The Hindu Business Line : Saturday, February 01, 2003

AirTel cuts mobile tariffs
BHARTI has announced new tariff packages for its post-paid and pre-paid customers with free incoming mobile-to-mobile (M2M) calls, a nominal charge of 50 paise per minute on calls from landlines and a 20 per cent discount on international calls, ... More

Is it the end of the road for PCOs?
THE STD-ISD public call offices (PCO) that have crowded the corners of most streets across the country, kick-starting the telecom "revolution" in the mid-eighties, could be history in the next couple of years. Even as the consumers may be ... More

You can tell a man by the cell he flaunts
THE current debate — whether it was some communication gap that cost the previous minister of communications his job — will take a little longer to die, but there can be no two opinions that it is difficult to communicate with someone ... More

Alcatel signs pact with VSNL

SOFTWARE

HCL Tech changes strategy — Reduces high-end software portfolios
THE Shiv Nadar-promoted HCL Technologies is on a rebalancing exercise of its client portfolio, reducing high technology software work to contain the impact of the global technology meltdown. Instead, HCL Tech was now increasing its exposure to ... More

IT TRAINING

NIIT course for women
AFTER successfully seeking ways to empower children and men, the country's largest IT education provider, NIIT Ltd., is targeting women and plans to reach out its Swift Jyoti course to them. The Head of NIIT's Centre for Research in Cognitive ... More

AIHT centre at Coimbatore
COIMBATORE: Computer hardware and system integration training institute, Asian Institute of Hardware Technology Ltd (AIHT), has set up its first centre at Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu. AIHT, incorporated a decade ago, has strategic ... More

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES

ILOG signs pact with HCL Info
HYDERABAD: ILOG, a world leader in software components, has entered into a strategic alliance with HCL Infosystems Ltd to promote its enterprise class software products and services in India. With this alliance, HCL Infosystems will ... More

BROADBAND

Spectrum allocation a hassle everywhere
HERE is some news for private cellular operators crying hoarse over the "inability" of the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to provide them adequate frequency spectrum on par with "international benchmarks". Their counterparts in the ... More

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