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Chethan S August 26th, 2015 2:20 PM 4 COMMENTS

Non-Voice revenue continued to demonstrate double-digit growth for MTS India

Sistema Shyam TeleServices Ltd. (SSTL), which operates its telecom services under the MTS brand in India, today announces its unaudited consolidated financial results for the second quarter ended June 30th, 2015. According to Dmitry Shukov, Chief Executive Officer of Sistema Shyam TeleServices Ltd, “All our operational parameters have shown significant improvement during the quarter which has resulted in 12% growth in consolidated revenues. Our data centric approach has further enhanced... Read More

Chethan S August 26th, 2015 12:22 PM 7 COMMENTS

After Kochi, Airtel Brings 4G to Kozhikode

Airtel, customers in the city can experience high speed wireless broadband on Airtel 4G and get on to the digital superhighway to enjoy uninterrupted HD video streaming, superfast uploading and downloading of movies, music and images. Airtel 4G is available to customers across a range of smart devices including mobile phones, dongles & 4G hotspots. Commenting on the launch of Airtel 4G in the city, George Mathen, HUB CEO –... Read More

Chethan S August 19th, 2015 2:21 PM 0 COMMENTS

Emirates NBD launches DirectRemit 2 Mobile funds transfer platform

Emirates NBD, announced the launch of an innovative funds remittance service, DirectRemit 2 Mobile that enables account holders in the UAE to transfer funds to any registered mobile phone number in India. This pioneering service builds on the bank’s popular DirectRemit platform that allows money transfers in 60 seconds to beneficiary accounts. DirectRemit 2 Mobile is available for transfers to the UAE’s largest remittance market, India through Axis Bank, with... Read More

Chethan S August 14th, 2015 8:23 PM 5 COMMENTS

Exclusive Interview: Broadcom’s Ravi Manik explains how their low-power small cell technology can help Indian telcos

Today we bring to you an exclusive interview with Broadcom's Mr. Ravi Manik. He is the Director of Business Development at Broadcom, and is responsible for its Pay-TV, Broadband Communication, Networking & Automotive technology portfolio in India and SouthEast Asia. Ravi has nineteen years of work experience in business and technology in Telecom, Networking, Software and Semiconductor industry. Our email questionnaire sought answers to issues like the spectrum crunch in... Read More

Chethan S August 12th, 2015 7:27 PM 10 COMMENTS

Tata DoCoMo is strengthening its 3G network in Kerala by installing more towers

As a part of its 3G network enhancement, Tata DoCoMo is planning to expand its network in Kerala by adding more than 300 new 3G towers across the state. Ashok Ghose, MBU Head, Karnataka and Kerala Circles, Tata Teleservices Limited, said, “We are very excited about the announcement of our new network expansion plans as they are planned strategically in line with the company's business focus of closer customer engagement... Read More

Chethan S August 10th, 2015 6:17 PM 4 COMMENTS

Airtel launches 4G services in Pondicherry

Airtel today announced the commercial launch of its high speed 4G services (also called LTE) in Pondicherry. Airtel has led the 4G story in India, having launched India’s first 4G network in Kolkata in April 2012. On 6th August 2015, Airtel announced that its 4G services were available in 296 towns across India. Prior to that, Airtel had successfully conducted trials of its 4G services in select cities and leveraged... Read More

Chethan S August 5th, 2015 8:47 PM 1 COMMENTS

AT&T Reminds you “It can wait” – Drive Safe

In today's world where everyone is glued to smartphone displays whatever they do - eat, walk, talk or drive, AT & T has come up with a powerful campaign that can save lives - "It can wait". In the video "Close to home" which brings together a boy on cycle, a man, and a woman with a kid on their vehicles, all is well for the first few minutes. What... Read More

Chethan S July 11th, 2015 7:24 PM 3 COMMENTS

Lower Termination Rates to hit Telco Revenues, strong EBITDA to continue: ICICI Securities

In a recently released Equity research report by ICICI Securities on the telecom sector, they predict leading telcos to continue reporting strong EBITDA. Some of the key assessments made are: Lower termination to hurt revenue: Revenues of listed telecom operators will be hit by lower voice RPM, which are expected to decline by 3.3% to 11.8% YoY (down 3.0% to 3.4% QoQ) due to – reduction in termination rate to... Read More

Chethan S July 9th, 2015 4:30 PM 3 COMMENTS

Vodafone M-Pesa ties up with Walmart’s Best Price stores to enable easy payments for members

Vodafone India, has entered into a strategic tie-up with Walmart India, the wholly owned subsidiary of world’s largest retailer Walmart Stores Inc. This tie-up will enable business members of six ‘Best Price Modern Wholesale’ stores, owned and operated by Walmart India, to make payments using M-Pesa from their mobile phones anywhere and anytime. The first-of-its-kind partnership with Walmart India gives all its members, including small businesses such as kiranas/resellers, the... Read More

Chethan S June 28th, 2015 9:16 PM 68 COMMENTS

Airtel 3G / 4G customers are facing issues with certain websites – Technical Glitch or anything else?

From the past few weeks some TelecomTALK team members who use Airtel 4G and 3G services have been facing issues with certain websites when loaded through Airtel 3G / 4G. While we had initially attributed the issue to some network issue such occurrences have only increased and we have also started receiving complaints from our readers. This prompted us to do some thorough testing and document them. We have tested on Chrome... Read More

Chethan S June 28th, 2015 8:01 PM 43 COMMENTS

Airtel needs to work towards improving internet speeds and compete on tariffs: Insights from TelecomTALK customer satisfaction survey

Today we bring to you the results of the recently concluded Airtel Customer Satisfaction Survey. A good number of people responded which resulted in a total of 913 responses. We were able to derive some good insights about Airtel's services and how the customer base feels about them. About the Respondents We received the highest number of responses from Delhi NCR followed by Karnataka circle. A majority of customers have... Read More

Chethan S June 22nd, 2015 9:57 AM 1 COMMENTS

An Exclusive Interview with small cell maker Parallel Wireless’ Co-Founder Rajesh Mishra

Recently we wrote about how signal boosters and small cells could eliminate telecom connectivity issues in India. The small cells deployed by British Carrier EE mentioned in the article were made by Parallel Wireless, a US company founded by Indians! Earlier this month Parallel Wireless won three recognitions - The micro-network technology deployed by EE won the award for Leading Lights “Most innovative wireless service” Small Cell Forum’s “Excellence in... Read More