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The US Federal Court on 10 March dismissed AstraZeneca’s patent lawsuit against Dr Reddy’s Labs over the generic formulation of AZN’s Prilosec OTC (CY2008 sales of US$271mn). The court dismissed the case after agreeing with the defendant that DRL used a different form of Omeprazole Magnesium (the primary ingredient in Prilosec), and hence does not … Read more Dr Reddy’s Labs – AZN’s lawsuit on Prilosec OTC dismissed

As TRAI reducd the IUC Charges by 33% from 30 paise to 20 paise, here is the base case impact on all the Indian wireless operators. To illustrate, take the case of a pre-paid GSM subscriber generating an ARPU of Rs 190 per month, with monthly minutes of usage (MoU) of 450 minutes, incoming-outgoing ratio … Read more The Impact of revision of Telecom IUC charges

The Tata Group owned automobile major Tata Motors has drawn up plans to hike the bus manufacturing capacity at its Dharwad facility to 1,250-1,300 buses per month in the two months. The facility began commercial production in January this year and currently produces 650 buses per month. We don’t understand how the plant is going … Read more Tata Motors to hike bus manufacturing capacity at its Dharwad facility

GSM net adds were at 9.18MM in Feb-09 vs. 9.3MM in Jan-09 – excluding RCOM taking the total GSM Wireless subscribers base in India to 277 mn. GSM operators reported combined subscriber net adds of 9.5MM in Feb-09 vs.9.6MM in Jan-09 (excluding the new RCOM GSM circles), down 1.2% M/M [Feb had only 28 days … Read more GSM Wireless Subscribers at 277 mn – Ex RCom

ORG Informatics has won an order valuing of Rs 19.70 crore from IT Department, government of Meghalaya. The order is for implementation of Meghalaya State Wide Area Network (MSWAN). The company is a system integrator with interests in information technology (IT), telecom and geographical information system (GIS). It is engaged in providing network infrastructure and … Read more ORG Informatics wins order from Meghalaya govt