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Krishna Mukherjee December 17th, 2015 9:10 PM 5 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel’s 4G services reach Sri City in Andhra Pradesh

Telecom service provider Bharti Airtel has commercially launched its 4G services (also called LTE) in Sri City in Andhra Pradesh. With this, the company claims to become the first telecom services provider to introduce superfast 4G speeds in Sri City, thus bringing the fast emerging business hub onto the Digital Superhighway. Venkatesh Vijayraghavan, Chief Executive Officer, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, Bharti Airtel, said, “The launch is in line with our... Read More

Tharun G December 17th, 2015 10:28 AM 47 COMMENTS

Vodafone 4G plan details: Upgrades all 3G plans to 4G for the Kerala circle

Vodafone unveiled its 4G LTE services in Kochi city last week, and has commercially launched the service for consumers. Today, Vodafone took warps off its 4G plans for the Kerala circle. At the time of the launch, Vodafone had revealed only the Rs 29 120MB pack and a bonanza pack of 20GB at Rs 2499. Now, Vodafone has now announced that all current 3G packs have been upgraded to 4G... Read More

Krishna Mukherjee December 16th, 2015 3:03 PM 22 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel launches 4G services in Salem, Tamil Nadu

Country’s top telecom operator Bharti Airtel has launched its 4G services (also called LTE) in Salem, Tamil Nadu. After launching its 4G services, the company claims to have received a compelling response in Chennai, Pondy, Vellore, Trichy, Madurai, Coimbatore, Tirupur and Tirunelveli. Airtel 4G is available to customers across a range of smart devices, including mobile phones, dongles, 4G hotspots and Wi-Fi dongles. George Mathen, Hub CEO – Kerala and... Read More

Krishna Mukherjee December 14th, 2015 7:11 PM 104 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio VoLTE works seamlessly with other operator networks: Credit Suisse

Reliance Jio Infocomm’s Voice over LTE (VoLTE) service works seamlessly with other operator networks, and there’s no difference in experience on VoLTE to 3G/2G/fixedline call as compared to a fully Circuit Switch back (CS) call, Credit Suisse said, which tried out the Jio network in and around Mumbai. Jio recently started beta-testing 4G network by issuing connections to employees and their families. The brokerage firm said that the VoLTE service is... Read More

Ria Lakshman December 9th, 2015 8:29 PM 56 COMMENTS

Airtel tests VoLTE in labs, but in no rush to deploy: Report

Bharti Airtel will not deploy the Voice of LTE (VoLTE) technology in near future, and it will continue to use existing 2G and 3G spectrum for providing voice services in the country. The telco is currently testing the technology in its labs, and would deploy it once it’s fully matured, the Economic Times reported, quoting Airtel’s chief technology officer Abhay Savargaonkar. Savargaonkar... Read More

Krishna Mukherjee December 9th, 2015 5:05 PM 109 COMMENTS

5 reasons why RJio fear looms large over incumbents

Remember the Reliance group’s ‘Monsoon Hungama’ of 2003, when the new offering took the telecom industry by storm as it offered multimedia mobile phones for a down payment of Rs 500, with three monthly plan options— Budget 149, Budget 249 and Dhirubhai Ambani Pioneer Offer. The offering led to a revolution in the telecom sector and as a result, millions were added to the country’s subscriber base. Now, once again... Read More

Tharun G December 7th, 2015 8:20 AM 122 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio close to launch, asks BSNL to define IUC for emergency calls

Reliance Jio has requested state-run telco BSNL to define Interconnection Usage Charges (IUC) for emergency calls such as 100,101,102, and 108, as the Mukesh Ambani's telecom company prepares to launch commercial services in the country shortly. Reliance Jio will be using BSNL network for provision of Level-I services including Emergency services as per latter's letter to BSNL. The letter sent to all BSNL telecom circles, telecom districts, and maintenance regions... Read More

Krishna Mukherjee December 6th, 2015 1:35 PM 25 COMMENTS

Vodafone to launch 4G services in Cochin on December 8: Sources

Just a day after Idea Cellular announced that its 4G services will be live shortly and started pre-registrations for the next generation technology; Telecom Talk has learnt that Vodafone is all set to launch its 4G services in Cochin on December 8. Sources told TT that the Cochin launch will be followed by Mysore launch on December 21. Earlier, Vodafone had maintained that it would launch 4G services in Kerala beginning... Read More

Imon December 6th, 2015 12:52 PM 31 COMMENTS

Vodafone starts teasing its upcoming 4G services

Taking a cue from Idea Cellular's 4G launch teaser, Vodafone has also pushed its 4G launch teaser. The company has released a poster that hints about the approaching service. Vodafone published the poster on its Facebook India page, which reads,"Get ready for an international 4G experience ". The Facebook post also mentions,"it's here finally and it's going to be awesome!". The teaser clearly projects Vodafone's aggressive strategy to launch its... Read More

Tharun G December 5th, 2015 8:46 PM 36 COMMENTS

Idea plans to launch 4G services in 126 cities

Idea started registrations for its 4G service by offering 1GB 4G free data. The registration page on Idea website reveal that 4G service to be available in 126 cities across 8 circles of Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Punjab and Tamil Nadu. Idea 4G: List of 126 Cities Andhra Pradesh Haryana Karnataka Kerala Madhya Pradesh Odisha Punjab Tamil Nadu Banswada Ambala Ankola Hubli-Dharwad Calicut Bhopal Cuttack Ahmedgarh Ambur Bhainsa... Read More

Krishna Mukherjee December 4th, 2015 10:11 PM 32 COMMENTS

Jio Chat all set to compete with the likes of WhatsApp, Viber; forays into nine global markets

Jio Chat, the instant messaging app from Reliance Jio which will compete with the likes of WhatsApp, Snapchat, Viber, has entered into nine global markets, including India. The app is now available for customers in Canada, United States of America (USA), United Kingdom (UK), United Arab Emirates (UAE), South Africa, Singapore, Australia and China. One can download and access this application through any internet enabled smartphone (currently available on iOS... Read More

Krishna Mukherjee December 4th, 2015 4:29 PM 84 COMMENTS

Idea begins registrations for 4G; offers 1GB-4GB free data

Idea Cellular today said that its 4G LTE services will go live shortly and as part of its 4G pre-book registration, it is offering 1GB-4GB data free. The company has recently acquired spectrum in the circles of Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh (West) from Videocon Telecom in a Rs 3,310-crore deal, which will help Idea to launch its 4G services in the areas. Industry experts are of the view that the deal... Read More