Esmail is our very own in-house spectrum specialist. He is passionate about Telecom, DTH and OTT video streaming apps. When not writing an article, you can find him binge watching shows on Netflix while sipping on a cup of coffee.
Today was the first day of the spectrum auction of 800, 900, 1800 and 2100MHz bands. The bidding process completed 6 clock rounds today. At the end of 6 rounds of bidding there was excess demand for 900MHz spectrum in Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Odisha, UP East and UP West, and … Read More
The wait is finally over as the big day has arrived. The largest spectrum auction in the history of Indian telecom industry is set to commence today as 800MHz, 900MHz, 1800MHz and 2100MHz bands go up for sale. The government will be auctioning 380.75 MHz of spectrum in 800, 900 … Read More
Aircel unveiled an attractive STV which offers fully unlimited whatsapp and facebook usage in Mumbai circle at an attractive rate of Re.1 per day. This voucher provides free usage for browsing facebook and sending and receiving instant messages on whatsapp. This voucher does not include the newly launched voice calling … Read More
BSNL the state-owned telecom operator in association with MTNL is the only operator to currently hold Pan India 3G spectrum. BSNL offers 3G data at the market price of Rs.175 for 1GB and Rs.251 for 2GB. Due to its affordable tariff and Pan India free data roaming, BSNL has a large … Read More
The set-top boxes (STB) that we have installed in our houses by our DTH operators play the role of decrypting the digital signals that are received by the dish and filtered and amplified by the LNB. These set-top boxes contribute to the major cost that we pay for buying a … Read More
CDMA is the lesser popular counterpart of mobile telephony which is losing its charm in the GSM dominated Indian telecom industry. As of today, we have just 3 serious CDMA operators in the country, namely Rcom, DoCoMo and MTS. For the sake of this comparison we are considering only Rcom … Read More
Finance Minister Mr. Arun Jaitley today presented the first Union Budget of the Modi government. Amongst the many changes and amendments, one of the most impactful was the increase in service tax from 12.36% to 14%. Service tax is applicable to all services ranging from train tickets and restaurant food … Read More
Telecom regulatory authority of India has yesterday issued the proposed revision of the Telecommunication Tariff Order, 1999 for comments of the stakeholders. This is the planned amendment to the tariff order governing the maximum rate that the operators can charge the subscribers during roaming outside their home circle. TRAI … Read More
Vodafone India has challenged the Telecom regulatory authority of India’s decision to lower the interconnection charges that the calling operator pays to the operator on whose network the call terminates. Vodafone has stated that the TRAI has taken a hasty decision in reducing the charges and that cases pertaining to … Read More
Dish TV has been known to introduce many of the industry’s first of its kind offerings. Dish TV was the first to introduce standalone CAM cards which would allow a DTH subscriber to switch another provider while retaining his existing set top box. This concept didn’t take to the masses … Read More
When you make a STD call to a number outside your telecom circle, your network operator is required to transfer your call to an operator which has National long distance (NLD) telephony license, who in turn transfers your call to the recipient network in another circle. The NLD operator charges … Read More
Telecom regulatory authority of India has yesterday issued the 6th amendment to the Telecommunication Mobile Number Portability Regulation which was in place since 2009. The DOT had notified all telecom operators on 3rd November 2014 to prepare their systems for the implementation of full Pan India number portability to be … Read More
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