Passionately following the Indian #Telecom Industry for over a decade from Business, Consumer and a Technical perspective. My primary focus area is Consumer & Digital Experience.
Global music streaming service Guvera has signed a brand partnership with TranServ, a digital payments firm, to promote Udio, India’s first social mobile wallet, which was launched last week and is now available to download through the Play Store for Android and will be available on iOS shortly. As part … Read More
Nokia said that it has tied-up with the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) to create technology solutions using unlicensed spectrum to deliver cost-efficient, last-mile broadband connectivity to remote rural communities in India. Under a 3-year partnership, Nokia will also fund and provide technological expertise for research at IIT-M’s Center of Excellence … Read More
Telenor India said it has also partnered with Child Helpline, and it will now embed all of its SIMs with 1098 number to offer direct and one touch access to the Child Helpline. About 30 million urban children, under the age of 18, own a personal handset in India, according to … Read More
Former India and South Asia business head of Alcatel-Lucent–now acquired by Nokia–Srini Sundararajan has been appointment as the Head of Network Business at Samsung India Electronics Ltd (SIEL). Sundararajan will be in charge of managing operations and further developing business opportunities of Samsung’s mobile network business in Southwest Asia. Sundararajan is … Read More
India’s GSM carriers such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular, along with CDMA players like RCom and Tata Teleservices have collectively slammed the Indian telecom regulator, Trai, for uploading results of recent independent call drop tests conducted across seven cities on its web site, according to media reports. … Read More
Indian telecom service providers have paid a total penalty of Rs 6 crore during July 2014-June 2015 to Trai for violation of service quality norms in the country. The regulator got a maximum penalty from mobile services providers who paid Rs 3.48 crore, followed by fixed line service providers and broadband … Read More
Bharti Airtel has for the first time set up a 4G network 15 kms in the sea to provide data connectivity to the participants of International Fleet Review (IFR), which is being hosted by Indian Navy. In a first of its kind initiative Airtel claims that it has facilitated 4G … Read More
The share of mobile internet spend out of average monthly bill has increased to 64% in 2015 as compared to 54% in 2014, even as the average monthly bill has declined 18% over last year, according to a joint report by Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and IMRB … Read More
WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging and voice calling app, said that it now has one billion monthly active users globally that send 42 billion messages on a daily basis. “As of today, one billion people are using WhatsApp. That’s nearly one in seven people on Earth who use WhatsApp each month … Read More
Finnish telecom gear maker Nokia said that it has launched the NetGuard Security Management Center to bolster its security solution family at a time when threats linked to an ever-connected world are on the rise. NetGuard Security Management Center is a consolidated, easy-to-use software platform that lets an operator monitor … Read More
Every avid reader in India who has been reading about and following the country’s telecom scene must’ve come across terms like 4G/LTE, Spectrum, VoLTE, cloud services and the likes a lot, more so in the past two years. We’ve been hearing for a while about consolidation of small players, stiff … Read More
Rakesh Garg has been removed from the post of Telecom Secretary ten months ahead of his retirement, and has been shifted to minority affairs, as part of a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle, wherein as many as 10 new Secretaries have been appointed in various central government ministries and other organisations. JS … Read More
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