CDMA iPhone Rumoured for India

The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple is in talks with Reliance Communications and Tata Teleservices to bring a CDMA iPhone exclusively to India. This same CDMA phone will be going on sale with Verizon in the United States early next year.

Ericsson Named 3G Supplier for Vodafone in India

Vodafone Essar has selected Ericsson as exclusive 3G HSPA hardware, software and related service vendor to equip India’s largest metropolitan cities; Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata with latest HSPA mobile broadband network.
With strong subscriber growth and recent technology development, India’s information network is transforming itself rapidly.

India Extends BlackBerry Deadline on Data Sharing

India decided to give more time to BlackBerry maker, Research in Motion (RIM), and asked it to come up by Dec 31 with a final solution on the deadlock over providing Indian intelligence agencies access to the private encrypted data sent through its servers.

"They have been given more time following discussions which are progressing satisfactorily," home ministry spokesperson Onkar Kedia told IANS.