The Indian Techonomist

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FEATURES - indexed bulletins with extras

December 21: No progress on Indian telecom regulator; dish antennas restricted

December 18: Indian government may rule out foreign broadcasters

December 13: Indian satellite data now in Europe

October 23: Telecom licences half-signed amid high drama in India

August 31: Will Indian telecom privatisation be scrapped?

August 19: Indian ex-Minister for Telecom raided; Harris Corp jv in trouble

July 31: Indian DoT fails to sign licences, extends deadline

July 16: Indian government chokes on telecom licences

June 26: Rupert Murdoch gives Indians a fright

June 9: Indian cable union bans ESPN for charging fees

June 6: Dassault tries out CT2 in India

May 15: India's booming market in paging services

May 2: India's elections slow telecom reform

April 16: Third round telephony bids, Sony's software and broadcasting

April 1: Broadcasting reform, AT&T cellular, 50,000 copies of Linux

March 25: Telecom Secretary replaced, Singapore Telecom, Perot Systems & HCL

March 18: more licences, Motorola cellular, stock exchange online, BBC

For the week of March 10: telephony, cellular licences awarded

NEW! Supreme Court upholds telecom privatisation - February 19

NEW! Indian datacom freed? - updated February 16, 1996

February 11, 1996: Telecom bids in court, Sport broadcasts, HCL-HP

February 2, 1996: Licensing ISPs, personal handyphone systems, Verifone-Netscape

September 19, 1995: Partial re-tender of bids likely

Telecom privatisation - bids - updated August 31

India's VSNL offers Internet services - updated August 14

Telecom privatisation - Cellular services - updated August 9

BULLETINS - selected from those distributed over the Net

India receives $82 BILLION in bids for telecom services - August 31

India's VSNL offers corporate domains, Internet access for $800 - August 14

VSNL starts India's first Internet service today - August 14

CNN's Indian venture booed; broadcasting reform stalled - August 10

India opens financial bids for cellular services - August 5

India's VSNL, MCI to launch Internet service by August 15 - August 1

India's first cellular service launched in Calcutta - July 31

IBM to give away 40,000 free copies of OS/2 in India - July 31

India to allow 49% foreign stake in telecom, broadcasting

CNN ties up with India's state broadcaster - June 30

Indian telecom strike ends; 80 bids for basic services - June 23rd

India worries about national security and private telephone networks - June 19th

India's telecom workers go on strike - June 19th

India's VSNL to offer Internet access for $16 - April 23rd