The Hindu Business Line : Sunday, May 11, 2003

MNC challenge
ARE global IT service providers or multinational (MNC) third-party vendors, such as IBM Global, Accenture, EDS and Computer Sciences Corporation, beginning to pose a credible challenge to Indian frontline companies in the field of offshore ... More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

TRAI to review IUC regime — Service providers get 3 months to firm up tariffs
JUST 10 days after the introduction of the interconnection usage charge (IUC) regime, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has decided to review the whole regulation and address the various controversies that have cropped ... More

Idea Cellular cuts rental by 23 pc
IN yet another initiative, Idea Cellular Ltd, a major cellular services operator, on Saturday announced new tariff regime that seeks to cut rental by 23 per cent to Rs 269 a month for post-paid users and also removes different rates for calls to ... More

Hutch announces new tariffs in AP
HUTCHISON Essar South, the fourth mobile services operator in Andhra Pradesh, has announced a cut in tariffs across post-paid and pre-paid plan for its subscribers in the circle. The drop in tariffs extends to incoming calls, outgoing calls, ... More

More goodies for mobile users
WHEN the state-owned telecom giant BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) is busy ringing in changes by tweaking its tariffs, can mobile operators — on whose territory BSNL has launched an offensive on — be far behind? If the latest ... More

SOFTWARE

Frontline software companies — Strategising when bottomlines byte
THE world has changed considerably for the software industry in the past one month. The widely-held perception that operating and net margins of frontline software companies may be unsustainable in the medium term has slowly started turning ... More

Billing gets a grilling
LET'S face it. Indian software majors have their back to the wall. No doubt business volumes from the US and Europe have been rising sharply, but the key challenge for frontline software companies has been the unrelenting pricing pressure ... More

Saving the margins
APPLICATION development and maintenance, the bread-and- butter activity of the Indian software industry, continued to remain its mainstay in 2002-03 too. No surprises here. Even as volumes growth was relatively strong, margins suffered at ... More

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