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Rudradeep Biswas June 20th, 2013 2:25 PM 3 COMMENTS

Aircel Partners with MPT, Offers International roaming Services To its Customers Travelling to Myanmar

Aircel has partnered with Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications (MPT), a sole provider of telecommunication services in Myanmar, to offer international roaming services for its customers travelling to the country. This has made Aircel the first Indian operator to offer the facility to its customers travelling to Myanmar. This roaming facility is available for postpaid subscribers of all Aircel circles. With this exclusive partnership, Aircel becomes the first Indian telecom operator... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas June 20th, 2013 9:21 AM 1 COMMENTS

Hike to Tie-up with Airtel, Vodafone & Idea; Similar to RCom-WhatsApp Plans?

The battle of free messaging apps over internet has reached to mobile operators too. In recent time India becomes a focus point for the messaging apps and VoIP apps like WhatsApp, Skype, WeChat, Nimbuzz or Hike. In the latest development instant messaging app - Hike, developed by Bharti SoftBank is in talks with incumbent players - Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular to come up with special bundle packs... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas June 19th, 2013 9:14 AM 18 COMMENTS

Govt. Committee Proposed 100% FDI in Telecom

By a Parliamentary Consultive Committee set by the Finance Ministry has proposed raising the cap (or removing) on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in different sectors to push country's economy. They proposed 100% FDI in telecom, retail and broadcast and on defence 49% FDI (now FDI is allowed 74% on telecom and broadcast, 51% on retail and 26% on defence). The committee headed by Arvind Mayaram, Union Economic Affairs Secretary has... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas June 18th, 2013 12:15 PM 2 COMMENTS

Aircel Announces Short-term Prepaid Yatra SIM Cards for Amarnath Yatris

In its endeavor to make Amarnath Yatra more comfortable and memorable for the pilgrims, Aircel, one of India’s leading telecom players, announced the launch of special short-term prepaid Yatra SIM Cards. Aircel will also set-up special counters in Jammu, Pahalgam, Baltal and many more locations in J&K to make these special SIM cards available to the yatris. Aircel aims to ensure that the yatris have seamless access to the telecom... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas June 18th, 2013 10:54 AM 8 COMMENTS

Smartphone for Masses: Lava Mobile Plans for Super Affordable FirefoxOS Phones

Mozilla's ambitious mobile platform Firefox OS is all set to get a new handset partner in India as home grown Lava Mobiles is set to launch smartphones running on Firefox OS. In a recent media interaction with Hari Om Rai, co-founder and Director at Lava International has confirmed that Lava is working on a Firefox OS smartphone, which could be priced below Rs 3000 ($54 approx). He did not reveal... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas June 17th, 2013 4:19 PM 72 COMMENTS

Roaming charges to fall from July 1, 2013

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has announced new tariff structures for voice calls and text messages, a move that would result in a reduction of roaming charges.The new tariff structure is effective July 1, even though the telecom regulator said that there will be no free national roaming as of now. "TRAI has reduced ceilings for national roaming calls and SMS and instituted a new regime for providing flexibility... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas June 17th, 2013 11:54 AM 20 COMMENTS

BSNL Revised Unlimited Onnet Packs

State owned telecommunications giant Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has revised its unlimited onnet calling packs in the telecom district of Chennai and Tamilnadu circle. In recent time, with cheap tariff offering phased out and operators in huge debt pushed themselves to raise the tariff. Market dynamics is changed, price power returns to the telcos and A-Vo-Id group try to make a monopoly in the market. In this situation BSNL is... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas June 16th, 2013 1:53 AM 21 COMMENTS

Micromax Teases Canvas 4, Preorder Starts June 28th

India's handset giant Micromax is working on its latest flagship product Canvas 4. The company has released one teaser video on youtube as well as on tv; and puts a teaser picture on its facebook cover - Can Life Be Endless? Micromax who is selling its 5 inch Android smartphones under Canvas brand, is highly successful with Canvas smartphones as the sales figure says. There is no details of the... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas June 15th, 2013 11:42 AM 12 COMMENTS

Aircel Inks Deal with Techzone to Offer Mobile Videos at Re 1

In an attempt to strengthen value added services portfolio country's leading mobile operator Aircel has partnered with world's one of the top VAS provider Techzone to offer mobile video download at Re 1. Techzone is considered to be one of India's largest aggregators, developers, publishers and distributors of Entertainment content. It has its own vast content library of 20,000+ videos in more than 12 languages of the country. Aircel has... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas June 15th, 2013 10:44 AM 6 COMMENTS

ZTE to Launch Open Market SWIFT 3G Data Cards Soon

Chinese mobile device and telecom equipment maker ZTE has announced that the company will launch own branded data cards in India in mid-June this year. ZTE becomes aggressive in Indian soil to tap the end-consumer mobile device market, earlier it announced to launch several smartphones under own brand. Currently ZTE is the second largest data card seller in the country, but they don't directly sell the data cards, rather it... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas June 14th, 2013 11:42 AM 12 COMMENTS

Uninor Brings Local & STD Calls at 25p/min

Uninor, continuing their effort to be 'Sabse Sasta' has introduced new special tariff vouchers in Maharashtra and Goa circle to offer local and STD calls at just 25 paisa per minute. The new recharges priced Rs 22 and Rs 31 will offer local calls to any network and local & STD calls at a flat rate of 25p/min. There is no capping of calling minutes - unlimited local and STD... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas June 13th, 2013 2:51 AM 7 COMMENTS

Expansion Mode is On: MTS Rolled out HSD Services in New 31 Towns of Rajasthan

India's pure-play CDMA voice and data service provider Sistema Shyam Teleservices, which operates under MTS brand has announced that it now added 31 new towns in Rajasthan circle with EVDO/HSD coverage. With this expansion MTS now has high speed data footprint in more than 90 towns across Rajasthan. The new HSD coverage includes - Sojat, Chomu, Hindaun City, Dudu, Dausa, Sheogunj, Sumerpur, Mahuwa, Bhinmal, Chirawa, Khairthal, Ratangarh, Jalore, Balotra, Jaisalmer,... Read More