BSNL has revised a few circle specific plans in Madurai, Coimbatore and Salem areas of Tamil Nadu Telecom circle. Plan 180 Madurai & Trichy SSA: The first revision is made in Madurai and Trichy areas. The fixed monthly cost of Rs. 180 has been revised to Rs. 205. The existing plan offers 180 free calls on BSNL network, which have been increased to 205 calls every month. The company has... Read More
TRAI has released telecom subscriber data for the month of May 2015. The total telecom subscriber base was at 1002.05 million and overall tele-density was at 79.67% at the end of May 2015. In the month, total of 2.34 million new subscribers were added generating a monthly growth rate of 0.23%. Wireless subscriber witnessed net addition of 2.44 million subscribers out of which 2.38 million were from rural and just 0.05 million subscribers from urban.... Read More
In the review of applications to participate in Phase-III FM auction, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) rejected the applications of Sun Group due to lack of security clearance. The decision was taken in an application review meeting headed by MIB and involved officials from other Ministries including Telecom. Sun Group, promoted by Kalanithi Maran and his brother, also former telecom Minister Dayanithi Maran currently owns around 45 FM... Read More
Is your phone getting tapped? Perhaps yes! According to Vodafone Group Plc., the world’s second largest carrier, 28 countries including India request access to its network, indicating the vast scale of snooping done by governments globally. The access of network is requested to wiretap or intercept calls, text messages and emails. The operator did not reveal the number of requests or the nature of requests received from India for network... Read More
Airtel subscribers at Kochi in Kerala have been receiving messages from the operator stating an opportunity to upgrade their mobile connections to 4G SIM for FREE. The message looks like an indication that the operator has launched 4G in the area. To add to it, no documents are required to be submitted for this upgrading. Also, the subscribers can get the SIM card delivered to their houses, if sent a... Read More
Airtel, India's largest network provider, withdraws its 3G night packs in Kolkata circle. Recently Aircel had also removed 3G night packs in the same circle. 3G night packs are quite popular among those who surf more and people use these packs to download large files or for other purposes. Earlier Airtel was offering 1GB 3G night data at Rs 49 & 500 Mb 3G night data at Rs 29 to... Read More
By the time Indians began murmuring about the 4G revolution across the nation, China has already crossed 200 million 4G customers. China Mobile, Chinese state-owned telecommunications company announced at the recent Mobile World Congress that 4G subscribers in China crossed 200 millionth customer. The growth is so massive that by June end, China Mobile reported only 190 million customers and by July 14 (in 14 days), it managed to add... Read More
Airtel has joined the efforts of Government to get rid of the fear of people on mobile tower radiation. The company’s CEO, Gopal Vittal is sending out letters to people stating the reason of call drops, a major concern of the time. In the letter, Mr. Vittal has stated company’s commitment in laying additional sites, which the company says it ‘physically’ does the process. He has requested the people, who... Read More
Reliance Jio is all ready with guns and bullets as the commercial operations will go live by December this year. While everyone concerned believe that Jio will disrupt the market causing existing players to bleed, let's take a look at how Jio's data- only model can work in India. Though Jio has been in the limelight of technology media from the very first, we were actually given information by Jio... Read More
Airtel today launched 4G trials exclusively for its customers in in the twin cities of Hubli and Dharwad. As part of the trial offer, Airtel customers in Hubli-Dharwad can now avail a complimentary upgrade to Airtel 4G at 3G prices and experience blazing Airtel 4G speeds. The company will assimilate valuable customer feedback from these early adopters and leverage the initial market response towards strengthening its service experience – thus... Read More
Videocon Telecom, took another big initiative and announced 1GB free Data for all its female subscribers coming aboard. Under this initiative, the telco talked about women empowerment and declared 1GB free data that will be extended as 100MB per month for 10 months for all female subscribers. This benefit will be over and above any other data benefit provided to subscribers at the time of acquisition. As per Videocon Telecom,... Read More
Nokia handsets are soon to be back in the market! Finnish telecom giant has reconfirmed its plans to manufacture and license its handsets in 2016. Irrespective of its partnership with Microsoft, Nokia will brand its handsets in its name report thestar.com.my. Fourth quarter of 2016 is the tentative time period said by the company when the market can expect Nokia handsets. On query of its delayed decision on the matter, the... Read More
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and after 1st Feb we might even see higher 5G coverage
it is but then sad to see 300gb limit just like airtel they couldve maybe not done that
is this due to carrier aggregation? I have Xiaomi 14, is there a way where we can lock bands?
chortel standards
I hope this clears everything.
