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Rudradeep Biswas December 6th, 2012 2:28 PM 4 COMMENTS

Airtel Mobitude 2012 Announced: In-depth Analysis of Mobile Users Preferences

Bharti Airtel has announced the results for the 4th edition of Airtel Mobitude for 2012. Airtel Mobitude, similar to Google's Zeitgeist is the annual survey of customers preferences to see-through of consumption likes and dislikes of more than 186 million customers. This year’s analysis highlights a fast increasing customer preference for MobileTV, thus resulting in a whopping 65% jump in traffic experienced by the service over last year. Within the... Read More

P K Tarun December 6th, 2012 1:03 PM 32 COMMENTS

Videocon to Rollout 4G Services Next Year

Telecom operator Videocon Mobile Services will roll out fourth generation (4G) services across all is newly-won circles next year. Videcon had received spectrum across six circles - Uttar Pradesh (East), Uttar Pradesh (West), Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat and Haryana - in the recently concluded spectrum auction. "We will get spectrum in January and we expect to roll out our LTE services in six circles by middle of 2013. We will... Read More

Sanjay December 5th, 2012 1:19 PM 10 COMMENTS

Exclusive: MTNL Mumbai Launches New Half Yearly and Yearly 3G Data Plans

India’s first 3G Mobile and Data Service provider Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) today announced the launch of 2 new most affordable longer validity 3G Data Plans for its prepaid subscribers in Mumbai telecom circle. MTNL Mumbai introduces new Half Yearly 3G Data plan for Rs.4500, offers 100 GB 3G Data Usage valid for 180 Days and Yearly 3G Data Plan for Rs.5000 offers 50 GB 3G Data Usage valid for 365... Read More

P K Tarun December 4th, 2012 11:36 AM 29 COMMENTS

Supreme Court Restores 200 SMS Cap Limit

India’s Supreme Court on December 4th stayed a telecom tribunal order that quashed limiting of the number of SMSes to 200 per day per user. The SMS quota was originally introduced in 2011 by the regulator, TRAI to stop spamming by telemarketing companies. In a brief hearing, a bench headed by Justice G S Singhvi stayed the Telecom Disputes and Appellate Tribunal’s (TDSAT) order. The Supreme Court passed the order... Read More

P K Tarun December 3rd, 2012 5:45 PM 95 COMMENTS

Telecomtalk Unveils New Simple Yet Powerpacked UI as ‘UI v2 BETA 1’

It has been nearly 4 years since in 2008 Telecomtalk did start its awesome journey with the focus of 'tracking developments in Indian telecom industry'. I say it's a wonderful journey with our beloved readers who always encourage us to deliver best for this telecom portal.. Since 2008 we are using same simple UI (User Interface), which may be a big bore to our readers, so we come up with... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas December 3rd, 2012 3:43 PM 60 COMMENTS

Tata Docomo Revises 2G GPRS Pack in All Circles, Second Time in This Year

Tata Docomo is on its way to hike the 2G GPRS tariff. With this 2G data tariff hike, Tata Docomo revises 2G data pricing for the second time in this year. Earlier in May Tata Docomo revised their monthly pack of Rs 95 (for 6 GB 2G data) to Rs 98 (for 4GB 2G data). In some circles Tata Docomo cuts down data benefit to 2.5 GB or 1.5 GB... Read More

Sanjay December 2nd, 2012 4:00 PM 23 COMMENTS

Airtel Introduces Emergency Alert Service

Airtel today announced the launch of an innovative ‘Emergency Alert Service’ for customers. During an emergency, Airtel mobile customers can now send an alert with their geographic location to their closest 10 loved ones simultaneously with just a call, facilitating an access to easy and quick help. Subscribers can even send a ‘SAFE’ SMS indication to a pre-defined group of 10 family members and friends and keep them informed of... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas December 2nd, 2012 11:24 AM 16 COMMENTS

4G Devices in India : Expect Some Uniqueness in Coming Days

Though Indian telecom sector is going through a up and down phase this time, mostly because of regulatory irregularity, spectrum price and lukewarm response to 3G services; many analysts bet high on Reliance Infotel's upcoming 4G/LTE roll out in the country. In 2010 Infotel Broadband bagged pan India BWA spectrum i.e. 20 MHz on 2300 MHz band in all 22 circles, soon after Reliance Industries took 95% of Infotel Broadband.... Read More

Srikapardhi December 1st, 2012 12:11 PM 104 COMMENTS

Cell Info Services: Indian Operators Turned it for VAS Promotion Except BSNL

Cell Broadcast (CB) messages / Cell Info Messages is a mobile technology feature which is a part of GSM Technology. From now on called as CB messages is designed specially to deliver messages to people particularly in a specific Geographical Area connected to a cell site to deliver on Screen Messages. SMS are sent point to point where as CB Messages are sent point to area so that Messages are... Read More