After Internet major Google, Facebook is also preparing to tap the country’s Wi-Fi market. It has already partnered Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. (BSNL) to create 100 WiFi hotspots in rural India to drive digital penetration in the country, ET reported. The report said that the social networking giant is investing Rs 5 crore annually to buy bandwidth from BSNL for a period of three years. BSNL and Facebook have already... Read More
Mumbai-based VAS company Routesms said that Norway headquartered Telenor has signed up as a Global Direct Connect Partner (GDCP). Routesms is a SMS aggregators and messaging & voice API company. The agreement gives Routesms instant access to Telenor’s 192 million mobile subscribers globally, including India. It also offers better SMS delivery percentages, stronger control over the systems and ability to handle significant traffic handling capacity. “In our business, the more direct connects... Read More
The Indian telecom carriers have been asked by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India to ready a mechanism to ensure compensations to consumers in case of call drops starting January 1. Trai Chairman RS Sharma today said the Indian telcos must take steps to prepare themselves to implement this mechanism. He added that the regulation on call drops can’t be overturned by a competent authority, nor annulled, modified or cancelled. The... Read More
After a series of leaks and speculations, OnePlus has finally taken the wraps off the OnePlus X. The launching was done through simultaneous events worldwide. The phone will be available in two variants — Onyx and limited edition Ceramic, the former one will be retailing at a price of Rs. 16,999, while the latter one will be available at Rs. 22,999. The company will be manufacturing just 10,000 units of the... Read More
Telecom firm Telenor India has recorded an operating loss of NoK 373 million for the third quarter ended September 2015, as compared to NoK 195 million over the same period last year. However, the revenues increased by 31% to NoK 1,411 million during the quarter over the year ago period. At the end of September, the subscription base was 19% higher than the same quarter last year. The capex stood... Read More
Bharti Airtel, the country’s largest telecom service provider by subscribers, is leaving no stone unturned in its efforts to maintain its lead in the 4G space, and to better compete with rivals like Reliance Jio, Vodafone and Idea Cellular when they launch their respective commercial high-speed services. Airtel is looking at investing an additional $200-400 million in the current financial year to ramp up 3G and 4G infrastructure, Gopal Vittal, Bharti... Read More
TRAI conducts Audit and Assessment of Quality of Service being provided by the service providers through independent agencies for Cellular Mobile Telephone Services, Basic Services and Broadband Services. As a part of this audit, the Audit Agency, M/s TUV SUD has carried out special independent drive test for 2G Cellular Mobile Telephone Services of Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India, Idea Cellular, Reliance Communications, Aircel and Tata Docomo in Mumbai in June July,... Read More
Subscription data released by GSM operator's lobby, COAI, showed that Idea Cellular has recorded the highest number of new cellular subscriber lines with 2.64 million activations in the month of September 2015. The total subscriber base of all the seven GSM member operators reached 733.14 million by the end of the period. The GSM subscriber base stood at 726.10 million at the end of August 2015, which means that... Read More
Telecom regulatory authority of India has revealed the subscription data for the month of August 2015 . As per the report , India has crossed 1010 Million or 101 Crore telecom subscribers for the first time & now have a total of 1014.70 million telecom subscribers, out of which 988.69 are wireless (mobile) and 26.01 are wireline (landline). In August , a total of 5.48 million new mobile subscribers were... Read More
Mobile phone users in the country who have been distressed over the menace of call drops finally have something to cheer about. Telecom regulator TRAI has ordered telecom companies to pay a compensation of Re 1 every time a caller is cut off mid-sentence. But there's a catch, phone users who have a knack for talking over their phones for hours are unlikely to be compensated if their calls fade... Read More
The department of telecommunications allocates from time to time new set of MSC codes to operators in certain circles where the operators meet certain qualifying criteria of subscriber base. DOT has assigned new MSC codes to Idea cellular for crossing 1 million new connections in Kerala circle and Bharti Airtel for crossing 1 million new connections in Delhi circle. The details of the MSC codes allotted are given in the... Read More
Bharti Airtel Limited, today announced the launch of its Wi-Fi app – Airtel Hangout. Airtel customers can download the Hangout app free from Android or iOS store and seamlessly latch on to the network in these zones to experience faster internet speeds. With a big focus on Wi-Fi zones that provide customers a superior data experience, Airtel has already gone live across 8 locations in Delhi/NCR in a short span... Read More
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