Voice over LTE (VoLTE) capable smartphone shipments will grow at a CAGR of 33% between 2015 and 2020, eventually accounting for over 950 million unit shipments by the end of 2020, according to SNS Research. The report said that VoLTE services will account for nearly $120 billion in annual service revenue by 2020, as mobile operators remain committed to VoLTE as the long term solution to secure a fully native... Read More
India’s second-largest telecom operator Vodafone will invest Rs 13,000 crores (£ 1.3 billion) for capacity augmentation, new business initiatives in the country and also for government’s Digital India and Make in India programs. In a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in London, Vittorio Colao, Vodafone Group Plc’s CEO, committed this investment. Vodafone also reiterated its commitment to support government’s Digital India and Make in India initiatives. Out of the... Read More
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), in a technical paper analysing the call drops phenomenon, urged the Indian telcos to add towers on a war footing and bolster existing 2G networks and not merely focus on 3G to improve overall mobile coverage. The regulator said there is also an urgent need to address challenges posed by the arbitrary sealing of mobile towers by municipal authorities in urban areas. It asked... Read More
More than 6.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2016, up 30 percent from 2015, according to market research firm Gartner, which says that 5.5 million new things will get connected every day next year. The research firm also forecasts that connected things in use will reach 20.8 billion by 2020 worldwide. Gartner estimates that the Internet of Things (IoT) will support total services spending of $235... Read More
Reliance Global Call, a provider of international calling cards, has rolled out a plan, called 'Value Pack' that lets infrequent international callers get more bang for their buck. This plan gives users in USA 600 minutes each month for just $6.99 inclusive of taxes. Users can enjoy cheap international calling to India and 24 other destinations at just 1.17¢ per minute. This plan comes with no contract, hidden costs or... Read More
Vodafone India, the country's second-largest mobile operator, said that its service revenue stood at Rs 21,883 crores in the six months ended September 2015, a growth of 6.2%, on the back of customer base growth and strong demand for 3G data services. “We continue to deliver healthy double digit underlying revenue growth of 11.2% and further enhanced EBITDA margin to 29.7%. Driven by the strong uptake in data, our 3G... Read More
Tata Docomo, the unified telecom brand of Tata Teleservice (TTL), has started multi-city symposium that showcases its gamut of offerings around digital technologies, including marketing solutions, enterprise collaboration, asset connectivity and enterprise connectivity to its customers in India. With more than 250 participants, consisting of CEOs, industry experts, entrepreneurs and CIOs, Tata Docomo led the discussion at its annual industry confluence ‘Do Big Symposium’ around the technologies powering digital disruption -... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), the state-run telecom operator, clocked more than 250TB of data in a single day of the month of October with data STVs revenue being more than 100 crores in a month, the Chairman and Managing Director Sh.Anupam Shrivastava, conveyed to staff members on Deepavali greetings. Shrivastava said that BSNL has already started showing signs of revival as a result of initiatives taken by the telco’s... Read More
The state-run operator, BSNL, has now launched special Diwali Offers on the auspicious occasion of Diwali. Now, BSNL has introduced combo special tariff vouchers with free usage value along with 3G data and reduced call charges. A few days back, BSNL announced special tariff vouchers (STV) as Diwali offers to their prepaid user base. Now, BSNL introduces combo special tariff vouchers across India as a special Dhamaka Diwali offer. As a... Read More
ICT services providers Ericsson and Cisco have entered into a global business and technology partnership to create the networks of the future that would help both of them to add about $1 billion to their revenues. “In a world driven by mobility, cloud, and digitization, the networks of the future will require new design principles to ensure they are agile, autonomous, and highly secure. Ericsson and Cisco will meet this... Read More
Baidu, the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, Monday said that the version 3.0 of its Android app store MoboMarket is now available in India with full Hindi language support for its rapidly growing contingency of users and developers. “MoboMarket has gotten really popular here, and we want to show our love to our local fans and developers with a much better localized experience. Hindi language support is just one... Read More
GSM and CDMA lobby groups, COAI and AUSPI, have said that Trai’s compensation order on call drops would be a setback for government’s Digital India initiative and would also affect investment into the sector. In a joint letter to Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, they requested government’s intervention in the matter as the telcos are likely to lose about Rs 54,000 crore a year following Trai’s order. The telcos are... Read More
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