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About the author: Mahit Huilgol is a Mechanical Engineering graduate and is a Technology and Automobile aficionado. He ditched the Corporate boardroom wars in the favor for technology battle ground. He is also a foodie by heart and loves both the edible chips and non-edible silicon chips.

Mahit August 30th, 2014 7:06 PM 0 COMMENTS

Ministry of Information and Broadcasting gives green Signal to MSOs bringing the total tally to 106 as on July 23

According to a recent list which includes the cancellation and registration for Digital Addressable market four of the Multi System Operators (MSOs) license has been cancelled. The MSOs whose registration has been cancelled includes Chennai-based Jothishankar Annamalai, Mysore-based Mediasix Digital Networks, Kolkata Based Digicable Comm and Thanjavur based Kavery Digital Networks. Kavery Digital Network which was functional in the DAS notified areas of Tamil Nadu took a blow from the... Read More

Mahit August 29th, 2014 4:33 PM 32 COMMENTS

In Depth Review: Airtel 4G Dongle along with Speed test after throttling

Airtel has been the forerunner when it comes to 4G LTE technologies in India. Airtel has been offering huge discounts and incentives on new connections and is also offering a buyback scheme for 3G dongles. The 4G coverage is also increasing and Airtel are focusing on bringing this technology across Tier 2 cities. We review the Airtel 4G dongle in Bangalore and see if it is a viable and affordable... Read More

Mahit August 28th, 2014 4:43 PM 12 COMMENTS

Defence Ministry Says no to Spectrum Sharing leaving the Telecos in lurch

Government is unlikely to offer 3G Spectrum in the 800MHz band in the upcoming auction as the defense ministry has disagreed on swapping the bandwidth. The Telecos are dejected as this deal had a potential to generate estimated revenue of Rs 5000 Crore this fiscal year. It will also be a speed bump for the Telecos in expanding its high speed 3G Data services. One of the senior officials who... Read More

Mahit August 27th, 2014 5:07 PM 5 COMMENTS

Reliance readies itself for USSD Based Mobile Banking

Reliance is ready for Mobile banking services via the USSD codes. Users can dial *99# code on their devices which will in turn allow the customers to access Banking services from 29 nationalized banks on the Go. The best part is that this feature is not handset dependent and will work on any device. RCOM has integrated with NCPI (National Payment Corporation of India) gateways with USSD gateways. It will... Read More

Mahit August 27th, 2014 3:04 PM 16 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio strikes a pact with BSNL for leasing its towers, a good move ?

Reliance Jio Infocomm has signed a pact with the Government owned BSNL allowing them to lease out 4000 mobile towers. BSNL will be charging flat Rs 38,000 per month for a Ground based Tower. The charges for the roof based tower will be Rs 24,900. Additionally it is also said that BSNL is ready to toss in some discounts if RJIL commits to leasing a bulk of 1500 towers. BSNL... Read More

Mahit August 27th, 2014 11:38 AM 2 COMMENTS

NTT Docomo and Huawei Successfully deploy LTE over 5GHz unliscensed spectrum

NTT Docomo, a mobile service provider based out of Japan which thrives for smarter living, together with Docomo and the Chinese giant Huawei tasted success in their demonstration of how LTE can be successfully deployed over the unlicensed spectrum of 5GHz. The unlicensed spectrum is currently used in many countries across the globe for wireless LAN networks. The LAA (Licensed-Assisted Access) tests are being carried out in Beijing. This technology... Read More

Mahit August 26th, 2014 9:06 AM 3 COMMENTS

Mobile Data services to become Cashcows for Indian Telecos

Indian Telecos are still crying over the revenue loss they are incurring due to the steep decline in SMS users. The uproar over the move to levy extra charges on the Instant Messaging services didn't go well as TRAI trampled the suggestion and said that it would be detrimental to the growth of the Mobile Data services. The Indian Online scenario is bustling with several applications and products that need... Read More

Mahit August 25th, 2014 5:51 PM 6 COMMENTS

MTS announces its Q2 results, Growth in Data the reason for Revenue spike

Sistema Shyam TeleServices owned telecom operator MTS announced its unaudited Consolidated financial results for Quarter 2 of this year. The Consolidated Revenues depicted a Q-o-Q increase of 5% bringing the tally to INR 3,348 million. This growth in revenue is primarily due to increase in volume of Data consumption. The ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) increased by 7.7% to INR 115 and even this increase is due to the Mobile... Read More

Mahit August 20th, 2014 7:18 PM 6 COMMENTS

Karnataka and Rajasthan reported highest number of MNP requests as of June 2014

TRAI has come up with the data by the service providers that throw some light on the pattern of the MNP state wise and region wise. According to the data by end of June 2014 a total of 123.87 million subscribers have submitted their request for port out to different operators. This report however highlights the requests received and this will differ from the actual number of people who have... Read More

Mahit August 20th, 2014 12:46 PM 14 COMMENTS

Mobile Data Consumption witnesses a Staggering increase of nearly 500% in India

The number of Smartphones is rapidly multiplying and this is translating into a large number of Mobile internet users. A couple of years ago it was not essential for a Smartphone owner to have an active internet connection due to the fact that there was dearth of applications like Whatsapp which needs internet connectivity on the real-time basis. It was recently recorded that mobile data now contributes to a whopping... Read More

Mahit August 19th, 2014 2:00 PM 39 COMMENTS

TRAI says no to additional charges on Whatsapp and other IM Platforms, huge relief for consumers

It is time to rejoice for all the folks who are drenched in the World of Instant Messaging. Applications like Whatsapp have outgrown and are now an integral part of our lifestyle It was just a couple of days ago that TRAI was going to hold a meeting with the Telcos to decide if they can levy additional charges for using IM applications. This had caused a furor amongst the... Read More