Videocon one of the premier groups in telecom industries was earlier running its GSM services in 18 circles and won back 6 of its 17 circles (excluding Punjab) in the recent spectrum auction & again told to its entire customer to port from all 16 circles which includes Mumbai circle to port from its own network to other network using MNP.

As per Hon’ble Supreme Court’s order, Videocon services will not be available from Jan 19, 2013 (00.00 hour). Please use your available balance and port out than”. as told by Videocon.

Currently Videocon operates in some circles like UP East, UP West and Himachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu (including Chennai), Punjab (with Hfcl Infotel Ltd), Haryana, Mumbai, Gujarat, Kerala, and Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh. But in circles like Tamil Nadu, Mumbai & Maharashtra, Gujarat, Haryana, Punjab and Kerala, Videocon is running services commercially.

Recently Videocon has won 1800 MHz auction in 6 circles like Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, Madhya Pradedsh , UP – East, UP – West. But it failed to obtain spectrum for some circles like Mumbai . But in Punjab Videocon will continue its GSM service under mutual agreement with HITL (Hfcl Infotel Ltd).

Trai on 17 th Dec 2012 prescribed a 15 day guidelines  to the all mobile service providers who’s licences had quashed by SC, to inform their subscribers about the closer of mobile service in the respective circles and also send text messages or provide this information in writing to all their customers in those circles where they failed to retain spectrum and renew their licenses.

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Kapil Sibal Telecom Minister announced about the introduction of new nationwide Mobile Number Portability (MNP) where the subscribers can easily roam from one state to another state.

Kapil Sibal on a meeting told that DoT has made a broad agenda for next three months from December 2012 to February 2013 following the ‘’ National Telecom Policy 2012’’

For this new telecom policy some new initiatives need to be taken into consideration i.e. spectrum assignment and pricing should be approved, unified licenses regime, M&A guidelines, finalization of guidelines for spectrum sharing, creation of fund for R&D and manufacturing and of course, MNP on a nationwide basis to be completed by February 2013 added by Mr. Sibal.

Right now a subscriber can switch operator only in a particular circle.

Again in India total number of Telecom circles is 22.

75.14 million Subscribers have submitted their requests to different service providers for porting their mobile number in the month of October 2012 as per TRAI.

In the month of September 2012, total number of subscribers who have submitted their request for MNP stood at 5.36 million.

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1,500 crore rupees subsidy provided by Govt. of India to BSNL for the land-line deployment in rural areas.

Already as per TRAI’s recommendation to provide Rs 2,700 crore to BSNL for this huge operation, but the amount will be given in two parts one in the year 2011-12 of around Rs 1,500 crore & rest amount in the year 2012-13, since these kind of rural operations would generate revenues in a longer period of time.

Again BSNL has asked around Rs 2,580 crore for rural operations. The amount will be paid out under Universal Service Obligation (USO) Fund.

R Chandrasekhar, Chairman and Secretary (Telecom) commission’s have forwarded the recommendations to DoT.

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Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has proclaimed the Promotional Scheme submission Free Local Calls on BSNL numbers for a additional period. Here we are taking about the BSNL HP circle’s promo scheme STV (Special Tariff Voucher) presenting unrestricted Free Calling on Local Mobile numbers of BSNL.

Priced at Rs. 175, this is moderately a reasonable offer allowing for the ON Net Free bid by further operators in the state. Earlier it worn to approach with a talk time of Rs. 50 as well for other networks but that has been done away with. The validity of the STV would be till 02nd July, 2012 till advance notice.

Unlimited Local Calls GSM On-Net STV – 175 

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