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Rudradeep Biswas June 17th, 2016 12:42 AM 0 COMMENTS

Exemption to Trai order on discriminatory pricing violates license conditions: GSM telcos

Indian GSM telecom operators have alleged that the Trai via the exemption to the discriminatory tariffs order has allowed a backdoor entry of differential pricing through closed electronic communication networks (CECN), which is also known as intranet. The telcos, through their lobby body COAI, said that a clause that exempts products offered over CECNs, violates license conditions. They have also demanded an urgent review of the regulator's order barring discriminatory... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas June 15th, 2016 10:18 AM 99 COMMENTS

Jio subscriber base surges to 7 lakh: Report

Jio’s subscriber base has reportedly surged to 7 lakh due to the availability of 4G SIMs through LYF smartphones in the country. The telco is currently offering 4G LTE services under the extended trial launch, even as there’s no official word on the commercial launch in the country. The total usage of these 7 lakh subscribers was at around 13 million GB, which translates into 18.57 GB per user, as... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas June 14th, 2016 7:10 PM 0 COMMENTS

Nokia launches new platform for fast and secure delivery of IoT services

Nokia said that it has launched the Intelligent Management Platform for All Connected Things (IMPACT), which gives operators, enterprises and governments a secure platform on which to scale new IoT services. IMPACT handles data collection, event processing, device management, data contextualisation, data analytics, end-to-end security and applications enablement for any device, any protocol and across any application. Bhaskar Gorti, president of the Applications & Analytics Business Group at Nokia, said, "Our... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas June 14th, 2016 4:06 PM 4 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel adds maximum 2.12 mn new users in May 2016; total GSM base reaches 774.15 million

Bharti Airtel, India’s leading carrier has added maximum 2.12 million subscribers in the month of May, taking its overall base to 254.33 million in the country, according to data provided by the Cellular operators Association of India (COAI) said in a statement Tuesday. Airtel’s base grew 0.84% in May, while its overall subscriber market share stood at 32.85%. Vodafone India’s subscriber base increased by 1.3 million new subscribers in May, taking... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas June 14th, 2016 2:42 PM 4 COMMENTS

RI Networks launches Broadband Services under the brand name timbl, plans to invest Rs 15 crore investment in network deployment and brand building

RI networks Pvt. Ltd. today announced the launch of its broadband services in Delhi/ NCR market under the brand name timbl. RI Networks holds a national category 'A' ISP license for internet services. The company will initially focus on providing broadband services (10 Mbps and higher speeds) for Homes, Small Offices and Small Enterprise customers, and also offers Internet Leased Lines and Datacentre Services for Enterprise Customers. In the first... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas June 14th, 2016 12:36 PM 0 COMMENTS

Singtel and Airtel to provide seamless high speed data connectivity to global enterprises under one network

Singtel and Bharti Airtel Limited (Airtel) have joined hands to deliver high-speed, secure data network coverage to Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and the US. They have combined resources into one network to provide high speed data connectivity to 325 cities across the world through 370 Points of Presence (PoP). This will form one of the largest Internet Protocol Virtual Private Networks (IP VPN) globally. Together, Singtel’s 200 PoPs... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas June 14th, 2016 6:12 AM 191 COMMENTS

RCom Failed to Deliver What They Promised to CDMA Users

Change is good, not always! The line turns true when Reliance Communications had planned to decommission its CDMA services and would use the spectrum (of 800Mhz) for LTE roll out by reframing. Though CDMA was never able to edge out over GSM in India, some people like it for cheap voice calls and better wireless broadband (than 3G). All good thing come to an end, so does Reliance CDMA. But... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas June 13th, 2016 11:25 AM 0 COMMENTS

Airtel’s Nxtra Data partners CenturyLink to serve Indian enterprises better

Nxtra Data Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bharti Airtel, and CenturyLink, a global communications, hosting, cloud and IT services company, have entered into a strategic agreement to provide hosting and managed IT services in India. This agreement brings Nxtra Data’s India data centre management expertise together with CenturyLink’s cost-effective hosting, managed services and cloud capabilities and global footprint to serve businesses and government organizations in India. “Today‚ third-party managed service... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas June 11th, 2016 10:51 AM 0 COMMENTS

Trai issues a new consultation paper; this time on cloud computing policies

India's telecom regulator, Trai, has again continued the streak of issuing consultation papers on all the relevant issues this season. This time, the regulator has issued a paper to seek stakeholders’ views on cloud computing-related issues such as data security, service quality and legal and regulatory frameworks. Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), in the paper, said that business enterprises are now increasingly seeking to reshape their business models to... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas June 6th, 2016 7:57 PM 0 COMMENTS

Huawei India, partner with COAI to support the advancement and versatility of broadband services in India

Huawei India, has partnered with COAI (Cellular Operators Association of India) to support the advancement and versatility of broadband services in India. Through this partnership, Huawei organized the FMC 2.0 summit which redifines the concept of fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) through the company's FMC 2.0 strategy. The summit, ‘FMC 2.0– Winning the Future’ witnessed an attandence of over 220 decision makers across ICT & Media industries. Convergence of Fixed Broabdand, Mobile... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas June 6th, 2016 2:35 PM 10 COMMENTS

Aircel to offer highly discounted tariff for voice calling at night and Talk Time benefits on its special ‘Ramzaan Pack’

Aircel celebrates the month of Ramzaan with customers, offering highly discounted tariff for voice calling at night and Talk Time benefits on its special ‘Ramzaan Pack’. In Delhi, Aircel’s newest product – priced at Rs. 86 – greatly eases customers for staying connected to their loves ones after ‘iftaar’, offering Full Talk Time of Rs. 86, local and STD calling at 30p/minute from 12AM to 6AM, and comes with a validity... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas June 3rd, 2016 12:45 PM 85 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio starts offering 4G services without invite to general public

Reliance Jio Infocomm finally has extended their 4G connections offer from the earlier friends/invite based closed circle to the general public. Now, an interested customer can directly go to Reliance Digital stores and but a LYF device which will come bundled with a Jio 4G SIM that will offer three-months of unlimited access to high-speed broadband and app-based content services. Credit Suisse, in a note said, “even our checks showed that... Read More