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Ria Lakshman January 8th, 2016 2:50 AM 0 COMMENTS

Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram and UC Browser are the top apps downloaded in 2015: 9Apps Report

9Apps, a well-known Android app store with 140 million active users every month has released a data providing insights into the app downloading habits of Indians. According to it, Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram and UC Browser remain as the top apps downloaded in 2015. In the e-commerce category, Flipkart, Snapdeal, Amazon and Paytm are the popular ones. Among the total, an average Indian user installs up to 32 apps and 26%... Read More

Ria Lakshman January 7th, 2016 4:48 PM 2 COMMENTS

Tata Elxsi RDK Prime Suite now on Ultra HD Set-Top-Box Askey platform

Tata Elxsi, the leading global design and technology Services Company has licensed its RDK Deployment Accelerator Suite (Prime) to Askey today. Tata Elxsi is showcasing its RDK suite Prime on Askeys’ STB platform at the CES 2016. “Tata Elxsi is proud to announce the launch of its RDK Prime solutions on Askey platforms. This will enable operators in driving scale for RDK deployments in an optimal manner”, said KP Sreekumar,... Read More

Tharun G January 7th, 2016 1:14 PM 6 COMMENTS

TRAI asks service providers to refund security deposit to subscribers within 60 days of disconnection

TRAI has issued a new directive to service providers requiring them to refund security deposit to customers within 60 days of disconnection of service. Failing to refund within the stipulated time period, the service provider will have to pay an interest at rate of 10 percent per annum to the subscriber. TRAI, while examining consumer complaints, had observed that some telecom service providers are not refunding security deposit within the prescribed time period of 60... Read More

Ria Lakshman January 6th, 2016 9:41 PM 0 COMMENTS

Ericsson implements new leadership framework to align company with new business environment

As a means to better transparency and to cultivate a consistent culture across the company, Ericsson has revamped its leadership structure. The changes are implemented across all global offices of Ericsson and has been executed by crowdsourcing responses from 5000+ leaders across the organization. The new structure will focus on developing leaders individually as well as together to achieve its vision of Networked Society by 2025. "In a dynamic and... Read More

Tharun G January 6th, 2016 2:37 PM 5 COMMENTS

India’s mobile phone market reaches an important milestone of 1 billion subscribers

The mobile subscriber base in India has crossed a billion mark for the first time, and reached 1003.49 million subscribers. India is second only to China to cross this major milestone in world of mobile phones. However, number of active wireless subscribers was marked to be 902.26 million at end of October 2015. In the month of October, a total of 6.83 million mobile subscribers were added by the telcos. Out of the... Read More

Ria Lakshman January 5th, 2016 8:23 PM 12 COMMENTS

Everything that a user wants, will be and can be controlled through his mobile device: YU Televentures

YU Televentures, a subsidiary of Micromax Informatics Pvt. Ltd., India’s largest smartphone maker launched this sub-brand as an online-only venture. Affordable smartphones are its forte and they sold them across the e-commerce platforms under flash sales. Alongside, the company pooled in to make health devices like blood pressure monitors, which gained an equal acceptance among the users. Throughout 2015, YU made its launches, and ended the year with a bang!... Read More

Tharun G January 4th, 2016 11:24 AM 25 COMMENTS

Here are the impressive LTE and VoLTE features in the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820

The Snapdragon 820 system on a chip (SoC) from Qualcomm would be the obvious choice of powertrain for flagship smartphones that will be coming out later this year. Apart from the usual performance improvements in CPU and graphics, the Snapdragon 820 features a new communication array designed to make LTE the de-facto communication standard for both voice and data. Here are some of the features of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820... Read More

Srikapardhi January 3rd, 2016 1:08 PM 1 COMMENTS

Sify, Fujitsu plan largest delivery centre in Hyderabad

Sify Technologies said that it is setting up a Global Delivery Center (GDC) in collaboration with Fujitsu in Hyderabad. The GDC will be Sify’s largest delivery center in India and it will help drive its global ambitions. Both Sify and Fujitsu are collaborating to strengthen their global approaches to developing new customers and markets, and to jointly win multi-regional opportunities, starting with the North America market. “This Global Delivery Center will... Read More

Srikapardhi January 2nd, 2016 12:44 PM 35 COMMENTS

Indian telcos ignore Trai order on call drop compensation

Indian telecom service providers have decided to ignore the Trai’s order to pay compensation for call drops to subscribers, and said that they will only pay the compensation till they are legally required to, the Economic Times reported. The matter is currently sub-judice, and it will be taken up for hearing by the Delhi High Court on January 6, 2016. Last month, the High Court had directed the Trai not to... Read More

Srikapardhi January 1st, 2016 7:38 PM 19 COMMENTS

Airtel CEO Gopal Vittal urges customers to support ‘Project Leap’

Bharti Airtel's chief executive (India and South Asia) Gopal Vittal has urged customers to help the company in locating new sites to set up towers, and improve network experience in localities. “We would love your involvement in co-creating India’s most future-ready network,” Vittal said in email, sent out to Airtel's consumers. Vittal also... Read More

Kaur G January 1st, 2016 11:35 AM 7 COMMENTS

Here are the key telecom trends to watch out for in 2016

Here’s wishing all TT readers a very happy and prosperous 2016. As the year 2015 comes to an end, we at Telecom Talk compiled trends for the coming year. Key trends that dominated 2015 were anticipation around launch of Reliance Jio’s launch; Call drops imbroglio; growing ecosystem of 4G; increasing affordability of smartphones besides regulatory guidelines for spectrum sharing and trading. Many of these trends are likely to continue in... Read More

Krishna Mukherjee December 31st, 2015 4:14 AM 3 COMMENTS

Trai extends last date for receipt of comments on ‘differential pricing’ by January 7

Telecom regulator TRAI has extended the last date for submission of comments on its consultation papers on differential pricing for data services to January 7. Earlier, the deadline was December 30, however, on stakeholders’ request the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) extended the deadline by a week. "On request of the stakeholders, the last date for receipt of written comments/views has been extended up to 07.01.2016 and counter comments, if... Read More