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Rudradeep Biswas April 24th, 2013 11:38 AM 29 COMMENTS

MTS to Increase Smartphone Penetration: No Support for RUIM-less Imported CDMA Smartphones; No Market-ready Rev B Smartphone

MTS India is focusing on smartphone penetration, but without supporting imported RUIM-less smartphones it seems a distant dream with some low-end affordable smartphones (MTag series). Also Rev B enabled smartphones are not easily available. For sometime Sistema Shyam Teleservices (operates under MTS India brand) is in the news as the company plans to boost up operations with new investments to tap the growing data market. They also looking for LTE... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas April 23rd, 2013 2:12 PM 44 COMMENTS

Vodafone Introduces New Roaming Packs With Reduced Incoming Call Rates For Prepaid Subscribers

Vodafone India today launched a new attractive national roaming plan for its prepaid customers. With this plan, Vodafone prepaid subscribers will be able to receive incoming calls while roaming on Vodafone network at 30p/minute, across the country. Outgoing call rates are highly competitive at 1.5p/sec for all local & STD calls, while roaming or at home. The price point for the new national roaming plan varies from state to state... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas April 23rd, 2013 11:29 AM 10 COMMENTS

Bharti to Provide Asia Pacific Data Capacity to Reliance Jio

Surprise guys! Bharti Airtel enters into an agreement with Reliance Jio Infocomm to provide international data capacity via Bharti's India-to-Singapore i2i submarine cable. Both of the companies signed an Indefeasible Right to Use (IRU) Agreement for this. After the deal with Reliance Communications for nationwide fiber network access, the deal marks Reliance Jio’s continued efforts to rapidly grow and expand both its international and domestic network and infrastructure by building... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas April 22nd, 2013 3:51 PM 30 COMMENTS

Reliance Revised Voice Plans on CDMA & GSM, Offers Talktime on 3G Data Plans

As the fierce tariff war precipitated, almost all operators hiked their tariff. India’s largest dual technology mobile operator Reliance Communications has revised its tariff plans in all circles. Reliance has now several plans for both CDMA and GSM prepaid customers as they require. Most of the tariff revision is done as the tariff is hike from 1 paisa to 1.2 paisa or there is reduction in the validity. Reliance CDMA... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas April 22nd, 2013 3:33 PM 3 COMMENTS

Salora Intros JellyBean Powered FonTab for Rs 6,899 With Voice Calling Facility

Salora International Ltd (SIL), which had forayed into hypergrowing tablet market in March, has launched the third product in its series. Dubbed as FonTab, the latest tablet from Salora comes with powerful hardware with phone’s featureset at a very affordable price of Rs 6899. Technical Specifications: 7” HD TFT display, 1024 X 600p, multi touch capacitive, pixel density of 180 1.5 GHz Cortex A9 Processor Android 4.1 Jelly Bean 1GB... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas April 22nd, 2013 2:36 PM 0 COMMENTS

Saudi Telco Mobily Becomes First Customer on Reliance Globalcom’s Hawk Submarine System

Earlier we shared that Reliance Globalcom has deployed Hawk submarine cable system in the Mediterranean sea. Now RGlobalcom reported that Mobily, telecom major in Saudi Arabia is the first customer to be activated on Hawk system. The 4-fiber pair submarine Hawk cable system, built by Reliance Globalcom last fiscal to initially set up the world’s first Mediterranean Gateway and Hub at Cyprus, has demonstrated its strong resilience as it carried... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas April 21st, 2013 4:12 PM 4 COMMENTS

Batelco Edged Out, Samena led PE Firms Looking for Stakes in Reliance Globalcom

In a new development a consortium of private equity firms, led by Samena Capital, is in advanced stages of negotiations to acquire a majority stake in Reliance Globalcom. Reliance Globalcom, a subsidiary of Anil Ambani headed Reliance Communications is the largest private submarine cable system provider with 46 cable landing station in 26 countries. The company was in talks with Baharain's telecom major Batelco as Batelco planned to acquire 80%... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas April 20th, 2013 5:08 PM 27 COMMENTS

BSNL Launches Two New Data-SMS Combo Packs

India's largest telecommunications company state owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has launched two new combo sms & data prepaid vouchers in Kerala circle. New Combo STVs w.e.f. 18.04.2013: Recharge 17 (STV17) : 90 SMS (Any Network) + 90 MB Data (2G) for 15 Days Recharge 67 (STV67) : 400 SMS (Any Network) + 400 MB Data (2G) for 30 Days Read More

Rudradeep Biswas April 19th, 2013 1:31 PM 120 COMMENTS

Aircel Revises All Pocket Internet Plans, Post-FUP Speed at 64kbps

In a recent revision on data tariff India's leading mobile operator Aircel has started offering 3G speed (upto 3.6 Mbps) on 2G data packs (pocket internet). The revision is done in selected circles with heavy reduction in bundled data usage and validity of the packs. This revision stands at similar offerings by Airtel, Vodafone and Idea. STV 5 which was offering 50 MB for 1 day, is now for 30MB.... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas April 18th, 2013 3:36 PM 28 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Gets 10,000 Mobile Numbers to Run Voice Over LTE Trial

Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has provided 10,000 mobile numbers to Pan India 4G BWA spectrum winner Reliance Jio Infocom for trial of Voice over 4G LTE network, as requested by the company. The number series allocated to Reliance Jio is 83378 for trial propose, and it will be used across Mumbai, Delhi and Jamnagar where Jio will soon start the trial run of VoLTE with 4000 mobile numbers each in... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas April 17th, 2013 12:50 AM 19 COMMENTS

Gionee Launched Affordable Smartphone P1 & Feature Phone L800

It's high chance you have not heard of Gionee. Gionee is the second largest smartphone maker in China, which recently entered into Indian smartphone market with several smartphones. Gionee has already launched its quad-core smartphone Dream D1 in India with similar specs of Micromax, Karbonn and Intex's quad core smartphones. To tap the budget smartphone category Gionee has recently launched a new affordable smartphone - P1 as well as a... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas April 17th, 2013 12:26 AM 1 COMMENTS

Lava Brings Jelly Bean Upgrade for Iris 501, But No OTA

Lava Mobiles has announced the availability of Jelly Bean upgrade pack for its popular 5'' Iris 501 smartphone. The smartphone was reviewed on Telecomtalk and considered to be one of the best value for money smartphone. Launched with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, Iris 501 will be more powerful with this Jelly Bean upgrade. Available for 7999 on flipkart, Iris 501 comes with 1 GHz dual core MediaTek processor, 512MB... Read More