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Bharti Airtel is in advanced discussions with US chipmaker Qualcomm to buy its fourth-generation licences for about Rs 6,000 crore, an acquisition that will allow the country’s largest telecom firm to quickly launch 4G services in the key markets of Delhi and Mumbai.

A person familiar with the development said the deal is likely to be closed by June and will be accompanied by technology agreements between Qualcomm and Bharti. Fourth-generation, or 4G, services offer users Internet access at three times the speed of 3G and require broadband airwaves.

Qualcomm, which had won airwaves in four regions – Mumbai, Delhi, Haryana and Kerala – in the broadband wireless auction of 2010 for Rs 4,900 crore, had begun talks to sell its 74% stake in its Indian joint venture to Bharti later that year.

But the talks were put on hold after the telecom department cancelled the US chipmaker’s mobile broadband permits last year on the grounds that it had not applied for licences within three months of the auction.

These telecom vendors are working in almost every  states/circles in india , in which gurgaon, noida, delhi, ambala, banglore, chandigarh , delhi , mumbai, hyderabad , chennai, karnataka, kolkata , orissa are the major location from where they operate.

List of Top Telecom / Telecommunication Vendor Companies  in India

1)Nokia Siemens Networks.

2) Huawei

3) Ericsson

4) ZTE

5) Alcatel – Lucent

6) Ceragon Networks

7) Juniper Networks

8)Tejas Networks

9) NEC

10) Cisco

12) Avaya

13) Nortel

14) GTL

List of top 30 Telecom companies in India :

Hiring in Telecom and IT to go up by 20% in Q1 2011

With the first quarter of the new fiscal 2011-12 offering positive business outlook, hiring sentiments for sectors like Telecom, IT and ITeS has risen by over 20%, reports Business Standard quoting a study by TeamLease Services.

As per the Employment Outlook Report for the period April-June 2011, released by TeamLease Services, hiring intent from IT and ITeS was the highest in cities like New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Pune.

TeamLease releases the Employment Outlook Report every quarter after a survey conducted with HR managers and senior management of leading companies in India.

Qualcomm, Ericsson demo LTE TDD in India

Qualcomm and Ericsson have demonstrated LTE Time Division Duplex (TDD) mobility in India, including the ability to hand off calls between basestations.

The demonstration streamed multiple, live HD video feeds to a mobile van, showing the ability to hand off between basestations while maintaining session continuity.  The partners used Ericsson’s Radio Access Network and Evolved Packet Core technologies and USB dongles based on Qualcomm’s MDM9x00 multimode chip set that supports both LTE and 3G

”We are pleased to have collaborated with Ericsson on this demonstration showcasing LTE-TDD mobility in an outdoor environment in India,” said Kanwalinder Singh, president of Qualcomm India and South Asia and senior vice-president of Qualcomm.

The demonstration is significant as Qualcomm recently paid $1 billion in the India BWA auction for a 20 megahertz TDD spectrum license in the 2.3 GHz spectrum band covering Delhi, Mumbai, Haryana and Kerala, India. As part of that win, Qualcomm formed a joint venture under the India LTE Venture name to move forward with building out a mobile network using the spectrum.

About LTE

LTE is a next generation broadband technology that offers speeds of 7-10 Mbps

3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE), is the latest standard in the mobile network technology tree that produced the GSM/EDGE and UMTS/HSxPA network technologies.  It is a project of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), operating under a name trademarked by one of the associations within the partnership, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute.

The current generation of mobile telecommunication networks are collectively known as 3G (for “third generation”). Although LTE is often marketed as 4G, first-release LTE does not fully comply with the IMT Advanced 4G requirements. The pre-4G standard is a step toward LTE Advanced, a 4th generation standard (4G) of radio technologies designed to increase the capacity and speed of mobile telephone networks. LTE Advanced is backwards compatible with LTE and uses the same frequency bands, while LTE is not backwards compatible with 3G systems.