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…
MediaTek and mobile gaming giant Gameloft, today jointly announced a global strategic partnership. Through this global partnership, Gameloft is committed to fully support a wide range of gaming applications available on MediaTek’s feature and smartphone platform solutions.
Gameloft has also begun to allocate dedicated R&D team and resource for the development of games that will run on MediaTek’s mobile phone platforms. Read more…
India’s telecoms regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is taking concrete steps to address quality of 3G Mobile service issues in the country. TRAI today issued the Standards of Quality of Service of Cellular Mobile Telephone Service (Amendment) Regulations, 2012, laying down the network related Quality of Service standards for the 3G / UMTS Networks covering Voice Calls.
TRAI, after considering the Quality of Service requirements for next generation 3G / UMTS networks, felt that in the case of voice service provided by the 3G Mobile service providers the existing network related Quality of Service parameters would suffice, Read more…
It is said Ramayan was written before Ram’s birth. Similarly before TRAI’s proposal of limited 2G spectrum auction at huge base price is accepted by DoT and related departments Indian mobile operators are on a run to tariff hike.
Last month we shared that Idea Cellular silently hiked the tariff in form of 1.3p/sec to local mobiles and 1.5p/sec to local landlines and STD calls.
It seems that it inspired other two biggies Airtel and Vodafone to increase their tariff to similar value. Vodafone already hiked their postpaid tariff in Read more…
Nokia and Carl Zeiss today announced that the exclusive partnership between the two companies, which has resulted in some of the industry’s best camera smartphones such as the Nokia N8 and the Nokia 808 PureView, has been extended.
The Nokia 808 PureView, which starts rolling out in May, combines high-performance Carl Zeiss optics with Nokia developed algorithms and a super-high resolution sensor to set a new standard in high-end smartphone imaging.
Carl Zeiss was a crucial partner in the creation of the first PureView experience cited Jo Harlow, executive vice president of Nokia Smart Devices. “The benefits of our ongoing collaboration will be more PureView innovation and further advancements in smartphone imaging in coming months and years. Read more…
India’s leading GSM mobile service providers – Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Idea Cellular, Uninor and Videocon who are unhappy with the TRAI’s recommendations on spectrum, warned that high spectrum costs would lead to a 25-30% hike in call rates.
While Government said it is difficult to predict likely changes in call rates of mobile telephones in the wake of cancellation of 122 licenses as per Supreme Court verdict. This is because, as per the current Tariff framework, call rates of mobile services are under forbearance except for National Roaming where ceiling tariff has been specified. Mobile operators have the flexibility to offer different tariffs depending on the market conditions and the other commercial considerations. Read more…
