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Sanjay April 17th, 2013 5:15 PM 2 COMMENTS

Vodafone and ICICI Bank Launches M-Pesa Mobile Money Service In Eastern Region

Vodafone India, one of India’s leading telecommunications service providers and ICICI Bank today starts its ‘M-Pesa’ - Mobile Money Transfer and Payment service in eastern region of India. Vodafone Me-Pesa service was announced on November 8, 2012 as we earlier shared on TelecomTalk. M-Pesa’, which is being launched initially in the eastern parts of the country, effectively leverages the combined strengths of Vodafone’s global expertise in the domain of mobile... Read More

Sanjay April 17th, 2013 4:52 PM 21 COMMENTS

Aircel Launches New Pocket Internet Plan for Rs.24

In its pioneering effort to increase Internet adoption, Aircel, launched another unique data plan, Pocket Internet 24 (PI-24) for first time users (as Trial Plan) with a higher validity of 30 days, will enable customers to experience and experiment internet on their mobile phones at an economical price of less than Re. 1 per day. Especially designed for first time mobile internet users, Pocket Internet 24 will be available in... Read More

Sanjay April 17th, 2013 4:02 PM 23 COMMENTS

Tata Teleservices To Submit Additional CDMA Spectrum back to DoT in all circles except Delhi and Mumbai

According to our exclusive sources, Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL) all set to submit its additional CDMA spectrum back to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) in all circles except Delhi and Mumbai to avoid one time payment charges. Recently,the telecom department (DoT) had imposed a one-time spectrum charge on airwaves held by existing mobile phone companies (CDMA and GSM) after the central Government had cleared the proposal in late 2012. For... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas April 17th, 2013 12:50 AM 19 COMMENTS

Gionee Launched Affordable Smartphone P1 & Feature Phone L800

It's high chance you have not heard of Gionee. Gionee is the second largest smartphone maker in China, which recently entered into Indian smartphone market with several smartphones. Gionee has already launched its quad-core smartphone Dream D1 in India with similar specs of Micromax, Karbonn and Intex's quad core smartphones. To tap the budget smartphone category Gionee has recently launched a new affordable smartphone - P1 as well as a... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas April 17th, 2013 12:26 AM 1 COMMENTS

Lava Brings Jelly Bean Upgrade for Iris 501, But No OTA

Lava Mobiles has announced the availability of Jelly Bean upgrade pack for its popular 5'' Iris 501 smartphone. The smartphone was reviewed on Telecomtalk and considered to be one of the best value for money smartphone. Launched with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, Iris 501 will be more powerful with this Jelly Bean upgrade. Available for 7999 on flipkart, Iris 501 comes with 1 GHz dual core MediaTek processor, 512MB... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas April 16th, 2013 10:58 PM 7 COMMENTS

MTS India: Rev B is Immediate Plan, LTE as Long-term Goal

It seems the bad days of Sistema Shyam Teleservices (SSTL) are over. The company which operates under MTS brand and offers voice and data services on CDMA platform in the country is looking forward to break even in all circles before 2015. The company had lost 21 licences following Supreme Court's order in February last year. However the period of uncertainty is over when SSTL secured 3.75MHz spectrum on 800MHz... Read More

Sanjay April 16th, 2013 7:16 PM 6 COMMENTS

Nokia Partners with Bigflix to Offer FREE Three-Months Subscription with Nokia Lumia 520, Lumia 620 and Lumia 720 Smartphones

Nokia India has today announced its association with BIGFLIX, India’s first movie-on-demand service by Reliance Entertainment Digital, to launch the BIGFLIX App for the three Nokia Lumia smart-phones – Nokia Lumia 520, Lumia 620 & Lumia 720 that have been introduced to the markets very recently. Additionally, the buyers of Nokia Lumia 520, 620 and 720 smart-phones will be presented with an exclusive free three-month subscription to BIGFLIX services... Read More

Sanjay April 16th, 2013 12:55 PM 16 COMMENTS

Vodafone India Launches ‘My Vodafone’ App For Android

Vodafone India has launched a 'my Vodafone' app for its subscribers to let them manage their Postpaid and Prepaid mobile services. Similar to Bharti Airtel's ''my airtel app', 'myVodafone' app is free to download application includes ability to check outstanding postpaid bills and un-billed amount, recharge prepaid accounts, make online payments, activate or deactivate any VAS service on postpaid and prepaid mobile etc. Users can also raise requests/ complaints and... Read More

Sanjay April 15th, 2013 12:56 PM 91 COMMENTS

BSNL Reduces Free Data in 2G Mobile Internet – GPRS Packs

India's national telecom backbone Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has revise its Mobile Internet -2G Data/GPRS Packs across all its circles. In BSNL there are about four 2G Data packs for prepaid users on offer for every one’s need – light, medium and heavy usage, has been revised. BSNL reduced the 2G Data under the Rs.54, Rs.125, Rs.270 and Rs.300 GPRS Packs. Starting from 17th April, 2013, in GPRS Pack... Read More

Sanjay April 14th, 2013 3:17 PM 9 COMMENTS

Airtel launches new international roaming packs offers 5 hours of free incoming calls

Airtel has launched international roaming packs for its customers with up to 5 hours of free incoming calls for its postpaid segment travelling to countries such as Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Australia, Germany, the United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom would get up to two hours of non-chargeable incoming calls. Airtel subscribers can also make outgoing calls for Rs 40 per minute through these special packs.Airtel subscribers traveling... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas April 13th, 2013 12:24 AM 29 COMMENTS

Sistema’s Data Strategy for India: More Coverage, Smartphone Penetration & LTE Roll out

In a recent statement by Sistema, who holds 56% of country’s CDMA voice and data service provider Sistema Shyam Teleservices (SSTL) has expressed the trust on data as future’s growth potential. To enable its ‘voice enabled data focused’ strategy Sistema confirmed that the company will roll out LTE in India in next 3-4 years. In February this year SSTL, which operates under MTS brand in India secured its presence in... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas April 12th, 2013 4:42 PM 15 COMMENTS

Ultra Low Cost 5″ Micromax Canvas Viva Arrives for Rs 6,999

These days many handsets from Indian manufacturers are launched over e-commerce sites. Continuing the trend Micromax Canvas Viva A72 was spotted on Snapdeal.com. From the name it says it is in the Micromax's 5'' device series - Canvas. Canvas Viva is a ultra low cost 5" smartphone aka phablet or tablet-phone-hybrid and priced for Rs 6,999 only. With Viva at this price point, never expect anything awesome but yet Micromax... Read More