Retail owned Reliance Digital stores has come up with three new LYF branded VoLTE handsets Flame 2, Water 7, Wind 4; ahead of Jio's launch in the coming weeks. Out of the three smartphones, Flame 2 is the cheapest one, and is offered at a price of Rs. 4,999. It is mainly targeted at a lower-end segment of buyers. On the other hand, the LYF Wind 4 comes with a... Read More
Xiaomi Mi 5 was undoubtedly on the list of most awaited devices of the year 2016. However, we were not expecting it to garner such a thunderous user response on its first sale. Xiaomi revealed that it received 16.8 million registrations for its first sale, today, in China. Given the high-end specifications at a competitive pricing, the Xiaomi Mi 5 was expected to create a substantial buyer buzz. It would... Read More
The proposal of differential duty regime for mobile handset chargers, batteries and speakers of mobile handsets for supply to mobile manufacturers will give a boost to domestic manufacturing on these products, and will result in a total production output of around Rs 7000 – Rs 10000 crores by 2018, the Indian Cellular Association (ICA) said. The domestic manufacture will attract only 2% excise duty while imports will face 29.441% duty.... Read More
Reliance Communications and Aircel will combine their respective wireless business and will hold 50% each, a change from an initial merger plan to create a new listed company to run their combined wireless businesses. RCom and Aircel had started a 90-day period of exclusive merger talks on December 22. An Economic Times report said that the deal is expected we expect to close the deal by September 30, and the... Read More
The Delhi High Court upheld the Indian telecom regulator’s order that mandates telcos to compensate subscribers for call drops from January 1, 2016, dismissing all the petitions filed by COAI, AUSPI and 21 telecom operators, including Vodafone, and Bharti Airtel. A Delhi High Court bench said that there is no dispute about the power of Trai to make regulation under section 36 of the Act. “The impugned regulation has been... Read More
Spectrum auctions, license fee and one-time spectrum charges are likely to swell government’s kitty by 76% to Rs 98,994.93 crore in the financial year ending March 2017. In the current financial year, the government expects an income of Rs 56,034.35 crore from the telecom sector. "The arrears of the previous years and receipts from fresh auction are also included in the Budget Estimates 2016-17," the budget documents said. The spectrum auctions,... Read More
Micromax unveiled yet another tablet in its Canvas series, named as Canvas Tab P702. The tablet comes equipped with voice calling and 4G connectivity. The Canvas Tab P702 comes with a 7-inch HD IPS display, and is powered by a quad-core MediaTek chipset clubbed with 2GB of RAM. On the software front, the tablet runs Android 5.1 Lollipop, and features 16GB of internal storage, which can be further expanded up... Read More
State-run telecom operator BSNL is planning to buy 5 MHz spectrum in premium 700 MHz band in six service areas---- Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kolkata and Tamil Nadu, as it looks to strengthen coverage in the country. The telco doesn't possess airwaves in 2500 MHz band in these service areas. BSNL said that it will pay the market determined price for the circles after the auction concludes, and it will... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), the largest broadband service provider in India with countrywide presence is now looking for a partnership with Local Cable TV Operators (LCOs) and Multi System Operators (MSOs) for providing Broadband services on Cable TV Network on Pan India basis. BSNL has invited Expression of interest (EOI) offers from MSO/LCO who intend to provide broadband services, to their customers using Hybrid Set Top Box or any... Read More
Vodafone launched 4G LTE service in Delhi/NCR on 3rd of February 2016. The company used its recently bought 1800MHz wave to offer this 4G (LTE-FDD) service to its consumers with a motto of providing a superior experience. I have been using the service on my primary SIM, for almost a month now. In this article, I bring to you my initial impressions of the service. Coverage: For starters, I had... Read More
Asus is sluggish when it comes to rolling out Android 6.0 Marshmallow update, and it seems like the status won’t improve for another few months. The company announced a list of devices that will get the Marshmallow update, the post mentions the timeline to be Q2 (April-June). The list comprises of expected Zenfone 2015 smartphones along with PadFone S transformer. Well, this is not the first time that Asus published such... Read More
The global IT product and service provider Elitecore has won two major contracts with wireline operators in India for its Multiplay Service Management Platform (SMP). Multiplay SMP is an end-to-end convergent, real time and pre-integrated B/OSS solution. It supports Broadband, PayTV & VoIP on its platform. A leading pay TV operator has adopted the Multiplay SMP to become a provider of innovative broadband services along with its pay TV offerings in... Read More
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