March 12th, 2015 3:41 PM 2 COMMENTS

Airtel 3G services now available in Jammu

Airtel, today said that it will offer high speed 3G services to customers in Jammu. With this, Airtel now offers wide bouquet of mobile services to customers in Jammu, with its offerings spanning across 2G and 3G services. Airtel is the largest mobile operator in J&K close to 2.9 million customers. Airtel 3G ICR (intra circle roaming) will be available to customers in Jammu, Kathua, Katra, Samba, Bari-Brahmna and Nagrota.... Read More

March 12th, 2015 10:09 AM 21 COMMENTS

Government to shut down MTNL and 5 other loss making PSU’s ?

As we predicted some months back, the Government will be in its move in shutting down a bunch of losses making PSUs which also includes the state-run telecom MTNL. India has totally 251 PSUs amongst which 65 are reportedly put under the scanner for being the loss-making ones. The five PSUs which will be closed down include HMT which was one of the early pioneers in manufacturing watches and tractors... Read More

March 10th, 2015 8:11 AM 14 COMMENTS

BSNL to install Google Global Cache (GGC) Servers in various telecom circles to improve Internet experience for its subscribers

State-owned BSNL the 5th largest telecom operator by subscriber base in India has been on a spree to revive its troubled operations by resorting to various means like surrendering its excess CDMA and BWA spectrum for a refund from the government. The telecom minister has also been giving incentives for the revival of MTNL and BSNL like cancelling of call termination charges for landlines. BSNL had recently announced that it... Read More

March 9th, 2015 3:00 PM 7 COMMENTS

Airtel adds the most number of rural subscribers in January 2015

The total GSM rural subscriber base in India as of January 2015 stands at 325.64 million. The highest number of rural GSM subscribers are from UP East circle 34.39 million. The net addition of GSM rural subscribers in the month of January is 5.85 million with 1.83% increase from the previous month. The operator with the maximum addition new rural GSM subscribers is Airtel with 2 million new activations followed... Read More

March 9th, 2015 9:16 AM 2 COMMENTS

T24 to increase full talk time top up denominations in Mumbai circle

T24 is a pseudo MVNO operator using Tata Docomo’s network for offering voice and data services. T24 is a Future group initiative that gives free talktime for shopping at any of the Future group retail outlets like Big Bazar. It offers competitive voice and data tariffs in the market today and one of the most affordable 2G data packs. T24 has just informed its subscribers in Mumbai that it has... Read More

March 9th, 2015 2:11 AM 36 COMMENTS

Best and most affordable 3G plans as of March 2015

Data plans are being hiked on a regular basis and it only becomes important for us to keep updating yourself with the new plans. The average mobile data consumption has also gone up thanks to the most intense usage of Internet dependent applications. Let's take a close look at some of the most affordable 3G plans available in Bangalore across all operators. Airtel Airtel is well known for hiking the... Read More

March 8th, 2015 5:26 AM 15 COMMENTS

Vodafone, Airtel and Telenor express resentment towards Facebook and Rcom’s Internet.org project

In the recently concluded Mobile world congress held in Barcelona Spain, Vodafone, Airtel and Telenor made it clear that they were not happy with Facebook’s project internet.org for offering free internet in countries where internet penetration is not much. In India, Facebook has partnered with Rcom to offer free internet through the internet.org app. The app at launch offers free access to 38 sites and services with limited functionality in 7... Read More

March 7th, 2015 8:16 PM 9 COMMENTS

Aircel launches Holi special recharge in Mumbai circle RC 108 offers talktime and data

Aircel has launched a Holi special recharge voucher for subscribers in Mumbai circle. Recharge with Rs.108 and get 115 talk time along with 150 MB 2G data. The data validity is of 15 days while talk time will add to your core balance. The recharge special benefits are only applicable for recharges done on Aircel website. Aircel has been trying to boost its business in Mumbai circle. Recently they launched... Read More

March 6th, 2015 11:32 PM 12 COMMENTS

How Internet.org can give a new direction for Online revolution in India

India is one of the few countries that boasts of first time Internet users getting introduced to Internet via smartphones. The plummeting smartphone prices and the increased set of features in entry-level phones have helped people get connected. Whatsapp is another such phenomena that lured people to start using Internet-enabled phones. What is internet.org and how does it work? Telcos like Reliance have come up with something that they call... Read More

March 6th, 2015 4:44 PM 19 COMMENTS

Idea 2G data gets costlier while Rcom gets cheaper in Maharashtra circle

Idea cellular and Reliance communications both Pan India operators number 3 and number 4 respectively by subscriber base are popular among mobile data users. Idea has 900MHz spectrum in 10 circles while Rcom has it in 7 circles and 1800MHz spectrum in the remaining circles both of which are being used to offer 2G voice and data services (Except for Idea’s 900MHz liberalised spectrum in Delhi which will be used... Read More

March 6th, 2015 5:28 AM 39 COMMENTS

BSNL pushed to third spot in Kerala circle, Vodafone scores second place: TRAI Report

As per latest data from TRAI, BSNL has been pushed to third spot in Kerala circle by Vodafone which has become the second largest mobile operator in the state. BSNL has lost over 5 lakhs subscribers in the month of December and continued its free fall into January 2015. Wireless subscriber base(lakhs) in Kerala The huge fall in subscriber base of BSNL was mainly due to deactivation of inactive users... Read More

March 5th, 2015 7:45 PM 55 COMMENTS

Reliance launches Holi special true unlimited EvDO data pack for prepaid CDMA users

Reliance communications has launched an exciting high speed data pack at Rs.349 for it's CDMA subscribers Pan India which will offer true unlimited EvDO data (3G like speeds up to 3.1 Mbps) without any FUP or speed throttling with a validity of 30 days. This pack is available only for a limited duration from 5th to 7th March 2015. The pack is available only for prepaid subscribers and is valid... Read More

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