accelerate time-to-market for new services while delivering unprecedented capital and operating cost-savings. Carriers can easily and economically add new wireless standards or increase system capacity via remote software downloads,” he said. According to him, if telcos were to combine the software radio solution with the company’s multiRAN offerings, it would lead to over 25% savings in capex and more than 35% savings in their opex.

TRAI ready for legal battle if telcos challenge its decision on pesky calls NEW DELHI: Telecom watchdog TRAI on Wednesday said it is ready for a legal battle if the telecom operators move the court challenging its decision to impose penalties on service providers for unsolicited calls to the subscribers. "There is no question of rolling back the decision. If the operators move court challenging the move, we are ready to fight them," a TRAI official said here on the sidelines of Convergence India, an ICT exhibition. The telecom regulator had on Monday said for the first unsolicited communication, a service provider would have to pay a penalty of up to Rs 5,000, which could go up to Rs 20,000 for each subsequent call. The telecom operators associations yesterday strongly opposed the decision, which they said was "unfair" and would potentially discourage the service providers. GSM lobby group COAI and CDMA operators group AUSPI said in a joint statement that TRAI does not have the powers to penalise operators. "The service providers merely provide the pipes for the carriage of the calls and cannot be held responsible for such pesky, nuisance calls made by the marketing agencies," the statement had said. TRAI is well aware that there is no technological facility available which can help the service provider to discern whether the call is from a telemarketer or is an unsolicited commercial communication, it added. Moreover, there is no way in which the service provider can ensure that the telemarketer has scrubbed the calling list in an appropriate manner before making the call. The entire industry is completely discouraged by this regulation since we have been going out of our way and making all possible efforts to put in a system so as to enable the Authority's (TRAI's) UCC regulation to be effective," it had said yesterday. TRAI, on its part, had said, "The objective is to increase the effectiveness of compliance of these regulations by providing financial disincentive to non-compliant Telecom Service Providers and thereby reducing the nuisance and inconvenience to the subscribers from the unsolicited tele-marketing calls/ messages." Telcos set to challenge TRAI over pesky call fine NEW DELHI: A day after telecom regulator TRAI directed service providers to pay fines up to Rs 20,000 for allowing unsolicited commercial calls from telemarketers, telcos on Tuesday hit back and said that the authority didn’t have powers to impose financial penalties on them. As reported by ET on Tuesday, it is also learnt that telcos are set to challenge TRAI’s regulations in court. When contacted, TRAI chairman Nripendra Misra said, “There’s no question of any review of this regulation.’’ TRAI sources also added that mobile operators were welcome to challenge the decision. The do-not-call service was introduced last year by the TRAI for mobile subscribers who did not wish to be disturbed by telemarketers for house loans, credit cards, insurance and other services. So far, it has been a non-starter as even DNC-registered subscribers continue to be troubled by telemarketers, which forced TRAI to impose steep penalties. Telcos have pointed out that they cannot be held responsible if unregistered telemarketers continued to defy laws and make calls to subscribers who were registered with the Do-Not-Call registry. “The service providers merely provide the ‘pipes’ for the carriage of the calls and cannot be held responsible for such pesky, nuisance calls made by marketing agencies. The Authority is aware that there is no technological facility available which can help the service provider to discern whether the call is from a telemarketer There is no way in which the service provider can ensure that the telemarketer has scrubbed the calling list in an appropriate manner before making the telemarketing call,” Cellular Operators Association of India and the Association of Unified Service Providers of India said in a joint communication to TRAI. COAI represent operators on the GSM platform while AUSPI is the industry body of the CDMA-based operators. “Poor compliance by telemarketers and their concerned institutions needs to be urgently addressed to protect consumers. Service providers should not be demotivated by slapping penalties for an action for which they are not responsible. We urge that suitable actions be taken by the Authority at the real source of the problem - the errant telemarketers and their customer institutions which will effectively protect customers and end-users,” said the cellular industry bodies communication said. Service providers also said that they have made efforts to put in place systems which would help TRAI’s regulation to become effective. “We have had several meetings and discussions with the Authority, brought out public awareness advertisements and left no stone unturned to protect the privacy of our customers,” the communication added.

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i am using kingston and have never ever faced problem and sandisk too

@kshah i dont know have been using reliance since launch have never ever faced network problem in rajasthan. i dont know which area you are describing but i have personally never ever faced problem

NEW DELHI: In one of the largest orders for broadband services globally, state-owned BSNL is all set to invite bids for 8 million Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL), also called modem. Sources said global majors Alcatel, Lucent, Nokia Siemens, Ericsson, ZTE, Huawei and others have already expressed interest to bid for the BSNL contract, expected to be worth several hundred million dollars. India has about 3.24 million broadband connections and the BSNL tender is more than twice the existing broadband subscriber of all operators combined. More importantly, BSNL is offering more than broadband services. The company has informed prospective bidders that the modem should not only offer high speed internet access, but also carry content services such as IPTV, internet telephony and VoD (Video on Demand systems allow users to select and watch video and clip content over a network as part of an interactive TV system). It should also offer enterprise services such as Virtual Private Network over broadband. Sources said that tender conditions would also stipulate that a significant per cent of these modems are Wi-Fi-enabled. It is also learnt that BSNL has called a meeting of all chip set vendors who manufacture DSLs to understand what the PSU terms ‘latest developments in DSL.’ “The meeting is scheduled in the next few days and the tender conditions will be finalised only after that,’’ sources close to the development added. While the DSLs will cater to broadband services via fixedline, BSNL is also pushing for high speed internet through wireless (also called WiMAX services). WiMAX will also paves the way for high-speed wireless internet on laptops and high-end mobile handsets. The PSU has already earmarked Rs 3,000 crore for it and has decided to follow a franchisee model for its wireless broadband services. The company has also floated an expression of interest to select the franchisees through a two-stage bidding process. As reported by ET first, BSNL has tied up with US-based WiMAX solutions firm Soma Networks through the franchisee model for what is considered the largest WiMAX deployment in the country covering four states in three circles — Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Goa. BSNL had earlier received some spectrum in the 2.5 GHz frequency band for its WiMAX rollout. It plans to roll out WiMax services in 70 cities across the country by the second half of 2008 and set up 50,000 Common Service Centres (CSCs) — ICT-enabled kiosks — across the country using WiMAX. The government has set itself a target of 20 million broadband lines in service by 2010 and BSNL is targeting a market share of about 60% of this figure.

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Spectrum War Round II: GSM, CDMA providers fight over eGSM band. NEW DELHI: A new round of spectrum battle has broken out between existing GSM operators and CDMA players who are launching GSM services after the government recently approved mobile services on dual technology. This time around, they are battling for the rights to use the ‘eGSM band’. The ‘eGSM band’ involves radio frequencies of 880-890 MHz paired with 925-935 MHz. The GSM operators’ body, Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI), has said that globally this band is used by service providers to offer GSM-based mobile services and all the GSM equipment manufactured worldwide is attuned to operating in this band. In India, however, this band was earmarked for CDMA-based mobile services though it was never allotted to CDMA operators. Without naming Reliance Communications, the COAI has said that “a large CDMA operator who is desirous of offering GSM-based mobile services, and who, in fact, has also been allocated GSM spectrum in the 1800 MHz band, has represented to the DoT that he be allowed to ‘swap’ his 1800 MHz allocation and instead be allocated GSM spectrum in the eGSM band”. At present, all GSM players offer telecom services in the 900 MHz and 1800 MHz bands. COAI claims that RCom has approached the department of telecom (DoT) to swap its GSM spectrum in 1800 MHz band in return for spectrum in the eGSM band. “Without prejudice to our contention that crossover allocation of GSM spectrum to CDMA operators is not permissible, it is submitted that the said CDMA operator was allotted spectrum in the 1800 MHz band after due consideration and its request within weeks, to “swap” its 1800 MHz spectrum allocation with 900 MHz spectrum is completely untenable and cannot be entertained by the DoT,” the COAI said in its communication to the DoT. The GSM industry association has also said that GSM operators have been making repeated submissions to the DoT to make the eGSM band available for GSM-based mobile services as all equipment imported and used by the Indian GSM operators since 1994 is already attuned to offer mobile services in this band. It added: “In any event, it is submitted that if and when the eGSM spectrum is made available by DoT for GSM-based mobile services, then it would be the incumbent GSM operators who have been repeatedly seeking access to this spectrum that will have the first right to this spectrum. It may also be noted that the refarming of the eGSM band is a policy matter and must be decided transparently and equitably and cannot be a matter of bilateral agreements between one (set of) operators and the government.” the COAI communication added. [u][b]What’s eGSM band? [/b][/u] It involves radio frequencies of 880-890 MHz paired with 925-935 MHz. [u][b]Who uses this band? [/b][/u] GSM operators’ body, COAI, says that globally this band is used by service providers to offer GSM-based services and GSM equipment manufactured worldwide is attuned to operating in this band. In India, however, this band was earmarked for CDMA-based mobile services but it was never allotted to the CDMA operators. [u][b]What does COAI want? [/b][/u] COAI claims that RCom has approached the DoT to swap its GSM spectrum in 1800 MHz in return for spectrum in the eGSM band. COAI says that crossover allocation of GSM spectrum to CDMA operators is not permissible. It points out that RCom was allotted spectrum in 1800 MHz after due consideration & its request to “swap” its 1800 MHz with 900 MHz spectrum is untenable. Govt should not delay allotting 3G spectrum: Mittal NEW DELHI: India should not delay allotting third-generation (3G) radio frequency or spectrum to telecom operators and lose out on its business potential, Bharti Airtel chief Sunil Mittal said here Friday. "Indian consumers are completely ready for 3G services. The services are ready, the price point is there, but somehow the government is unnecessarily delaying it," Mittal, head of India's largest telecom service provider, told a conclave. "I hope India puts the 3G spectrum on auction soon. We are already two years late, we cannot afford to delay it more," he added. Currently, only second generation (2G) spectrum is distributed to telecom operators on first-come-first-served basis. The government is mulling auction of the 3G spectrum. However, according to the TRAI, the auction should be limited only to the existing leading operators who can provide a more commercially viable 3G service. The 3G mobile phone services enable users to surf faster than now the Internet and download music, videos and other value added services. India is the world's fastest growing mobile phone market with the lowest call tariffs of below two US cents. The market has emerged as the cynosure of global telecom giants. The Richard Branson-promoted Virgin Mobile is the latest to make the foray into the Indian market. It announced its entry into the Indian market last week in partnership with Mumbai-based Tata Teleservices. The Indian government has set a target of 500 million users by 2010; half of this target, 250 million, was reached last year.

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