The 900MHz band was the centre of all action and the waterloo of the incumbent operators. It was this band that is responsible for adding the maximum amount of money in the government’s kitty in the recently concluded auction. The 4 operators Airtel, Vodafone, Idea and Rcom had licences in many of their existing operational circles coming up for renewal in 2015 and 2016 and in many of those circles... Read More
The 1800MHz band had a double significance in the recently concluded auction, for one it was a viable fall-back band for an operator who lost his 900MHz spectrum and needed an alternate band to continue its 2G services and the other it was usable for 4G services on FD-LTE platform with a mature ecosystem of devices. All operators who participated in the auction apart from Uninor bought spectrum in this... Read More
The spectrum auction concluded on Wednesday 25th March after 19 days and 115 rounds of bidding where 8 operators competed against each other to winning airwaves required for telecommunication. In the 2100MHz band, the government had put up 5MHz each in 17 circles for auction, out of which spectrum in 14 circles was sold and that in 3 circles remained unsold. The entire spectrum in the 14 circles was bought... Read More
Virgin Mobile the Pseudo MVNO offering by Tata teleservices Ltd. will be merged into the parent operator body Tata Docomo with effect from tomorrow. Virgin mobile was established in 2008 as a separate brand name by TTSL with focus on the youth which was its target subscriber base. Virgin mobile quickly gained popularity among the young population of mobile users with its unique offering of earning talktime by receiving incoming calls.... Read More
The largest sale of radio airwaves was concluded yesterday with 89% of the 465.75 MHz of spectrum put up for auction being successfully allotted to the winners, fetching the government nearly 1.1 lakh crore rupees. The Supreme Court in its ruling, today has allowed the government to declare the final list of winners which will be released by DOT shortly. But in the meanwhile we can give you a bird’s... Read More
Sistema Sham Teleservices LTD (SSTL) will be resubmitting its application to the government by mid-April for increasing its foreign holding in the company beyond 74%. The Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) had last September turned down SSTL's proposal to raise foreign holding beyond the current 74 per cent. The initial proposal had hit a hurdle over confusion about the proposed mode of investment. The Department of Telecommunications had said that the... Read More
Whatsapp the most popular messaging app has been rolling out its much-awaited voice calling feature in a phased manner. Earlier we reported to you that the invitation process was open and that users who had Whatsapp voice calling active could call their friends through the app and that would act as an invitation and the voice calling feature would then be added to the receiving party's app. That time the... Read More
Today the largest spectrum auction in the history of Indian telecom ended after 19 days and 115 rounds of bidding. Approximately 89% of the total spectrum put up for sale was sold and the total bid amount reached Rs. 1,09,874 crore. A total of 8 telecom operators including Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India, Idea cellular, Reliance Jio, Reliance communications, Tata Docomo, Aircel and Uninor had participated in the auction. A total... Read More
The Reserve Bank has rejected Tata Sons' proposal to buy Japanese telecom firm NTT DoCoMo's stake in their struggling joint venture, Tata Teleservices 7th largest operator by market share, for about 1.1 billion dollars (Rs 7,250 crore). "The RBI has conveyed that it cannot accede to this request as the same is not in conformity with the extant FEMA regulations and has advised that any such purchase of shares be... Read More
MTS the only pure play CDMA operator in the country with operations in 9 circles is boasting of positive growth in terms of gross revenue. In terms of total revenue for the quarter ended December 31, MTS revenue reached Rs 350 crore registering a growth of 17% over the same quarter. On a full year basis, the total revenue touched Rs 1347 crore by growing 10% over the previous fiscal.... Read More
The auction completed 6 rounds of bidding bringing the total to 110 rounds since the start of the auction process. By the end of the 110th round for the first time there was no surplus demand for spectrum in any band in any circle, but this does not mean that the auction is over yet. "The bidding is taking place in all bands. Brisk bidding was seen on 18th day of... Read More
Carl Pei, the co-founder and the global face of OnePlus has confirmed that the Indian users will also be getting the upcoming CM 12S OTA update much like their global counterparts. This news will come as a breath of fresh air for the Indian consumers who bought the phone from Amazon with the India-specific Invite. Earlier Oneplus had a falling out with Cyanogen Inc. who had signed a global deal to... Read More
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