Tata Communications, a leading provider of the new world of communications, announced that it has introduced two new Ethernet services.

The purpose behind the introduction of the proposed two services is to extend the company`s industry leading global wide area network (WAN) ethernet portfolio.

This new services combined with the global rollout of new ethernet PoPs will deliver the most flexible and  complete set of ethernet services to the widestrange of global destinations.

Paris - The two heads of the troubled French-American telecommunications equipment supplier Alcatel-Lucent, Pat Russo and Serge Tchuruk, have decided to resign, the company announced on Tuesday.

Russo, the company's chief executive officer, is to leave her post by the end of the year but, at the request of the Board of Directors, will run the company until a replacement has been found.

"I am very pleased with the progress we are making especially in light of a difficult market environment," said Pat Russo. "That said, I believe it is the right time for me to step down.

Russia-based Sistema has announced that it will invest over $ 5 billion in Indian telecom sector in the next 3-4 years.

Sistema has finalized a deal with Indian telecom services provider Shyam Telelink, the unlisted telecom services arm of the Shyam Telecom Group, to acquire 74% stake in the company.

Russia has also assured Indian oil firm ONGC that it will become its helping hand for acquiring stake in its giant Sakhalin-3 project.

In an order to promote telephone and broadband services in villages, the Telecom Commission, the policy-making body under the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), has decided to waive the licence fee on rural landline phones besides reducing levy towards the “universal service obligation” (USO) fund.

The decision is also anticipated to give a boost to e-governance through provision of more broadband services in villages, thus reducing the digital divide.