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Sanjay July 11th, 2012 12:01 PM 46 COMMENTS

TRAI Issues Quality of 2G, 3G and 4G Mobile Internet Service Standards

Now, there seems to be good news for all the 2G, 3G and 4G Mobile Internet users, India’s telecom watchdog Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) today issued guidelines on Minimum Quality Benchmark for Mobile Internet services - GPRS, 2G and 3G / EVDO and 4G Data service. With the new regulation - “Standards of Quality of Service for Mobile Data Services Regulations, 2012” TRAI will monitor Quality of Mobile... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas July 6th, 2012 4:11 PM 18 COMMENTS

TT Impact: Bharti Airtel Cuts Down 4G/LTE Device Prices to Rs 4999

A week back, we covered a story - 'Five moves Airtel can think about for better 4G penetration', and it seems Airtel is thinking seriously to be leader in wireless broadband segment. Airtel cuts down the 4G-LTE devices pricing to Rs 4,999 from earlier Rs 7999 (dongle) and Rs 7750 (WiFi router). With the price cut Airtel also revised the discounts on Breakfree Ultra and Ultimate plans for postpaid users.... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas June 26th, 2012 11:11 PM 15 COMMENTS

Five Moves Airtel Can Take for 4G Penetration

If you see telecom market is going through some dull moments, all are waiting for the spectrum pricing decision to be taken by EGoM. However what happens to excitement around 4G? 4G excitement is now lowered down because no second player in the market, Airtel is just sitting alone on 4G space with their costly devices and not-so-bad tariff plans. There is no definite date from Reliance Infotel about launch... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas June 7th, 2012 8:58 AM 30 COMMENTS

CDMA Players Not Responding to Data Tariff War : Even Airtel 4G Cheaper than EVDO Rev B Services In India

So mobile broadband tariff is falling in India, but all efforts are from GSM parties. Basically all 3G/HSPA (Mobile Broadband) operators – Aircel, Airtel, BSNL, Idea, MTNL, Reliance & Vodafone India slashed their 3G/HSPA data tariff to a new level of affordability except Tata Docomo. (check our exclusive 3G Tariff Comparison Chart My point is why CDMA players are reluctant to cut down their high speed data (EVDO) offerings? Even Reliance... Read More

Sanjay May 24th, 2012 4:14 PM 12 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel Acquires 49% Stake in Qualcomm India To Launch 4G Services in Mumbai, Delhi, Kerala and Haryana

Bharti Airtel, India’s largest mobile service operator today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire a substantial stake of 49% in Qualcomm Asia Pacific (India) , which has emerged as a successful bidder in the 4 circles of the auction for 4G Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) Spectrum conducted by the DoT in June 2010. Airtel has 4G BWA license and spectrum in 4 circles - Kolkata, Karnataka,... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas May 16th, 2012 2:56 PM 0 COMMENTS

Will 4G in India go 3G’s way? In Depth Analysis By CARE Research

More than a year after its launch, 3G adoption in India remains subdued at 10-12 million users due to various issues like poor network quality as operators are cash-strapped to spend on 3G expansion, low penetration of 3G enabled handsets, unavailability of local content, absence of a killer application (similar to what SMS was for 2G) etc. Higher spectrum prices also forced operators to offer 3G services at a premium... Read More

Sanjay May 10th, 2012 5:33 PM 12 COMMENTS

Airtel Introduces New 4G Tariff Plan for Kolkata

Bharti Airtel today announced a new tariff plan – Break Free Ultimate for Rs 2999 offering 30 GB per month for its subscribers in Kolkata circle. Following an encouraging response from customers in Bangalore, the new similar offering will be beneficial for heavy data users in Kolkata. Airtel 4G services in Kolkata are now available for customers with the following plans including New Plan 30 GB of Rs.2999. (more…) Read More

Chethan Thimmappa May 7th, 2012 2:01 PM 44 COMMENTS

Airtel 4G Services Launched in Bangalore

Bharti Airtel, India’s largest mobile service operator today launches its 4G LTE - High Speed Wireless Broadband Service in Bangalore (Bengaluru -Karnataka). After Kolkata, Bangalore becomes the 2nd city in India wherein 4G-LTE services available. Airtel has launched the service on a state-of-the-art network based on TD-LTE, making India one of the first countries in the world to commercially deploy this cutting-edge technology. Huawei is the 4G technology partner of... Read More

Sanjay May 4th, 2012 4:23 PM 33 COMMENTS

Exclusive : Airtel Launching 4G services in Bangalore on May 7

Bharti Airtel, India's largest mobile service operator is set to roll out its 4G - High Speed Wireless Broadband Service on May 7th 2012 in Bangalore (Karnataka). After Kolkata, Bangalore will be the 2nd city to get 4G service in India. According to our exclusive sources close to the operator, Airtel 4G network is ready in Bangalore and commercial service network will be live from May 7, 2012 followed by... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas May 2nd, 2012 3:05 AM 9 COMMENTS

Huawei To Deploy Airtel TD LTE (4G) Network in Karnataka

Airtel today selected Huawei to plan and deploy its TD LTE (4G) network in Karnataka besides offering rich data content to the customers in Karnataka. Huawei has partnered with Bharti Airtel in Sri Lanka & part of Bangladesh and is also the 3G provider in the state of Karnataka & Tamil Nadu. Besides, they are also providing pan-India 4G optical network, Carrier Ethernet infrastructure and NGN switches. Airtel 4G LTE... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas April 30th, 2012 12:14 AM 53 COMMENTS

Airtel 4G: Hands on Review

Airtel began its 4G operations in the country starting from Kolkata as India’s first operator to roll out commercial 4G-LTE services. As of now Airtel offers only data services over 4G network, and offers a multimode 4G-LTE dongle (Huawei E392) and a Indoor WiFi CPE (Huawei B593). More details of Airtel 4G plans and devices can be found here. We, team telecomtalk did get a chance to make an exclusive... Read More

Sanjay April 27th, 2012 12:24 PM 20 COMMENTS

TRAI’s New Recommendations Will Set India Back in its Goal to Deliver “Broadband on Demand” – GSMA

World's GSM Operators Association - GSMA today said that the Indian telecom regulator TRAI’s recommendations on the “Auction of Spectrum” will set India back in its goal to deliver “Broadband on Demand” to the citizens of India. GSMA stated that TRAI's spectrum proposals disregard international best practice in spectrum policy and jeopardize the investment of billions of US dollars in new mobile infrastructure in a sector that either directly, or... Read More