Airtel, India's leading telecom service provider by subscribers, said that it would see some impact on its revenue if the impending Reliance Jio launch leads to a price war in the country. "If rates come down, then it will have an impact on our revenue, but we are determined not to let that happen," Bharti Airtel MD and CEO for India & South Asia Gopal Vittal said in an earnings... Read More
If you are using any technology driven product, you are most likely to be using an open source software knowingly or unknowingly. Did you ever realize that the website you visit from your desktop or a smartphone browser is hosted on some cloud platform running Linux? Nearly 1 in 3 machines on Microsoft Azure is running Linux. The growing base of open source is acknowledged by the large corporations like Microsoft... Read More
With festival season around the corner, Chinese smartphone maker Vivo has slashed the price of its V3 smartphone in India. Vivo V3, which originally costs Rs. 17,980 will be now sold for Rs. 14,980. The Rs. 3000 price will come into effect immediately across all retail outlets in the country. If to refresh its specifications, V3 smartphone comes with a 5-inch display of 720 x 1280p resolution, powered by an... Read More
As a successor of Cloud String HD smartphone launched in May 2016, Intex has announced Cloud String V2.0. Priced at Rs. 6499, this budget smartphone comes with an inbuilt SOS feature for emergencies. This enables the users to send SOS messages to a pre-configured recipient in case of an emergency. Other specifications of Intex Cloud String V2.0 include a 5-inch Oncell HD IPS display with a resolution of 1280 x... Read More
ACT FiberNet which launched their FTTH broadband in Delhi last week, has now introduced new broadband plans for small enterprise or home offices under SOHO category. The popular ISP which is famous for great data speeds in southern India is already offering similar broadband packages under the same category. For Delhi, the ISP is offering three plans namely Remarkable, Exceptional & Phenomenal. ACT Remarkable plan comes with 100 Mbps speed... Read More
Few days back, we had reported that Airtel had updated their partner app 'Mitra' to digitize the way retailers currently offer telecom services to consumers. Now, this time, a report by KeralaTelecom shows that state-run telecom operator BSNL is also working on digital apps to offer services through a digital process to ease the process by which BSNL partners are connected with them. For this, BSNL is working on two... Read More
The Indian government has begun hunt for the new head of loss-making telecom operator Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) after a gap of two years. The telecom PSU has been operating without a full-time CMD since May 30, 2014, when A K Garg retired from the post. According to a PTI report, the government has constituted a search-cum- selection committee under the chairmanship of Chairman, PESB for appointment to the post... Read More
Popular Chinese smartphone brand, OnePlus which became popular for their value for money 'Flagship Killer' phones seems to be working to offer an OTA update to enable VoLTE feature for older devices. The maker of OnePlus One, Two & X models is already offering VoLTE ready OnePlus 3 device. Though its older devices aren’t VoLTE ready, they are powered by Snapdragon 8xx series processors which are capable of handling VoLTE... Read More
World’s largest social media giant has brought a new way to curate all the birthday wishes a user received on its platform via “Birthday recap video”. As the name indicates, the feature will automatically create a video containing the birthday posts a user received. A customization option is available for the user to change the photos/posts included in it and then share it on the timeline. The video will be... Read More
Japanese telecom major Docomo on Friday accused Tata and Sons of making excuses not to honour $1.17-billion arbitration award and said that the latter has now shown its willingness to make the payment. The Japanese company, in a statement, said, "The only excuse for non-payment of the award which is alleged by Tata is the decision by the Reserve Bank of India earlier this week which was based on a... Read More
Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is only hours away from its official launch on August 2. From the numerous leaks surfaced online, the specifications are pretty much known to all. Samsung itself has confirmed about the large screen, which is rumored to be 5.8-inch or 6-inch, and an S Pen. The final round of reports surfacing online are about the free 5GB of storage that the Samsung will offer along with... Read More
Targeting the tier II and tier III cities of India, Panasonic has launched T44 lite smartphone with medium specifications at a pocket-friendly price of Rs. 3199. Sold exclusively on Snapdeal from August 1, Panasonic T44 lite will feature a 4-inch WVGA display with 800 x 400p resolution and a 1.3GHz quad-core MediaTek processor paired with 512MB of RAM. The smartphone offers 8GB of inbuilt storage, which can be expandable up... Read More
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where are the plans?no details , whats new whats changed?
Vi should decrease the tariff somewhere near to Jio's. So it can grab users from Airtel and Jio.
If out of 481, 108 is 5G customers. That means customer on Jio 4G network reduced from 452 million in…
In my nearest enodeB, Jio switches off b40 daily at around 1 am, restores around 6 am. b3 and b5…
If they already reached 482 million, I wonder in how many months it will reach 500 million customers. Their ARPU…
