<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/dff12fa1-615b-43ec-8dd6-96be53fee3c7/8222A8BB-2C1C-4DCB-92D8-7E75CA20CC38/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://unwireindia.com/" href="http://unwireindia.com/" style="font-size: 11px;">unwireindia.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://unwireindia.com/"><DIV class="entry"> <P><STRONG>The concept of <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MVNO">mobile virtual network operator<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.24/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A> (MVNO) is not viable in the Indian telecom space due to cheap call tariffs, Bharti <A href="http://www.airtel.in">Airtel<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.24/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A> chief Sunil B. Mittal said Monday. “I don’t think MVNOs can succeed at the current rates,” Mittal, Bharti Group chairman and managing director, told reporters on the sidelines of a conference here by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).</STRONG></p> <P>He also said that the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of India (<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRAI">TRAI<IMG src="http://i.ixnp.com/images/v3.24/t.gif" class="snap_preview_icon" id="snap_com_shot_link_icon" /></A>) should initiate a consultation process for allowing MVNOs in India.</p> <P>MVNOs buy airtime from telecom operators and sell it under their own brand name. While it is the operator that builds and runs the network, the <A href="http://unwireindia.com/?s=MVNO">MVNO</A> looks after marketing, branding and customer care. <A class="more-link" href="http://unwireindia.com/2008/04/mittal-speak-on-mvno-in-india/#more-391"><SPAN class="readmore">Read the rest of this entry »</SPAN></A></p> </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8222A8BB-2C1C-4DCB-92D8-7E75CA20CC38/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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