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Sanjay March 31st, 2011 3:46 PM 13 COMMENTS

Tata Photon Plus Awarded As the Mobile Broadband Product of the Year 2011

Tata Teleservices Limited (TTL) has added yet another feather to its cap as Tata Photon Plus, high speed mobile broadband services has been awarded the coveted ‘Product of the Year 2011’ award for the best innovation under Wireless Mobile Broadband Category, post a rigorous survey conducted by A C Neilsen. Renowned Ad Guru Alaque Padamse presented the prestigious award to Mr Shashank Pore, Head, Brand Communications & VAS, Tata Teleservices... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas March 27th, 2011 12:59 PM 27 COMMENTS

BWA Auction For 700 MHz Will Be Fierce

Right now, 3G (HSPA) is neither a choice for affordable wireless broadband, nor a choice for last mile connectivity in rural areas. But if everything goes perfect, we can see affordable broadband with wireless access a reality. Because Govt plans for another bonanza - conducting auction for 700Mhz band. India has about 108 units of airwaves in the 700 MHz band 50% of which is used by Doordarshan, 36 units... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas March 26th, 2011 12:57 PM 0 COMMENTS

Telecomtalk Poll: Fair Usage Policy on Broadband

Most people hate Fair Usage Policies, that's because Fair Usage Policies are not FAIR enough. Operators sell their plans as unlimited, only to restrict after a certain usage.There are thousands of debates on FUP on data services is required or not! But certainly it helps operators to keep their networks free from congestion and over-use/misuse. We all saw how BSNL's 3G data services choked following some users downloaded more than... Read More

Sanjay March 23rd, 2011 2:15 PM 7 COMMENTS

MTS Launches MBlaze Mobile Broadband In Andhra Pradesh

MTS India today announced the launch of its high-speed CDMA EVDO based (upto 3.1Mbps downlink & upto 1.8Mbps uplink) Mobile broadband service MBlaze in Andhra Pradesh telecom circle. MTS MBlaze services are now available in Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Vishakhapatnam, Tirupati, Warangal, Rajahmundry and Kakinada. Bringing in portfolio of world-class services and innovative offers, MTS becomes the first telecom service operator to provide High Speed Mobile Broadband services at Tirumala Hills in... Read More

Anurag Bhatia March 21st, 2011 4:21 PM 93 COMMENTS

Understanding Last Mile Connectivity

Continuing to my last post about why broadband is so poor in India.In last post I discussed little bit about “last mile”. There were few confusions, let me first clear them out before I end up topic about last mile.Someone left comment on last post and said The pvt. telcos really think we Indians are idiots are idiots and don’t need high speeds.come on yaar give 8mbps @ 999 with... Read More

Sanjay March 17th, 2011 1:15 PM 30 COMMENTS

MTNL Launches 4 New Unlimited Prepaid Broadband Plans

Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL), the largest broadband service provider of Delhi and Mumbai today announced the launch of 4 New Unlimited Prepaid Broadband/Internet Plans starting from Rs.275 specially tailored for for low-end Internet users in Delhi telecom circle. MTNL's new Unlimited Prepaid Broadband/Internet plans are - PP UL data Rs.449 -Combo, PP-UL-Data 449-Combo-Annual (Rs.4499), Power Connect-275 and Power Connect-3025. All plans provides True Unlimited Broadband/Internet service and freedom to... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas March 14th, 2011 2:47 PM 6 COMMENTS

Airtel Introduces Broadband TV

Bharti Airtel today announced the launch of ‘airtel broadband TV’ now Airtel Customers can watch TV by simply subscribing to airtel broadband TV plan with attractive monthly subscription packs starting at Rs49. To avail this service all that airtel broadband customers need to do is visit www.airtellive.com and subscribe to their Monthly Subscription Pack of choice by clicking on the Live TV option. Currently, customers have the option to watch... Read More

P K Tarun March 10th, 2011 4:59 PM 16 COMMENTS

MTS Offers 50 Percent Extra Data Usage on MBlaze STVs

MTS India today announced special offers for its EVDO based Mblaze High Speed Mobile Broadband service.MTS has now made available MBlaze, Data Card for Rs 1999 along with 5GB data usage for the first month. The power packed offer also enables new MBlaze customers to get 50% extra data usage by recharging through Special Tariff Vouchers (STV) ranging from Rs 496 to Rs 899. MBlaze customers now get 50% extra... Read More

Sanjay March 10th, 2011 12:02 AM 16 COMMENTS

MTNL Launches Two New Broadband Plan for Mumbai

In attempt to provide Broadband Internet connectivity at affordable rates with flexible tariff plan to the peoples of Mumbai, Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL), cities largest Broadband service provider, today announced the launch of two new BILL-CAP based Circuit Breaker Broadband plan with 2 Mbps Speed dubbed as "Limited bhi Unlimited Bhi." MTNL’s new innovative Freedom-297 and Freedom-497 plans are specially tailored for bill conscious and limited plan subscribers. With... Read More

Sanjay March 9th, 2011 6:19 PM 4 COMMENTS

MTNL Waives off Upfront ADSL Modem Charges For Broadband

Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL), Mumbai’s largest Broadband and total telecom service provider, today announced good offer for it prospective broadband subscribers. Now all new MTNL Broadand subscribers (any tariff plan) in Mumbai telecom circle can save up Rs.600 for Upfront ADSL Modem charges. MTNL Waive off one time Upfront charges for Broadband CPE /ADSL Modem charges of Rs.300 for Normal Modem and Rs.600 for Wireless ADSL Modem for all... Read More

Anirban Mukherjee March 9th, 2011 12:39 AM 30 COMMENTS

PVT CDMA Operators & Their Meaningless 1x Unlimited Plan

Pioneered by Qualcomm, Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) is one of the most popular wireless air interface standard which provides excellent data and voice services. Though mainframe CDMA is not widely used over the globe, WCDMA – a variant of CDMA is deployed as 3rd generation GSM networks. Read more CDMA in India – Past, Present and Future. CDMA2000 1X, a major upgrade over CDMAone is the core CDMA2000 wireless... Read More

Anurag Bhatia March 8th, 2011 12:59 AM 68 COMMENTS

Why Broadband Is So Poor In India?

You must have thought few times - why really speeds are so slow. If not slow, then you have “capping”. Fact is - most of broadband connections in India are “capped” in either speeds or in usage. When you can get 2Mbps speed for 250Rs a month plan, why speeds get 1/4th when you go for un-metered 512Kbps plan? I started working on a project to improve Internet connectivity in... Read More