Vodafone is set to launch a £7bn plus offer for the Indian mobile phone operator Hutchison Essar as the company prepares to fight off rival bids for India's fourth largest telecoms carrier...

Indian Railways will use wireless railway communications technology from Nortel to help improve safety and efficiency on one of the most important and busiest rail arteries serving India' s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh...

Globecomm Systems Inc, a provider of end-to-end satellite-based communications solutions, has received a contract modification worth US$2.7million.

Teledata Networks, has announced an US$8milion contract to deliver its BroadAccess Multiservice Access Gateways (MSAGs) to Kazakhtelecom, Kazakhstan' s Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC)...

Growing 5% every year, India 's wireless services market is in fact expanding faster than anywhere else. This mushrooming market will now grow even faster still thanks to a US$1 billion contract won by Ericsson from India's most highly valued telecoms enterprise - Bharti.

ICT can be the new telecoms sector, according to India' s Telecom Regulatory Authority Chairman Nripendra Misra. Phenomenal growth in ICT is possible and a key catalyst is the increasing important role of convergence...

Sunil Mittal, chairman of Bharti Airtel, is set to expand his company's subscriber base well outside India .

Nokia has won a radio network contract from Warid Telecom for the company's green-field operations in Bangladesh...

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd is inviting tenders to supply enough mobile equipment to roll out 63.5 million lines.

Bangladesh has experience remarkable growth in telephony in the last four years. Prime mover has been the mobile sector.

KazakhTelecom, Kazakhstan 's national carrier, along with Lucent and Winncom Technologies, will be deploying a new, Internet protocol (IP)-based next-generation network for KazakhTelecom in Astana, the nation's new capital. It will support advanced voice and data services for business and residential subscribers...

Nokia is now the first equipment vendor to manufacture both mobile devices and network infrastructure equipment in India . It has also achieved the milestone of manufacturing over one million handsets in India , the market set to become the second biggest mobile device market in the world in terms of volumes by 2010...

Subex Systems Ltd, the Bangalore-based telecom software company, is in discussion with several telcos for a beta site for its Ontrack end-to-end subscriber risk management solution...

Pakistan has won this year's GSMA Government Leadership Award, which recognises exceptional work by governments globally in the field of mobile communications policy...

Two Indian mobile operators, Airtel and Idea Cellular, have agreed to use fastmobile Inc fmX software technology to support a series of message service trials. fastmobile designs and supplies integrated messaging and content services for mobile network operators: the fmX platform is to be used in trials exploring the impact of mobile communications in developing countries...

Reuters in India has reported a ministerial speech claiming that the country, the world's fastest growing mobile market, could be adding between 6-8 million new users each month once networks reach all potential rural customers. The comments were made by Telecommunications Minister Dayanidhi Maran at 3GSM Barcelona .

Nokia has reached a five-year managed services agreement to run Hutchison Essar's network operations in nine circles in India . Nokia will assume the operation of Hutchison Essar's networks in Gujarat , Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Chennai, Uttar Pradesh (East and West), Rajasthan, Haryana and West Bengal , thus allowing the operator to better focus on its customers and core activities...

Agilent Technologies Inc is celebrating a US$14.5 million order with India 's primary communications service providers Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd and Tata Teleservices Ltd to provide operator support  services solutions...

First the Soviets built a telephone system in Afghanistan. The Chinese did too. The two weren’t compatible.  Afghan Telecom is the company ordered to sort it all out. It is using expertise from Globecomm Systems.  Michael Schwartz learns more...

Afghan Telecom has announced that its new District Communications Network has recently gone live...

After evaluating a number of sites in India , Nokia will locate its new Global Networks Solutions Centre in Chennai...

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has awarded Nokia a comprehensive GSM/EDGE and GPRS network expansion project in Northern India ...

Bangladesh is opening up its telecoms market by inviting open tenders for another GSM licence, for 15 years initially.