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August 24th, 2015 2:25 PM 17 COMMENTS

Airtel reintroduced 3G Night Data Packs in Kolkata in a bid to compete with JIO & Vodafone

In a move to compete with Vodafone's Double Data offerings, and to gain more customers in the 3G segment, Airtel has reintroduced Night Data Packs in the Kolkata circle. A few months back, they withdrew the popular Night 3G Packs in that region. Similarly, following their footsteps, Aircel removed their 3G night offerings as well. However, Airtel has now launched the Night 3G Packs as Vodafone's newly launched 'Double Data... Read More

August 24th, 2015 1:34 PM 0 COMMENTS

Shemaroo Entertainment’s movies now on HOOQ

Shemaroo Entertainment, an established content house partners with HOOQ, the video-on-demand service launched by industry giants – Singtel, Sony Pictures Television and Warner Bros. The companies have signed a deal of more than 1000 titles across multiple genres and languages. HOOQ, Asia’s largest premium video-on-demand service with a content library of over 30,000 hours, has recently entered into the Indian market and will now distribute Shemaroo’s library that includes a... Read More

August 22nd, 2015 7:38 PM 7 COMMENTS

Hathway cable to provide Sony bouquet of channels only as ‘A la-carte’ subscription

Spats over prices are an inescapable phenomenon in the broadcasting industry and by the looks of it Sony and Hathway Cable and Datacom are gearing up for yet another battle. Hathway said Sony, via its distributor MSM Media, has been demanding exorbitant prices for its channels for letting it renew its distribution agreement. Since the demand imposed by MSM Media Distribution Private Limited was unreasonable and unfair the talks between the... Read More

August 22nd, 2015 5:32 PM 4 COMMENTS

Videocon d2h launches Colors Infinity, Infinity HD & Nat Geo Wild HD channels on its platform

Venugopal Dhoot promoted Videocon Group’s DTH arm ‘Videocon d2h’, has launched three new channels; Colors Infinity, Colors Infinity HD and Nat Geo Wild HD. Colors Infinity, from Viacom18, will air critically-acclaimed and multi-award winning American TV series such as Fargo, Orange Is The New Black, Better Call Saul, Forever, The Big C, The Musketeers, My Kitchen Rules, and The Flash for the first time in India. Nat Geo Wild HD... Read More

August 22nd, 2015 3:15 PM 81 COMMENTS

Airtel leads the GSM subscription base for the month of July 2015 as per COAI data

The latest telecoms subscriber figures released by the GSM operator's body, COAI, showed that Airtel recorded the highest number of new cellular subscriber lines with 1.01 million activations in the month of July 2015. The total subscriber base of all seven of its members reached 721.61million by the end of July. During the same period, GSM operators added 4.69 million subscribers, taking the total subscriber base to 721.61 million compared... Read More

August 22nd, 2015 12:36 PM 6 COMMENTS

Opera offers free Wi-Fi through WOW cars

To mark its 20th anniversary, Opera software has launched Web on Wheels (WOW), a car service equipped with free Wi-Fi. Over the next 10 months, WOW cars will travel across India covering 20 cities. The car will provide 20 minutes of free Wi-Fi access to users, during which the users are free to use any amount of data, or websites/apps. The initiative intends to bring more people online. "Today, almost... Read More

August 22nd, 2015 11:39 AM 4 COMMENTS

Airtel integrates ‘Airtel Money’ wallet into self-care ‘My Airtel’ app for Android

Bharti Airtel has updated its self-care app My Airtel for Android users. The largest telecom operator in India has integrated Airtel Money within the app under a new Wallet section. Airtel users who have Airtel Money account, and who uses the app to carry out recharges now don't need to open the Airtel Money app. Instead, they could now easily add money into their wallet balance using Airtel Money. However,... Read More

August 22nd, 2015 7:35 AM 0 COMMENTS

Huawei, China Mobile, and Qualcomm Technologies verify Data Compression technology

With the ever-increasing market presence of the LTE network, companies are trying to cash in the opportunity in an effective way. In this series, Huawei, China Mobile, and Qualcomm Technologies announced that they have commercially verified TDD+ uplink data compression technology on LTE-TDD network. UDC states that this initiative has enabled different operators to enhance the LTE-TDD uplink resources, which is expected to improve the uplink users and touch upon... Read More

August 21st, 2015 6:15 PM 11 COMMENTS

Astrology plays a major role in Aircel’s revenue stream

Aircel’s Value Added Service astrology, Astro Buddy has registered a whopping subscription of 20 lakhs. Astro Buddy provides daily predictions on varied topics such as Relationship, Health, Career, Finance, family. “The rapid growth of VAS and Data is expected to contribute an important share in the revenue stream of the telecom industry. At Aircel, we have taken note on the shifting subscriber usage pattern and have devised many products and... Read More

August 21st, 2015 2:52 PM 8 COMMENTS

Vodafone India achieves 2 crore subscriber base in Kolkata and West Bengal circles, launches Vodafone Treasures service for aged

Vodafone India has crossed the milestone of 2 crore subscribers in Kolkata and rest of Bengal circles. In order to celebrate this success, the service provider has launched a special initiative ‘Vodafone Treasures’. This service will provides the senior citizen customers a toll free number, virtual relationship manager and doorstep assistance. Vodafone Treasures’ toll free number 9830198301 will be available from Monday – Saturday between 10am to 7pm. It will... Read More

August 21st, 2015 12:42 PM 0 COMMENTS

Now use ‘Airtel Money’ to pay for your Uber ride and enjoy free high speed Airtel internet onboard

Bharti Airtel Limited (“Airtel”), the third largest mobile services provider globally with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, and Uber today announced a first-of-its-kind strategic partnership in India. As part of this partnership, Uber riders across India can now pay for their trips using Airtel’s mobile wallet service -Airtel Money. Additionally, Mumbaikars will now be the first in India to enjoy free high-speed internet from Uber, powered by... Read More

August 21st, 2015 11:19 AM 65 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio is all set to begin its commercial operations by December 2015

Reliance Jio Infocomm, the telecommunications arm of Reliance Industries, is all set to begin its commercial operations by December 2015. Though we are yet to know the official launch date (for which we will get some abusive comments from our readers), there are some updates regarding Reliance Jio's progress towards the commercial roll out. Before Jio's data services come to market, as early as by mid-September 2015, RIL will launch... Read More

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