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February 16th, 2017 3:19 PM 16 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Bags 100 Million Subscribers in Five Months, Confirms Mukesh Ambani

The Chairman and Managing Director of Reliance Industries Limited Mr Mukesh Ambani said that his brainchild, Reliance Jio, crossed 100 Million subscribers in five months after its inception. This essentially means that Reliance Jio is bagging in half million customers every day. Though this milestone dips short of the telecom operator’s expectation, as Mukesh Ambani had earlier expected to bag in 100 million subscribers by the end of 2016, he... Read More

February 16th, 2017 12:29 PM 4 COMMENTS

Airtel tops Netflix’s ISP Speed Index for January 2017; RCom settles down at 8th position

Netflix has just announced its ISP Speed Index rating revealing that Bharti Airtel was the fastest internet service provider in the country for January 2017. With a speed of 2.25Mbps, Airtel managed to climb to the top spot leaving behind Spectranet whose speed was recorded to be 2.10Mbps. Despite topping the chart, in comparison to previous Netflix’s ISP rating, Airtel's speed has decreased from 2.33Mbps to 2.25Mbps. The same holds... Read More

February 16th, 2017 6:17 AM 8 COMMENTS

Reliance Jio Now Has 23 Percent Market Share in Indian Telecom Sector: Truecaller Report

Reliance Jio recently regarded as the fastest growing company beating the Facebook, WhatsApp, and others. And now, we have an interesting data from the recognized caller ID detecting service, Truecaller as their 'TrueInsights Q4 Report’ claims that Jio is India’ second largest telecom network in India with over 23 percent market share. The report further claims that all the networks combinedly added 1.12 billion consumers by the end of November... Read More

February 16th, 2017 5:32 AM 1 COMMENTS

BlackBerry Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Nokia Ahead Of MWC 2017

BlackBerry - once a thriving smartphone maker is now struggling to keep going in the market that is now ruled by other manufacturers like Samsung, Apple, Huawei, and others. The market share of BlackBerry has hit the dismal zero percent, which clearly hints at the final hours of its existence. Now, to breathe some life into the company, CEO John Chen is finding out ways to pull some revenue from... Read More

February 15th, 2017 3:25 PM 4 COMMENTS

Nokia 3, Nokia 5, and a Revamped Nokia 3310 Rumored to Announce at the MWC 2017

We are just ten days away from the world's biggest mobile event, Mobile World Congress 2017, which is all set to start on February 27 in Barcelona, Spain. So it is not surprising that the internet is abuzz with leaks of some smartphones which are to be announced at MWC. We already have a formal confirmation from HMD Global, Nokia’s parent company to launch a few Android-powered Nokia phones. The... Read More

February 15th, 2017 2:32 PM 1 COMMENTS

Vodafone gives new 4G contract to Ericsson for UP West, Rajasthan, Odisha, North East and Assam

Vodafone India, which is in talks with Idea Cellular for a potential merger, has reportedly given a big 4G deployment contract worth Rs 2,040 crore to Ericsson as the telco looks to speed up the network expansion to counter bigger rival Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio. According to an ET report, Ericsson is deploying 4G sites in UP West, Rajasthan, Odisha, North East and Assam telecom zones. The deployment of... Read More

February 15th, 2017 2:01 PM 1 COMMENTS

Smartphone Market Ends With 5.2% Annual Growth in CY 2016, Lenovo Occupies 2nd Position: IDC India

In the calendar year, 2016 (CY 2016), Lenovo Mobile Group (comprising of Lenovo and Moto smartphones) has emerged as the #2 smartphone brand concerning volume and value, according to International Data Corporation (IDC) India Q4 2016 Smartphone Market Report. While Lenovo captured 8.9% market share in terms of volume, it had 9.8% market share in terms of value. The company also maintained its leadership position in e-commerce space in 2016.... Read More

February 14th, 2017 4:41 PM 6 COMMENTS

200 Villages In India Go Digital Due To Airtel Payments Bank, Says Airtel

Airtel Payments Bank has helped 200 villages in India to go digital, according to a release by Airtel. These 200 villages now get access to basic banking services and options to do digital transactions, making them less reliant on cash. Airtel will continue to expand its Payment Bank services to 5000 villages soon. The service provider has not announced any timeframe to achieve the same. “We are fully committed to... Read More

February 14th, 2017 2:59 PM 7 COMMENTS

Vodafone Sakhi Packs Allow Women To Do Private Recharging Without Sharing Mobile Number

Vodafone has launched Vodafone Sakhi, a product to empower the women in rural areas. Using Vodafone Sakhi, women can do private recharge using an OTP code, without sharing the mobile number. The OTP can be used for all recharges done over a 24-hour period. Also, it comes with emergency calling feature allowing them to make calls for 10 minutes with zero balance. Vodafone Sakhi is currently launched in areas of... Read More

February 13th, 2017 7:53 PM 8 COMMENTS

RCom says Aircel merger to be completed by 2017 middle, MTS merger by March

Reliance Communication's (RCom) merger with smaller GSM telco Aircel, and tower deal with Brookfield are likely to be completed by the middle of 2017, while the merger with Sistema Shyam Teleservices, which operates under MTS India, will be completed by March end this year, the telco said in analyst call post results on Monday. The Anil Ambani-led telco also clarified that the ongoing legal issue on Aircel and Maxis will... Read More

February 12th, 2017 12:55 PM 39 COMMENTS

Idea Cellular adds over 9000 4G sites in Q3, 4G user base declines

Idea Cellular, India’s third largest telecom operator deployed just over 9000 4G cell sites in the quarter, taking the overall 4G site count to 33,954 in the country. The telco’s 3G cell site count went up from the 60,467 in the second quarter to 66,661 in the third quarter, which ended on December 31, 2016. Idea’s 2G cell site count reached 132,362 in the third quarter against 130,633 in the... Read More

February 12th, 2017 7:00 AM 0 COMMENTS

Waiting For Nokia’s Comeback In India? Here Are The Phones That Nokia Might Launch Soon

Nokia's comeback is no more a speculation as the company has finally launched its first device - the Nokia 6 in China. The Finnish brand had been up on rumor charts for quite some time. Recently, reports sprung up talking about how Nokia is planning to launch six phones this year. However, extinguishing these rumours, Nokia recently confirmed that it would be bringing out two new phones in 2017. The... Read More

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