BSNL, country’s largest telecommunication company is going to launch its company’s new website on World Telecom Day, 17th May. The new website of BSNL is web standard supported and will available in English and Hindi.
For the last 9 months BSNL has been testing its Beta portal , TelecomTalk has also learnt that BSNL is now going to give an aggressive campaign Read more…
May 16th, 2012 2:56 pm By RDB
More than a year after its launch, 3G adoption in India remains subdued at 10-12 million users due to various issues like poor network quality as operators are cash-strapped to spend on 3G expansion, low penetration of 3G enabled handsets, unavailability of local content, absence of a killer application (similar to what SMS was for 2G) etc.
Higher spectrum prices also forced operators to offer 3G services at a premium costing almost 5 times the existing GPRS/EDGE based data plans. Read more…
May 16th, 2012 2:34 pm By RDB
Idea Cellular today announced that starting May 2012 it will be offering uninterrupted network coverage for the entire length of the 22.7km corridor from New Delhi Railway Station till Dwarka Sec 21 via Indira Gandhi International Airport.
This move has made Idea Cellular,as the first guest operator to have seamless connectivity across the Delhi Airport Metro Express Line (DAMEL) corridor at all 6 stations (New Delhi Railway Station, Shivaji Stadium, Dhaula Kuan, Aero City, Airport and Sec 21 Dwarka) and along the route.
The entire 18-20 minutes journey between New Delhi Railway Station and Dwarka sec 21, has specific areas where mobile users face issues with Read more…
Airtel and Axis Bank today announced a partnership for extending banking and payment services to India’s unbanked millions through the ubiquitous mobile platform.
With the partnership announced today no-frills savings account of Axis Bank will be opened for customers on the Airtel Money platform called ‘airtel money Super Account powered by Axis Bank’ offering customers banking transactions including cash deposit, money transfer and withdrawal.
These accounts will provide convenient, safe and secure savings avenue to Financial Inclusion customers’ paying them savings account interest and also enabling them to make remittances.
To begin with, savings and remittance solutions will be provided in the top four remittance corridors involving Delhi and Mumbai Read more…
May 15th, 2012 1:37 pm By RDB
It seems that the Regulator is in a complete state of denial and has adamantly chosen to avoid the clarifications issued by the industry and continues to rely on fallacious assumptions to arrive at an erroneous conclusion that the high reserve price will have no impact on affordability of service.
On the issue of High Reserve Price and its impact on affordability, while the industry was already concerned with the erratic and irrational high reserve prices, TRAI has on the contrary suggested an increase in the spectrum usage charge from 1% to 3%. Read more…
May 14th, 2012 7:24 pm By RDB
Idea Cellular today announced the launch of IVR based VAS service Idea “Magic Voice” allowing the users to change their voice in different ways and talk to their friends at a Rs 1/min.
The application changes the original voice to the desired character’s voice during the course of connection with the receiver.This is a first-of-its-kind VAS service which is a handset independent service and can be accessed from any handset. Read more…
