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Brijesh Parmar February 7th, 2015 6:21 PM 6 COMMENTS

Why Payment banks are the new rage with telcos in India?

Very soon, you will be able to pay your electricity bills while buying groceries at the supermarket because now the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is allowing setting up payment banks. February 2, 2015 was the last date of applying for payment bank. Some of India’s biggest companies including Bharti Airtel, Aditya Birla Group, Reliance Industries, future group and some lesser known companies like Fino Paytech, Oxigen has applied for... Read More

Esmail February 7th, 2015 12:09 PM 13 COMMENTS

Videocon telecom increases 2G data tariffs in Punjab and Haryana circles

Videocon telecom the regional GSM operator with commercial services in the 7 circles of Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, UP East, UP West, Gujarat, Bihar and Jharkhand has hiked its 2G data tariffs in Punjab and Haryana circles. The Rs.58 voucher which earlier provided 500MB data with 12-day validity now provides 400MB with 10-day validity. The Rs.96 voucher which earlier provided 850MB now gives only 650MB and the price... Read More

Esmail February 6th, 2015 8:18 PM 10 COMMENTS

Aircel to offer 20% extra data on Online exclusive recharges

Aircel has been aggressively marketing its services among the circles where it is currently operational. The company had recently restructured its marketing strategy by rolling back services in loss making circles and redistributing assets in the profit-making ones. Aircel has been launching innovative products and services like ‘My first Internet service’ to rope in the first-time mobile internet users and get them onto the network. Now Aircel has launched its... Read More

Esmail February 6th, 2015 6:04 PM 3 COMMENTS

List of signalling point codes allotted to Reliance Jio by BSNL

As we had reported in December 2014 Reliance Jio had been allotted signalling point codes (SPC) for offering National long distance (NLD) and International long distance (ILD) calling services. These codes have been allotted to Jio by BSNL in the four metro cities namely Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata. All the 22 telecom circles are divided into four zones with the north zone circles coming under the SPC of Delhi,... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas February 6th, 2015 5:17 PM 0 COMMENTS

Sistema Shyam Teleservices to be 100% FDI funded company

Sistema Shyam Teleservices, which offers voice and data services on CDMA platform under MTS brand, has cleared a road block to be a 100% FDI funded company. The shares of SSTL are owned by Sistema JSFC (56.68%), Russia Government (17.14%), India's Shyam Group (24%), other foreign entities (0.3%) and minority Indian stakeholders (2.05%). This minority shareholders filed an application seeking compulsory listing of shares of the company in a set... Read More

Esmail February 6th, 2015 4:14 PM 4 COMMENTS

BSNL activates new speed test hosting server, capable of measuring connection speeds up to 100Mbps

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. Has the largest wired broadband market share in India. The internet backbone provides broadband connectivity to maximum rural areas as well as semi-urban and urban regions in India. BSNL has activated a new speed test hosting server on speedtest.net, the server is based in Bangalore. Multiprotocol label switching(MPLS) Network operating system(NOC) has reported that this server is capable of measuring connection speeds up to 100 Mbps.... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas February 6th, 2015 3:36 PM 10 COMMENTS

Soon Aadhaar card to be made mandatory for new mobile connections in 5 circles

Government of India entities, as well as major telecom operators, have agreed to test Aadhaar-card based e-KYC for issuing SIM cards in five circles as a pilot project. With this, Aadhar number will be mandatory for one to buy a new Sim card. However, all telecom companies to slowly ask customers to submit their Aadhar number with their new connection request. Two months ago, Department of Telecom (DoT) had asked... Read More

Srikapardhi February 6th, 2015 1:02 PM 0 COMMENTS

Tata Communications bags multi-year contract with the KION Group to provide global WAN services

Tata Communications said that it has won a multi-year contract with the KION Group to provide global WAN services to the group’s 280 sites and 22,000 employees across 30 countries worldwide. The USD $20 million deal will see Tata Communications replace the KIONGroup’s existing stable of multiple WAN providers with a single, global, intelligent network,” the company informed to BSE. The KION Group’s IT department will benefit from lower management... Read More

Tharun G February 6th, 2015 12:06 PM 1 COMMENTS

Aircel to bring My First Internet service

Aircel is all set to introduce "My First Internet" service for its subscribers using internet for the first time. This service is aimed at helping first-time internet users on Aircel network. The service offer subscribers with following options 1. Internet Settings 2. What Internet pack should I choose? 3. What can I do on the Internet? 4. Top Apps for you smartphones 5. Frequently Asked Questions The service basically helps... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas February 5th, 2015 9:58 PM 3 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Introduces Free Public Wifi in Kolkata, How to Use Jionet Wifi ?

Kolkata has become country's first 'metro' to get public WiFi on a large scale, credit to Reliance Jio. Earlier RJIL has launched public WiFi services in Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Surat of Gujarat in April-May of 2014. Jio is banking upon its WiFi services to reach the masses before they launch their 4G wireless services across the country. Today's launch event of WiFi services in Kolkata was taken care of by... Read More

Esmail February 5th, 2015 8:15 PM 3 COMMENTS

Opera mini partners with FreeCharge to offer Free Internet to Vodafone and Idea subscribers

Opera Software has developed a new offering branded as Opera web pass which aims at breaking free from the concept of having to subscribe to fixed data packs from your mobile operator. Usually a subscriber has only two options for using mobile data (2G or 3G) on his cell phone, either he pays at the base tariff of 2p/10KB or he subscribes to monthly fixed data packs offered by his... Read More

Esmail February 5th, 2015 4:40 PM 4 COMMENTS

T24 to start offering affordable pan India roaming on Tata Docomo network by default

T24 the pseudo MVNO association between Future group and the telecom arm of Tata group has been popular loyalty program for subscribers who shop at Future group associated establishments like Big Bazar, Central, and eZone. T24 offers GSM and 3G services at affordable rates by riding on the GSM network of Tata Docomo. They offer 3G services in the 9 circles where Tata Docomo has license and spectrum. From 5th... Read More