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Tanay Singh Thakur April 2nd, 2022 2:10 PM 0 COMMENTS

Active User Growth Reflects Positive Consumer Outlook Despite Prepaid Tariff Hikes: Charu Paliwal, Counterpoint Research

The active subscribers of Reliance Jio grew substantially even though the telco’s total subscriber base declined by 9.3 million. Apart from Vodafone Idea (Vi), every telecom operator in India including the state-run telco Reliance Jio added new users. This is a good sign for the industry overall as it suggests that the consumer outlook towards prepaid tariff hikes is positive only. “Jio added more than 4 million active subscribers for... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur March 23rd, 2022 11:47 AM 4 COMMENTS

Apple Leads in India and Global Premium Smartphone Market Sales in 2021

In 2021, the global premium smartphone market sales grew 24% YoY to reach its highest level ever. Premium smartphones contributed 27% out of the total global smartphone sales. Amongst all the brands, Apple had the biggest market share in global premium smartphone sales. According to Counterpoint Research’s Market Pulse Service, Apple reached a 60% sales share mark in the global premium smartphone sales segment for the first time since 2017.... Read More

Anupam Sharma December 29th, 2021 6:42 PM 0 COMMENTS

Smartphone Market Witnesses a Steady Growth: GFK

Growth From Knowledge or GFK has shared trends that can be a deciding factor in the growth of Indian markets. GFK is a global leader in market and consumer intelligence for technical consumer goods, and through its market intelligence, it has revealed the overall growth in smartphone sales, the price segment of devices and the geographical penetration market from January 2021 to October 2021. The Trends in the Smartphone Market... Read More

Ria Lakshman December 17th, 2021 6:34 PM 5 COMMENTS

Spammers Make 27,000 Calls Every Hour, India Ranks 4th in Most Spammed Country List: Truecaller

India ranks four in the list of countries with the most spam calls, Truecaller report stated. In 2020, India was at the 9th position and moving to position four is a significant rise in spam calls. The data on spam calls was revealed in Truecaller’s fifth edition of Global Spam Report that studies spam calls and how they affect people’s lives. According to Truecaller, scam business remains an issue globally... Read More

Shloke Sarkar May 6th, 2021 5:14 PM 2 COMMENTS

Chromebooks Are Seeing Massive Demand, but Not in India, Here’s Why

The PC market has seen multiple changes in recent years, from the downfall of Intel to the rise of AMD and higher sales in recent years due to the pandemic, which resulted in work moving online, requiring more computing power for most tasks. Most users are aware of the normal PC or laptop, which uses Microsoft’s Windows, with its primary competitor being Apple’s Mac running macOS. However, there is a... Read More

Shloke Sarkar April 25th, 2021 1:30 PM 5 COMMENTS

Apple’s iPad Can Finally Replace Laptops

Apple has always positioned the MacBook as a device for the consumer that is more content-driven, with heavier tasks being a priority, whilst the iPad has been made out to be a bridge of sorts between a conventional laptop and a tablet. To me, however, that has never stood up to its charm. Having used iPads in the past (be it Pro or Air), the capabilities were there, and the... Read More

Shloke Sarkar April 24th, 2021 1:07 PM 20 COMMENTS

Has the Budget Smartphone Segment in India Reached Its Peak?

India as a country is quite unique for a variety of reasons. One of them is our obsession with the best and the will to get only the best and nothing else. This mentality trickled down to the smartphone segment with the initiation of Redmi or Xiaomi in India back in early 2013. Seven years down the line, the entire market has gone through a plethora of changes, for better... Read More

Chakri K March 1st, 2021 10:31 AM 0 COMMENTS

Spectrum Auction 2021: Reliance Jio Expected to Be the Aggressive Player

The much-awaited Telecom Spectrum Auction 2021 will be taking place later today. The top three telcos- Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea are confirmed to place their bids. On the one hand, we have Reliance Jio which is expected to go aggressive in the spectrum auction because the telco's liberalised spectrum in the 850 MHz frequency band is set to expire this year across several circles. The liberalised spectrum... Read More

Tanay Singh Thakur November 22nd, 2020 1:50 PM 94 COMMENTS

Future of 2G in India, Is it Ever Really Going? Let’s Talk

While India is at the brink of testing 5G connectivity, there are millions of users still using 2G for calling and data purposes. As per a stat (calculated at the end of March 2020) shared by The Wire, Bharti Airtel’s 47% user base amounting to 135 million users and Vodafone Idea’s (Vi) 60% user base amounting to 174 million users still relied on 2G networks for connectivity. These are huge... Read More

Bala Yogesh June 18th, 2020 2:27 PM 2 COMMENTS

BSNL Enters Tougher Terrain Following Government Restriction on Sourcing Chinese Gear

The Department of Telecom (DoT) is likely to restrict Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) from sourcing telecom gear made by Chinese companies, News18 reports. The development is on the heels of the escalated tension at Ladakh's Galwan valley where the Chinese and the Indian troops are engaged in what is termed as the biggest confrontation since 1967. The publication citing unnamed government sources said that the department has been asked... Read More

Bala Yogesh May 28th, 2020 6:32 PM 0 COMMENTS

Indian Broadband Providers Reveal Ways to Improve Upload Speeds

Cloudfare, the web infrastructure and the web security company on Tuesday announced its speed testing tool designed to provide “meaningful insights” into the user’s network performance. The company said that the insights include what Cloudflare measures when a user tests his speed and how the company calculates the scores for the network connection. The speed test tool from Cloudflare contains three components namely download, upload and latency test. While several... Read More

Rohit Kumar May 21st, 2020 8:55 PM 6 COMMENTS

Vodafone Idea, Reliance Jio, and Airtel Are Fighting Three Different Battles: Everyone Can Win!

Bharti Airtel recently announced that its ARPU ending Q4 20 increased to Rs 154 from Rs 123 in Q419! Exciting stuff! This pretty much reflects a hopeful future for the telcos, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only enhanced this outlook for the three incumbents. Even before the pandemic struck, we had started to see price hikes which came as a huge relief. But, the pandemic has the potential to completely... Read More