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Rudradeep Biswas September 22nd, 2014 4:17 PM 15 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio and Indus Towers Ink Infrastructure Sharing Deal

Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited and Indus Towers, the world’s largest and India’s leading provider of telecom tower infrastructure, today announced the signing of a Master Services Agreement (MSA) for tower infrastructure sharing. Under the agreement, Reliance Jio would utilize the telecom tower infrastructure services being provided by Indus Towers to launch its services across the country. As per the agreement, the pricing would be based on prevailing market rates. The agreement... Read More

Mahit September 22nd, 2014 3:41 PM 6 COMMENTS

Prasar Bharati to introduce 20 free to air channels on dongles and mobile phones by next year

India’s Public broadcaster Prasar Bharati has revealed its plans to diversify and start broadcasting 20 free to air channels through DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcast-Terrestrial). The Broadcaster will tie up with private media companies for this program. This service will begin in the Mumbai and Delhi regions. These channels will be beamed through DVB-T2 lite which can also be accessed by a dongle. Prasar Bharti CEO Jawhar Sircar said that “At... Read More

Tharun G September 22nd, 2014 1:11 PM 32 COMMENTS

Misleading 3G plan info on TATA Docomo website irks Customers

TATA Docomo was one of the first private operators in India to start 3G service and have very attractive 3G offer like the SmartLife plans which gives talktime + 3G data. Issue: Recently they have changed their low end SmartLife plan to 2G data without updating their website.. My Experience #1: On August 20th, I recharged for Rs 81 SmartLife which as per their website gives 250MB 3G + Rs 71 talktime.... Read More

Srikapardhi September 21st, 2014 12:48 PM 33 COMMENTS

Airtel Now Offering upto Rs.50 advance balance loan

Operators generally take less risk while giving advance balance loans or data balance credits to users. It is in a general practice that very less talk balance or Data balance will be given as advance loan to users based on their age on network and usage patterns while the same will be recovered from them in their next recharge along with considerable charges incurred to provide service on emergency. Reliance has... Read More

Mahit September 19th, 2014 10:20 PM 5 COMMENTS

Tata Docomo unveils Broadband with a ‘Connected Homes theme’

Tata Docomo at an event today pulled wraps from its Wide portfolio of high speed internet plans under the theme of connected homes. The Connected Homes will ensure that the houses are enabled with high speed connectivity bundled along with smart and seamless interplay between devices. The event showcased highlighted the entire concept via a 360 degree touch and feel experience. Mr Prateek Pashine- Head, Enterprise, Tata Teleservices Ltd expressed... Read More

Mahit September 19th, 2014 5:08 PM 14 COMMENTS

Airtel has the largest GSM subscribers base in India at 210.53 million as of August 2014: COAI

The all India GSM reports for the month of August 2014 are out and they shed some light on very impressive facts. The total number of GSM Subs as August 2014 stands at 749.96 million which is almost 10% of the entire Worlds subscribers’ base. The subscribers base has took a leap and increased by 5.54 million in August which literally translates into a 0.74% increase from the last month.... Read More

Mahit September 19th, 2014 12:58 PM 1 COMMENTS

Proviti, a Global Consulting firm has released a whitepaper provding a deep insight on Mobile Analytics

Proviti, a global consulting company released a whitepaper on the topic of ‘Mobile Analytics’ at the CII(Confederation of Indian Industry) under the Telecom convergence summit 2014 at Shangri-La, Delhi. This was a perfect industrial Launchpad as business leaders in excess of 200 from the Indian Communications Industry poured in and exchanged their views and visions about the future of convergence in telecoms and the rewarding prospects it commands for both... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas September 18th, 2014 4:23 PM 10 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio and GTL Infra sign Tower Infrastructure Sharing Deal

Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited and GTL Infrastructure Limited, a Global Group enterprise, engaged in the business of Shared Passive Telecom Infrastructure in India, today announced the signing of a Master Services Agreement (MSA) for tower infrastructure sharing. Sanjay Mashruwala, Managing Director, Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited said, “Our mission is to launch a pan India next-generation voice and data services. We will build the same through a judicious combination of own... Read More

Srikapardhi September 18th, 2014 2:03 PM 40 COMMENTS

VodafoneIN starts offering 1GB 3G at Rs147 with 30 days Validity

As expressed our views earlier operators are trying to promote 3G by hiking 2G tariff and bringing down the 3G prices to 2G prices which were already hiked earlier so as to bridge the gap between the prices and technology. We have been receiving messages and information from users across various circles saying they are enjoying 3G at 2G prices. Here is a screenshot of a sms sent out by... Read More

Mahit September 18th, 2014 12:55 PM 16 COMMENTS

BSNL Starts Offering Video Calls at the rate of Voice Calls, but are they any takers ?

BSNL is lately coming up with a slew of good offers to attract new customers and also retain the older one. BSNL had recently launched the broadband speed extension plans. On the eve of the upcoming festive season BSNL has launched a special promotional offer which will reduce the video call rate and bring it down to the normal voice call tariff. “BSNL mobile customers will be able to enjoy... Read More

Mahit September 17th, 2014 7:03 PM 9 COMMENTS

DoT prodding the authorities to fasten up the NOFN project so that they can meet the newly set deadline of 2016

The Optical Fibre Network project is known for overshooting several deadlines and working at a snail’s pace. The Optical Network project was intended to link 2.5 lakh village panchayats. Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi has laid much needed emphasize on the completion of this project and he also added that he wants the project to be ready by 2016. In a recent meeting graced by the Prime Minister, the decision... Read More

Mahit September 16th, 2014 2:04 PM 130 COMMENTS

Government in deep thoughts on shutting down state owned BSNL and MTNL ?

The govt owned MTNL and BSNL which often attract the wrath of the consumers for their unruly customer care and almost nonexistent customer support seems to be on the brink of extinction. BSNL which was once the most extensively connected telecom network in the nation and most sought after too. Department of Telecom (DoT) is taking a candid look at the options to close the doors of BSNL and MTNL... Read More