Vodafone today announced that they have invested Rs. 4400 Cr. in West Bengal since the time they came in and they have invested Rs. 440 Cr. in last 1 Year(June’14 Exit). While Vodafone is the largest operator in the state of West Bengal it has also added the most number of subscriber in last 1 year. Vodafone also has the highest rural subscriber base in the state of West Bengal.... Read More
BBM will now offer Timed Messages and Message Retraction premium features for free and without restriction to BBM users over the next three months. After this time, unrestricted access to these features will become part of a broader bundle of features that will be offered as part of a BBM subscription. · Timed Messages: By setting a timer you can control how long messages and pictures you share with contacts... Read More
Airtel, Vodafone, Idea and Reliance have sent a joint letter to the Telecommunication Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting to postpone the next spectrum auction till sufficient spectrum across bands are available for sale. Bharti Airtel currently holds 900 MHz in 13 non-metro circles. Vodafone and Idea have 900 Mhz spectrum in 9 non-metro service areas. All the 9 non-metro spectrums of India and six spectrums each of Airtel... Read More
At last, Samsung has announced two new mid-range smartphones with premium builds; the Galaxy A3 and the Galaxy A5. Both smartphones have ultra-thin premium metal unibodies with a waistline under 7mm. Both the device are powered by quad-core processors, run Android 4.4 KitKat, and come with 5-megapixel front-facing cameras. Both the devices come in LTE variants and NFC chips but it is still not clear whether Samsung will launch LTE variants of the Galaxy... Read More
Reliance Communications has silently expanded their CDMA Rev B phase II services, Pro 3 to three new metros - Mumbai, Pune & Hyderabad. Initially the service was limited to Bangalore & Chennai. Unlike MTS (Ultra offers up to 9.8Mbps) & Tata Docomo (Photon Max offers upto 6.2Mbps), Reliance Pro 3 is using 3 carriers to boost the downlink upto 14.7 Mbps. Rcom was the pioneer of CDMA technology in India,... Read More
We recently brought you the story of BSNL revising two of its BB and LL plans in Maharashtra. Well they have now revised the tariffs of even more plans. Here's a list of changes: BBG 275 has been revised to BBG325 and the fixed monthly charge has increased from Rs 275 to Rs 325. BB Home UL545 has been revised to BB Home UL645 with the FMC going to Rs... Read More
Airtel and DishTV have published their Q2 2014-15 ending 30th September results and the results are a mixed bag. The television and broadcasting sector is undergoing a change so things might just improve in future. Here's what the results are: Airtel: Airtel's total revenue was Rs. 626.3 crore. Its earnings before interest and taxes stand at a loss of Rs 67.7 crores which is not really a good sign. It... Read More
Lenovo has just added a 13-inch Yoga tablet to the second generation lineup of the Yoga devices. It runs on Windows 8.1 and has a QHD display as its highlight. It features quite similar specifications to its Android cousin which was announced earlier this month as the Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 Pro. This variant misses out on the projector but gains twice the RAM. Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 13-inch Specifications 13.3-inch screen with a... Read More
Provided, the stiff competition prevailing in the global smartphone arena, Samsung Electronics has reported its third quarter earnings, representing stark decline in profits, by almost 49 percent compared to the last year. Global profits registered at $3.9 billion, which is in accordance with the guidance Samsung had previously issued. Revenues steeped by almost 20 percent to $45 billion when compared to the third quarter previous year. Samsung’s profits from its mobile business has hit a... Read More
At the Code/Mobile conference in Half Moon Bay, California, Airtel's Chief Product Office Anand Chandrasekaran disclosed that Airtel hopes to get 40 to 50 percent of its revenue from data, and more specifically from 4G. "For every operator in the US, 50 percent of their revenues is from data. Part of my journey is getting that 12 percent (current data revenue percentage) to 40 or 50, through 4G and apps... Read More
BlackBerry is not giving up on smartphone bandwagon as yet. It is making a return to its roots with the highly anticipated smartphone, the ‘Q20’ Classic, which was originally announced at the MWC (Mobile World Congress) 2014, along with Passport. While addressing lately at the MIT Enterprise Forum in Hong Kong, the company's CEO John Chen, disclosed the launch timeline for the Classic smartphone, though he didn’t mention an exact date for that. Chen said,... Read More
WhatsApp for Windows Phone received an update, resulting in addition of fresh features and refinements. The upgrade contains features transferred by the WhatsApp team from the beta version. This update, has caused quite a stir among Windows Phone users as there has been no update for the app since June. According to Windows store listing, here is what version 2.11.586 offers: The app now opens smoothly without any lag Now users can share... Read More
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Yes, But some investment is better than none. Also as said by CEO, these funds and 18k crore FPO money…
IMO, Airtel only needs to buy sub GHz ( like B8/B5 ) to have atleast 10 MHz in that. &…
Yes I like your detailed reply. I have noticed same in Kolkata circle. Under many metro train station, Jio 4G…
It's good that Airtel is sharing number of 5G customer circle by circle to attract new customer from that circle…
Thank you Rupesh for good realistic long writing on Vi and BSNL.??
