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About the author: Born in India, Yogesh loves to travel and has lived in multiple countries including New Zealand and Canada. His bylines can be found on various newspapers and blogs throughout the world, including Vancouver Sun, Surrey Now-Leader, Daily Hive , Investing News Network and Rach F1.

Bala Yogesh July 21st, 2020 7:42 PM 1 COMMENTS

Google Seeks to Eliminate Language Barriers of JioPhone and Other KaiOS Users

Google on Tuesday said that the company is extending the camera-based translation feature found on the Google Lens into the Google Assistant on the KaiOS devices in India. The company said that the KaiOS users in India can now use the Assistant to translate a real-world text into their own preferred language. Google said that the real-word text can include a product label, street sign or a document. The camera-based... Read More

Bala Yogesh July 21st, 2020 4:07 PM 0 COMMENTS

Samsung Set to Introduce 5 New Devices on August 5

Samsung is set to unveil five new devices at the Galaxy Unpacked virtual event scheduled for August 5. The development was shared by TM Roh, president and head of mobile communication business at Samsung Electronics, in a blog post. Roh said that the company has a “tremendous amount” of devices in the pipeline from foldables to 5G. While Roh did not specify the devices that are set to be unveiled... Read More

Bala Yogesh July 21st, 2020 3:11 PM 1 COMMENTS

India Drops Places in Mobile and Fixed Broadband Speedtest Index

India has dropped a place on both the mobile and the fixed broadband segments of the Speedtest Global Index for the month of June. Ookla, the company behind the popular Speedtest platform maintains a Speedtest Global Index that compares internet speed data of countries around the world on a monthly basis. The company on Friday released its Speedtest Global Index for June with several countries continuing to climb the charts... Read More

Bala Yogesh July 21st, 2020 12:37 PM 1 COMMENTS

Supreme Court Reserves Order on Granting Additional Time for Telcos to Pay AGR Dues

The Supreme Court of India on Monday reserved its order on the petitions filed by the telecom players in India seeking additional time for the payment of the statutory dues. The apex court in October, 2019, said that the statutory dues need to be calculated by adding the non-telecom revenues in Adjusted Gross Revenues (AGR). The judgement in October ended a 14 year battle between the operators and the government... Read More

Bala Yogesh July 20th, 2020 7:52 PM 0 COMMENTS

OnePlus Nord will Arrive with Pre-Installed Google Messages, Duo and Phone Apps

OnePlus said that its upcoming “affordable smartphone,” the OnePlus Nord will be pre-installed with multiple Google apps including Google Duo, the video chat service app. The company shared the development through a teaser on its dedicated OnePlus Nord Instagram account. The OnePlus Nord is scheduled to be unveiled on July 21 through a virtual launch event. The company had earlier announced that the OnePlus Buds will also be unveiled alongside... Read More

Bala Yogesh July 20th, 2020 6:18 PM 0 COMMENTS

Hathway Broadband Revises 300 Mbps Plan, Post FUP Speed Now at 12 Mbps

Hathway Broadband has revised its 300 Mbps plan to now offer 12 Mbps post Fair Usage Policy (FUP) speed. The company introduced its 300 Mbps plan in Chennai in September, 2018 at an effective price of Rs 1250 per month. The 300 Mbps plan enables users to browse up to 300 Mbps speed till 2000GB or 2TB with the operator initially capping the speeds to 5 Mbps upon reaching the... Read More

Bala Yogesh July 20th, 2020 3:35 PM 0 COMMENTS

Airtel Waives Off Charges on Xstream Box, Enhances Refundable Deposit Scheme

Bharti Airtel has expanded its refundable security deposit scheme on its Airtel Xstream Set-Top Box (STB) to users outside of its One Airtel plans. The refundable security deposit scheme enables Airtel users to purchase the Android powered Airtel Xstream STB for Rs 1500. The scheme offered Airtel users to return the Airtel Xstream STB after 12 months of active use and receive the security deposit paid at the time of... Read More

Bala Yogesh July 20th, 2020 2:22 PM 10 COMMENTS

Vodafone Idea Pays Additional Rs 1000 Crore Towards AGR Dues

Vodafone Idea said that the company on Friday had paid a further amount of Rs 1000 crore to the Department of Telecommunication (DoT) as part of its Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) dues. The company in its exchange filing on Saturday said that it had earlier paid a total of Rs 6854 crore in three tranches. Following the payment on Friday, Vodafone Idea highlighted that the company has now paid an... Read More

Bala Yogesh July 17th, 2020 7:32 PM 0 COMMENTS

TDSAT Stays Trai Order Halting Vodafone Idea Premium Plan

The Telecom Disputes Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) on Friday stayed the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) order that required the telecom operators to withhold the premium plans promising “priority” access. The TDSAT said that the Trai directive issued to both Vodafone and Bharti Airtel “lacks even prima facie reasons” as Trai said that the suspension of plans would facilitate detailed examination. The decision by TDSAT paves way for... Read More

Bala Yogesh July 17th, 2020 5:08 PM 0 COMMENTS

Samsung Launches New Storage Devices in India with Enhanced Speed, Capacity and Reliability

Samsung on Friday announced the launch of its Portable SSD T7 and 870 QVO SSD in India. The Portable SSD T7 is said to be a “fast and compact” external storage device while the 870 QVO SSD, an internal storage device is said to be “world’s largest” client Solid-State Drive (SSD) with capacity of up to 8TB. The company said that the Portable SSD T7 is designed to be a... Read More

Bala Yogesh July 17th, 2020 4:19 PM 3 COMMENTS

Telecom Operators Register Increase in Network Speeds in June: Trai

The telecom operators in India including Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea registered an increase in 4G data speeds in June, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) data reveals. The data released by Trai on its MySpeed Portal is said to be generated using the authority’s MySpeedApp which is designed to measure data speed experience, signal strength and “other network information.” According to the Trai data, Reliance Jio has... Read More

Bala Yogesh July 17th, 2020 12:43 PM 0 COMMENTS

Fixed Broadband Download Speeds in India Touch 40.09 Mbps

The mobile and fixed broadband speeds in India remained flat in the week of July 6 to July 12, as compared to the prior week, Ookla said in a report on Thursday. Ookla, the company behind the Speedtest platform in its weekly report of the COVID-19 Impact on Global Internet Performance said that the mean fixed broadband download speed in India touched 40.09 Mbps. In the prior week of June... Read More