Mobile Phones

Court stays panel on Delhi’s mobile phone towers

2010-08-07T08:15:00.000-07:00

Keeping at abeyance the sealing of illegal mobile phone towers in the city, the Delhi High Court on Monday ordered the central government and the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) to form a panel and file a report by Sep 15 on regulation of towers.

Justice Kailash Gambhir said the department of telecommunications and the MCD commissioner will set up the committee of medical and technical experts and NGO representatives to look into health risk caused by illegal towers and the regulation policy for towers adopted in developed countries.

“The secretary, telecommunications, and the commissioner, MCD, shall constitute a broad-based committee of technical and medical experts who can examine all these various studies and the technology and policy adopted by the developed countries in regulating the installation of cellular towers and antennas,” the court said.

Speaking to reporters after the hearing, MCD Additional Commissioner R.K. Srivastava said: “We will abide by the high court orders.”

Justice Gambhir said that till the time the court does not come up with a final decision on the matter, the telecom operators will deposit Rs.2 lakh per each illegal tower in the high court.

“And if two mobile companies are sharing a tower, then an additional Rs.50,000 should be deposited,” said Justice Gambhir, hearing a petition filed by cellphone operators against a sealing drive launched by the MCD against illegal towers.

The sealing drive against illegal towers is on hold for now.

There are 5,364 mobile phone towers within the MCD’s jurisdiction in the city. Of these, as many as 2,952 have been declared illegal for having come up without the civic agency’s authorisation.

Under the revised MCD guidelines unveiled Feb 9, the licence fee to be paid by a telecom operator to the civic agency for installing a tower has been increased from Rs.1 lakh to Rs.5 lakh.

Cellular operators have, in their petition, termed the hike totally arbitrary. “The licence fee earlier was Rs.1 lakh for 20 years, which has now been increased to Rs.5 lakh for a period of five years. When the MCD increased the fees, did it make any arrangement to increase the facilities attached to the tower?”

The MCD has sealed about 300 towers in the past few months. But 41 were again made operational after the phone companies completed the formalities.

According to the civic agency, mobile operators who have set up towers illegally were given one month’s time to get these regularised. The deadline expired in the first week of May.

On the last date of hearing, the MCD informed the court that it is not ready to lower the licence fee.

The court on May 13 restrained the MCD from sealing illegal mobile towers till May 24, while asking the civic agency to explain the grounds for hiking the licence fee.

The MCD had filed a detailed reply explaining the rationale behind the increase in the licence fee and said: “Our main concern is to regularise the towers as they are a great health hazard and public at large will suffer.”

But the court was not impressed with the MCD’s reply and said: “Your reply is not satisfactory and you failed to establish the correlation between the fee hike and the benefits linked to it.”

Source: Legal India

Telecom group sues San Francisco over mobile phone law

2010-08-07T08:07:00.000-07:00

San Francisco: A major US telecommunications industry group asked a federal court to block a law requiring mobile phone makers to warn customers that the gadgets are bathing them in radiation.

The unprecedented ordinance was passed by the northern California city's elected board of supervisors in June.

CTIA-The Wireless Association filed a lawsuit in a US District Court here calling for the law to be derailed on the grounds it would confuse, not help, people shopping for mobile telephones.

The law requires makers of mobile phones to display in their stores details of the levels of radiation emitted by different handsets or face a 300-dollar fine.

In particular, shoppers must be shown estimates of how much of the radio wave radiation from each mobile phone model is absorbed into the body of the person using it.

All mobile phones sold in the United States must meet Federal Communications Commissions (FCC) standards regarding safe levels of radio wave exposure, according to the CTIA.

"The ordinance misleads consumers by creating the false impression that the FCC's standards are insufficient and that some phones are safer than others based on their radio frequency emissions," CTIA spokesman John Walls argued in a release.

He noted that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has determined that available scientific evidence shows no link between health problems and mobile telephone radio waves, according to Walls.

"The ordinance contradicts the thorough review of the science by the FCC, FDA and other US and international expert agencies," Walls said.

The law is the first of its kind in the United States.

Research into whether mobile phone radiation causes cancer or other health trouble has been inconclusive.

Bureau Report

Source: Zee Business

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10

2010-08-01T06:50:00.000-07:00

Sony Ericsson Mobile Prices

2010-08-01T06:44:00.000-07:00

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10	Rs.30750
Sony Ericsson C905	Rs.26700
Sony Ericsson Xperia X2	Rs.24750
Sony Ericsson Idou	Rs.24500
Sony Ericsson W960i	Rs.23500
Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro	Rs.23200
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1	Rs.23000
Sony Ericsson Vivaz	Rs.22760
Sony Ericsson W980	Rs.22000
Sony Ericsson Aino	Rs.19800
Sony Ericsson G900	Rs.19500
Sony Ericsson K850i	Rs.18900
Sony Ericsson C902	Rs.18000
Sony Ericsson W995	Rs.17500
Sony Ericsson P1i	Rs.16900
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro	Rs.16499
Sony Ericsson W760i	Rs.15000
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini	Rs.14800
Sony Ericsson W890i	Rs.14800
Sony Ericsson C702	Rs.14800
Sony Ericsson Hazel	Rs.12250
Sony Ericsson W910i	Rs.11900
Sony Ericsson T700	Rs.11500
Sony Ericsson Yari	Rs.11500
Sony Ericsson G700	Rs.11000
Sony Ericsson K810i	Rs.10750
Sony Ericsson W705	Rs.10500
Sony Ericsson C903	Rs.10000
Sony Ericsson TM506	Rs.9600
Sony Ericsson K790i	Rs.9500
Sony Ericsson K660i	Rs.9500
Sony Ericsson W595	Rs.9200
Sony Ericsson W660i	Rs.9100
Sony Ericsson W580i	Rs.9000
Sony Ericsson Zylo	Rs.8500
Sony Ericsson W380i	Rs.7700
Sony Ericsson C510	Rs.7700
Sony Ericsson W302	Rs.7250
Sony Ericsson K550i	Rs.7000
Sony Ericsson G502	Rs.7000
Sony Ericsson S302	Rs.6000
Sony Ericsson F305	Rs.5850
Sony Ericsson Z555i	Rs.5700
Sony Ericsson W395	Rs.5500
Sony Ericsson T303	Rs.4600
Sony Ericsson S312	Rs.4200
Sony Ericsson R306 Radio	Rs.4000
Sony Ericsson W200i	Rs.4000
Sony Ericsson W350i	Rs.3900
Sony Ericsson W205	Rs.3800
Sony Ericsson T250i	Rs.3100
Sony Ericsson K330	Rs.2900
Sony Ericsson R300 Radio	Rs.2500
Sony Ericsson K220i	Rs.2400
Sony Ericsson J120i	Rs.1750
Sony Ericsson J132	Rs.1700

Source: Fonearena

Nokia Mobile Prices

2010-08-01T06:24:00.000-07:00

Get all the prices on the Nokia Mobiles here!

Nokia N900                          Rs.25000
Nokia N97                            Rs.22500
Nokia N97 Mini                    Rs.19250
Nokia N86 8MP                   Rs.18175
Nokia E75                             Rs.17300
Nokia E72                             Rs.17175
Nokia X6 16GB                    Rs.15600
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic      Rs.13250
Nokia E71                             Rs.12700
Nokia N79                            Rs.12675
Nokia E52                             Rs.12000
Nokia 6700 Classic    Rs.11375
Nokia 5530 XpressMusic      Rs.10300
Nokia 6700 Slide                  Rs.9450
Nokia 5235    Rs.8500
Nokia E63                            Rs.8500
Nokia C5                              Rs.7500
Nokia 5230                           Rs.7350
Nokia 3710 Fold                   Rs.7050
Nokia X3                              Rs.6475
Nokia 5233    Rs.6375
Nokia 6303i Classic             Rs.5975
Nokia 7230                         Rs.5750
Nokia 5130 XpressMusic    Rs.4700
Nokia 7020                         Rs.4700
Nokia 2730 Classic             Rs.4000
Nokia 2700 Classic             Rs.3650
Nokia 2720 Fold                 Rs.3000
Nokia 2330 classic    Rs.2650
Nokia 2690                         Rs.2600
Nokia 2220 Slide                Rs.2250
Nokia 2323 classic              Rs.2211
Nokia 2630       Rs.1950
Nokia 1800                         Rs.1650
Nokia 5030 XpressRadio    Rs.1630
Nokia 1661                         Rs.1394
Nokia 1616                         Rs.1350
Nokia 1209                         Rs.1250
Nokia 1280                         Rs.1105
Nokia 1203                         Rs.1050
Nokia 1202       Rs.1050

Source: Fonearena

Introduction to Mobiles

2010-08-01T06:06:00.000-07:00

A mobile phone (also called mobile, cellular phone, cell phone or handphone) is an electronic device used for full duplex two-way radio telecommunications over a cellular network of base stations known as cell sites. Mobile phones differ from cordless telephones, which only offer telephone service within limited range through a single base station attached to a fixed land line, for example within a home or an office. Low-end mobile phones are often referred to as feature phones, whereas high-end mobile phones that offer more advanced computing ability are referred to as smartphones.

A mobile phone allows its user to make and receive telephone calls to and from the public telephone network which includes other mobiles and fixed line phones across the world. It does this by connecting to a cellular network owned by a mobile network operator. A key feature of the cellular network is that it enables seamless telephone calls even when the user is moving around wide areas via a process known as handoff or handover.

In addition to being a telephone, modern mobile phones also support many additional services, and accessories, such as SMS (or text) messages, email, Internet access, gaming, Bluetooth, infrared, camera, MMS messaging, MP3 player, radio and GPS.

The first hand held phone was demonstrated by Martin Cooper of Motorola in 1973, using a handset weighing in at two kilos. In the year 1990, 12.4 million people worldwide had cellular subscriptions. By the end of 2009, only 20 years later, the number of mobile cellular subscriptions worldwide reached approximately 4.6 billion, 300 times the 1990 number, penetrating the developing economies and reaching the bottom of the economic pyramid.

Source: Wikipedia