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About the author: Chakri is a go-to guy for your next smartphone recommendation. Back in his engineering days, he used to play with smartphones by installing custom ROMs and that passion got him into the tech industry. He still goes nuts about a smartphone knocking his door for review. Currently managing everything at Telecom Talk, Chakri is trying to master PUBG Mobile in his free time.

Chakri K October 12th, 2018 11:00 AM 6 COMMENTS

Video Streaming Experience on 4G Network in India is Poor Says OpenSignal

In the last couple of years, 4G availability in India has seen a stupendous rise, thanks to continuous investments by telecom operators on expanding the infrastructure to compete with each other. However, a new report from OpenSignal claims that Indian users are facing issues while streaming videos online even on a high-speed 4G network. India's mobile operators have been successful in making 4G LTE (Long Term Evolution) widely available across... Read More

Chakri K October 12th, 2018 9:33 AM 1 COMMENTS

Tata Docomo Silently Revises Rs 179 Prepaid Plan With 39.2GB Data and Unlimited Voice Calling

Tata Docomo users across the country will soon be part of Bharti Airtel's network and most of them are already using services from the latter under ICR agreement. Once the Airtel merger completes, users will be able to recharge via Airtel's website itself, like how Telenor users are now recharging their mobile numbers. But right now, Docomo prepaid users have to recharge on Tata Docomo website itself and the telco... Read More

Chakri K October 11th, 2018 7:10 PM 1 COMMENTS

Vodafone Launches Tailormade Distress Calling Service for Women Subscribers

Vodafone India has been working towards new problem after the completion of the merger. Now the company has launched a new service which goes by the name of ‘Vodafone Sakhi’. This new service by Vodafone Idea Ltd, ventures into a highly underrepresented category of women in the telecom sector. Sakhi is going to be a distress communication service which will cater to filling the communication gap for women when it... Read More

Chakri K October 11th, 2018 5:45 PM 3 COMMENTS

Idea Cellular Offering a Total of 135GB Data for 90 Days With its Newly Launched Prepaid Plan

Vodafone Idea is wasting no time in unifying their tariff lineup as Idea Cellular has now rolled out three new prepaid plans offering up to 135GB of data. Notably, these new prepaid plans from Idea Cellular are introduced to match Vodafone's plans. To recall, Vodafone, last month launched three new plans of Rs 209, Rs 479 and Rs 529 offering 1.5GB daily data, and now, Idea has rolled out the... Read More

Chakri K October 11th, 2018 5:17 PM 9 COMMENTS

Samsung Galaxy A9 (2018) Unveiled With a Total of Five Cameras, Coming to India Next Month

At an event in Malaysia, Samsung has unveiled the world's first smartphone with four cameras on the rear side. Dubbed as the Samsung Galaxy A9 (2018), it comes with a total of five cameras- four on the rear side and one on the front side. Samsung also confirmed to reporters at the event that it will bring the A9 (2018) to the Indian market next month. The Galaxy A9 (2018)... Read More

Chakri K October 11th, 2018 3:48 PM 0 COMMENTS

Bose Home Speaker 500 With Amazon Alexa Goes Official in India at Rs 39,000

The festive season is approaching and every manufacturer is refreshing their product lineup in the country. After Panasonic unveiling a wide range of speakers in India, now its time for the US-based audio equipment maker Bose to join the list. Bose on Thursday added a new product to its wireless smart speaker category and it also launched two new soundbars. The newly launched Bose Home Speaker 500 retails at Rs... Read More

Chakri K October 11th, 2018 2:41 PM 5 COMMENTS

Telcos Propose Slight Changes to eKYC Verification: Check Out the New Procedure

It's already a known that Aadhaar body UIDAI asked telcos to come with a new eKYC method by October 15, following the Supreme Court order last month. The telecom operators along with COAI have reached out Department of Telecommunications (DoT) with a new eKYC verification method as an alternative to the Aadhaar-based verification. Under the latest Supreme Court order, private companies including telcos and banks are not allowed to use... Read More

Chakri K October 11th, 2018 12:42 PM 5 COMMENTS

Nokia 3.1 Plus First Impressions: Aimed at the Offline Market

HMD Global is on a launch spree at the moment as the Finnish upstart company has today announced its third Nokia smartphone in India in as many as two months. Back in August, HMD unveiled the Nokia 6.1 Plus, followed by the Nokia 5.1 Plus later in September. Now, it has come up with the Nokia 3.1 Plus which will be the company's bet against the Xiaomi Redmi 6, Vivo... Read More

Chakri K October 11th, 2018 12:34 PM 1 COMMENTS

Nokia 3.1 Plus With Helio P22 and Android One Debuts in India, Prices Start at Rs 11,499

At an event in New Delhi, HMD Global, the Home of Nokia phones unveiled the budget Nokia 3.1 Plus smartphone. Unlike the Nokia 5.1 Plus and Nokia 6.1 Plus smartphones, the Nokia 3.1 Plus is a smartphone aimed at offline audience. Wth the Nokia 3.1 Plus, the Finnish upstart company is looking to crack the offline market which is heavily competitive right now with phones such as the Xiaomi Redmi... Read More

Chakri K October 10th, 2018 8:48 PM 3 COMMENTS

Trai Seeks Data from Telcos to Analyse Call Set Up Time

One of the major issue faced by Indian telecom subscribers is the call set up time. Aiming to solve the issue, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) today revealed that it would ask telcos for the call set up time data from October 1 to bring a solution to the issue. For the unaware, call set up time is the duration taken to connect a call after a user... Read More

Chakri K October 10th, 2018 7:58 PM 0 COMMENTS

Huawei Unveils AI Chips for Smart Devices and Data Centres

Huawei, which is betting big on Artificial Intelligence (AI) today announced new chips with AI chipset which can run data centres and smart devices. With this move, Huawei is pitting itself against companies such as Nvidia and Qualcomm- both are the world's major semiconductor companies. The two new chips- named as Ascend 910 and Ascend 310 were unveiled at the Huawei Connect global event held at Shanghai World Expo Exhibition... Read More

Chakri K October 10th, 2018 7:17 PM 16 COMMENTS

8.4 Million Customers in Assam are Now Experiencing Airtel 4G Service

Bharti Airtel today stated the telco is offering 4G services across 15,863 towns and villages in Assam, allowing users to enjoy high-speed data. Airtel, which has over 8.4 million customers in Assam alone recently announced network expansion to further enhance the network. Furthermore, as part of its acquisition of Telenor India's operations, Airtel has added 6 MHz of spectrum in 1800 MHz band to its portfolio in Assam. This move... Read More