Paswan orders enquiry into Mumbai telecom outage
The Minister of Communications, Ram Vilas Paswan has ordered an enquiry into Tuesday's breakdown in the telecommunication network at Mumbai, following the allegations made by the BJP and Shiv Sena Members of Parliament from Maharashtra, when they called on him on Wednesday.

COAI welcomes likely move to open intra-circle traffic
The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) has welcomed reports that intra-circle traffic may be thrown open to National Long Distance operators. However, it has emphasised that, it is imperative that mobile service providers be permitted direct inter-circle connectivity rights.

Techspan sets up Competence Development Center in India
Techspan Inc, an e-business solutions company, has set up a Competence Development Center (CDC) for wireless data technologies in India.The CDC will be based at Techspan's Centre of Excellence (COE) in Noida. It will integrate into Techspan's US-based e-wireless laboratory in Fairfax, Virginia. Together, the Noida CDC and the US lab will significantly enhance Techspan's e-wireless data practice, delivering mobile wireless Web solutions as part of its enterprise enablement solutions.

Aircel to provide roaming facility in Kerala
Aircel Ltd, the cellular service provider in the Tamil Nadu telecom circle, has announced that its subscribers while on visit to Kerala can use their own Aircel cellphone with the same number to make and receive calls in Kerala from this Thursday. Addressing a press conference, company chief executive officer Aad Loois said that this would help Aircel in providing roaming facility in Kerala.

Speedera to set up R&D development centre in India
Speedera Networks, USA, the provider of global traffic management and content delivery solutions will soon set up a development centre for R&D in India besides proposing to invest $2 million during the year. According to company president and chief executive Ajit Gupta the company had developed high end products which were now being patented in the area of caching, global traffic, network management.

Hamarashehar floats free bi-lingual service channel
Hyderabad-based hamarashehar.com has launched "how to..guides", a free service channel in both English and Telugu. The channel has guides on services like registration, building plan approval, ration card, gas connection etc.