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Ria Lakshman May 12th, 2015 4:03 PM 0 COMMENTS

Tata Telecommunications join hands with China Telecom Global to deliver media content

Tata Telecommunications has pronounced a partnership with China Telecom Global, a Chinese state-owned telecommunication company, in order to manage the media content for customers in China and globally. The tie-up will enable China Telecom Global to offer live sporting events in China through Tata Communications’ Global Video Network. A market benefit of $2.57 billion is quantified in this tie-up. In a move to support the global media distribution requirements, over-the-top... Read More

Ria Lakshman May 12th, 2015 3:56 PM 0 COMMENTS

Indian railway schedule on Google Map Transit, Public can now plan their trips quick

Google has reduced the hassles of finding the train times for Indians, by adding the Indian railway schedules on Google Transit. The feature has started with eight cities, including Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi and Pune. The updated information about 12,000 trains, along with the details of bus and metro routes from these cities will enable the public to plan trip quickly and easily. Google Transit is... Read More

Ria Lakshman May 11th, 2015 6:59 PM 4 COMMENTS

Reliance and Airtel flout norms, DoT remains silent: CAG

Reliance Communications Limited (RCL) and Airtel are found to be flouting Department of Telecommunications (DoT) guidelines, yet DoT or TERM failed to take necessary actions against them, says The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG). According to the report tabled in Parliament, Reliance Communications did not demonstrate its lawful interception and monitoring (LIM) capabilities of its network prior to launching mobile GSM services in Delhi NCR in February 2009.... Read More

Ria Lakshman May 11th, 2015 6:52 PM 17 COMMENTS

Government may soon clear the pending dues of MTNL and BSNL

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology may soon clear the pending dues of MTNL endured after surrendering 4G or Broadband Wireless Access (BWA), said Arvind Sawant, MP, Shiv Sena, South Mumbai. The decision is said to have taken after a meeting among the Minister of Communications Ravi Shankar Prasad, Rahul Shewale and Sawant, on issues of liabilities of MTNL. According to reports, the meeting have occurred after a series of... Read More

Ria Lakshman May 11th, 2015 6:05 PM 1 COMMENTS

Stakeholders can specify if they do not want TRAI to display email IDs on website

A day before the deadline for counter comments to expire, TRAI ordered all stakeholders to mention ‘Do not display my ID’ in the subject line of mail, in case they do not wish to publicize their email ID. This is after the regulator drew criticism for displaying email IDs of over one million stakeholders who responded to its net neutrality and OTT regulatory framework consultation paper. The regulator has asked... Read More

SuperGeek May 11th, 2015 1:53 PM 0 COMMENTS

Huawei MediaPad M2 breaks cover with a metal body and Kirin 930 chipset

Huawei, the Chinese OEM has been launching quite a few devices these days and has now quietly taken the covers off from the MediaPad M2 tablet. The tablet has been showcased in France as of now and is expected to make its way to other parts of the globe soon. The Huawei MediaPad M2 will be the Chinese OEM's flagship tablet going forth and will retail around the €349/$399 (approximately... Read More

Ria Lakshman May 11th, 2015 12:40 PM 2 COMMENTS

Global: Dubai turns smarter with free Wi-Fi service available across multiple locations

The telecom operator Du and Smart Dubai Executive Committee plans to roll out free Wi-Fi services across multiple locations in Dubai, in an initiative to provide nationwide free Wi-Fi. The project, launched with an intention to boost e-governance services, already went live in more than 200 locations across Dubai. The target is to roll out Wi-Fi in nearly 300 locations by the end of this year. Few of the locations... Read More

Bhupendra Sharma May 6th, 2015 10:14 PM 8 COMMENTS

Airtel Zero Platform violated Net Neutrality, Says DoT Secretary; but is the violation illegal ? TRAI yet to decide

The outcry from internet users that Airtel Zero has been facing for the last few weeks has induced the authorities to jump into the matter. As per the reports, Rakesh Garg, Secretary, Department of Telecommunications has stated that internet.org of Facebook and Airtel Zero of Bharti Airtel violate net neutrality principles. While giving an interview to Business Standard, Garg said that net neutrality meant to give access to all the... Read More

Bhupendra Sharma May 6th, 2015 3:18 PM 17 COMMENTS

Idea Cellular now offers Unlimited Night Calling at Rs. 8

Idea Cellular has decided to come up with I2I special vouchers for Tamil Nadu region. All the vouchers provide cheap call rates to customers on the local network. Details of these vouchers are as follows- The lowest recharge voucher is available for Rs. 8 and comes with a validity of four days. Users can enjoy unlimited night calling between 00:00 to 06:00 AM on local Idea numbers. The second voucher... Read More

Bhupendra Sharma May 6th, 2015 4:13 AM 0 COMMENTS

MIB directs BARC to stop releasing TV Viewership Data, meanwhile TAM to continue

The Broadcast Audience Research Council or BARC has set forth its offerings in a competent way. Within a week of initiating services and releasing maiden TV viewership data, BARC has come on top in the ongoing trends in Media and Entertainment industry. The first week of data has imported a lot of startling changes in the industry, which once looked out of the question. Switching from TAM to BARC has... Read More

Bhupendra Sharma May 2nd, 2015 6:03 PM 9 COMMENTS

TRAI Brings Virtual Network Operators Within Licensing Framework

The long envisioned issue of distributing licenses to virtual network providers or the companies that offer telecom services without owning a network infrastructure has earned wings. TRAI has proposed bringing all the virtual network operators within the licensing framework and bestow them to offer various services such as data, voice and video streaming. Experts call it a bold step by the government and hope that it will make the road... Read More

Ria Lakshman April 30th, 2015 9:07 PM 17 COMMENTS

Reliance broadcast Network under hack attack

Hell Shield Official seems to have launched their next attack on Reliance broadcast Network. Its two website – bigmagicinternational.com and 927bigfm.com currently stays inaccessible. The hacker group celebrates their hacking now on Twitter, with claims like ‘User privacy is not joke’. The group, with its Twitter accounts @RealHSH tweeted saying ‘Reliance got Hacked’ and ‘We won’t let You Rule over our freedom’. Another hacker group Anonymous India (@AnonOpsIndia) too upheld this... Read More