The Hindu Business Line : Thursday, March 27, 2003

BPL Mobile, Escotel, RPG, Spice Telecom forge alliance
FOUR cellular operators in the country - each with moderately large footprints - have formed an operational alliance that would compare with the pan-India presence of the largest operators in the country. Claiming a subscriber base of ... More

Telecom row: Shourie calls for peace
THE Union Communications Minister, Mr Arun Shourie, has expressed the hope that the warring telecom groups - cellular and basic service operators - would drop all differences and join hands for speedier growth of the telecom ... More

Long distance tariffs of BSNL valid till March
THE much-hyped cut in the long distance telephony rates announced by Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) appears to be an offer for a `limited' period only. The offer (STD tariff cut on inter-circle and intra-circle calls for distance beyond 500 ... More

Dakshina Kannada to have upgraded telecom services
BHARAT Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is planning to upgrade its services and introduce new facilities in the Dakshina Kannada Telecom District. Addressing a news conference here on Wednesday, the General Manager of DK Telecom District, Mr K.J. ... More

HARDWARE

Samsung unveils PC upgrade scheme
The products include a combo writer with CD ROM, DVD ROM and CD writer; DVD writer; new series of hard disk drives; Humming Bird, the world's smallest laser printer; Rhine, multifunctional inkjet printer and fax machine and Vango, the thinnest HDD. More

SOFTWARE

i-flex getting into systems integration
IN a bid to grow its services business, i-flex Solutions Ltd, software solutions provider to the financial services industry, is foraying into the systems integration space. Mr V Shankar, Head, IT-Services division, i-flex, said the company ... More

IPOS

Patni Computers biding time for IPO
The company is bullish on its BPO business. It has chalked out an additional $12 million investment plan for its BPO operations during the calendar year. More

TRENDS

`IT sector growth healthy despite global slump'
THE continuing slump in the global technology industry has not severely affected the information technology (IT) industry as the domestic market and software exports notched up healthy growth in 2002, according to a report by Skoch Consultancy ... More

NEW PRODUCTS & SERVICES

PRS Permacel solution to counter fake menace
PRS Permacel Pvt Ltd has launched `Kavach', a technology solution to counter the menace of counterfeiting and duplicating. Mr N.S. Shenoy, Vice-President, Marketing, said that a large number of industries in the country were plagued by the ... More

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