San Antonio:Using voice to send text messages while driving is just as dangerous as texting with fingers, with driver response times significantly delayed no matter which method was used, a study released on Tuesday showed. The study by the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University was the first to compare voice-to-text and traditional texting on a handheld device in an actual driving... 

New Delhi:The Google Mapathon event case, in which the US internet giant allegedly violated Indian mapping laws, has been sent to the home ministry with the recommendation of a probe by the CBI cyber crime cell, said BJP MP Tarun Vijay. “Delhi Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar has informed that the case against Google India for violating Indian mapping laws has been recommended to be investigated... 

The Supreme Court on Thursday restrained Bharti Airtel from adding new 3G customers in circles where it does not license meaning that its existing customers would continue to enjoy the 3G roaming facility. In a temporary relief to Airtel the apex court also directed the government not to take coercive steps on issue of penalty against the company till by May 9, when the court hears the case. Leading... 

MTS one of the premium CDMA operator registered under Sistema Shyam TeleServices Limited (SSTL) in India recently announced in company’s own website that it will going to shutdown its operation in UP East circle from 10th April 2013.Last Year 122 licenses were squashed by the Supreme Court. Before this announcement was official leaked on the company’s website the customers were asked to finish... 

Rs 2,000 crore notice has been sent from Income Tax department to the Finnish based company Nokia for breaking such unethical business transactions in the country. As per report I-T department has asked the finnish mobile firm on 21st March to paid the Rs 2,000 crore amount by a week time. Nokia Spokesperson quoted“In this regard, Nokia filed a writ before the Delhi High Court last week and on Friday,... 

Government of India has ordered country’s largest cellular player Bharti Airtel to stop providing 3G services in Kolkata, Maharastra, Uttar Pradesh East, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Haryana and slapped with Rs 350 crore penalty. Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular partnered to form an alliance to offer pan India 3G services, though none of them has pan India 3G spectrum. DoT tried to... 

Extension of permits means Unified License to be obtained by the telecom operators to continue their services & also to buy new spectrum in their respective circles. Kapil Sibal the telco minister commented when the operators like Vodafone, Airtel & Loop attempt to extend their licenses in certain circles ”Today the regime has changed licences and spectrum are two separate things. Previously,... 

Vodafone’s telecom license in major circles like Delhi, Mumbai & Kolkata has been rejected from DoT as a plea to extend their licenses. The company commented that “deeply disappointed with the summary rejection of its request for extension of its licenses in Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata service areas by DoT”, adding that the decision “is against the interests of our several million customers... 

The Indian Govt. should reduce the reserve spectrum prices as per  comment arose from GSM Association(GSMA). Though no specific dates has been announced but may be later this month Govt. of India soon may make the spectrum auction. General Anne Bouverot, GSMA Director commented that “The absence of bidders for the 1800 and 900 MHz and a lone bidder in800 MHz for the spectrum auction earlier this... 

MTS the CDMA telco operator has already offering voice & data services & put an appeal to extend its licenses Supreme Court. Already under A.Raja’s tenure total 122 licenses were cancelled out of which 21 licenses were camcelled against SSTL where it holds 22 licenses. Due to the igher price in auction in December 2012 the company was not eager to participated in the auction. At that two... 

Supreme Court of India today allowed MTS India and Uninor (Mumbai circle), whose mobile service license were due to be revoked on 18th January as per an earlier Supreme Court’s order, to continue their mobile services until it hears the case next on 4th February, 2013. Earlier the Department of Telecommunication (DoT) filed affidavit in Supreme Court on 08.01.2013 and urge to the   Supreme Court... 

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