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Telefonica launched world's first Firefox OS smartphone

Spanish broadband and telecommunications provider Telefonica has launched the world’s first smartphone with the Firefox Operating System (OS) to compete with devices running Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS. The ZTE Open smartphone are being offered in Spain...

July 6, 2013

TRAI to suggest ways for corporate control of media

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) will recommend the setting up of an ‘institutional buffer between corporate owners and newspaper management’ to the government. TRAI, which is also the regulator...

June 22, 2013

Telegram service by BSNL to end from July 15, 2013

The telegram service provided by the BSNL will be discontinued from July 15, 2013. The BSNL Board has already approved for the end of the service and it has...

June 15, 2013

TRAI releases pre-consultation paper for pan-India mobile number portability

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has started processes for the execution of the nation-wide mobile number portability. TRAI has released consultation process to look for views...

February 26, 2013

Pre-consultation paper by TRAI for pan-India MNP

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has released pre-consultation paper for the implementation of the pan-India Mobile Number Portability (MNP). Through this pre-consultation paper, the Authority has...

February 24, 2013

New UN telecommunication treaty inked amid splits

89 member countries on UN signed the first new U.N. telecommunications treaty introduced by U.N.’s International Telecommunications Union or ITU since the Internet age amid disapproval from the...

December 19, 2012

DeiTy (India) to impose its own standard for electronic products

The Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeiTy) has made it mandatory for all electronics goods manufacturer in the country to get standard compliant certificate from the BIS....

December 15, 2012

No curb in Internet freedom: UN telecom head Hamadoun Toure

UN telecom body (International Telecommunication  Union, ITU) head Hamadoun Toure held that internet freedom will not be regulated or curbed. He clarified this in the recently held World...

December 8, 2012

United Nations not to control Internet Freedom

World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from December 3-14, 2012.  UN telecommunications body has clarified that the freedom of the  Internet will not...

December 5, 2012

India’s plans to modify ITRs opposed by Civil society and industry

International Telecommunications Regulations (ITRs) India’s made a proposal on ITRs and submitted the same to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in October, 2012. The proposal has drawn opposition...

November 29, 2012

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