September 14th, 2015 12:43 PM 15 COMMENTS

Airtel 4G goes live in Thiruvananthapuram

Airtel, today announced the commercial launch of its high speed 4G services (also called LTE) in Thiruvananthapuram. Now, customers in the city can experience high speed wireless broadband on Airtel 4G and get on to the digital superhighway to enjoy uninterrupted HD video streaming, superfast uploading and downloading of movies, music and images. Airtel 4G is available to customers across a range of smart devices including mobile phones, dongles &... Read More

September 12th, 2015 6:37 PM 50 COMMENTS

4G Battleground: Reliance Jio vs. Incumbents – Part II (Vodafone & Idea)

In our previous story, we explained how the incumbent player, Airtel, can have its advantage as the first mover in the 4G turf. In this follow up story, we will discuss about Vodafone & Idea. Vodafone India is currently the second largest mobile operator in India. When Vodafone makes a strategy, business is their first priority. They picked up 3G spectrum in only 9 circles in 2010, and the whole... Read More

September 10th, 2015 3:45 PM 2 COMMENTS

Airtel launches 4G services in Brahmapur ( Odisha )

Bharti Airtel Limited (“Airtel”), today announced the commercial launch of its high speed 4G services (also called LTE) in Brahmapur. Now, customers across the country can experience high speed wireless broadband on Airtel 4G and get on to the digital superhighway to enjoy uninterrupted HD video streaming, superfast uploading and downloading of movies, music and images. Airtel 4G is available to customers across a range of smart devices including mobile... Read More

September 10th, 2015 3:22 PM 2 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio to offer ‘Jionet’ Wi-Fi Service at 10th Vishwa Hindi Sammelan 2015 in Bhopal

Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (RJIL), will be offering ‘Jionet’ High Speed Wi-Fi internet service at Vishwa Hindi Sammelan (World Hindi Conference) to be held between 10th to 12th September at Lal Parade Ground in Bhopal. This three day conference will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and will be attended by Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Minister of External Affairs Smt Sushma Swaraj, Home... Read More

September 9th, 2015 6:11 PM 46 COMMENTS

BSNL playing defensive, will launch 4G by March 2016 to take on private telcos : Report

Bharat sanchar nigam Ltd. the largest PSU has declared that it will launch its 4G services in 14 circles where it holds spectrum in band 41 by the end of current financial year which is around March 2016. This comes as a reaction to the 4G launch plans by private operators and BSNL's fear of losing out subscribers to them through MNP. Bharti Airtel has already launched 4G operations across... Read More

September 9th, 2015 6:03 PM 10 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio will offer ‘Jionet’ high-speed internet at Tamil Nadu Investor’s Meet

Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (RJIL), a subsidiary of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), will offer ‘Jionet’ High Speed Wi-Fi internet service at Tamil Nadu Global Investors Meet (TN -GIM). The meet is supposed to be held between the 9th & the 10th September 2015 at Chennai Trade Centre in Chennai. Reliance JIO is the only operator with BWA spectrum across 22 service areas. The two-day conference will be inaugurated by Honourable... Read More

September 8th, 2015 7:32 PM 30 COMMENTS

Airtel launches new Data paper recharge coupons in Bangalore, offering 1GB 3G/4G data at Rs. 47

Airtel the largest operator by subscriber base has launched two new paper recharge coupons (PRCs) in Bangalore city of Karnataka circle. Airtel says these recharge coupons are aimed at targeting the young users who work night shifts in BPOs in bangalore or students who stay up till late at night and are looking for affordable mobile data options. The first coupon with denomination of Rs.9 comes in 3 variants, the... Read More

September 7th, 2015 8:28 PM 2 COMMENTS

Cloud Base Stations: Solution to capex and opex worries for 4G Towers

With increasing amount of 4G towers to be implemented in the country 2 challenges that operators will face is space constraints to deploy the base stations and increasing operating and capital expenditure. Let us just analyze what a typical base station consist of. 4G has evolved towards flatter topologies with fewer centralized nodes, shifting more and more radio-related processing towards the base station or even further into so-called remote radio heads... Read More

September 3rd, 2015 7:46 PM 59 COMMENTS

4G Battleground: Reliance Jio vs Incumbents – Part 1 (Airtel)

Reliance Jio, which is a telecom arm of Reliance Industries that’s headed by Mukesh Ambani, is expected to be launched in the next four months, but the showtime on the 4G turf has been started already. Incumbents – Airtel, Vodafone and Idea – are not accepting the fear of Jio's disrupting strategy. Analysts believe that they would take a toll on revenues as well as growth once Reliance Jio launches... Read More

September 3rd, 2015 4:18 PM 8 COMMENTS

‘Jionet’ Wi-Fi service goes live in Mussoorie

Mussoorie, the queen of hills, becomes the first hill station to enter the digital age today, with the inauguration of ‘Jionet’, a high speed Wi-Fi Internet service from Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (RJIL) by the Honourable Chief Minister of Uttarakhand Shri Harish Rawat. ‘Jionet’ High Speed Wi-Fi service will be covering entire Mall Road, Landaur Bazar, Gunhill & Nagar Palika building. As a part of the Uttarakhand government’s initiative to... Read More

September 2nd, 2015 9:13 PM 8 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel-Ericsson deal: Ericsson to expand Airtel’s 3G and 4G networks

Bharti Airtel has collaborated with Ericsson to roll out 4G in Delhi. The duo has also partnered to expand 3G WCDMA network across eight telecom circles in India. Under the 4G deployment agreement, Ericsson will be responsible to provide superior network performance, with faster web browsing, video-on-demand, downloads and other services. The four year agreement between Ericsson and Bharti Airtel also enables the latter to avail the multi-standard radio equipment... Read More

September 1st, 2015 9:44 PM 8 COMMENTS

MIMO the explanation for Speed from 3G to 4G

It should have crossed our mind when there is a step input in speed from 3G (Av 3.6 to 4 Mbps) to 4G (Around 48Mbps). MIMO is a terminology that is being a method for multiplying the capacity of a radio link using multiple transmit and receive antennas . In MIMO your modem uses two separate antennas at once to deliver super fast speeds. What makes this possible s cross... Read More

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