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Russian telecom company, Sistema Shyam TeleServices Ltd (SSTL) that came to India just recently has come up with a new series of smartphones for the country.

SSTL is present in India under the brand name of MTS and the new series is Internet-enabled and has been made keeping in mind the younger generation of Indian. The target audience specifically is going to be the college going kids.

The smartphones are going to be enabled with futuristic CDMA 2000 technology platform and are going to be present in the market under the name of Buzz, Alive and Ivory.

The amended Service Providers' License norms are said to have undergone some changes by the Department of Telecom (DoT), just so they could allow the use of third generation (3G) spectrum.

Preparations like gathering of content and equipment had been started by the Companies way back and all the Companies who have won the spectrum are most likely to launch it before the end of December.

Having made some changes to license terms and the Government already having allocated air waves to private operators, the 3G mobile and broadband services have been now launched in the country.

A Government source on Friday informed that Research In Motion might offer some solution in the upcoming week, so as to help the Indian security associations to get easy access to corporate email after obtaining encrypted data that would be in a format, which is readable.

RIM has a deadline to meet, which is, 31st August, to give Indian authorities the technique through which they can track or read BlackBerry Enterprise email and separate BlackBerry Messenger service.

HTC Corporation, a global designer of smartphones, and TATA DOCOMO, the GSM brand of Tata Teleservices Limited, today announced a partnership to launch the ‘HTC Desire’ in India. The HTC Desire is the latest Android Smartphone that offers the enhanced HTC Sense experience to users.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Friday said that it will discuss with Union Ministry of Information, Communications & Technology (ICT) over the coming days in order to discuss and fetch a solution over the issue of unwarranted commercial calls and bulk messages from telemarketing firms.

Under the current regulations, the telemarketers have the right to call those subscribers whose numbers have not been registered with the National Do-Not-Call (NDNC) Registry in order to keep unsolicited calls or unwanted messages at bay.

Mukesh Ambani owned Reliance Industries Ltd, which is planning to roll out its broadband services in the country through a firm called Infotel Broadband Services Pvt. Ltd, might choose the WiMax technology instead of LTE as the main technology.

The Indian telecom operators are now choosing either worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMax) or long-term evolution (LTE) standard for offering their broadband services after the government recently concluded auctions for 3G and Broadband spectrum.

In today's race the Indian shares serrated their finest weekly plunge in the three as they grabbed 1 percent on Friday, along with the telecom stocks tossing a rise by Credit Suisse and Infosys Technologies putting on trial a new tall on improved earnings prospects pushing ahead of the quarterly results trailing next week.

Credit Suisse advanced the top mobile group Bharti Airtel with a outperform rating from neutral rating, that pushed the shares elevating as much as 10.4 percent.

Sony Ericsson has expanded its lineup with the launch of its new, Yendo, Cedar and Xperia X8 smart phones in the Indian market. The new smart phones will firm up the company’s position in the fast growing Smartphone market in the country

Sony Ericsson launched Yendo smartphone in its walkman series. Yendo will be the first full touch screen phone in the series and will feature four corner touch user interface, 2 megapixel camera with 4X digital zoom. Yendo has a

South Korean electronics giant, Samsung has surpassed Nokia in the featurephones segment in Europe during the first quarter. The company was able to sell 12.2 million units in the segment against 9.1 million of Nokia.

Nokia remains ahead in the Smartphone market and Samsung is trying to catch up in the segment. The company is aiming to increase its market share from 5 percent to 15 percent by the end of this year. Nokia sold more than 4.9 million smartphones ahead of other manufacturers like Apple, RIM, and HTC.

South Korean electronics major, LG has announced the launch of its mobile phone LG Cookie Zip or LG 510 in the Indian market.

The LG Cookie Zip features a 3 inch touch screen display and Flash UI for enhanced browsing experience. The phone aimed at the CDMA market brings fast downloading speed and Live TV based on the EVDO (Evolution Data Optimized) platform.