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1. History Of Telephony in India : In the early ‘90s the government liberalized the telecom sector, a blessing for the Indian Telecom companies and it’s people. Operators stumbled over one another to get onto the driver sit of Cellular Phone service bus and since than Indian Telephony hasn’t looked back.

So there is the Timeline of Indian Mobile telephony since its inception :

2. Telephony in India 1992 : Until 1992, the telecom industry in India was still under strict regulations from the government. In 1992, it was announced that the Telecom sector would be liberalized, allowing private companies to provide telecom services.

3. Telephony in India 1993 : The Indian telecom sector receives its firt foreign investment- the sum if Rs. 20.6 million.

4. Telephony in India 1994/95 : The government granted licenses to set up cellular services in the four metros – Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. Licenses were granted for 19 more wireless circles in 1995. These services would be provided in a duopoly – no more than two operators were to cover the same region.

5. Telephony in India 1995 : In the month of August, Kolkata became the first city to have a cellular network – Modi Telstra’s MobileNet. This is what you might have paid for your cellular services then :

* Security Deposit : Rs. 3,000.00

* Rental : Rs. 156.00

* Standard Rate : Rs. 8.40 per minute

* Peak rate (this was not supposed to exceed 4 hours per day) : Rs. 16.80 per minute

* Off-peak rate (on Sundays and bank holidays) : Rs. 4.20 per minute.

Handsets manufactured by Nokia and Motorola were available for anywhere between Rs. 18,000 and 30,000 (You can now buy Nokia N series mobile).

6. Telephony in India 1999 : GSM Swiftly gained popularity in India; though this might have been because we didn’t really have a choice. Nonetheless, mobile telephony gained momentum and it is estimated that the number of GSM subscribers has increased at the rate of 70,000 per month since July 1999.

7. Telephony in India 2003 : The beginning of 2003 saw the introduction of CDMA in India, pioneered by Reliance Infocomm. The ridiculously low call rates and host of other features saw these little phones selling like hot cakes. In fact, with the entry of new players like Tata Indiacom, CDMA has become so popular in India that today 25 percent of all celluar subscribers are on a CDMA network.

Google’s Chromium group has announced an effort to replace the traditional HTTP web browser language with a new protocol that supposedly boosts Internet browsing by up to 55 percent. HTTP currently is the protocol used by all web servers and browsers, hence the “http” in front of web addresses. But, as noted by Ars Technica, HTTP becomes inefficient when transferring many small files on many modern websites, according to Popsci.

By contrast, Google’s cleverly named SPDY protocol can compress and handle the individual requests via one connection that’s SSL-encrypted. That allows higher-priority files to slip through immediately without becoming backed up behind large files.

SPDY has shown up to 55 percent web page loading when tested under lab conditions, and the Google team has released their source code for public feedback.

But Ars Technica raises some points of caution about the mandatory SSL encryption requiring more processing power from small devices and computers alike. Requiring SSL could also worsen the problem where server operators neglect SSL encryption and unintentionally encourage people to ignore warnings about unsecured websites.

Still Google’s team recognizes these problems and has already proposed workaround solutions. An open approach has already proven a smashing success on Google’s Android operating system, but redesigning the Internet’s architecture will undoubtedly prove trickier in the days to come.

Source : http://www.siliconindia.com