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Rudradeep Biswas March 10th, 2013 11:25 AM 47 COMMENTS

Locked Horns: Reliance Jio Infocomm vs COAI/Airtel over Voice Services

Though India's telecom sector is still messed up, pan-India BWA spectrum winner Reliance Jio Infocomm (formerly RIL Infotel Broadband) and mobile operators, especially GSM ones under COAI are locked horns regarding the permission of providing voice services by 4G/BWA players as well as internet service providers. In India internet service providers (ISP) were not allowed to provide Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) services. But Telecom Commission allowed this recently and operators lobbies started... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas March 4th, 2013 4:24 PM 10 COMMENTS

Videocon Plans to tie-up with Nokia Siemens Network to Roll out Advanced 4G LTE Network

Videocon Mobile Services on the sidelines of the recently concluded Mobile World Congress at Barcelona represented by Mr. Arvind Bali, Director & CEO, Mr. S. Krishnan, Director & Group CTO, and Mr. Illangovan G, Director & CFO, have had an in-principle agreement with Mr. Sandeep Girotra, Head of India Region, Nokia Siemens Networks, to tie up for Videocon's 4G Network Rollout. Mr. Arvind Bali, Director and CEO, Videocon Mobile Services... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas February 25th, 2013 5:03 PM 3 COMMENTS

Airtel To Offer voice services for its 4G TD-LTE customers in Pune through GSM network

Airtel will soon launch voice services for its 4G, TD-LTE (time division duplex long term evolution) customers in Pune, through its existing GSM network. With this Airtel becomes the only operator in India to combine voice with TD-LTE services through GSM network which will allow LTE customers to use 4G handsets for voice calls, voicemails. The operator has selected Nokia Siemens Networks to deploy its Circuit Switched FallBack (CSFB) voice... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas February 22nd, 2013 1:14 AM 9 COMMENTS

4G is More Power Hogger, Learn Battery Management to Boost Your Phone’s Battery Life

It is obvious that LTE will be the choice of 4th generation technology in India as well as globally. In India LTE is expected to see growth from this year with all BWA spectrum winners are planning to roll out services sometime in 2013. Well as the title says, this story is not exactly about 4G/LTE, rather we are going to discuss another aspect of LTE - energy consumption by... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas February 19th, 2013 11:25 AM 9 COMMENTS

Telecom Regulations: Hike on ISP License, Voice over 4G, Spectrum Swap for 4G Players

Indian government is again to milk the telecommunication sector, as media reports are saying that government is going to revise pan India ISP license charges, as well as to implement new charges on mobile operators as they are offering internet services. As per Internet Service Providers Association of India (ISPAI), DoT is finalizing a framework which will ask for Rs 15 crore for country wide unified license from internet service... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas February 11th, 2013 10:36 AM 0 COMMENTS

Tata Communications Intros New Managed Services including 4G Roaming

World's leading telecommunications service provider Tata Communications has strengthened its managed services portfolio as the company introduced roaming solutions to mobile operators. Tata Communications brought two new solutions - 'Virtual Private Roaming Hub' and 'LTE Roaming Service' which will enable the operators to consolidate their roaming operations including roaming over 4G networks. The VPRH helps many carriers to merge roaming as if they are in a community, while LRS will... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas 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

Rudradeep Biswas January 6th, 2013 11:45 AM 63 COMMENTS

Aircel Gears up for 4G-LTE, Our Expectations

Before a storm, nature becomes too calm. In the midst of dull days at telecom we are expecting the tornado called 4G. The first 4G flight had taken off by Airtel but it is not a great journey so far. RIL Infotel is working on 4G to bring it in next 2-3 months and Tikona is scheduled for mid 2013. And there are media reports that say Aircel, which owns... Read More

P K Tarun December 6th, 2012 1:03 PM 32 COMMENTS

Videocon to Rollout 4G Services Next Year

Telecom operator Videocon Mobile Services will roll out fourth generation (4G) services across all is newly-won circles next year. Videcon had received spectrum across six circles - Uttar Pradesh (East), Uttar Pradesh (West), Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat and Haryana - in the recently concluded spectrum auction. "We will get spectrum in January and we expect to roll out our LTE services in six circles by middle of 2013. We will... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas December 2nd, 2012 11:24 AM 16 COMMENTS

4G Devices in India : Expect Some Uniqueness in Coming Days

Though Indian telecom sector is going through a up and down phase this time, mostly because of regulatory irregularity, spectrum price and lukewarm response to 3G services; many analysts bet high on Reliance Infotel's upcoming 4G/LTE roll out in the country. In 2010 Infotel Broadband bagged pan India BWA spectrum i.e. 20 MHz on 2300 MHz band in all 22 circles, soon after Reliance Industries took 95% of Infotel Broadband.... Read More

Sanjay October 27th, 2012 11:12 AM 21 COMMENTS

Aircel to Launch iPhone 5 in India

Aircel the fast growing Pan India telecom operator in the country in a latest move has now chosen to offer iPhone 5 which will be launch on 2nd November, 2012 in India. According to our sources, Aircel will offer Factory Un-locked iPhone 5 priced 16GB model at Rs.45500, while the 32GB and 64GB versions will be available for Rs 52500 and Rs. 59500, respectively.The prices may vary in some States... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas 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