July 10th, 2016 3:11 PM 4 COMMENTS

Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha says spectrum auction to be held in September

Manoj Sinha, who has just taken over as the new telecom minister from Ravi Shankar Prasad, has said that the spectrum auction will be held by September this year. The Indian government is expecting to raise around Rs 5.66 lakh crore from the forthcoming auctions if all the spectrum is sold at the reserve price, recommended by the telecom regulator, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai). The Union Cabinet... Read More

July 10th, 2016 12:53 PM 27 COMMENTS

Tata DoCoMo soon to launch 3G services in Chennai, Tamil Nadu : Sources

Tata DoCoMo is all set to make 3G launch in Chennai and Tamil Nadu circles, say the sources. According to executives, who wish to remain unnamed, Tata DoCoMo will launch their 3G services on 15 July 2016. The telecom operator was naturally facing struggle to withstand the race from GSM operators, who offer 4G services. The lack of 3G services in the circle resulted in continuous subscriber decline for DoCoMo, which once... Read More

July 10th, 2016 11:41 AM 0 COMMENTS

Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular Q1 wireless revenues likely to grow 1.5% and 1.1%

Airtel and Idea Cellular are expected to report 1.5% and 1.1%, respectively, quarter over quarter Q growth in India wireless revenues for the first quarter of the fiscal year 16-17, according to Religare Institutional Research. “The focus will be on data and sustainability of the voice ARPM hike taken by Idea in the fourth quarter. We expect continued moderation in data volumes with 6% and 4% QoQ growth for Bharti... Read More

July 10th, 2016 10:38 AM 0 COMMENTS

Vodafone, Ericsson demonstrate a new 5G Proof of Concept

Vodafone and Ericsson have jointly demonstrated a new 5G Proof of Concept following their mutual commitment to 5G innovation. The commitment to 5G innovation was announced during Mobile World Congress in February this year in Barcelona, Spain. A joint statement said that both the companies have created a 5G Smart Network Edge prototype including a 5G ready core to demonstrate the benefits of network slicing and distributed cloud technology using the... Read More

July 9th, 2016 12:35 PM 28 COMMENTS

Who Is Going To Bid And For What In The Forthcoming Spectrum Auction

The Indian Government is at it again and this time at a much bigger scale. We are obviously referring to the recently announced mega spectrum auction of nearly 2300Mhz of spectrum across various frequency bands. Claimed to be one of the largest spectrum auctions in the country, it will witness the sale of spectrum in 700Mhz, 800Mhz, 900Mhz, 1800Mhz, 2100Mhz, 2300Mhz and 2500Mhz frequency bands. This is also the first time... Read More

July 9th, 2016 6:00 AM 9 COMMENTS

Beware, Your smartwatch could reveal your ATM PIN

The smartwatches can help hackers to grab the secret ATM PINS, reveals a new research from Binghamton University and the Stevens Institute of Technology. In the paper titled “Friend or Foe? Your Wearable Devices Reveal Your Personal PIN", the researchers have found that the smartwatches can be used to record anything you type by monitoring the hand movements. The researchers have developed an algorithm by which they cracked the private... Read More

July 8th, 2016 10:04 PM 34 COMMENTS

Telenor launches 4G in Lucknow, affordable 4G packs are its forte

After successful trial of 4G networks on Lean 4G technologies, Telenor’s Indian unit has now launched 4G in Lucknow, the largest city of Uttar Pradesh (UP). With this, Lucknow became the third city in the state to get Telenor 4G networks after Varanasi and Agra.  Telenor India currently provides mobile services in UP (West), UP (East), Bihar (including Jharkhand), Andhra Pradesh (including Telangana), Maharashtra and Gujarat. Besides Varanasi, Agra, and... Read More

July 8th, 2016 6:18 PM 29 COMMENTS

Airtel to launch 4G LTE in six new circles to extend footprint ahead of Jio commercial launch: Report

Bharti Airtel, India's leading telecom operator will extend its 4G footprint to 19 circles in next 3-4 months with the launch of services in six circles using spectrum acquired from Videocon Telecommunications, Business Standard reported on Friday. Bharti Airtel, which was the first operator to launch 4G network in Kolkata in April 2012, currently offers 4G LTE services using 1800 MHz and 2300 Mhz bands in over 350 cities in India.... Read More

July 8th, 2016 1:25 PM 1 COMMENTS

Freedom251 delivery starts today, Ringing Bells announces new smartphones

Freedom251 will finally get shipped from today, announced the manufacturer Ringing Bells at an event in New Delhi yesterday. At the event, the company has also announced new additional devices, including two new budget smartphones – Ringing Bells Elegance and Ringing Bells Elegant, four feature phones, three power banks, and an HD TV. The delivery of Freedom251 will be organized in such a way that 5000 devices will be shipped... Read More

July 8th, 2016 11:53 AM 1 COMMENTS

Xiaomi Mi Note 2 rumoured to go official on July 25

A new rumor about Xiaomi's Mi Note 2 tips that the launch date for the device as July 25. Earlier, we have covered a lot of leaks and rumors about the alleged device, but this is the first time that its unveiling date has been disclosed out on the open. These new rumors also reveal a bunch of the main specifications for the Mi Note 2. The device might come... Read More

July 8th, 2016 10:51 AM 2 COMMENTS

OnePlus 3 gets OxygenOS 3.2.1 update with bug fixes and enhancements

OnePlus has pushed OxygenOS 3.2.1 update for its latest smartphone, the OnePlus 3. The company paused the OxygenOS 3.2.0 for undisclosed reasons. Also, this new changelog is identical to the one in the previous update, which also includes the new sRGB mode in the settings under Developer option to undertone the colors. This new update will be rolled out globally in a phase-wise manner. The OnePlus 3 users can expect... Read More

July 8th, 2016 9:45 AM 1 COMMENTS

Indus Towers plans for expansion through acquisitions: CMO Sameer Sinha

The emergence of new spectrum and broadband data has created myriad opportunities for telecom equipment vendors, content providers, application developers, and tower companies, says Sameer Sinha, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at Indus Towers in an interview to The Telecom Times. He said that the company is open to acquisitions. According to Sinha, the 4G has revamped the telecom environment in India. Backing the launch of 4G services by various... Read More

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Voice over 5G, will take time to stabilize.

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