Telenor India said it has also partnered with Child Helpline, and it will now embed all of its SIMs with 1098 number to offer direct and one touch access to the Child Helpline. About 30 million urban children, under the age of 18, own a personal handset in India, according to studies, which also estimated that 134 million Indian children will come online by 2017. The company has also done a... Read More
Former India and South Asia business head of Alcatel-Lucent--now acquired by Nokia--Srini Sundararajan has been appointment as the Head of Network Business at Samsung India Electronics Ltd (SIEL). Sundararajan will be in charge of managing operations and further developing business opportunities of Samsung's mobile network business in Southwest Asia. Sundararajan is a recognised leader in the industry for his immense knowledge of the mobile network sector, with 30 years of experience... Read More
At a press conference today, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is likely to take a strong stance on net neutrality amid speculations that the telecom regulator will bar zero-rated products such as Facebook's Free Basics and Airtel Zero. According to Economic Times, TRAI is likely “to disallow subsidised data packages that offer access to only a select services, such as Whatsapp or Twitter, packages which are currently offered... Read More
Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Communications (RCom) said that the Bombay High Court has admitted the application for its merger with Sistema Shyam Teleservices Ltd. (SSTL), the telecom unit of Russia's Sistema JSFC. "The Bombay High Court has admitted the application for Scheme of Arrangement between RCOM and SSTL. The Hon'ble Bombay High Court has directed RCOM to convene a Court-Convened Meeting of Reliance Communications' shareholders on Tuesday, 8 March 2016 at... Read More
MapMyIndia, India’s technology leader in digital maps and GPS is all set to showcase innovative technologies for building self-driving cars. It will unveil the self-driving car technologies at the Auto Expo 2016. MapMyIndia’s RealView technology will bring additional safety and self-driving capabilities in cars, claims the company. The technology currently provides advanced map data enabling seamless navigation systems in cars. The advanced version will sync high-resolution panoramas (360-degree photos) with... Read More
India’s GSM carriers such as Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular, along with CDMA players like RCom and Tata Teleservices have collectively slammed the Indian telecom regulator, Trai, for uploading results of recent independent call drop tests conducted across seven cities on its web site, according to media reports. These telcos, through lobby bodies COAI and ASUPI, said that the published results do not represent actual performance of operator... Read More
In a recent ET report, it was revealed that Indian mobile service providers – Airtel and Reliance Jio – are working on next step of simple LTE – LTE-A and LTE-U – respectively. LTE-A (LTE Advanced) is more about carrier aggregation, which means adding different types of spectrum bands. On the other hand, LTE-U (LTE Unlicensed) is more likely to be the next step forward after LTE-A. It was originally... Read More
Indian telecom operators like Bharti Airtel and Vodafone are apparently unhappy with Trai's recommendations on spectrum auctions, and they are now preparing to approach the telecom department (DoT) to contest the regulator’s recommendations, particularly the pricing of the 700 Mhz band spectrum. Trai recently recommended a record high base price of Rs 11,485 crore per Mhz for 700 Mhz spectrum band. The cost of delivering mobile services in 700 Mhz... Read More
The test report released by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) indicates that most of the operators are not adhering to the prescribed benchmarks for call drops and state-run MTNL is the worst performer in Mumbai and Delhi circles. For Mumbai and Delhi, the route length was increased to 600 Km after taking inputs from the telecom service providers about the additional routes and it was found that MTNL... Read More
Albeit, there’s plenty of scope for improvement, India’s state of LTE network has improved from 50 in Q3 2015 to 36 in Q4 2015, says a study. An Open Signal report says that “some countries like South Korea and Singapore have managed to build networks unrivalled in both technology and reliability, while others have mastered only one half of that network calculus. No other large countries have managed to build... Read More
After launching its single-SIM variant in Taiwan last year, HTC has finally brought the Desire 626 smartphone to India, but with dual-SIM (Nano+Nano) connectivity. The smartphone will be available in Blue Lagoon and White Birch color variants for a price of Rs. 14,990. It will be up for sale in the upcoming weeks via all the major retailers and stores across India. The HTC Desire 626 dual-SIM comes with a... Read More
India’s leading digital payment platform FreeCharge has issued over half a million ‘FreeCharge Go’ virtual cards within 10 days of customer roll out, said the company. It also said that it has over 20 million users with over a million transactions a day. FreeCharge allows the users to create and top-up a virtual card using FreeCharge wallet. This can be used for online transactions that accept MasterCard. The users need to... Read More
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Airtel is not loaded in your site. That's the case. Airtel guves 20-25Mbps on 3-40C on 45Mhz at same location…
Speeds sometimes are capped. Sometimes not capped. I don't know. But good enough speeds.
It's loaded site.
Band 40 won't be released. 4200-4900Mhz will be released. Next auction band 600Mhz, 1400Mhz, 1900Mhz will be put into auction.
More bandwidth needed in bands where zero MHz remaining in few circles like B28, B8, B3, B1 and B40 &…
