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Rudradeep Biswas April 3rd, 2013 3:32 AM 11 COMMENTS

United We Stand: Mukesh’s Jio 4G Partners Brother Anil’s Rcom for Optic Network Sharing

As many speculated, Mukesh Ambani contolled Reliance Jio Infocomm Infocomm( formerly Reliance Infotel Broadband) entered into an partnership with junior Anil Ambani headed Reliance Communications for using later's fiber optic usingnetwork and vice versa. The Rs 1,200-crore would be one time indefeasible right to use (IRU) fees for sharing RCom’s nationwide inter-city fiber optic network infrastructure, the companies said in a statement. The agreement permits Reliance Jio Infocomm to utilise... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas March 20th, 2013 1:49 PM 9 COMMENTS

Exclusive: Airtel to Launch 4G/LTE-TD Services in Chandigarh Today

India's largest mobile operator Bharti Airtel is going to announce its 4G presence in Chandigarh, the capital of Punjab and Haryana today. Though the launch is announced today, the commercial availability is going to commence from 25th of March, 2013. Airtel 4G/LTE-TD network is also available in Mohali and Panchkula. Chandigarh will be the fourth city in the country with LTE network following Kolkata, Bangaluru and Pune where Airtel launched services.... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas March 19th, 2013 8:31 PM 10 COMMENTS

SPIRIT DSP Welcomes AT&T’s Move to Buy 25% Stakes in Reliance Jio Infocomm

It seems the latest rumormill saying AT&T's re-entry into Indian telecom sector via buying stakes in country's only pan India 4G operator Reliance Jio Infocomm is true, as Jio Infocomm's VVoIP software provider Russian software giant SPIRIT DSP welcomes the move. It was reported that AT&T may buy 25% of shares in Mukesh Ambani controlled Reliance Industries' subsidiary Reliance Jio Infocomm (formerly RIL Infotel Broadband). RJL is the only company... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas March 16th, 2013 5:06 PM 10 COMMENTS

Sistema Plans LTE for India in Future

Globally LTE is considered as the fastest growing wireless technology, and Indian mobile operators are also in LTE fever, as the spectrum they are receiving is technology agonist under unified license regime. The latest name to join in LTE league is Sistema Shyam Teleservices which operates under MTS brand. SSTL recently secured its operations in 9 circles of India, which are accounted for 60% data market, 40% of total population... Read More

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