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Ria Lakshman July 8th, 2015 3:13 PM 0 COMMENTS

Tata Docomo partners with AAI to offer free Wi-Fi at Trivandrum Airport in Kerala

Trivandrum International Airport has joined the league of airports with free Wi-Fi with Tata Docomo partnering with Airport Authority of India (AAI) to offer the service. The service was launched by George Tharakan, Director of the international airport in presence of Sunil Tandon, Head, Non-Voice Services, Tata Teleservices, and Sunit Sharma, Chief Airport Security Officer, CISF. Wi-Fi will be available in the lounge area and transit of the airport for... Read More

Ria Lakshman July 8th, 2015 11:32 AM 3 COMMENTS

1 billion telephone connections in India, connections increase at 5-7 million every year

India has crossed the milestone of 1 billion telephone connections, says Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad during the launch of four telecom network products manufactured by state-run technology centre C-DOT. Out of the 1 billion connections, 978 million are mobile phone connections. India adds 5-7 million connections every year. Regarding the internet connections, India has around 300 million. The Ministry has plans to increase this to 500 million in another... Read More

Imon July 8th, 2015 5:27 AM 26 COMMENTS

Aircel launches new cheap combo pack offering voice and data pack

Aircel, 5th largest Indian GSM operator hits record growth in Jharkhand in data usage. It also gained 35 percent subscription growth in the same region in the last 6 months. Data growth hit 82 percent with smartphone penetration in Jamshedpur being around 50 per cent because of high literacy rate. This along with the fact that people are data savvy here was the reason behind the company recording such a... Read More

Tharun G July 7th, 2015 4:28 PM 9 COMMENTS

Celltick partners with BSNL to offer location-based Cell Broadcast services

Celltick, announced the launch of ‘BSNL BUZZ’, a next generation Cell Broadcast Service for BSNL Mobile, a leading Mobile Service Provider in India. With this partnership, Celltick provides a fully managed high-value interactive service on the home screen for BSNL’s 77.2 million mobile subscribers through its patented LiveScreen platform. With BSNL BUZZ, Celltick provides BSNL subscribers with value added services and content promotions such as; news, contests, subscription packs, coupons... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas July 7th, 2015 3:26 PM 7 COMMENTS

Truecaller introduces Truemessenger in India, a new way of experiencing SMS

Truecaller unveiled Truemessenger for Indian consumers which will now make SMS safer and adds context to your conversations, by allowing you to put a name to a number on your SMS messages and automatically filter out spam. Launching exclusively today in India, Truemessenger is designed as an SMS replacement app, with an automated spam filter powered by 150 Million Truecaller community members worldwide. With the increasing amount of SMS spam,... Read More

Srikapardhi July 7th, 2015 3:18 PM 4 COMMENTS

Airtel 4G goes live in Panipat (Haryana)

Bharti Airtel Limited, today launched its 4G services on dongles, Wi-Fi CPEs (customer premise equipment), 4G Hotspots and Wi-Fi dongles in Panipat, Haryana. Announcing the launch, Manu Sood, Hub CEO – Upper North, Bharti Airtel (India) said, “We are delighted to launch 4G in Panipat and fulfill a huge market requirement that will give customers the power to upgrade to cutting edge 4G technology - the most advanced wireless broadband... Read More

Ria Lakshman July 7th, 2015 10:34 AM 2 COMMENTS

Tata Teleservices appoints Anuraag Srivastava as CFO, Bharti Airtel too revamps its international heads

It looks like the telecom companies are revamping the top heads, devising themselves to meet the new market scenario. Tata Teleservices has appointed Anuraag Srivastava as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the company. Earlier, he was associated with Indus Towers as Senior Vice President of Internal Audit and Assurance. Mr. Srivastava has also worked with firms like Future Axiom Telecom Limited and Glaxo Smithkline, bringing with him a rich... Read More

Srikapardhi July 6th, 2015 6:43 PM 9 COMMENTS

Videocon Telecom to offer free data to non-data users

Taking the PM’s vision of Digital India forward, Videocon Telecom, today announced free Data for its all Non data users subscribers as an initiative to educate and encourage them to start using data and get digitally connected. The telco also sets up a free helpline and extends demonstration stations at all its Exclusive branded ‘Videocon Connect’ Retail to educate them on the knowhow of data usage. With a trial offer... Read More

Srikapardhi July 6th, 2015 1:27 PM 5 COMMENTS

Vodafone partners with XOLO to offer free data and unlimited Music content

Vodafone India, has partnered with XOLO to promote the first device from its online only brand- BLACK. As a part of this exclusive partnership, BLACK will be put on demo exclusively at more than 100 Vodafone Stores for customers to experience before buying it online on Flipkart. In addition to this, Vodafone customers will also get FREE 1GB data per month for two months or Unlimited Music Content download with... Read More

Imon July 6th, 2015 5:30 AM 10 COMMENTS

Idea Cellular slashes rate cutter benefits

Idea Cellular has quietly slashed benefits of Ratecutters in Mumbai Circle. Ratecutters are basically used to bring down calling charges. Recently Idea also hiked data tariffs in Mumbai circle. On a general note, customers will have to pay up to 5 p/min more in addition to paying more for the rate cutter voucher. Ratecutters information from Idea Mumbai: Price of Ratecutters New Benefits & Validity Old Benefits & Validity New... Read More

Ria Lakshman July 5th, 2015 6:09 PM 12 COMMENTS

Efforts of service providers, DoT, TRAI in rolling out full-MNP should be appreciated: COAI

Implementation of pan-India mobile number portability (full MNP) has been a motto of National Telecom Policy 2012 and the industry has made it a reality by July 3, as to enhance customer satisfaction, according to Cellular Operators’ Association of India (COAI). COAI added that the efforts taken by the telecom operators to offer the service at the world’s lowest voice rates, by making a huge investment in terms of network... Read More

Ria Lakshman July 5th, 2015 1:24 PM 0 COMMENTS

Global: Pakistan had 115.4 million unverified SIM cards, biometric verification reduced subscriber base by 20 million

To curb the illegal and untraceable SIM cards in Pakistan, thus to control terrorism in the country, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has ordered Cellular Mobile Operators (CMOs) in the country to present only biometrically verified data of the monthly subscribers. As a result, the mobile phone user base in the country got reduced by around 20 million. Pakistan had 135.8 million users by the end of December 2014. This data... Read More