By launching Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), Bharti Airtel has become the first private player to offer the service in the country.
The company will now offer triple play service - telephony, broadband and television over a single line to customers in the NCR and will be followed by eight leading metros. The service will also offer features such as real-time interactivity, where customers can order pizzas and book movie tickets on their TV, record programmes for seven days, rewind, forward, and Movie on Demand (MOD).
India's largest CDMA operator, Reliance Communications (RCOM) announced financial results for the third quarter ended December 31, 2008. The company reported marginal increase of 2.7 per cent in net profit during the period. 
Leading telecom giant, Vodafone got no respite from the Supreme Court for the petition, it filed in SC, challenging show-cause notice issued by the income-tax department. The Supreme Court dismissed the special leave petition and directed it to reply show cause notice given by income tax department. 
Indian telecom sector continued to register growth in third quarter as well despite unfavorable conditions of financial market following global slowdown. It emerged as one of the fastest growing field of Indian economy by posting growth rate of 2.84 per cent last month. Telecom industry added 10.66 million new subscribers in December according to an official statement by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).
An announcement was today made by Tata Indicom that they have entered in a partnership with Indusgeeks Solutions Private Ltd, according to which it will extend its ongoing "Suno Dil Ki Awaaz" campaign into the virtual world. 
With the aim to buy a $225m stake in an Indian mobile phone company, Bahrain's national telecommunications operator has joined hands with a Dubai-based private equity business. 
