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Chhavi August 7th, 2013 1:38 PM 30 COMMENTS

India Surpasses Japan to become the World’s Third Largest Smartphone Market; Samsung leads, followed by Micromax

Smartphone sale is booming in India and an increasing number of people are getting hooked to them, demanding seamless connectivity anytime, anywhere. Looking at the recent trends in Q2 2013, India stood out as the world’s third largest smartphone market with total smartphone shipments at 9 million. According to the report by Canalys, Samsung took over a third of the Indian smartphone market in Q2 2013, followed by local vendor... Read More

Sanjay August 7th, 2013 11:55 AM 5 COMMENTS

BSNL Kerala Launches Full Value Ramzan STVs 313 and 786 with Gulf Calling Benefits

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) launched two Ramzan Special Full Value STVs of Rs.313 and Rs.789 for its prepaid customers in Kerala circle, offering full talk time and cheap ISD tariff for Gulf calling. Ramzan special STVs 313 priced at Rs.313 comes with validity of 30 days offers Full talk time equal to MRP and calls to Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and UAE at Rs. 7.8/Minute. While STV786 comes with... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas August 6th, 2013 4:33 PM 24 COMMENTS

Tata Docomo Launches Unlimited 1299 Plan for CDMA Postpaid Customers Offers free roaming and unlimited calling Benefits

Tata Docomo today launched an exciting postpaid plan with unlimited benefits for its new CDMA customers. The new plan “Unlimited 1299 Plan” allows customers to make unlimited local and national calls on any mobile/fixed line network across India along with unlimited roaming benefits while on Tata DOCOMO network and free 3GB data and 3000 messages (local & national). Post 3GB usage, the additional data will be charged at Rs 0.30/Mb.... Read More

Sanjay August 6th, 2013 11:30 AM 23 COMMENTS

MTNL Delhi Launched 2 New Unlimited Broadband Plans for Rs.620 and Rs.749

Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) today announced the launch of two new Unlimited Broadband plans for Rs.620 and 749 for its customers in Delhi circle. MTNL Delhi's new promotional 2 Mbps Fair usage Unlimited Broadband Freedom Combo and non-combo Plan comes at monthly rental of Rs.620, provides 2Mbps downloading and 512Kbps uploading speed up to 3GB & 512Kbps for Unlimited data usage beyond 3GB, With this plan, subscriber also get... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas August 4th, 2013 11:39 AM 17 COMMENTS

Uninor Hiked 2G Data Tariff Across Circles

Pricing power has been gained by the mobile service providers for some time, and Uninor, the Sabse Sasta operator also revises their GPRS/2G/EDGE data offerings across all circles. Though Uninor's 2G data packs are still cheaper than its competitors they slightly hiked their data pricing by decreasing validity period or bundled data. In some circles they introduce new data plans. For Gujrat Circle MRP Validity (Days) Key Benefits Rs9 2... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas August 3rd, 2013 2:49 PM 40 COMMENTS

BSNL Revised 5 STVs in Andhra Pradesh Circle

India's state owned telecommunications company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has revised five circle specific special tariff vouchers in Andhra Pradesh Telecom circle for prepaid GSM customers. The following STVs are revised: STV-59, STV-160, STV-135, STV-185 and STV-399. STV 135 offers used to offer free 200 minutes of on net calls along with free 200 minutes off net for 30 days which has been now revised to free 125 min... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas August 2nd, 2013 10:57 PM 10 COMMENTS

MTS India Rolled out Online Shopping Website, Launches MTS MiFi USB Dongle

Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd has forayed into online business as it announced the launch of its new online shopping site - mtsindia.in/shop The website is in a very primary stage and only two smartphones - Duet and Mtag 281 and some dongles are available for sale. On the website there are also links for prepaid recharge and postpaid bill payment. MTS also introduced a new device - MTS Mifi USB... Read More

Chhavi August 2nd, 2013 2:24 PM 3 COMMENTS

Idea Cellular Added Highest Number of Wireless Subscribers in Jan – Mar Quarter Followed by Airtel : TRAI

According to the recent “Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicator Report” for the Quarter ending March, 2013 by TRAI, Idea Cellular has added the highest number of wireless subscribers in Jan – March Quarter followed by Bharti. However in terms of total wireless subscribers, Bharti remains the leading operator with 188.20 million subscribers at the end of Mar-13, followed by Vodafone (152.35 million) and Reliance (122.97 million). Total Telephone Subscribers (Wireline... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas August 2nd, 2013 4:45 AM 5 COMMENTS

100 per cent FDI in Approved in Telecom: Proper Regulations Are Yet to Come

Indian telecom sector which is under the huge Rs 251,000 crore debt have just got a breather as Telecom Commission approved the proposal of foreign direct investment cap to 100% from the present 74 per cent. Commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma announced this after a meeting of the Union Cabinet. At present 74% FDI is allowed in telecom, of which 49% directly and beyond that Foreign Investment Promotion Board... Read More

Srikapardhi August 2nd, 2013 1:40 AM 22 COMMENTS

Most of the Idea Cellular users like USSD based activations and *147# Self service facility

It’s time to speak out the results of Idea Cellular – Voice of the customer poll.Thanks to all the users who have taken time to share their experiences in the feedback form along with suggestions and complaints with other readers as well. coming to the poll statistics... Q1. What is your connection type with Idea Cellular? As usual Prepaid wins in this section when compared to Post paid. Q2.To Which Telecom Circle you... Read More

Sanjay August 1st, 2013 4:35 PM 12 COMMENTS

Vodafone India Launches High Speed 14.4 Mbps 3G Dongle K3800 With Live Webchat Support

Vodafone India today announced the launch of Vodafone K3800, a high speed 3G USB Dongle with data transfer speed up to 14.4 Mbps, at a pocket friendly price point. at Rs 1750. The Vodafone K3800 3G dongle supports all major Operating Systems, like latest Window 8, Mac, Linux, Fedora and Ubuntu. For subscribers who want to store the data as well, this Dongle provides MicroSD card support with expandable memory... Read More

Chhavi July 31st, 2013 6:37 PM 19 COMMENTS

Idea Pleases its Users with ‘Choice Number’ and ‘Choice Recharge’ Offers

In case you have missed it or still not aware of it, Idea Cellular, now offers its subscribers in certain circles, the freedom to customize their mobile numbers and choose the benefit from a single recharge with its ‘Choice Number’ and ‘Choice Recharge’ offers. ‘Choice Number’ allows new prepaid users to opt for a number of their choice when they connect with the Idea network in the circle. It offers... Read More