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Ria Lakshman July 23rd, 2015 11:23 AM 27 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel in Mumbai and Tata Teleservices in Delhi meet TRAI’s QoS benchmark for call drop rate in Drive test

Telecom Regulatory of India (TRAI) has released the findings of the quality auditing it had undertaken in Mumbai and Delhi to analyze the network quality of telecom operators. According to the results, Airtel scores in Mumbai and Tata Teleservices in Delhi. Both these operators have met the laid-down quality of service (QoS) benchmarks for call drop rate, which as per norms should be less than 2%. The call drop rate... Read More

Ria Lakshman July 23rd, 2015 11:01 AM 3 COMMENTS

Amazon sets up free Wi-Fi with unlimited internet at Hyderabad, Chennai and Pune for a limited time period

Online retailer Amazon has set up three free Wi-Fi zones, in Hyderabad, Pune and Chennai with an intention of attracting customers to its shopping platform. The high speed internet is unlimited and is not restricted to any particular activity. However, these free WiFi hotspots would be available for a limited time and will operate only till 3 August. In Hyderabad, the Wi-Fi zone is located at Secunderabad junction, Dilsukhnagar and... Read More

Ria Lakshman July 23rd, 2015 10:27 AM 1 COMMENTS

Government asks telecom operators to submit report on call drop issue by July 31

July 31st is the deadline given to telecom operators to report back to the government after analyzing the faults in their networks that cause frequent call drops. The government also has asked to take necessary steps to optimize the radio frequencies in their networks. Within the action that were prescribed, the Government has asked operators to install more sites, adopt in-built solutions and augment existing frequency resources to reduce call... Read More

Ria Lakshman July 23rd, 2015 12:35 AM 3 COMMENTS

YES Bank’s new service YES PAYMENTS enables users to make mobile payments without internet connectivity

YES Bank has launched an interesting service ‘YES PAYMENTS’ for the users that will enable them to make mobile payments from any location, any time without internet connectivity. Users can make use of this service irrespective of the type of mobile phone or the operator he owns. In an era where connectivity becomes a major issue in many parts of the country, YES Bank’s service proves valuable. For YES PAYMENTS,... Read More

Zara Ali July 22nd, 2015 5:00 PM 1 COMMENTS

Vivo X5Pro with 4G LTE and octa-core SoC unveiled in India for Rs. 27,980

Vivo has unveiled yet another high-end X-series smartphone in India, named X5Pro. The device comes with a 5.2-inch super AMOLED display with 2.5D of curved glasses and Corning Gorilaa Glass protection on the front and rear of the device. The X5Pro is powered by an octa-core 64-bit Qualcomm Snapdragon 615 processor (four 1.5GHz ARM Cortex-A53 cores + four 1GHz Cortex A53 cores) paired with 2GB of RAM. It runs Vivo’s... Read More

Srikapardhi July 22nd, 2015 2:41 PM 5 COMMENTS

Videocon Telecom registers 98% growth in Data Revenue in Q1 2015-16

Videocon Telecom, posted an impressive 43% growth in its Net Revenue for GSM business in Q1 FY 2015-16 over same quarter last financial year. The telco is targeting consolidated Top line Revenue of 3000 Cr in year 2015-16. Going aggressive on Customer acquisition, Videocon Telecom achieved 32% growth in its Subscriber base over same quarter last year. While, the June 15 Industry Net subscriber addition no’s are still awaited, within... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas July 22nd, 2015 2:02 PM 2 COMMENTS

Uninor delivers positive EBITDA for Q2 2015, ARPU fell by 12% to Rs 95

Uninor has reported a positive EBITDA for second quarter of FY 2015. Increased revenues, improved gross margin following the mobile termination rate cut and continued initiatives around cost efficiencies helped company deliver positive EBITDA in Q2 2015. This quarter the company registered a positive EBITDA of Rs 18.8 crore. In the quarter ending June 2015, Uninor saw an increase of 9% in revenue over same quarter last year. In line... Read More

Imon July 22nd, 2015 12:06 PM 29 COMMENTS

Airtel Launches New Rs 192 Combo Pack for Prepaid Users

Airtel has launched a new Combo Pack for prepaid users in Kolkata circle. The new combo pack offers 3G data with month-long validity and Talktime in main account. The Rs 192 combo pack gives users 250 MB 3G data along with Rs 90 Talktime in their main account. The Talktime will be added after some minutes post successful recharge. Many users use less data and also want more talktime to... Read More

Ria Lakshman July 22nd, 2015 11:56 AM 13 COMMENTS

Idea to join 4G league by 2016, will launch it services in phased manner

Idea, which was staying away from the 4G launch earlier, has decided to enter into the market vigorously. The company has made announcements of its 4G LTE services along with its quarterly results. According to Idea, the services will be launched in Kerala, Maharashtra & Goa, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Haryana, North East, Tamil Nadu and Orissa, in a phased manner. The service will be deployed... Read More

Bhupendra Sharma July 22nd, 2015 3:29 AM 0 COMMENTS

Nokia Networks And KT Launch First IoT Lab In South Korea

Nokia Networks and KT have decided to institute the first IoT lab in South Korea as part of a collaboration deal that they signed a few months ago. The lab fixates to conduct verification and interworking testing of new IoT technologies over the LTE infrastructure of Nokia. The newly launched laboratory will provide IoT related knowledge and technical support to SMEs in Korea which are looking forward to exploring global... Read More

Bhupendra Sharma July 21st, 2015 11:06 PM 0 COMMENTS

C-DOT Launches Broadband Products For Villages

C-DOT, the R&D Institute of Department of Telecommunication, India has decided to float four broadband products with the prime objective to connect Indian villages to the internet. The launch of these broadband products is a part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Digital India initiative that aims to elevate the internet penetration from 300 million to 500 million within 2.5 years. The long distance solar powered Wi-Fi products of C-DOT are... Read More

Srikapardhi July 21st, 2015 7:17 PM 1 COMMENTS

Reliance Launches Cloud Xchange (Cloud X) CDN in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad

Reliance Communications, today announced the deployment of Cloud Xchange (Cloud X) nodes in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad. “We will achieve full deployment of our Next-Generation content and Cloud Delivery Network by the end of this year, with–what is a first in India–five fully-operational Cloud Xchange points,” said Reliance Group Chairman Anil Dhirubhai Ambani at the Digital India launch on July 1, 2015. “These Cloud Xchange nodes can help... Read More