Vivo has added yet another smartphone in its Y series, named as the Vivo Y31L. The device is priced at Rs. 9,450 and will be up for sale in White and Black color options through offline stores all over India, by the end of March. In terms of specifications, the Vivo Y31L bears a 4.7-inch qHD display with a resolution of 960 x 540. It is powered by a Qualcomm... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) will be providing WiFi internet during the International Knowledge Summit which will be held at Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh as a part of Simhasth Mahaparva (Kumbh). BSNL will also put up WiFi spots at 1,100 places including 200 tourist spots. Ujjain, an ancient city of Madhya Pradesh, will be hosting ‘Simhastha’ (Kumbh Mela) from 22nd April to 21st May, 2016. As a part of the event,... Read More
Apple launched its much-talked-about iPhone SE recently. The 4-incher iPhone SE comes bundled with similar specs as the iPhone 6s. In the latest development about the device's availability, Redington India announced that it will initiate the sale of iPhone SE in India on April 8, across its 3000 retail stores all over the country. Following the cue, online retailers are also expected to put the device on sale soon. Redington... Read More
Reliance Jio’s commercial launch of 4G services could be further pushed back to December, as the telco struggles to improve network quality, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch said in a recent note. A delayed launch may spoil the telco's plan to aggressively poach high-end consumers from incumbents – Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular -- unless it brings down prices. The US brokerage expect Reliance Jio to delay its 4G launch... Read More
Sales of smartphones in India are set to shoot up to 160 million in the fiscal year 2017, up from 100 million in the fiscal year 2016 on the back of prices becoming affordable for a larger number of people, coupled with replacement of ordinary phones with the smart devices at a rapid pace, according to an ASSOCHAM study. Smartphone sales almost more than doubled from 44 million units in... Read More
Reliance Communications (RCOM) announced that it has extended the exclusivity period with the primary shareholders of Aircel Limited (Maxis Communications Berhad and Sindya Securities and Investments Private Limited) by 2 months to May 22, 2016. This decision has been taken on the back of good progress that has been made on the proposal for potential combination of the Indian wireless business of RCOM and Aircel. Both the operators look to... Read More
To add joy in the festival of colors, largest telecom operator, Bharti Airtel has now launched special ‘Holi Offers’ for their 'Airtel Money' users. Under the Holi Offer, Airtel Money users can get cash back up to 10% on every recharge made on the app. However, the company is offering only 5% cash back on every Airtel recharge. To get the offer, Airtel Money users can use the promo code 'Holi5'... Read More
Idea Cellular has expanded its 3G services in Pune and Nashik by the launch of its first ever 3G internet expressway in the areas. The extra 700 cell sites in the 900MHz band are built on the 1,500 3G cell sites and over 1,540 modernized 2G sites, providing additional capacity for the data users. Within the next one month this count will be doubled. Thereby, the 3G users in these... Read More
As a Holi offer, Aircel launched ‘Chhutti Pack’, a unique recharge pack priced at Rs. 83 (in Delhi). It offers an ‘extra’ talk time of Rs. 90, and also provides the user with 5 minutes of free incoming calls every day on Roaming on Aircel/Vodafone network. The benefits of the pack vary from circle to circle. According to Anupam Vasudev, Chief Marketing Officer, Aircel, the pack is to serve the... Read More
The premium film and entertainment company PVR and India’s largest mobile payment platform Paytm.com have announced a strategic partnership that will enable the users to grab PVR’s movie tickets from Paytm. The partnership targets a sale of Rs. Rs. 2.5-3 billion on Paytm’s e-commerce platforms, besides selling through other channels. “In our never-ending passion to provide convenience to our esteemed patrons, we have partnered with Paytm as our e-ticketing channel... Read More
Cricket fever is in the air as India Hosts the ICC world T20 championship. Reliance Jio the soon to launch telecom network is providing free public wifi service at 6 of the stadiums hosting the matches. The company’s WiFi network JioNet is available in Eden Garden at Kolkata, Wankhede Stadium (Mumbai), IS Bindra Stadium (Mohali), HPCA stadium (Dharamshala), Chinnaswamy Stadium (Bengaluru) and Feroz Shah Kotla (Delhi). JioNet supports 68,000 connections at... Read More
Vodafone India has launched 4G services across Vashi, Kopar Khairane, Airoli, Nerul, Belapur and Kharghar. The roll out across all parts of Mumbai will be completed by the end of March 2016, says the company. “Mumbai is a strong leadership market for Vodafone India with data contributing around 30% of total revenues. We are proud and delighted to bring our 4G services to Navi Mumbai. 4G has the potential to... Read More
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900Mhz band has made lot of things better for Airtel. So it should do same for Vi as well. 1800Mhz…
Nope, no need of marketing. It's waste of money. Airtel did lot of marketing but overall, Jio was far better…
You are not complete set of users for Airtel, some people use 500GB+ month easily. So 300GB should be norm…
I have not used more than 150 GB a month till now. Mostly it is between 80 to 140 GB.
Or maybe they need to market themselves better
