The Tata Group has always been a step behind the leaders in the mobile telephony business. Some of it was due to reasons beyond our control, says Mukund Govind Rajan, Managing Director of Tata Teleservices Maharashtra, one of two group companies in this business. But the 41-year-old is confident the group’s new GSM play and the onset of number portability will help it gain ground on rivals. He tells Kunal N Talgeri why.

After a few hiccups, Norwegian firm Telenor is poised to roll out telecom services in India. The company is targeting a market share of 8% in the next three to five years. Sigve Brekke, Telenor’s Asia head, tells Anurag Prasad how it plans to achieve that despite being a late starter.

Nokia is launching a well-stocked app store to arrest its sliding fortunes. But it won’t be easy to make it fire.

Sam Pitroda wanted universal access for telecom services. He braved the system to make it happen.

It’s not just the government that’s dithering on 3G. Even operators are happy to delay investments

Neurosynaptic Communications’ affordable tele-medicine solutions help rural folk access quality medical care

Telecom operators are morphing from providers of phone services to integrated communication players. And that could well reshape the telecom business

The MTN deal fallout notwithstanding, Indian operators will keep pushing into overseas emerging markets and rural areas for growth

Sasken waited 17 long years to reach inflection point. There is no stopping it now

After selling 49% to Telekom Malaysia, Spice Communications is set to hit the market with a Rs 1,500 IPO

A new set of small tech companies is here to help replace your wallets with mobile handsets

Mobile wallets are already a rage in Japan and elsewhere. In India, the concept is all set to pick up

The volumes game has thus far spelt decent profits for India’s telcos. But policy issues could well stall incremental growth in future

Innovative technology and focused marketing may just do the trick for firms willing to tap the bottom-of-the-pyramid

The Tata-Virgin branding deal has opened a new front in the war for mobile supremacy

DoT’s move to allow a greater number of operators in a circle will change many things in the telecom industry

3G could well be this year’s telecom darling, if Telecom Minister A Raja’s plans go by the script

Policy measures that favour stiffer competition, set low entry barriers and stifle additional spectrum allotment may lead to chaos and losses

With the telecom operators aligning their subscriber acquisition strategy around low-cost handsets, Chinese vendors are emerging as the leaders

What had begun as a partnership of equals between Birlas and Tatas to create Idea Cellular has now soured into a full-blown clash of egos