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Asma Chandani April 27th, 2015 4:51 PM 2 COMMENTS

Asian Giants Bet Big on Digital India

Asian investors are making big plays in the Indian venture ecosystem and are honing in on all things India mobile. In today's news, sources indicate that Chinese digital commerce giant Alibaba, through its separate payment unit Alipay, is set to make its second investment into India, this time into Indian low-cost mobile phone maker Micromax. Earlier this year, the group invested in Paytm, a fast-growing Indian digital payment company. It's not just the Chinese... Read More

Asif Iqbal April 26th, 2015 1:08 PM 28 COMMENTS

These are the best 4G LTE smartphones in India as of April 2015

Telecom operators will start a nation-wide roll out of 4G LTE networks in India starting this year, and the smartphone brands are looking to capitalise on this. They are flooding the market with smartphones that are compatible with these 4G LTE networks. In this flood, many consumers might be confused as to which device to buy. So, if you are someone who wants to buy a 4G LTE smartphone in... Read More

Srikapardhi April 19th, 2015 12:28 PM 7 COMMENTS

TT Analysis : 70.1% of users don’t prefer to spend on Mobile VAS

As days go by, users expect more and more of useful and innovative products in the market. Some time back we have conducted a poll on Mobile VAS to analyse the opinion of TT readers on VAS services. Below are our findings and results of the poll conducted. As always the prepaid user base is higher compared to the postpaid subscriber base. We have 71.6% of users from prepaid segment and... Read More

Asma Chandani April 13th, 2015 2:50 PM 35 COMMENTS

Toll-Free Apps Help Build Smart Pipes for a Digital India

The booming digital economy has implications for a country soon predicted to have 283.8 million users - the world’s second largest Internet user base after China. Internet traffic in India is expected to increase five-fold by 2018, with a CAGR of over 40%, according to a recent consultation paper prepared by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). In this article, I address how India is grappling with infrastructure, innovation... Read More

Tharun G March 27th, 2015 7:39 PM 13 COMMENTS

Analysis: Mobile tariff unlikely to go up after auction

Telecom Spectrum auction is a great success for the Government, it garners around Rs.1.10 Lakh Crore from the sale of mobile phone airwaves after 19 days of fierce bidding. The amount is more than Rs.1.06 Lakh Crore raised during the year 2010. The Finance Minister may happy that one-third of the amount will come to Governments kitty within 15 days and it is very useful for him to reduce the... Read More

Esmail March 22nd, 2015 2:28 PM 165 COMMENTS

A handy guide to frequency bands used for telecommunication in India

Use of radio frequency bands of the electromagnetic spectrum is regulated by governments in most countries, in a Spectrum management process known as frequency allocation or spectrum allocation. Radio propagation does not stop at national boundaries which is why governments have sought to harmonise the allocation of RF bands and their standardization. A number of bodies work on standards for frequency allocation, including: International Telecommunication Union (ITU) European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT) Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL) ... Read More

Esmail March 1st, 2015 3:25 PM 16 COMMENTS

RCOM Vs DoCoMo who offers the best CDMA smartphone postpaid data packs?

CDMA is the lesser popular counterpart of mobile telephony which is losing its charm in the GSM dominated Indian telecom industry. As of today, we have just 3 serious CDMA operators in the country, namely Rcom, DoCoMo and MTS. For the sake of this comparison we are considering only Rcom and Docomo since both these operators offer standalone unified HSD(EvDO) packs for postpaid smartphone users while MTS only offers these... Read More

Srikapardhi February 15th, 2015 2:01 PM 25 COMMENTS

Analysis on VAS activation procedure followed by Indian Operators, Reliance GSM creates confusion during activation

We have already stirred a hornet's nest with our recent poll - Mobile VAS, is it really driving the Indian telecom market? Now that we have already started something, just wanted to cover all the aspects of VAS in a consumer-centric approach and we have come up with an analysis on VAS activation procedure followed by most of the Indian telecom operators before we come up with our poll results.... Read More

Srikapardhi February 4th, 2015 4:41 AM 47 COMMENTS

Analysis : List of Operators who messed up Call forwarding/Divert Services

Ever tried to forward or divert your mobile calls to another mobile/voice mailbox number and faced tough times with the process? If you are in any situation where you feel the importance of call forwarding/divert services, go ahead and continue reading. Your reason can be anything, be it network availability or you are in a situation unable to take calls. Call forwarding/diverting feature may come to rescue under any such... Read More

Chethan S February 1st, 2015 1:38 PM 1 COMMENTS

Wi-Fi’s Own ‘Magic Hour’ : Airports Reflect A Deeper Consumer Behavioural Shift

Public Wi-Fi is becoming as ubiquitous as lighting, heating and air conditioning in public spaces; today, it’s only the absence of such amenities that would be worth remarking upon. Globally, more than half of the world’s Internet users access the Web through mobile devices – that’s more than 1.5 billion people – a figure reflected in the rising sales of mobile devices. In India, this represents 86 million of the... Read More

Asif Iqbal January 25th, 2015 11:00 AM 6 COMMENTS

Is Qualcomm readying Snapdragon 815 and Snapdragon 820 after heating issues found in Snapdragon 810?

After Apple surprised every mobile processor brand by releasing a 64-bit A7 chipset with the iPhone 5S, its competitors were forced to release new chipsets with support for 64-bit computing. An year after Apple's announcement, Qualcomm unveiled a complete line-up of 64-bit processors. This line-up included the Snapdragon 410, the Snapdragon 610, the Snapdragon 615, the Snapdragon 808, and the Snapdragon 810. But it seems that all is not well... Read More

Ritij January 24th, 2015 4:37 PM 2 COMMENTS

This is what you should expect from Samsung at the MWC 2015 event

Samsung has been loosing market share and consumer interest from the past one year, especially in the low-end segment after the entry of Chinese smartphone brands like Xiaomi and value for money devices from brands like Motorola and Asus. The South Korean smartphone giant was once comfortably positioned as a premium smartphone manufacturer in the phablet arena, but Apple invaded its town last year and the issues further mounted for Samsung. This resulted... Read More