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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 March 2nd, 2017 6:21 AM 5 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio and Team F1 Networks Mutually to Launch Fixed Line Digital Service in India

Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, the subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited, has built a world-class all-IP data secure future-proof network with latest 4G LTE technology in India. TeamF1 Networks ("TeamF1"), a subsidiary of D-Link Limited and a leader in embedded networking and security software solutions for wired and wireless applications, today announced its partnership with Jio for delivering a state-of-the-art home gateway solution, joint reference solutions for seamless "connected-home" experience for Media,... Read More

Chakri K March 1st, 2017 6:28 PM 28 COMMENTS

Nokia and Bharti Airtel to Bring 5G and IoT Applications to India

Nokia and Bharti Airtel, India’s largest telecommunications services provider continue to expand their collaborative technology partnership and have agreed to create a strategic roadmap for network evolution to the 5G technology standard and management of connected devices. Under the new agreement, Nokia and Airtel will collaborate to drive the development wheel of these new services with a focus on implementing 5G network connectivity. This effort will build on 4G in... Read More

Chakri K March 1st, 2017 5:15 PM 19 COMMENTS

ACT Fibernet Now Offering Internet Speeds Up to 5 Fold at No Extra Charges in Hyderabad

ACT Fibernet, India’s largest non-telco Internet Service Provider (ISP) and 3rd largest ISP (internet service provider), today announced the upgradations of its existing internet plans for customers in the city of Hyderabad. To recall, the company upgraded all their plans in October 2016 and had increased its entry level plan A-Max 410 from 1 Mbps to 2 Mbps and is now taking it to a new level by offering 5 Mbps with... Read More

Chakri K March 1st, 2017 4:22 PM 6 COMMENTS

Airtel Collaborate with Google to Provide Next Generation of Mobile Network

Google, yesterday announced that they are teaming up with carriers such as Bharti Airtel and SK Telecom to share its mobile networking technology, which helps the carriers in building their next generation networks efficiently. Google will be sharing their advanced technologies such as software defined networking, network function virtualization, and site reliability engineering and helps the operators to deploy the 5G network quickly. Google in a statement issued said "Over the... Read More

Chakri K March 1st, 2017 3:18 PM 216 COMMENTS

Non-JioPrime Users to Get 2.5GB of 4G Valid for 28 Days with the Rs. 303 Pack

Reliance Jio, the high-flying telecom network has changed the entire telecom sector scenario in India. With the pressure of Reliance Jio's free services, Bharti Airtel, the India's largest telecom network has completely scrapped the domestic roaming recently and the changes will be effective from April 1, 2017. With the Jio 4G services set to end on March 31, 2017, the company's chairman and chief person, Mukesh Ambani recently announced a... Read More

Chakri K March 1st, 2017 12:42 PM 1 COMMENTS

The Global Mobile Subscribers to Cross 5 Billion this Year, Says a New GSMA Study

The number of unique mobile subscribers around the world will surpass 5 billion later this year, according to a new GSMA study. The 2017 global edition of the GSMA’s ‘Mobile Economy’ report reveals that the 5 billion-subscriber milestone will be achieved by mid-year 2017 and will increase to 5.7 billion by the end of the decade. By that point, almost three-quarters of the world’s population will be subscribed to a... Read More

Chakri K February 28th, 2017 5:44 PM 13 COMMENTS

Idea 4G Services Goes Live in Four Key Towns of Gujarat

Idea Cellular, one of the leading telecom operators in the country, commenced its world class 4G services in Gujarat today launching four principal towns of Gandhinagar, Anand, Bhavnagar, and Bharuch. The company will rapidly expand 4G services to cover ten major cities including Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot, Gandhidham, Vadodara and Jamnagar covering 25% population of the state, by end March ‘17. Digital Idea, a suite of Idea’s digital applications for the... Read More

Chakri K February 28th, 2017 3:55 PM 18 COMMENTS

Vodafone Expands its 4G Footprint to Pune and Silchar

Vodafone India, one of India’s leading telecommunication service provider, today announced the launch of its Vodafone SuperNetTM 4G service in Pune. Vodafone SuperNetTM 4G services have now been rolled out in 107 cities and towns in Maharashtra & Goa including Nagpur, Nashik, Vasai, Akola, Chandrapur, Amravati, Latur, Dhule, Malegaon, Goa, Ahmednagar, Nanded, Sangli, Miraj, Kolhapur, Jalgaon, etc. and will soon be rolled out across all the main towns and cities... Read More

Chakri K February 28th, 2017 5:44 AM 13 COMMENTS

Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 vs Nokia 6: Battle of Mid-Range Smartphones

It was just a matter of time since the smartphone world picked up its space and now the market is filled with a plethora of smartphones ranging from entry-level segment to flagship level. If you roll back to three years ago, it was a fool's errand to get a smartphone with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage under Rs. 10,000. Nevertheless, the time has changed, and we have... Read More

Chakri K February 27th, 2017 7:54 PM 92 COMMENTS

Everything You Must Know About Airtel’s Free Data Roaming Service

Earlier today, Bharti Airtel announced that the company wouldn't be charging for roaming services in India from April 1, 2017,. The company will be making India a roaming free country and the services include free incoming and outgoing calls, SMS, and more importantly free roaming on mobile data as well. No one expected this one was coming from the India's largest... Read More

Chakri K February 27th, 2017 5:03 PM 0 COMMENTS

DEN TV+ Over the Top Live Content Services Launched Exclusively for DEN Network Subscribers

DEN Networks, one of the largest cable Multiple System Operators (MSO) in India, has launched its user-friendly online live streaming platform today - DEN TV+, where users can access and watch the content on the go. The service is launched exclusively for DEN cable and broadband subscribers; it is available for download on all the devices which are on Android and iOS platforms. On-demand entertainment services led by audio and video... Read More

Chakri K February 27th, 2017 3:47 PM 115 COMMENTS

Death of National Roaming Says Bharti Airtel; Makes India a Roaming Free Country

India's largest telecom network, Bharti Airtel with over 268 million subscribers under their belt today made a big announcement to counterattack the fast growing Reliance Jio. 'Death of National Roaming' says Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman, Bharti Airtel at an ongoing MWC 2017 Keynote event. In the same event, he also announced some massive changes for international roaming plans as well. Airtel announces free incoming calls, SMS, and no charges for... Read More