[Assam] Cellphones in India

Sat Aug 25 06:46:41 PDT 2007

Who installs these land lines? Private or public?

And how much of it in Assam?

At 11:13 AM +0530 8/25/07, Manoj Das wrote:
>As of 31 July India had 233m telephone connections; of these 193m 
>wireless and 40m wired. The growth during the period Apr-Jul'07 was 
>27.87m (wireless) and -0.86m (wired).
>
>On 8/23/07, mc mahant 
><<mailto:mikemahant at hotmail.com>mikemahant at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>All {voice+multimedia+Video+Internet Traffic}  from Satellite 
>Transponder Hubs to Switching hubs--i.e.Telephone Exchanges ,are 
>carried by 2,  one- way,  Optical Fibres  like in most of the world. 
>There are Internet HOT SPOTS available  only in some Private 
>Campuses/Colonies.
>SANjit Biswas's Meraki Network will soon popularize that 
>Globally--in Assam too.
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>Cheap, easy Internet access
>
>Credit: Sanjit Biswas
>
>Multimedia
>* 
><http://www.technologyreview.com/player/07/09/TR35Biswas/1.aspx>See 
>images of Meraki's routers and its network administration tools.
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>Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:08:46 -0700
>From: <mailto:dilipdeka at yahoo.com>dilipdeka at yahoo.com
>To: <mailto:assam at assamnet.org> assam at assamnet.org
>Subject: [Assam] Cellphones in India
>
>
>Are landlines passe' in India? I heard that in some areas, the phone 
>copper wires have been stolen to sell as metal and repair has not 
>been done. What is internet communication using? Video cables?
>Dilip
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>India overtakes U.S. as Nokia's No.2 market
>
>Reuters
>Thursday, August 23, 2007; 6:21 AM
>NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Nokia (NOK1V.HE), the world's top cellphone 
>maker, said on Thursday India overtook the United States in the 
>second quarter to become its second-biggest market by sales after 
>China.
>Nokia shipped 60 million handsets from its factory near the southern 
>Indian city of Chennai in the 18 months to August, and CEP and 
>President Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo expects demand to remain strong as 
>India's user base surges.
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>"India has quickly become one of the largest markets," he told 
>reporters in New Delhi, adding he expects demand will not be limited 
>to low-cost phones.
>Globally, Nokia sold 100.8 million phones in April-June and, 
>according to research firm Gartner, had a market share of 36.9 
>percent.
>The Finnish firm reaffirmed that Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN.UL), 
>its joint venture with Siemens (SIEGn.DE), would invest $100 million 
>in India over the next three years.
>Kallasvuo is on a three-day visit to India to meet government 
>officials, clients and component suppliers.
>Nokia had earlier said it expected India to become its No.2 market 
>by volume by 2010, if not sooner.
>Last week, it warned consumers that 46 million batteries used in its 
>mobile phones could overheat, and offered to replace them for free 
>while it negotiates with battery maker Matsushita (6752.T) on who 
>would bear the costs.
>"We are not giving out estimates on the cost of this exercise as a 
>whole. But of course we feel Matsushita as a supplier is responsible 
>to us," Kallasvuo said.
>Nokia, which makes more than a third of the world's phones, has set 
>up a design studio in India, the first in a series of global 
>satellite studios to develop ideas for emerging markets.
>Seven global component makers have invested $500 million in the 
>Nokia Telecom Park near Chennai and are likely to employ more than 
>30,000 people when fully operational, Nokia has said.
>Nokia employs 9,000 people in India -- up from 450 in 2004 -- and 
>would continue to invest in India, Kallasvuo said, adding that 
>production can be enhanced as demand grows.
>"India is not a low-end market. It is a very versatile market in all 
>price points, in all segments," he said.
>Nokia exports half its India production to 58 countries in the 
>Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific.
>But competition is also rising in the world's fastest-growing 
>cellphone market. India had 185 million mobile customers at 
>end-July, with more than 6 million new customers signing every 
>month, lured by call rates as low as 1 U.S. cent a minute.
><http://financial.washingtonpost.com/custom/wpost/html-qcn.asp?dispnav=business&mwpage=qcn&symb=MOT&nav=el>Motorola 
>Inc (MOT.N) and Sony Ericsson (6758.T) (ERICb.ST) have stepped up 
>their presence, while Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) and LG 
>Electronics (066570.KS) also compete.
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