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Rudradeep Biswas July 5th, 2013 2:19 PM 8 COMMENTS

4G Update: Airtel Now Owns 51% of Qualcomm’s 4G Venture, Reliance Jio-Samsung Phone Deal Hits Roadblock

Though 4G is long way to go mainstream in the country, the market is evolving fast. This time we had two updates to share, from two locked horns competitor on 4G turf : Bharti Airtel & Reliance Industries backed Jio Infocomm. Airtel announced that they increased their stakes at Qualcomm's Indian 4G venture from 49% to 51%. With this acquisition the four entities of Qualcomm's 4G venture become Airtel's subsidiaries.... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas June 18th, 2013 10:54 AM 8 COMMENTS

Smartphone for Masses: Lava Mobile Plans for Super Affordable FirefoxOS Phones

Mozilla's ambitious mobile platform Firefox OS is all set to get a new handset partner in India as home grown Lava Mobiles is set to launch smartphones running on Firefox OS. In a recent media interaction with Hari Om Rai, co-founder and Director at Lava International has confirmed that Lava is working on a Firefox OS smartphone, which could be priced below Rs 3000 ($54 approx). He did not reveal... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas June 15th, 2013 10:44 AM 6 COMMENTS

ZTE to Launch Open Market SWIFT 3G Data Cards Soon

Chinese mobile device and telecom equipment maker ZTE has announced that the company will launch own branded data cards in India in mid-June this year. ZTE becomes aggressive in Indian soil to tap the end-consumer mobile device market, earlier it announced to launch several smartphones under own brand. Currently ZTE is the second largest data card seller in the country, but they don't directly sell the data cards, rather it... Read More

Chhavi May 12th, 2013 12:24 PM 5 COMMENTS

Weekly Telecom Bytes: Nokia Bets Big on Asha 501, Vodafone to Go Court for License Extension, LG’s LTE TD Phone

TelecomTalk keeps a regular track of the Indian Telecom grapevine. So here’s a weekly round-up of the news that created buzz in Indian telecom Industry for the week of 4th May, 2013 – 11th May, 2013 A) Get Ready to Pay More as Reliance Hikes Call Rates; Cuts Down on Freebies and Discounts In order to improve profits, Reliance Communications, controlled by billionaire Anil Ambani hiked its mobile call rates... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas May 10th, 2013 4:35 PM 13 COMMENTS

4G Round up: Reliance Jio Cracks Important Deals, LG to Intro LTE-TD Smartphone

Though India's telecom market lost its sheen, there are some happenings ongoing inside the market, specially on the 4G space. While presenting annual report for 2012-13 Reliance Industries, who own Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd has said that they have completed finalizing key agreements with its technology partners, service providers, infrastructure providers, application partners, device manufacturers and other strategic partners for the project. The company also finalize the planning for pan... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas February 19th, 2013 11:25 AM 9 COMMENTS

Telecom Regulations: Hike on ISP License, Voice over 4G, Spectrum Swap for 4G Players

Indian government is again to milk the telecommunication sector, as media reports are saying that government is going to revise pan India ISP license charges, as well as to implement new charges on mobile operators as they are offering internet services. As per Internet Service Providers Association of India (ISPAI), DoT is finalizing a framework which will ask for Rs 15 crore for country wide unified license from internet service... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas December 2nd, 2012 11:24 AM 16 COMMENTS

4G Devices in India : Expect Some Uniqueness in Coming Days

Though Indian telecom sector is going through a up and down phase this time, mostly because of regulatory irregularity, spectrum price and lukewarm response to 3G services; many analysts bet high on Reliance Infotel's upcoming 4G/LTE roll out in the country. In 2010 Infotel Broadband bagged pan India BWA spectrum i.e. 20 MHz on 2300 MHz band in all 22 circles, soon after Reliance Industries took 95% of Infotel Broadband.... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas October 26th, 2012 11:20 AM 11 COMMENTS

Reliance Infotel to Begin Voice over LTE Trials – Can it Outmatch Existing Players on Voice Front?

It seems Reliance Industries owned Infotel Broadband has told the reason why they are not bidding for upcoming 2G spectrum. In a latest report RIL Infotel has asked Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to allocate mobile numbers as the company is ready to run trials of voice services on their yet-to-be-launched LTE-TDD network. Infotel is the pan India BWA spectrum winner, and is going to be biggest competitor to Bharti Airtel... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas October 15th, 2012 12:40 AM 8 COMMENTS

Pune to Get Airtel LTE: Meeting Rollout Obligation?

Bharti Airtel, leading mobile operator and first LTE/4G operator in India is all set to officially launch 4G/LTE-TDD services in Pune, Maharastra on October 18th. Pune will be the third Indian city to get LTE network after Kolkata and Bangaluru. In Maharastra Airtel's LTE-TDD network is made by Nokia Siemens. It should be noted that ZTE and Huawei are managing Airtel's LTE network in Kolkata and Bangaluru respectively. There is no changes on the Airtel... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas October 8th, 2012 11:27 AM 76 COMMENTS

Tata Docomo Removes Capping on 2G Data Plans in 2G Only Circles

After the intense competition and low tariff days are over, operators are slowing hiking the 2G tariff. This tariff revision is not only for voice but also seen on data segment. Almost all operators cut down bundled usage on their 2G plans - Airtel, Vodafone and Idea are now offering just 1GB data for Rs 98, Aircel withdraws unlimited 2G pocket internet pack to favor their FUP enabled 3G unlimited... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas October 7th, 2012 1:25 PM 27 COMMENTS

Reverse Bundling – Will That Change India’s Handset & 3G Ecosystem?

In recent time BSNL and MTNL, the state owned opeator duo have entered into several reverse bundling agreements with many device manufacturers. This is quite different approach, as many operators like MTS and Idea Cellular are bundling offers with their own branded device line up. It can be noted that BSNL and MTNL both are in this approach from the very first, since the 3G sets in. BSNL has entered... Read More

Rudradeep Biswas October 5th, 2012 4:59 PM 10 COMMENTS

Micromax Funbook Talk Arrives for Rs 7,199

Micromax has added another tablet under its Funbook series as a new Funbook dubbed as Funbook Talk P350 has been spotted over Spice Group's e-shopping portal saholic.com for Rs 7,199. 7 inch Funbook Talk runs on Android 4.0 ICS operating system (oops! Karbonn, Zync and WickedLeaks have launched Android 4.1 Jelly Bean tablets) and is featured with 1GHz Cortex A8 processor, 512 MB RAM, 0.3MP front camera, 4GB in-built storage,... Read More