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GSM operators’ group, the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) is all set to seek legal action to cancel licenses hold by Tata Teleservices. In February 2012 Supreme Court cancelled 122 licenses permitted during 2008, and said licenses issued on or after January 10, 2008 and subsequent allocation of spectrum are illegal and should be cancelled. Tata Tele who got the licenses a long back, but received the GSM spectrum ... [Read more]
Relief for MTNL & BSNL: DoT to Refund 4G Spectrum Fee While the revival plans of two state run telcos is still underway, DoT has asked the group of ministers to refund Rs. 12,846 crore to BSNL and MTNL if they surrender their 4G airwaves. This will give some financial relief to the otherwise loss making companies but the irony is that the same rule does not apply in the ... [Read more]
Huawei today announced the launch of E3121 datacard with 14.4 Mbps speeds and Wi-Fi Hotspot feature priced at Rs 1699, along with the new datacard launch, Huawei announced new features on its datacards range – Plan recommendation engine, Soft Wi-fi to create Mobile Hotspot, Windows 8 Support and user-friendly Mobile partner interface, available on new datacards and also for existing consumers via software upgrade. Huawei E3121 comes with download speeds of ... [Read more]
TelecomTalk keeps a regular track of the Indian Telecom grapevine. So here’s a weekly round-up of the news that created buzz in Indian telecom Industry for the week of 4th May, 2013 – 11th May, 2013 A) Get Ready to Pay More as Reliance Hikes Call Rates; Cuts Down on Freebies and Discounts In order to improve profits, Reliance Communications, controlled by billionaire Anil Ambani hiked its mobile call rates ... [Read more]
Widely popular mobile browser Opera Mini gets a boost in Indian market as as many as 7 top Indian mobile OEMs exclusively to pre-install this mobile browser on their upcoming Android devices. Opera Mini will be the exclusive third-party browser to be preinstalled on all Android devices by Celkon, Karbonn, Lava and Intex. Opera Mini will also be preinstalled on select Android devices by Fly and Zen, as well as ... [Read more]
We are getting reports from our readers across India who are facing downtime of BBM & BIS services, it is believed that BlackBerry services went down around 4:30PM across all major operators, the issue was first seen when there was a major lag in BBM message delivery and later a complete halt the issue was seen across all major operators. As per sources at operator level has confirmed that the ... [Read more]
Voice & Data and CyberMedia Research had organised a Enterprise Satisfaction Survey in communication services to benchmark the quality of services provided by Indian telecom operators. Amongst the 520 enterprises that were surveyed Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) has secured second position after a private telecom group (TTSL & Tata Communications) in overall satisfaction in enterprise communication services. The focus of this survey was to gauge satisfaction level of large ... [Read more]
BlackBerry has appointed Sunil Lalvani as managing director for India, responsible for overseeing and driving the overall business strategy and growth for the company. Sunil Lalvani, an industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience in the telecom sales and networking sector, had been with BlackBerry since 2009. “BlackBerry is driving the adoption of its next generation of mobile computing platform with BlackBerry 10, and India is a key ... [Read more]
Indian Mobiles companies, LAVA International Ltd., extending its portfolio, has launched 3G/EVDO WiFi Router – W200 for Rs.2499. W200 is a mini portable wireless router that creates WIFI hotspot & can support up to 32 users, also has inbuilt battery of 1800mAh from which mobile devices can be charged anywhere anytime ! USP · Portable wireless router that creates wifi hotspot + power bank through which mobile device can be ... [Read more]
Indian telecom sector is going reshape its future from the mess created by policy irregularities and uncertainty created by Supreme Court’s licence cancellation. There are some big deals are inked up, though mostly by Reliance Jio. However the passive infrastructure companies also looking for consolidation. In a latest report American Tower Corporation (ATC) is in talks with smaller tower firm TowerVision India to acquire the later. Gurgaon based TowerVision is ... [Read more]
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