World’s GSM Operators Association – GSMA today said that the Indian telecom regulator TRAI’s recommendations on the “Auction of Spectrum” will set India back in its goal to deliver “Broadband on Demand” to the citizens of India.
GSMA stated that TRAI’s spectrum proposals disregard international best practice in spectrum policy and jeopardize the investment of billions of US dollars in new mobile infrastructure in a sector that either directly, or indirectly, employs almost 10 million people and serves more than 911 million consumers.
TRAI’s recommendations would not only drive up the cost of the mobile spectrum, but would also create artificial scarcity of this critical resource. In advance of license renewal, TRAI has proposed to force current 900 MHz licensees out of the band into Read more…
India’s National Telecom backbone Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) and is now working in full swing to make its CDMA / EVDO data operation customer friendly.
BSNL today introduces SMS based CDMA / EVDO Data usage checking facility for its postpaid customers in South Zone – Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa Circle.
Now BSNL CDMA (Mobile/ FWP) and EVDO Data card’s postpaid customers can get the data usage by sending SMS either from Data Card, from BSNL Mobile or any other networks mobile phone. If customers data card UI not supports SMS or Balance Checking facility then they can check it from their BSNL mobile or any other operator mobile numbers by sending SMS, as detailed below. Read more…
Fourth generation (4G) Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) spectrum winner Tikona Digital Networks (TDN) geared up to launch Long Term Evolution (LTE -TDD) based High Speed 4G Wirelss Broadband service in Gujarat, Himachal Praesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh East and UP West beginning October 2012.
This follows Airtel’s launch of 4G Broadband services – the first of its kind in India which was launched in Kolkata as we shared on TelecomTalk.
According to Mr. Prakash Bajpai, CEO,Tikona Digital Networks (TDN) “There is lot of potential in teir 2 and tier 3 cities/towns and these markets are untaped. We will rolls out commercial 4G Wireless Broadband services initially from October 2012.” Read more…
India’s largest Broadband Service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) today announced the launch of two new High Speed Unlimited Broadband Combo Plans with Free BSNL Prepaid Mobile connection and goodies for Hyderabad.
BSNL’s new 1 Mbps Unlimited Broadband Combo Plan – TPTS -799 comes at monthly rental of Rs.799 provides 10 GB data usage at 1 Mbps speed there after Unlimited usage at 512 Kbps. With this plan customers will get 100 free local and STD calls on BSNL network and 50 calls on other network free from Landline and BSNL Mobile connection bundled with this plan.
BSNL’s new 4 Mbps Unlimited Broadband Combo Plan – TPTS -1999 comes at monthly rental of Rs.1999 provides 75 GB data usage at 4 Mbps speed there after Unlimited usage at 512 Kbps. With this plan customers will get 300 free local and STD calls on Read more…
Reliance Communications (Rcom) today became the first CDMA operator in India to enter the Tablet space by unveiling its ‘Reliance CDMA Tab’, a fully loaded Android tablet for Rs.12999.
Reliance CDMA tablet has 7 inch (800 x 480 pixels) capacitive touch screen and runs Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). It has 512 MB RAM and a micro SD card support for external storage and comes with free 4GB SD card. Read more…
India’s National Telecom Backbone and largest Broadband service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), today announced the launch of Free 2 Mbps Trial Plan for its prospective Broadband customers across all circles.
The move is aimed at making BSNL’s ADSL based wire-line Broadband services more popular to the public, BSNL offers Free Broadband trial plan with 2 Mbps Speed and 500 MB free data usage for 15 days to the prospective broadband customers with their own modem.
During the free trial period customer can apply for a regular Broadband plan. If customer does not apply for a regular plan within 15 days, the plan will be terminated Read more…
