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Chethan S May 31st, 2015 6:08 PM 56 COMMENTS

BSNL has to improve Customer Care, Data Services and QoS: TelecomTALK BSNL Customer Satisfaction Survey

Two weeks back we had initiated a survey to gauge customer sentiments about BSNL, India's national ISP and Mobile services provider. We received a total of 1411 responses to the survey. We must add that we had expected a much larger number but are certainly happy about the fact that the responses were fairly distributed. To give you a picture, responses came in from customers of every BSNL Circle including... Read More

Bhupendra Sharma May 31st, 2015 6:01 PM 26 COMMENTS

Govt To Revise Service Tax Rate From June 1, 2015, you will end up paying more for mobile and internet

Amidst of a range of brave decisions taken by NDA government during budget announcement, one that shook most was increased rate of service tax. The service tax rate has been revised from 12.36% to 14%, applicable from June 1, 2015. It simply means that eating at restaurants, paying insurance premiums and phone bills among others will become expensive all over India from June 1 onwards. The extra financial burden that... Read More

Bhupendra Sharma May 31st, 2015 5:46 PM 20 COMMENTS

Airtel starts 4G Service Trials In Visakhapatnam and Plan details

Bharti Airtel has become the first telecom service provider to kick off 4G service trials in Visakhapatnam, an imperative stepping stone towards making it a ‘smart city.’ From now onwards, all the Airtel customers in the city can upgrade to 4G data services at 3G prices. In order to take things forward, Venkatesh Vijayraghavan, CEO-Andhra Pradesh & Telangana, Bharti Airtel, and Mr. Chandrababu Naidu, The Hon'ble Chief Minister of Andhra... Read More

SuperGeek May 31st, 2015 3:33 PM 10 COMMENTS

Top 5 smartphones between Rs. 15,000 – Rs. 20,000

The Indian smartphone market is quite tricky. Extending your budget by a bit gives you a better device and if you keep on extending it, you end up paying a lot more than you thought you would for a smartphone. This confusion reaches its peak in the mid-range segment where there are so many different devices at really small price intervals. The buyers more often than not end up being... Read More

Dr. Sisira Raj May 31st, 2015 3:27 PM 0 COMMENTS

Following new norms, Vodafone sells stake in Bharti Airtel

Vodafone has withdrawn from Bharti Airtel by selling its 4.2 per cent shares in the Indian telecom major to Bharti Enterprises (Holding) Private Limited, an arm of Bharti Group. Vodafone in a statement on Thursday confirmed that it has sold, its slaveholding in Bharti Infotel Private Limited, representing an approximate 4.2 per cent interest in Bharti Airtel Ltd for USD 200 million. The sale happened following new norms issued by... Read More

Dr. Sisira Raj May 31st, 2015 2:12 PM 6 COMMENTS

Exclusive: Reliance starts offering free 10 minutes of talktime for customers experiencing call drop

In a major move, the Reliance Communication has started compensating for the call drop phenomena experiencing by the customers. The service provider is giving 10 minutes free for customers experiencing call drop. However the free talk time is limited to reliance to reliance calls only. Call drop menace in India is posing trouble to the mobile phone subscribers and the regulatory body, TRAI has announced issuing new set of service... Read More

SuperGeek May 30th, 2015 10:09 PM 5 COMMENTS

Micromax Canvas Unite 2 starts getting Android Lollipop

Micromax is taking quite a few steps to get into the good books of its current and prospective customers. It has just started rolling out the Android 5.0 Lollipop update via the OTA (Over-The-Air) route for the Canvas Unite 2 users. The update was due back in April but has now started rolling out. It's better late than never to roll out a software update. The update brings with it... Read More

Bhupendra Sharma May 30th, 2015 6:20 PM 7 COMMENTS

Narendra Modi To Inaugurate NGN Technology Core Switches for East Zone

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to inaugurate the core switches of East Zone located at Bhubaneswar and Kolkata, and 100 NGN LMG switches in Patna on June 28, 2015. As per the reports, these 100 LGN LMG switches will be spread equally in North, East, South and West Zone. BSNL had recently disclosed that they will be partnering with Bharti Airtel for 2G roaming Pan India to improve... Read More

Bhupendra Sharma May 30th, 2015 4:13 PM 4 COMMENTS

NOFN Panel Estimates Budget of Broadband Net To Surpass Rs. 72,778 Crore

A committee that was set up by government to look after the NOFN project has estimated the cost of the project to hike three times more than the initial estimates. As per the reports, the government approved the budget of Rs. 20,000, but the NOFN Panel has suggested that the actual cost will surpass Rs. 72,778 crore. The information was made public by Telecom Ministry stating that the committee had... Read More

Tharun G May 30th, 2015 3:05 AM 19 COMMENTS

RCOM announce quarter results, data traffic up by 73.6%

Reliance communication has announced its financial results for quarter ended March 31, 2015. Total revenue for the company increased by 1% to Rs 5,703 core and EBITDA is up by 6.7% to Rs 1,976 core. Net Profit was at Rs. 228 crore, up 45.9% from Rs. 156 crore in Q4 previous year. The company reported a exponential growth of 73.6% in data traffic at 87,211 million MB. It also claimed the highest data usage per subscriber in... Read More

Zara Ali May 29th, 2015 6:41 PM 0 COMMENTS

Android Pay is Google’s answer to Apple Pay

Google has made sling of announcements at the Google I/O 2015, held in San Francisco. One of them is Android Pay, which is Google’s answer to much-talked about, Apple Pay and Samsung Pay. Although Android Pay is just one-step above version of Google Wallet, it has almost the identical capabilities as Wallet. So, we can say that Android Pay is a revamped version of Google Wallet in the form of a... Read More

Zara Ali May 29th, 2015 5:11 PM 0 COMMENTS

You will soon get turn-by-turn navigation on Google Maps even when offline

Google Maps come handy all the time, but you require a working internet connection to make it work. Although there is already an option for offline maps, but it has a really basic map view and is just not preferred by most of us because who wants limited information? The offline map service of Google Maps couldn’t hit the right cord with the users. It looks like that all the... Read More