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Srikapardhi July 27th, 2015 12:56 PM 2 COMMENTS

Vodafone Business Services powers Diabetacare’s GSM SIM enabled wireless glucometer

Vodafone Business Services (VBS), the enterprise arm of Vodafone India, has collaborated with Diabetacare to launch dCare Smart™, a device that helps people manage diabetes better. An industry first, dCare Smart™, is a GSM SIM enabled wireless glucometer that empowers people to proactively monitor their blood sugar levels which is powered by Vodafone's Machine to Machine (M2M) embedded cellular technology. The device transmits blood sugar results to a secure Diabetacare... Read More

Imon July 27th, 2015 6:30 AM 34 COMMENTS

BSNL Call Forwarding STV to cost more across India

BSNL has announced the revision of Free Call Forwarding Special Tariff Voucher (STV) in GSM Prepaid Mobile segment for customers across all telecom circles in India. As per the latest information, Free Call Forwarding STV 21 will be revised to Rs 72 from 27th July 2015 onwards. The validity of revised Free Call Forwarding STV 72 will be 90 days. BSNL launched 'Unlimited Free Call Forwarding STV' earlier in 2011,... Read More

Imon July 26th, 2015 6:42 PM 14 COMMENTS

Vodafone Increases Data Charges in Maharashtra and Goa

In a recent move, Vodafone hiked data prices by reducing benefits in old packs and introducing new packs which offer less data in Maharashtra and Goa Circle. This move came when operators hiked data tariffs across all circles. Also, they hiked data rates in Delhi a month ago. Data to cost more for prepaid users in MH and Goa as they have revised both 2G and 3G rates with upto 30% hike... Read More

Imon July 26th, 2015 5:35 PM 15 COMMENTS

BSNL Withdraws ‘SMS STV 33’ Pack Across India

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), today, announced the withdrawal of one of its Volume based SMS STVs, 'SMS STV 33', from 27th July 2015 onwards across India. SMS STV33 was initially launched by BSNL in 2013 and offered 1500 free local / national SMS to BSNL Network for 15 days. BSNL will continue its volume based SMS STV 53 which offers 3000 free local / national SMS to BSNL Network... Read More

Imon July 26th, 2015 7:30 AM 184 COMMENTS

Reliance Mobile now offers Free WhatsApp and Facebook to its CDMA Users

Reliance Mobile is now offering free WhatsApp and Facebook to its CDMA users. Prepaid users of Reliance CDMA can access WhatsApp and Facebook at no extra cost. A similar offer is also available on GSM prepaid but customers have to recharge with some special denomination to get the free WhatsApp and Facebook offer. So the offer is quite good for those who are on CDMA since they can access it... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas July 25th, 2015 9:27 PM 1 COMMENTS

Nokia Takes Another Step to Acquire Alcatel Lucent

Nokia gets nod from European Commission to acquire French telecommunication equipment company Alcatel Lucent. Earlier Nokia received no objection certificate from anti-trust organizations of Albania, Canada, Colombia, Russia, United States, Brazil and Serbia. The deal amount is clocked at USD 16.6 billion. The NoC comes as a relief to Nokia to strengthen its RAN and core networks business in several territories. EC states that this deal does not raise competition... Read More

Ria Lakshman July 25th, 2015 9:20 PM 6 COMMENTS

Call Drop: Telecom Operators may be eluded from the blame of poor service

It looks like Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) will free telecom operators from the blame of call drops, citing reasons like radiation fears and local laws, which force them to take down the towers resulting in poor quality, reports Economic Times (ET). According to the recent Drive Test result released by TRAI, Delhi had lost 523 sites and Mumbai had lost 801 sites in six months due to the... Read More

Ria Lakshman July 25th, 2015 10:29 AM 12 COMMENTS

Vodafone marks a surge in service revenue by 6.9 percent in India during Q1 2015

Vodafone has released its trading update for the quarter ended on June 30th. According to it, the company’s service revenue in India has increased 6.9 percent, but the growth rate has slowed down due to impact of regulation while including an MTR cut (Mobile Termination Rate). Excluding MTRs, the service revenue has grown by 10.6 percent. The data revenue of the company too has shown a surge, with 65 percent... Read More

Ria Lakshman July 25th, 2015 10:19 AM 18 COMMENTS

Airtel offers 4G trials in Manipal, Udupi and Tumkur, exclusive partnership with Samsung and Flipkart

Today Bharti Airtel has rolled out 4G trials at three places – Manipal, Udupi and Tumkur in Karnataka. The customers in these places can now access superfast internet that will enable them to download up to 10 movies in less than 30 minutes, connect multiple devices or watch HD videos without buffering. As an offer, customer can now avail 4G for the price of 3G. To avail the free upgrade,... Read More

Bhupendra Sharma July 24th, 2015 6:07 PM 15 COMMENTS

BSNL Re-Launches FTTH BB Plans On Regular Basis In Chennai

BSNL has decided to re-launch 'FTTH BB' plans -- ‘Fibro Combo ULD 1999 CS15,’ ‘Fibro Combo ULD 999 CS14’, and & ‘Fibro Combo ULD 4999 CS16’ in Chennai on regular basis. To make sure that every BSNL customer can benefit from these plans, the company has mandated these plans from immediate effect. All the other terms and conditions attached to these plans will remain unchanged as of now, no other city... Read More

Ria Lakshman July 24th, 2015 1:32 PM 31 COMMENTS

MTS alerts people of legal action against the usage of defamatory language to its employees or representatives

Perhaps on the increase of attack from the public, MTS has come up with a notification against the usage of defamatory languages against its employees or partners. According to the notice issued, the term defamatory language is defined as ‘any libelous, defamatory, obscene, threatening or abusive language’. Also, the company has warned the public of consequences, both civil and criminal actions against people using... Read More

Imon July 23rd, 2015 4:33 PM 223 COMMENTS

Update: Reliance Communications starts offering Unlimited 3G

From the last few months, Reliance Communications has been trying to attract more data users by providing cheapest data offers. Now, they have come up with an unlimited 3G offer. Our readers reported that many of them and their friends have got the unlimited 3G offer via sms; however these data packs don’t have any particular denomination. Reliance is giving this offer for a short period on a promotional basis... Read More