As expected, Lenovo has finally launched the Vibe K5 in India, today. The smartphone will be up for sale in Platinum Silver, Champagne Gold and Graphite Gray color options at Rs. 6,999. The smartphone will be available via flash sale model on Amazon India. The registrations for the sale will begin on Monday from 1PM. The first sale is slated at 2PM on June 22. To recap, the Vibe K5... Read More
If anyone out there still using Yahoo’s old desktop Messenger, keep in mind that this 18-year old service is going to bite the dust by August 5, 2016. This shutting down of Messenger is to focus on its new app version, said the company in an announcement.In the fact, the Messenger service has already vanished from the Yahoo downloads. Yahoo had announced a new version of Yahoo Messenger for mobile,... Read More
After much speculations and rumor mills churning around, Samsung’s first foldable phone is ‘right around the corner’, announced Mr. Gregory Lee, President and CEO of Samsung Telecommunications America at the Rutberg's Future: Mobile conference in Half Moon Bay, Calif. "I think it’s relatively right around the corner..It just has been very difficult to manufacture at a reasonable cost," he said. Lee also expressed hope for the 5G to take lead sooner than... Read More
Nxtra Data Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bharti Airtel, and CenturyLink, a global communications, hosting, cloud and IT services company, have entered into a strategic agreement to provide hosting and managed IT services in India. This agreement brings Nxtra Data’s India data centre management expertise together with CenturyLink’s cost-effective hosting, managed services and cloud capabilities and global footprint to serve businesses and government organizations in India. “Today‚ third-party managed service... Read More
Huawei has come up with an affordable smartphone in its Honor series, dubbed as the Honor 5A. The device has been announced in China, and is expected to go global soon. To recap, the device is a successor to the last year's Honor 4A smartphone. In China, the Honor 5A has been launched at 699 yuan (approx. Rs. 7130) for China Unicom. Coming on to the specifications, the Honor 5A... Read More
Earlier last week, Indian telecom regulator TRAI published the results of Independent Drive Tests conducted in Delhi and Hyderabad. TRAI had appointed M/s Phistream Consulting to conduct these tests. The Methodology The tests were conducted in 2G + 3G Mode (Auto) The test results obtained from these drive tests were conducted to assess the network condition more specifically in terms of Radio Frequency (RF) Coverage; Rx Quality; Call Setup Success Rate;... Read More
The Indian telecom industry is at loggerheads with the sector regulator, Trai, for various reasons, including call drops. The relationship may further deteriorate and take an ugly turn with the GSM telecom operators is mulling over taking the Trai to court over the ban on discriminatory pricing of data services. Rajan Mathews, director-general of the lobby group Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), told daily newspaper Economic Times that the... Read More
Micromax-backed YU promised us a flagship this year. And with the launch of its recent flagship, the Yunicorn, our hopes were pretty high. At the launch event, we were given high hopes about the device. Distinctly remembering the words of YU's CEO, Rahul Sharma, who touted that the Yunicorn brings the most wanted changes that every user has been looking for. To recap, YU made a similar promise for the... Read More
Now that 4G has become so common in India, not even operators want to talk about 3G anymore. Till last year, only Airtel had launched 4G service in India, but this year we saw Vodafone and Idea catching up with Airtel in many circles on 4G front putting up serious competition. Few circles in India now have more than one 4G operator and Mumbai is one of it. Today we find who is... Read More
The merger talks between Reliance Communications (RCom) and Aircel is likely to be concluded on July this year, paving way for another high-profile deal for RCom after its acquisition of Sistema’s Indian unit last year. Business Standard, citing sources close to the talks, reported that the merger is on track and Aircel and RCom will collectively transfer Rs 28,000 crore of debt (Rs 14,000 crore each) to the new entity. “With... Read More
The Indian telecom service providers will install 60,000 base transceiver stations (BTS) with an investment of around Rs 12,000 crore in the next three months to improve networks which should help check the call drop issue in the country. This was the outcome of the high profile meeting of the Telecom Secretary J.S. Deepak with the CEOs of Indian telcos, who presented a 100-day action plan to the government on... Read More
India's telecom regulator, Trai, has again continued the streak of issuing consultation papers on all the relevant issues this season. This time, the regulator has issued a paper to seek stakeholders’ views on cloud computing-related issues such as data security, service quality and legal and regulatory frameworks. Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), in the paper, said that business enterprises are now increasingly seeking to reshape their business models to... Read More
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