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January 22nd, 2013 12:29 AM 21 COMMENTS

Micromax A116 Canvas HD Packs Quad Core Processor, Yet Cheap at Sub-15K

Imagine a smartphone with quad core processor is for less than Rs 15,000. Can you? Well Micromax makes this true with the latest Canvas phone - A116 Canvas HD. With MediaTek's latest MT6589 chipset, which includes quad core 1.2GHz processor, 1GB RAM, PowerVR SGX5 GPU and 4GB internal storage Micromax A116 Canvas HD becomes the wonder phone in 2013 with this price tag. With 5" 1280x720p IPS display A116 runs... Read More

January 21st, 2013 11:20 PM 12 COMMENTS

Next 4G Spectrum Auction on 700MHz Band Coming by 2014

India's telecom minister Mr. Kapil Sibal has announced that Govt will conduct the auction for 700MHz spectrum by next year. In an event to commission country's first independent lab at Mumbai for measuring specific absorption rate (SAR) for mobile devices Mr. Sibal has told that Govt is going to auction 700MHz band (698-806 MHz) in any case by 2014. It is almost certain that 700MHz band will be used for... Read More

January 21st, 2013 10:35 PM 4 COMMENTS

Vodafone Intros 8-in-1 VAS Card at Just Rs 29

In an attempt to boost value added service adoption among subscribers, India's second largest mobile operator Vodafone India has introduced a new super value offer - "All In One VAS Card" for Delhi-NCR region. Priced at just Rs 29, the VAS card includes 8 value added services in one recharge for prepaid customers. With VAS card 29 you will get a bundle of flash alerts like News, Cricket, Love, Movie,... Read More

January 21st, 2013 12:53 PM 15 COMMENTS

Lava Iris 501 – Another 5″ Android Smartphone

Lava International is seemed to be on a launching spree - for last some weeks it is rolling out several Android smartphones under its IRIS series. The latest launch by Lava is IRIS 501 aimed to change your mobile experience with 'bigvantage'. Running on Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich IRIS 501 has 5" WVGA screen with 800x480 resolution, 5 mega pixel auto focus rear camera and 0.3MP front camera. Under... Read More

January 21st, 2013 10:31 AM 0 COMMENTS

Greenpeace Impressed by Airtel’s Sustainability Report

Environmental organization Greenpeace likes the recently-published sustainability report (SR) of country's largest cellco Bharti Airtel. Greenpeace India thinks that it is a forward move towards corporate sustainability as it wanted Airtel to take up the leadership in 'Clean Talk' for last two years. Airtel also opened the conversation with Greenpeace to make a concrete action plan regarding this. Greenpeace likes to see Airtel to set up progressive emission reduction targets... Read More

January 21st, 2013 3:12 AM 17 COMMENTS

Videocon Targeting July-2013 to Launch 4G-LTE Services

Videocon Mobile Services are looking for a within-six-month launch plans for its 4G services over 1800MHz band which the company has secured in November auction in Jharkhand & Bihar, West and East Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. As per the report by Telegraph India, Videocon is quite sure to roll out its 4G services by July this year. Videocon won liberalized spectrum in the recently-ended auction and... Read More

January 20th, 2013 5:40 PM 3 COMMENTS

Nokia to Cut Workforce Globally, Appoints TCS to Manage IT Services

India's leading IT company Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is appointed as Nokia's long-term global IT partner with a target to transform and modernize Nokia's IT landscape. Under this partnership TCS' Nordic and Baltic sub-division will manage Nokia's core applications for enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), product lifecycle management (PLM), supply chain management (SCM), enterprise information management (EIM) and corporate functions (COF) across the world. TCS will also... Read More

January 19th, 2013 10:32 PM 3 COMMENTS

Airtel Offers Free 3G Data on Karbonn Smartphones for 6 Months

In an attempt of promoting 3G services to Indian subscribers, Karbonn Mobiles and Airtel entered into a partnership which will provider exciting data offer from Airtel bundled with purchase of selected Karbonn smartphones. As a part of New Year Offer, when customers buy any Karbonn Smart devices like A9+, A15, A21 and A30 will get 500 MB of 3G data and unlimited 2G on Airtel, totally free of cost for... Read More

January 18th, 2013 4:53 PM 4 COMMENTS

GSM Subscribers Base Continues to Shrink, 1% Fall in December 2012

India's GSM subscriber base continues to fall down, 1% down from November's data it is now 657.16 million by the end of December 2012, with GSM subscribers lost 6.62 million customers last month as per the data published by GSM operators' representative Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI). The trend of shrinking subscriber base continues, due to several factors are working in the sector. Operators are disconnecting inactive SIMs, reduce... Read More

January 17th, 2013 4:21 PM 12 COMMENTS

SSTL Likes 50% Cut in CDMA Spectrum Pricing by EGoM

Sistema Shyam Teleservices (SSTL) which operates under MTS India brand name and offers CDMA based mobile and data services today released a statement which reflects company's satisfaction with recent price cut on CDMA spectrum. SSTL earlier in November, 2012 did not participate in CDMA spectrum auction citing the price is too high. Ultimately Tata Tele and Videocon withdrew from the auction with no taker of 800MHz spectrum. Now as cabinet... Read More

January 17th, 2013 4:00 PM 4 COMMENTS

Sanjay Kapoor to Quit Bharti Airtel, Gopal Vittal to Become CEO at Airtel India

Sanjay Kapoor, the CEO of Bharti Airtel's India and South Asia unit is going to leave his position by 28th February, 2013 ending a 15 year long relation with Airtel. As per company statement Mr. Kapoor will be available to assist on key matters for another a month. He is going to move to the Board of Indus Towers Ltd and Bharti Global Ltd. Gopal Vittal, currently Group Director of... Read More

January 17th, 2013 3:56 PM 3 COMMENTS

Indian Telecom Still Has the Charm: Batelco

Bahrain Telecommunication Company (Batelco), which has left Indian telecom following the cancellation of STel's permits in February 2012 is looking for a re-entry in India's telecom market. As per the report by middle east's daily 'The National' Batelco CEO Sheikh Mohamed bin Isa Al Khalifa is planning to invest in existing mobile operator in India. Batelco is not interested in participating in upcoming 2G auction. In 2009 Batelco invested $225... Read More

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