Alphion Bags BSNL Deal

12.10.2009
Alphion bags BSNL deal (EFY)
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has selected Alphion GPON technology for the deployment of next-generation multiple play FTTx services in the western and southern zones of India. The initial BSNL contract for the Alphion GPON equipment.

Vavasi-led group appoints valuer for Zain telco deal (BS)
India’s Vavasi Group and Malaysia’s Al Bukhary Group have together appointed a merchant banker for conducting due diligence and fixing a valuation of Kuwait’s Zain Telecom. The two, along with BSNL and MTNL, the state-run telecom majors, have shown interest.

Tower businesses of telcos come under auditor’s scanner (HBL)
The auditors examining the accounts of large integrated telecom companies are also looking into the income generated by their subsidiary tower companies to check for any leakage of licence fee accruing to the Government.

Kuwait's Securities Group Co joins race for Zain (ET)
The race to buy Kuwaiti telco Zain took yet another twist on Sunday with a local investment firm in that Arab country stating that it planed to buy a 25% in the communications major. In a newspaper advertisement on Sunday, Securities Group Co said.

LMT deploys Nokia Siemens' solution (EFY)The GSMA has announced the launch of PathFinder Number Portability Discovery, a GSMA-managed service that will be operated on its behalf by Neustar. The new service encompasses 2.2 billion telephone numbers.

Tata Communications' Srinath holds 8th position in telecom power list (ET)Global Telecoms Business, a Euromoney publication, has ranked Tata Communications' Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, N Srinath, at number 8 and its Chief Operating Officer, Vinod Kumar, at 60 in its global telecom power list.