India 2G spectrum auction , govt earns only Rs 10,000 crore

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The much talked about 2G mobile phone spectrum auction ended in a damp squib on Wednesday with half of the airwaves on offer remaining unsold and government getting just about one-third of the targeted revenue.

According to preliminary estimates, the government received bids worth "much-less" than Rs 10,000 crore in an auction that ended in two days, a far cry from the 35-day bidding for the 3G spectrum in 2010 that got Rs 67,719 crore.

The government was targeting Rs 28,000 crore from the sale of 2G spectrum in the GSM band.

Videocon and Idea won spectrum in 7 circles while Telenor got spectrum in 4 circles. Airtel and Vodafone won spectrum in one circle each.

None of the five companies in fray bid for a pan-India spectrum for which the reserve price was set at Rs 14,000 crore for 5 Mhz of airwaves.

The scant interest in the 2G auction was attributed to high base price.

The government had put on auction a substantial part of the spectrum that was freed from Supreme Court in February this year cancelling 122 mobile permits issued by the then Telecom minister A Raja to nine telecom players in 2008.

The comptroller and auditor general (CAG) had in 2010 had said that the decision to give away spectrum at rates fixed in 2001 could have resulted in a presumptive loss of Rs 1.76 lakh crore to the exchequer taking the price garnered in the 3G auction as the benchmark.

The government thereafter fixed the base rate for 2G auction at almost equivalent to the third-generation (3G) auction price.

Further, as the government has promised to refund the license free paid in 2008, the net gain to the exchequer may be almost nil.

The tepid response to the auction may mean that the government will find it difficult to meet the revised fiscal deficit target of 5.3 per cent of GDP.

Sources said metro cities of Delhi and Mumbai, which accounted for 40 per cent of the base price of Rs 14,000 crore for 5 MHz of 2G spectrum, drew no bids at all.

Bids in most of the circles were around the base price with the exception of Uttar Pradesh East and West besides Bihar. Infact, the auction got extended into the second day only on back of interest in Bihar circle.
 

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Urgent requirement for Sr. Manager-Value Added Services for a leading telecom Services provider company.


Profile:-

* Taking initiatives and opportunity to identify and create exciting new services for Airtel.
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Salary- Upto 15.00 lakh

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Experience required for the Job: 5 - 12 years

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Access Facebook on any Mobile Without the Internet

Do you have an old mobile phone, like the Nokia 1100, that has no browser and can do little more than make phone calls? Or are you stuck in some remote place where there’s no Internet or no other form of data (EGDE/GPRS/3G) connectivity is available?
Not a problem. You can still use your Facebook account in India by dialing *325# (or *fbk#) from your mobile phone – this service requires no data plan or Internet and it will even work on phones of the Stone Age. Here’s a quick tour:
        

Use Facebook without the Data Plan

Facebook India has partnered with Fonetwish to bring Facebook on every mobile phone without requiring any apps or even the Internet.
You dial the *325# number, then enter your Facebook username and password and you are in. You can then send number based commands to access various features of Facebook, chat with friends who are online, add new people to your friends list, and more.
I played with the service for some time and it was a nice experience overall. If there were a Unix-like shell interface for Facebook, it would be much similar. Fonetwish says that this service is currently available for Airtel, Aircel, Idea and Tata Docomo users in India.
It may be too much work to read your Facebook news feed stories one by one but this is a good option to quickly update your Facebook status or for chatting with friends who are online. The price is reasonable too – you just have pay a subscription fee of 1.00 per day for unlimited usage.
Related: If you have an old mobile phone, you can search Google by SMS without requiring a data plan.

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Business development, telecom implentation, exp- 4yrs+, Delhi,iNDIA

 

Experience required for the Job: 3 - 15 years

Annual Salary of the Job: 0.0 - 9.0 Lacs

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Looking for a Business Development Manager, North for RV Solutions for their TSG vertical.
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Indian Investor Fuels Pakistani Guns

Our previous article on “Vopium” uncovered some exceptional features of this VoIP platform making all Pakistani’s proud with this stupendous initiative by Tanveer Shareef. Due to the novel services of Vopium it has received an investment of $ 16.5 million by an international telecommunication investor Raghuvinder Kataria one of the early investor of Bharti Airtel. Bharti Airtel is considered to be among world’s largest mobile companies. This has provided Vopium an opportunity for a vast international exposure.

There are presently 4000 downloads of this software everyday with around 250,000 users in 49 countries with the rise of 30% users a month. Vopium offers calls at very low rates with the ability to communicate with Skype, Facebook, Twitter, MSN and Google Talk. It has special packages for Pakistan. This deal expects to have almost 10 million Vopium users in future.
Vopium has established itself as a very strong competitor in the VoIP market competing with softwares like Skype. It has created its name by providing unsurpassed VoIP services with the optimum conversation quality.
Raghuvinder Kataria says:
"Vopium has developed its own new market. The ground-breaking technology will reach millions of users all over the world in the next few years. Our expectations are reflected by the significant amount of money that we have invested in the company and we expect 10 million Vopium users in a few years. We believe that the market demands an alternative mobile solution to Skype and the fast market penetration of smartphones opens up new and more intelligent ways of communication. Vopium’s solution is unique because it offers the best conversation quality and is easy to use.”

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