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In a landmark decision, the Department of Telecommunication (DoT) has decided to allow the foreign companies, interested in offering telecom services in India to bid for 3G license in India, without partnering with an Indian player, reports The Hindu.

However, the said company will have to partner with an Indian company before starting the operations, as is required by Indian law. The law says that a foreign company can offer services in India, but they should form a joint venture with an Indian company in which they could not hold more than 74% equity.

What this will do is speed up the process of 3G deployment in India. A foreign company can bid for the license, in the meanwhile scouting for a partner.

Its been a while, and the DoT seems almost as efficient as Apple, in managing a PR around 3G. Not a week goes by when there is no news abot DoT and the 3G. And then we are told that its still 6-12 months away. I am happy that the steps to speed it up are taken. However, the real delight will come only after 3G is deployed. This, of course, is subject to the pricing by the Telcos.

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Comscore today released statistics for top web properties in India for the month of May 08. The numbers throw up some interesting facts. For one, Google has overtaken the Numero Uno position from Yahoo that it had held since the start. Last year they were neck to neck with roughly 14.5 monthly pageviews (Yahoo slightly higher ), however Google sites saw a growth of 35% as against Yahoo’s 27% notching the top position.

It grew on the strength of several Google-owned entities, including Google Search (up 38 percent to 17.1 million visitors), social networking site Orkut (up 39 percent to 9.3 million visitors), blog platform Blogger.com (up 102 percent to 7.3 million visitors), and video site YouTube (up 131 percent to 6.3 million visitors).

The top 3 slots go to Google, Yahoo and Microsoft respectively. Rediff comes at respectable 4th place with a rise of nearly 19% over last year. The surprise inclusion was of AOL sites at 5th spot, who were not even present a year back. The AOL mail seemed to have been quite a hit with Indian audience and number of them are adopting AOL mail over Yahoo and Gmail.

Two other sites that are taking giant strides are Naukri and BharatMatrimony. Both of them grew 55% and 46% respectively notching 9th and 14th positions.

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