When Google acquired Motorola for $ 12.5 Billion 19 months ago, many saw it as an aggressive move on behalf of Google while many saw it as a reckless move. As times progressed, things changed and Google didn’t really go all guns blazing in the handset business as it would have not been received well by its partners. Google has now sold off the handset business of Motorola to Lenovo... Read More
OPPO Mobile today launched its flagship product, OPPO N1, the first device from its N-Lens series, in the presence of OPPO’s India brand ambassadors, Hrithik Roshan and Sonam Kapoor. The handset, which redefines smartphone photography, has been priced at Rs. 39,999. In the first stage of its operations in India, the handset major will cover twelve cities, which include Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Chandigarh, Jaipur... Read More
Dual core smartphones are slowing going out of the league as more and more quad core processor equipped handsets are entering the market. However, to keep oneself a notch ahead of others, certain smartphone giants are now coming up with octa core powered smartphones. We have heard that Micromax has now launched a new octa core smartphone in the Russian market. This smartphone has been named Micromax Canvas Knight 350.... Read More
BSNL today announced the launch of 'One Number, One Nation, One Rupee a Day' plan through a new roaming Special Tariff Voucher (STV), STV-90 that provides a validity of 90 days. This launch has come just five days after the launch of MTNL's roam free plan. We had then reported about BSNL introducing free roaming at Rs. 1 per day. STV-90 offers free unlimited roaming all over India. The local... Read More
India's telecom regulator TRAI has finalized its recommendations on the ‘Working Guidelines on Spectrum Trading’ which allowing outright transfer of spectrum by telecom companies to other operators, but has suggested a bar on its leasing for now. As per the recommendations by TRAI, telecom operators holding spectrum across services - 2G, 3G, 4G (BWA) and CDMA, should be allowed to trade the radio-waves. Telecom Regulatory Authority of India said in... Read More
Users who have activated this Application only specific offerings may be aware of what this article all about. Our Operators have the habit of offering same thing if one operator starts something. This might be because of competition, really a good product to offer or with a threat that customers may move out to that operator for that offering alone. There may be some situations with operators too where they... Read More
Dot has today published its final list of qualified bidders for its upcoming spectrum auction for 1800 MHz and 900 MHz spectrum. Airtel, Aircel, Idea, Reliance Jio Uninor (Telewings) will be bidding for all circles. Where as Vodafone won't be bidding in Assam, Bihar, HP J&K ,Mp, North East and Orissa. In case of Reliance they wont be bidding for Assam, Bihar, H.P, Kolkata, M.P, North East, Orissa and West... Read More
In a complaint to CCI (Competition Commission of India), BSNL had alleged that Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea had acted as a cartel while bidding for 3G spectrum auctions held in 2010. BSNL had accused the trio for selective bidding in different circles and later entering into illegal roaming arrangements to provide PAN India coverage. CCI in its order said that there is no prima facie case to investigate the... Read More
Tata Docomo has entered into an exclusive partnership with GVK led Mumbai International Airport Ltd. (MIAL) which spreads to 4.3 million square feet, to offer end-to-end voice and data services at the recently inaugurated T2 terminal at CSIA. Tata Docomo will provide voice and data telecommunication services including internet leased line, ISDN PRI, ADSL, MPLS, broadband connection at T2 Mumbai. The broad scope of collaboration will also entail supplying, installing,... Read More
The toughest competition exists in the budget smartphone segment. Thus, it is time to determine your best choices. Enlisted below are the top 5 smartphones in the price range below Rs 10,000. Spice Stellar Pinnacle Pro Mi 535(Rs 9,999) This smartphone comes with an IPS LCD touch display of 5.3 inches (960 x 540 pixels). It is powered by MediaTek quad core processor of 1.2 GHz Spice Stellar Pinnacle Pro... Read More
Just yesterday we had written about a flaw in Airtel’s online recharge portal which exposes customers recharge details for a week’s duration. Today we learnt about one more issue - this time with one of Airtel’s IVR system. This loophole allows any Indian mobile user (any operator’s subscriber) to access any Airtel customer’s call/SMS/MMS records, VAS deductions, internet usage details, special five details (friends and family), balance, plan validity and... Read More
With ever growing identity theft incidents and economic frauds, mobile and internet users are required to be very vigilant about whatever they do. Whatever be our attempts to safeguard our data what can be done if someone responsible for safe handling of data is not caring enough? This exactly was the situation with Airtel customers for a good part of the time. While telcos like Airtel provide reasonably good online... Read More
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