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September 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's telecom regulator Wednesday issued guidelines on mobile number portability (MNP) that will allow subscribers to change operators while retaining the original number, but only within a particular circle. The new facility will become a reality from Dec 31 in metros and by March 20, 2010 in the rest of the country, said a statement from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India.

September 16th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Reliance Mobile, the GSM arm of telecom operator Reliance Communication (RCom), Wednesday said it would launch a new mobile number series beginning with the digit "8" in the Delhi-National Capital Region circle. Reliance will be the first telecom operator to shift from the practice of beginning a cell phone number with the digit "9".

August 22nd, 2009 TAIPEI - China Mobile Ltd, the world's largest mobile phone carrier, has decided to pick Taiwan's electronics giant Hon Hai Group as its supplier of electronic readers, a top company official said Saturday. "We have picked Hong Hai Group to make electronic readers for us and we believe the electronic reader market will be huge," said Wang Jianzhou, chairman of China Mobile, on the second day of his nine-day visit to Taiwan.

August 6th, 2009 T-Mobile adds 325,000 net subs, mostly prepaidNEW YORK — T-Mobile USA, the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the country, says it added a net 325,000 subscribers in the second quarter, with most of them choosing to prepay rather than sign two-year contracts. The news cements this year's trend in wireless: The two biggest, Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc., are attracting the valuable contract-signing customers, while Sprint Nextel Corp.

July 28th, 2009 Sprint Nextel to buy Virgin Mobile USAOVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Telecommunications company Sprint Nextel Corp.

June 8th, 2009 MUMBAI - Tata Communications, which runs one of the largest telecom cable networks in the world, has entered into an agreement with the Doha-based Qatar Telecom to share infrastructure and expand their joint reach globally. The Tata firm, which serves clients in businesses like communications services, software and outsourcing, providing them national and global connectivity through fibre optic and undersea cables, is particularely expected to expand its foothold in the Gulf region.

May 15th, 2009 LONDON - The United States has in place a detailed emergency plan to secure Pakistan's mobile arsenal of nuclear warheads, in case the nukes are in danger of falling into the hands of the Taliban, Al-Qaeda and other extremist groups. According to the US intelligence sources, the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), the super-secret commando unit headquartered at Fort Bragg, has been given orders to remain prepared for action at short notice.

May 13th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that India has no connection with the Pak-Afghanistan transit trade pact. Commenting on Pak-Afghan trade pact, the Foreign Minister clarified that India has no connection with the agreement.

May 5th, 2009 MUMBAI - Indian engineering giant Larsen and Toubro (L&T) has forged a pact with a subsidiary of Europe's aerospace and military equipment maker EADS to develop high-end defence electronics out of Pune in Maharashtra. 'The new company will aim at design, development, manufacturing and related services in the fields of electronic warfare, radar, military avionics and mobile systems for military applications,' the two firms said.

April 20th, 2009 China Mobile quarterly profit up 5.2 percentBEIJING — China Mobile Ltd., the world's biggest phone company by subscribers, said Monday its first quarter profit rose 5.2 percent but growth slowed due to China's economic slowdown and stronger competition. Profit for the three months ended March 31 was 25.2 billion yuan ($3.7 billion), compared with 24 billion yuan for the same period last year, the Beijing-based company said.

April 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI - In an endeavour to ease property search and to make the site device agnostic, 99acres.com, has introduced property search on mobile. Launched in partnership with Mobisoc Technology, 99acres.com offers a WAP application for property search that allows users to search properties via mobile.

February 24th, 2009 MUMBAI - Reliance Money, part of the Reliance-Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (R-ADAG), Tuesday introduced a new facility that enables investors to trade equities and commodities through mobile phones. The new facility is available across all mobile platforms.

January 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Buoyed by the 3.8 million page views a month of NDTV Active, the mobile portal of the television channel, its content provider NDTV Convergence has now tied up to foray into cellular phone advertising. NDTV Convergence Monday announced its partnership with Affle, one of India's leading mobile media companies that would power advertising on NDTV Active.

January 13th, 2009 MUMBAI - Five state-owned companies forged a pact Wednesday to secure coal assets overseas through a joint venture company. National Thermal Power Corp (NTPC), the country's largest power company, said in a statement that it has signed an agreement with other coal, mineral and steel utilities to float a special purpose vehicle to secure and develop coal assets overseas.

December 22nd, 2008 NEW DELHI - The government will soon come out with a policy on Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO), a senior official of the Department Of Telecommunications (DoT) said here Tuesday. 'MVNO policy is under consideration and we are hoping to come out with the policy by January 5, 2009, that is the last application date,' DoT Joint Secretary J.S.