Airtel, Vodafone, Reliance and Idea lower Capex in Q2 2011 at Rs 4,840 crore

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NEWS Airtel expands managed services agreement with Ericsson SingTel Group in pact with GSMA for mobile energy efficiency benchmarking Reliance 3G Tab achieves 20% market share in Indian tablet market AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile telecom Capex down 8% to $9.3 billion in Q3 2011 TECHNOLOGY Is the lowest operating margin forcing Nokia Siemens to axe 17,000 jobs? Anite announces enhanced LTE testing capabilities for Development Toolset How Motorola acquisition pushed Nokia Siemens to cut 17,000 jobs in next 2 years Nokia Siemens Networks to cut 17,000 jobs by 2013 from present 74,000 SERVICE PROVIDER Intelenet launches new facility in Patna for BSNL customers New telecom players need to wait till 2013 to launch 3G services in Pakistan Hutchison offers to buy rival mobile service provider Orange Austria for $1.87 billion Neotel to connect COP 17 in South Africa via Tata Communications ENTERPRISE Smartphone health apps to exceed $400 million by 2016 McAfee names Katrina Kaif the most dangerous celebrity in Indian cyber space Essar Group deploys Juniper Networks solutions to support Bring Your Own Device trend Five annual predictions for CIOs in 2012 VAS BNP Paribas and Orange to introduce mobile banking service Orange Money to extend offer in Africa and Middle East in cooperation with Western Union Telefonica introduces NFC payments with Blackberry phones 2ergo India launches digital music for Apple iPad and iPhone users BROADBAND Enterprise users to dominate LTE user base till 2015 Agilent unveils signal processing libraries for 802.11ac WLAN and 60-GHz 802.11ad T-Mobile doubles speed of 4G network in 11 additional markets ZTE to support TD-LTE 4G experience centre and test lab in Malaysia     We respect your time. If you want to end the emailer, please click here