The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Wipro BPO inks pact with US firm
E-OPS, an US-based contract processing company, has signed an exclusive partnership agreement with Wipro BPO for 24/7 offshore processing. e-OPS offers round-the-clock mortgage processing service and providing online virtual access to customer ... More

Outsource Partners sets up BPO unit in Kochi
The company specialises in finance and accounting services and provides back office work in areas such as accounts payable and receivable, payroll, reconciliation, and financial reporting. More

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

ILD calls issue: BSNL demands Rs 60 cr more from Reliance
BHARAT Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) has slapped another Rs 60 crore penalty on Reliance Infocomm for allegedly routing international long distance (ILD) calls as local calls. BSNL had earlier raised a demand of Rs 263 crore, of which Reliance has ... More

Bharti signs $250-m deal with Ericsson
BHARTI Tele-ventures has signed a $250 million (Rs 1,075 crore) contract with Swedish telecom equipment maker, Ericsson, to set up and maintain Airtel's cellular network in 3,000 towns and villages across the country. This is the second major ... More

Nokia eyes larger share of CDMA handset market
IN a bid to strengthen its market position in the CDMA segment, Nokia has said that it would concentrate on using common resources and share the same platform for both its GSM and CDMA range of mobile handsets. While Nokia is the market leader ... More

BPL Mobile marks 8 years in TN
MR Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Chairman and CEO, BPL Mobile Group, met the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, in New Delhi, and presented a memento to mark BPL Mobile's eight years of operation in Tamil Nadu. The eight-year celebrations were held in ... More

BSNL plans to permit bill payment at PCOs
BSNL is moving to make telephone bill payment hassle-free for its customers by authorising its public call booth operators (STD/PCOs) to collect bills. The Marketing Cell of the BSNL Corporate Office, New Delhi in an order dated April 13 has ... More

FDI computation: Foreign stake no bar on PSBs' investment in telecom cos
THE Minister for Communications and IT, Mr Dayanidhi Maran, today said the Government would come out with guidelines on hike in foreign direct investment cap for telecom services to 74 per cent from the existing 49 per cent, in a week. "The FDI ... More

Reliance Info, SBI in pact for bill payment
RELIANCE Infocomm has tied up with State Bank of India (SBI) for online RIM bill payment through R World. As per the arrangement, an RIM user with an SBI account will be able to pay the bill directly from his account, free of charge. "Given the ... More

HARDWARE

Tyco unit plans manufacturing facility
M/A-COM Inc, a business unit of Tyco Electronics, is planning to set up design and manufacturing facilities for wireless and signalling equipment in India. Currently, the company has a unit in China, Ireland and Vietnam. ``We feel that India ... More

SOFTWARE

Hikal adopts Oracle tools
HIKAL Ltd, which manufactures pharmaceutical and agrochemical ingredients and intermediates, has implemented Oracle Applications to increase production efficiencies, control costs and improve customer services. The company is engaged in custom ... More

IBM opens Global Delivery Centre in Hyderabad
IBM Global Services India on Tuesday announced the opening of its Global Delivery Centre in Hyderabad. This would help expand the company's ability to provide clients around the world with technology services and solutions in the area of ... More

Infy in Airbus programme
BANGALORE: Infosys Technologies on Tuesday announced that it has worked with Airbus on A380 programme. Infosys worked on the design and development of the top and bottom skin extensions within the inner fixed trailing edge for the ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES

Gurukul Online solution
HYDERABAD: Gurukul Online Learning Solutions, an e-learning company, has announced the launch of Smartel, a unique solution designed to groom career seekers for the ITES and BPO industry. The CEO, Mr Shailesh H. Mehta, in a statement ... More

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES

ITC Infotech pact with PTC extended till 2008
ITC Infotech India Ltd (I3L) has extended until 2008 its strategic sub-contracting partnership agreement with PTC (PMTC, at Nasdaq), a US-based product development software producer. The original I3L-PTC contract, firmed up in July 2003, was ... More

CA, Satyam in pact
HYDERABAD: Satyam Computer Services Ltd and Computer Associates International Inc on Tuesday announced an agreement under which Satyam will provide a full range of assessment, consulting and implementation services to users of the latter's ... More

BROADBAND

`Locking up of wireless spectrum would stifle new technology'
EXCLUSIVE ownership of wireless bandwidth in certain hands will lead to locking up of the spectrum to use by others who plan rollout of technologically efficient products. It is also unfair to levy fresh costs for already allotted spectrum ... More

OUTLOOK

Crest Animation upbeat on gaming potential
The gaming industry's increasing need for computer graphics as content for games could add to Crest's portfolio. The Mumbai-based animation and computer graphics company has been approached by international gaming companies for animated ... More

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