TelecomsIndia allows telecom imports after 8-month ban India has relaxed an eight-month ban on imports of telecommunication equipment, approving orders from China’s ZTE and Huawei and Finland’s Nokia Siemens Networks, executives said Wednesday, as security fears fade before a high-priority roll out third-generation wireless infrastructure.  Cordia’s new phone app ‘worth £1m’Glasgow city council services firm Cordia is on the brink of a lucrative deal with a telecommunications company to sell its specially designed BlackBerry application to other local authorities. The arm’s-length organisation — which provides care services and catering facilities to private and public-sector organisations — said the contract, believed to be with Vodafone, could generate more than£1m of revenues in the next financial year. Orange UK opens up new broadband frontOperator doubles broadband footprint with BT deal. Orange has opened up a new front in the fight for broadband customers after abandoning its U.K. fixed-line network and cutting a deal with BT Group to offer better high-speed internet, The Times reported, without specifying its sources. US$40bn lost by telecoms operators from revenue leakageA recent survey conducted by KPMG has claimed that telecoms operators are losing US$40 billion due to numerous errors in their billing and roaming systems. The accountancy and consulting firm have called for service providers to look at developing more effective automated revenue assurance tools, increase the awareness of revenue assurance within their companies, and work on obtaining accurate data to rectify the issue. BT flood knocks out broadband and phone servicesIn a statement BT said it could not predict when either service would be restored. “Tens of thousands” of customers have been affected, said the firm, with the majority in north and west London. BT confirmed that some mobile phone services may be affected by the incident, which also caused a fire. Investors seek signs of China Mobile 3G commitmentChina Mobile’s 3G outlook will take center stage this week as China’s three telecoms carriers begin to kick off quarterly results, with market focus on whether the nation’s dominant player will turn up the volume in its low-key 3G roll-out. China Mobile and its two rivals, China Unicom and China Telecom, spent $21 billion building out third generation (3G) mobile networks last year, following the long-awaited but much-delayed awarding of 3G licenses. The trio signed up a combined 10 million 3G subscribers by the end of last year, with China Mobile accounting for about a third of those — well below its overall position with a dominant 72 percent of China’s mobile market. Google CEO woos suspicious mobile industryGoogle’s Chief Executive Eric Schmidt urged the mobile industry to embrace the mobile Web instead of seeing Google as the enemy, in his first speech to the world’s biggest wireless industry fair. Making social networks profitable in the mobile worldSocial networks are in the spotlight, and mobile network operators can benefit from them.
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