About the author:

November 17th, 2012 2:04 PM 33 COMMENTS

MTS India Says Will Not Exit Indian Telecom Market

MTS India the CDMA Mobile service of Sistema Shyam TeleServices Ltd (SSTL) with over 16 million customers today said that it will not exit the Indian telecom market as it is hopeful of a positive response on its curative petition from the apex court.   MTS India has stayed away from the recent spectrum auction and its 21 licences are valid till 18th January 2013 as per Supreme Court's order.... Read More

November 12th, 2012 11:21 AM 64 COMMENTS

Reliance Communications Launches 4 New High Speed Broadband Plans

Reliance Communications (Rcom), one of leading telecom service provider and 4th largest broadband service provider in India has recently introduced a whole new array of wireline broadband plans. The new postpaid broadband plans dubbed as Thunder plans come with unlimited usage with bandwidth starting from 1 Mbps. These new Thunder plans include true unlimited usage on 1Mbps, 2Mbps and 4Mbps plans. Thunder plans comes with advance monthly rental starting from... Read More

November 11th, 2012 11:27 AM 6 COMMENTS

BSNL Diwali Offer : Full Talk Time and FREE Plan Validity Voucher With Top Up of Rs.220

Country's largest telecom service provider Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has brought a new offer to celebrate happy times of Diwali by offering FREE Plan Validity Extension vouchers to its mobile subscribers in Tamilnadu and Chennai. Now BSNL subscribers in Tamilnadu and Chennai make a recharge of Top-up worth Rs 220 till the 24th, November 2012, they will be given free tariff /plan validity extension Vouchers (PC/PV) with the top-up... Read More

November 10th, 2012 11:39 AM 46 COMMENTS

Most Trusted Mobile and Telecom Brands in India – Nokia, Samsung, Airtel, Vodafone and BSNL

Brand Equity has recently announced the latest edition of Most Trusted brands in India for 2012. Nokia, Samsung Mobile, Airtel, Vodafone and BSNL emerged as most trusted mobile and telecom brands in 2012 in India. As mobile and telecom turns to be no more luxury and closer to consumers as daily needs, there are several mobile operators and handset manufacturers are listed on this. In top ten, Nokia is placed... Read More

November 4th, 2012 12:31 PM 15 COMMENTS

Spectrum Refarming on 900MHz : Is it Another Mess-up for Telecom Sector?

Spectrum refarming is a hot issue in Indian telecom. Telecom Commission of India recommended to go for spectrum refarming on 900 MHz band so that this band can be used for 4G roll out. Currently incumbent players like Airtel, Vodafone, BSNL are holding most of the 900MHz spectrum and Aircel, Reliance, Idea are having it in selected circles. New players who got licenses in 2008 have using 1800MHz band of... Read More

November 3rd, 2012 5:21 AM 20 COMMENTS

Tariff Revision is Obvious: Recent Trends in Mobile Tariffs

Few days back Bharti Airtel CEO (India and South Asia) Sanjay Kapoor spoke up for the tariff hike and hinted for further tariff hike to make telecom industry sustainable. The tariff will go up following the spectrum auction. If you forget Idea already hiked tariff to 2 paisa per second i.e. Rs 1.20 per minute as a second round of tariff hike. Even if the spectrum is refarmed and auctioned... Read More

October 31st, 2012 3:08 PM 11 COMMENTS

Airtel’s Network Experience Centre Goes Live in Manesar (Gurgaon)

Airtel today announced that its Network Experience Centre (NEC) went LIVE in Manesar. This state-of-the-art NEC, now will be able to observe the end to end customer experience, in near real time, along with the standard network elements on this massive scale of operations. During the peak hour, Airtel connects nearly 6 million voice and over 5 million data customers, concurrently. 600 switching and routing centers process 80 Billion minutes... Read More

October 30th, 2012 10:08 AM 52 COMMENTS

Russia to Go International Arbitration if MTS India’s Licenses Are Not Restored

License issue of Sistema Shyam Teleservices has taken to international level, as Russia warned to go for international arbitration in case Indian courts do not resolve Sistema's licenses. Alexander Kadakin, Russian Ambassador in a cultural event in New Delhi said, “If the issue of cancellation of 2G licence to Sistema is not resolved in Indian courts, we will go for international arbitration,” The Supreme Court of India cancelled all licenses... Read More

October 30th, 2012 2:37 AM 7 COMMENTS

Google’s Showstopper: Android 4.2, Nexus 4, Nexus 7 (3G) and Nexus 10

Tablets are raining, not only from Indian companies but also from major global players. If you think that the time is for Apple iPad mini and Microsoft's Windows 8 powered Surface tablets, Google is all its way to take the thunder from the competitors! After Google's Nexus 7 and Amazon's Kindle Fire get very successful run with 7 inch display, Apple - the leader in tablet maker with iPad, has... Read More

October 30th, 2012 12:46 AM 7 COMMENTS

Lava Mobile Intros Iris branded Affordable Android Phones, First is Iris N350

Lava Mobiles, with fame of Intel-powered XOLO smartphones has taken an big entry into the affordable smartphone arena with its Iris sub-brand. Lava International, maker of Lava Mobiles is planning to bring a whole new range of smartphones under its flagship smartphone brand - Iris. Under this brand all phones will be Android powered and come with minimum 1GHz processor while asthetically beautiful to match the needs of youths. The... Read More

October 26th, 2012 11:20 AM 11 COMMENTS

Reliance Infotel to Begin Voice over LTE Trials – Can it Outmatch Existing Players on Voice Front?

It seems Reliance Industries owned Infotel Broadband has told the reason why they are not bidding for upcoming 2G spectrum. In a latest report RIL Infotel has asked Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to allocate mobile numbers as the company is ready to run trials of voice services on their yet-to-be-launched LTE-TDD network. Infotel is the pan India BWA spectrum winner, and is going to be biggest competitor to Bharti Airtel... Read More

October 25th, 2012 11:04 AM 38 COMMENTS

Reliance Communications Launches Reliance Smart V6700 CDMA Android Smartphone

India's leading dual technology mobile operator Reliance Communications (Rcom) has launched a new CDMA smartphone - Reliance Smart V6700 for Rs.6777 with reverse bundling offer with Rs.5400 . Reliance Smart V6700, actually made by ZTE is running Android 2.3 Gingerbread and featured with 3.5 inch HVGA 320x480p capacitive touch screen. It includes 800 MHz processor, 512 MB RAM, internal storage 512MB (user available memory 148MB), 3MP camera (more…) Read More

Recent Comments

Shivraj Roy :

And there are wifi 7 router on amazon lol

Telcos Want Complete Ban on Wi-Fi 6E Router Selling in…

Shivraj Roy :

wifi is western culture hence ban wifi -these ppl probably

Telcos Want Complete Ban on Wi-Fi 6E Router Selling in…

d5aqoep :

If BJP govt wants to move forward with fast broadband penetration and follow Industry standards by de-licensing 6Ghz for Wifi7…

Telcos Want Complete Ban on Wi-Fi 6E Router Selling in…

Faraz :

Wi-Fi 6E came before COVID ( 5+ years ago ). World moved on to Wi-Fi 7 last year. & Here…

Telcos Want Complete Ban on Wi-Fi 6E Router Selling in…

Load More