Shedding light into the internal turmoil of top management in telecom companies, Sanjay Kapoor, Chairman, Micromax Informatics Ltd has resigned from his post yesterday. It has been a little more than a year he joined. The company has not revealed the reason for his resignation and also, the further plans of Sanjay Kapoor remains unknown. Kapoor was responsible for the expansion of company to... Read More
Telecom companies are reducing their involvement in UK market, a trend seen in the recent years. Three of the world’s best telecom companies -- Deutsche Telekom (DT), Orange and Telefonica are the latest to sell their stakes in the market. Telefonica is selling O2 to CK Hutchison, and Hutchison will merge it with its own 3 UK unit. Meanwhile, fixed incumbent BT is buying EE, the mobile operator jointly owned... Read More
Saavn, the music streaming service with around 17 million monthly active users worldwide has launched its Windows 10 app, as a part of its efforts to increase its user base to 25 million by the year end. Saavn’s global chief operating officer Mahesh Narayanan said Windows as the leading operating system which will still rule the world for years to come. “Windows is still the leader on the desktop space,... Read More
Motorola Moto 360 was one of the most sought after Android Wear smartwatches when it was first launched, but it had its flaws and the hype around it soon died down. Motorola is busy in readying the successor to the Moto 360 these days, and it seems that it will come in two sizes, just like the Apple Watch. The two upcoming variants of the smartwatch have just surfaced on the interweb. The smaller sibling will probably... Read More
The rumour mill has been busy these days churning out news about what the next iPhone siblings will bring to the table and their announcement date. Apple has just started sending out invites for a September 9 event to be held in California the iPhone 6S and the iPhone 6S Plus are expected to be announced. The iPhone siblings are expected to get Force Touch technology in their upcoming iteration which lets you... Read More
Following other telcos, the state-run operator BSNL has announced a revision to all its existing postpaid mobile plans, and these revisions will come into effect from the 1st of September 2015. As per the latest information, BSNL will be reducing the monthly free calls/free usage offered with each postpaid mobile plan. They will also cut other freebies in some plans. BSNL has not only hiked call rates but also cut... Read More
The Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is prohibited in UAE, reiterates UAE’s Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA). According to the report, VoIP is banned under the Federal Decree Law No. 3/2003 and only the two telecom operators, Etisalat and Du, are authorized to offer such services. However, neither of the two companies have submitted requests with regard to offering VoIP services in the UAE so far. In case, if any operators... Read More
TRAI has taken strong measures in order to curb unwanted and auto VAS activation menace with operators. If you think with these norms and process there are no auto VAS activations you are completely wrong. We have been observing VAS activations on various operators and here we have one operator with us where VAS activations just happen on the fly like magic. Continue reading to know more about our observations... Read More
Bharti Airtel the largest telecom operator in India and third largest globally by subscriber base and operations in over 20 countries is contemplating on selling its assets and operations in India's neighbouring countries Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. In a clarification to the BSE, Airtel said it keeps evaluating various opportunities on an ongoing basis in ordinary course of business and will make necessary disclosure as and when required. Sources familiar... Read More
According to the Ericsson Mobility report of August 2015, 53 million new subscriptions were added during Q2 2015, bringing the global total to around 7.2 billion. However, the actual number of subscribers is around 4.9 billion, since many have several subscriptions. Mobile penetration was 99 percent in Q2 Mobile subscriptions are growing around 5 percent year-on-year and 0.7 percent quarter-on quarter. India grew most during the quarter in terms of net... Read More
In the Telecom Advisory Committee (TAC) meeting of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), a senior manager S K Nigam informed that all landline customers of the service provider at Jalandhar circle has the provision to make unlimited calls on any landline or mobile network, anywhere in India between 9pm to 7am free of cost. Free incoming facility can be availed for the mobile customers while on roaming across the country.... Read More
Alcatel has finally made an entry into the tablet market in India by unveiling the OneTouch POP 8S tablet. The 4G LTE enabled device has been priced at Rs. 10,499, and it will be exclusively available on Flipkart. The OneTouch POP 8S comes with an 8-inch WXGA TFT display with a resolution of 800×1280 pixels, and is powered by a 1.2GHz Snapdragon 410 quad-core processor coupled with 1GB of RAM.... Read More
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