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About the author: Arpit spends his day closely following the telecom and tech industry. A music connoisseur and a night owl, he also takes a deep interest in the Indian technology start-up scene and spends rest of his time spilling poetry and stories on paper.

Arpit Sharma June 7th, 2018 4:51 PM 0 COMMENTS

Google Ready to Launch Wi-Fi Hotspots in Cities After the Completion of RaiTel Project

Google recently spoke that it has finally deployed public Wi-Fi hotspot at Dibrugarh railway station in Assam thus marking the completion of its RailTel Wi-Fi project in India. The RaiTel project focused on providing high-speed public Wi-Fi hotspots in 400 of the busiest railway stations in India. The project was kicked off in January 2016 with the first public hotspot launching in Mumbai Central station. In the first year, 100... Read More

Arpit Sharma June 7th, 2018 3:10 PM 0 COMMENTS

Vodafone Deploys Nokia Cloud Packet Core in Bengaluru to Meet the High-Bandwidth Requirement

Vodafone India has deployed Nokia's field-proven cloud packet core to cost-effectively provide faster mobile broadband and enhance the scale and activity of its network to ensure the timely launch of new services. Nokia's technology leverages all the benefits of a cloud packet core architecture for maximising resource utilisation and rapidly deploying services when and where needed. The Nokia Cloud Packet Core, supported by Nokia CloudBand software, will meet the mobile... Read More

Arpit Sharma June 7th, 2018 11:17 AM 15 COMMENTS

Vodafone and Idea Cellular Merger Will Help in Early Stabilisation of the Sector: Aruna Sundararajan

Vodafone India and Idea Cellular are all set for the mega-merger which will create the country's largest telecom operator beating Bharti Airtel. Aruna Sundararajan, Telecom Secretary has stated that the merger between the country' second and third largest telcos will "help in the early stabilisation of the sector.' Speaking with ET, she stated that the government's current aim is to improve the ease of doing business in the country, which... Read More

Arpit Sharma June 6th, 2018 7:23 PM 0 COMMENTS

Gboard 7.3 Beta Build for Android Comes With Battery Saver, Image Annotations and More

The Gboard keyboard app by Google has been the favourite keyboard app for many Android users around the globe. Google has constantly been able to innovate it and has filled it with quirky and useful features thanks to its monthly updates. Speculations have come up that Google is now looking to advance the version of Gboard and is also testing new features for Gboard using a Beta build. The new... Read More

Arpit Sharma June 6th, 2018 6:29 PM 1 COMMENTS

Xiaomi Redmi Y2 Launching in India Tomorrow, Prices Might Start at Rs 8,999

Xiaomi has scheduled a launch of Redmi Y2 in an event which is going to be held in Delhi on June 7. As per a previous report, this new device which has been branded with the name of Redmi Y2 was initially launched in China with the name Redmi S2. With the date of the launch lurking right ahead on the calendar, there are many speculations surfacing regarding the price,... Read More

Arpit Sharma June 6th, 2018 5:34 PM 13 COMMENTS

Airtel Proves Stronghold in North East by Crossing 8 Million Subscribers in Assam

Bharti Airtel has recently revealed the statistics about its subscriber base in Assam and has made it public that the telco has officially grown its stronghold in the state to 8 million customers. The company has long been at work to capitalise on the untapped consumer base in the North East and Assam. In this region, the telco has got 50,000 retail outlets that serve customers in both urban and... Read More

Arpit Sharma June 6th, 2018 4:32 PM 0 COMMENTS

Sony Launches Cybershot RX 100 VI With High Magnifying Power and Touchscreen

To advance its RX100 series of Cybershot cameras, Sony has launched the Sony RX 100 VI (model DSC-RX100M6). This camera which is being praised for its high magnification prowess will take ahead the Cybershot line up which is known for their compact form and high image quality. The Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T 24-200mm f2.8 - f4.5 lens on the camera is going to boast of high magnifying power. As per Sony’s... Read More

Arpit Sharma June 6th, 2018 3:18 PM 5 COMMENTS

Facebook is Sharing User Data with Four Chinese Smartphone Manufacturers

Earlier, news sprouted up that Facebook had partnered with various device manufacturer which included the likes of Samsung, Apple, HTC etc. Also, many claimed that this partnership would mean that the device manufacturers would have access to user information, however, Facebook denied the statements saying that the company would not share user info with these smartphone makers. Recently, another report has come up, in which Facebook has accepted that four... Read More

Arpit Sharma June 6th, 2018 1:09 PM 0 COMMENTS

Trai Rejects Objections Raised by DoT on the Issue of In-Flight Connectivity

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has rejected DoT’s recommendations regarding In-flight communication. The regulator is of the mindset that only international satellites and gateways should be used for the provision of services. To carry forward the plan of launching IFC (In-flight Connectivity) on domestic flights, and on international flights which go through India, DoT officials are going to meet Aviation secretary within a week. As per reports, the... Read More

Arpit Sharma June 6th, 2018 11:44 AM 0 COMMENTS

WhatsApp Pay Broader Rollout Under Scanner as Facebook Battles Privacy Concerns

WhatsApp was expected to make its payments service open to its 200 million users in India this week. However, it is now said that WhatsApp's parent company Facebook is battling various privacy concerns related to the service such as how the data will be stored and shared. According to a new report by ET, it's unknown when the WhatsApp Payments service will be opened to all the users in the... Read More

Arpit Sharma June 5th, 2018 7:31 PM 0 COMMENTS

Google Lens Gets a Standalone Application, But Not For Everyone

Google has released a standalone application of the Google Lens service, which used to be limited to the camera and photos application in smartphones until now. Users can access the Google Lens right from their smartphone's home screen or app drawer without having the hassle of going to Google Photos or Google Assistant for accessing it. However, there's one catch right now as the application seems to be limited to... Read More

Arpit Sharma June 5th, 2018 5:20 PM 4 COMMENTS

Lenovo K5 Note (2018) and Lenovo A5 Smartphones With Big Batteries Launched

During the Lenovo Z5 launch event in China, Lenovo also unveiled two more smartphones- the Lenovo K5 Note (2018) and the Lenovo A5. Both the devices sport decent specifications for the asking price. As the name itself suggests, the K5 Note (2018) is part of the Lenovo's K series of devices, while the Lenovo A5 is a completely new series smartphone altogether. The 2018 version of the K5 Note has... Read More