Though there is no definite date of launch is announced or rumored, there are lots of happenings inside Infotel Broadband, the 4G arm of Reliance Industries. It is expected that Infotel will kickstart 4G/LTE-TDD based wireless broadband services in Delhi and Mumbai in early 2013. Reliance Infotel is the only company in the country which won 20MHz pan India spectrum on 2300 MHz band to offer 4G/BWA services. Infotel will... Read More
In an attempt to increase adoption of 3G service in India, country's 2nd largest mobile service provider, Vodafone has reduced the price of its Android, 3G handset Vodafone Smart from Rs.4995 to Rs.3100. Powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 processor and Google’s Android 2.2.1 OS (Froyo), ‘Vodafone Smart’ comes with attractive features like 2.8 inch capacitive touch display, 528 MHz ARM 11 CPU, 2 mega pixel camera with Geo-tagging, WiFi, Video... Read More
Calcutta Telephones – the Kolkata metro unit of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has listed the details of CDMA 1x and EVDO BTS location on their website. As per information given there, CalTel has installed 316 CDMA BTS, among them 143 BTS are EVDO enabled, while 173 BTS are just equipped with CDMA1x. That means only 45.3 % BSNL’s CDMA BTS are EVDO enabled. It also reveals that in Bidhannagar, City,... Read More
More than a year after its launch, 3G adoption in India remains subdued at 10-12 million users due to various issues like poor network quality as operators are cash-strapped to spend on 3G expansion, low penetration of 3G enabled handsets, unavailability of local content, absence of a killer application (similar to what SMS was for 2G) etc. Higher spectrum prices also forced operators to offer 3G services at a premium... Read More
Bharti Airtel, India’s largest mobile service operator today launches its 4G LTE - High Speed Wireless Broadband Service in Bangalore (Bengaluru -Karnataka). After Kolkata, Bangalore becomes the 2nd city in India wherein 4G-LTE services available. Airtel has launched the service on a state-of-the-art network based on TD-LTE, making India one of the first countries in the world to commercially deploy this cutting-edge technology. Huawei is the 4G technology partner of... Read More
Bharti Airtel, India's largest mobile service operator is set to roll out its 4G - High Speed Wireless Broadband Service on May 7th 2012 in Bangalore (Karnataka). After Kolkata, Bangalore will be the 2nd city to get 4G service in India. According to our exclusive sources close to the operator, Airtel 4G network is ready in Bangalore and commercial service network will be live from May 7, 2012 followed by... Read More
Airtel began its 4G operations in the country starting from Kolkata as India’s first operator to roll out commercial 4G-LTE services. As of now Airtel offers only data services over 4G network, and offers a multimode 4G-LTE dongle (Huawei E392) and a Indoor WiFi CPE (Huawei B593). More details of Airtel 4G plans and devices can be found here. We, team telecomtalk did get a chance to make an exclusive... Read More
As we shared earlier about Airtel’s 4G-LTE launch in Kolkata, it come true as today Airtel will showcase its 4G services in Kolkata. The inauguration of Airtel 4G will be celebrated with a special event organized at ITC Sonar, Kolkata. Union telecom minister Kapil Sibbal will be the chief guest of the event. Airtel will offer 4G-LTE services over a wide range of devices including airtel 4G-LTE USB modem (Huawei... Read More
Though 3G in India is yet to be popular there is high demand for 3G enabled data cards as people are using these with 2G data services which comes cheap. Apart from Huawei and ZTE, many Indian companies have already launched own-branded unlocked 3G data cards. Micromax, one of the leading indigenous Indian handset companies has launched a new model under its 3G-HSPA data card portfolio. The new HSPA data... Read More
Mobile World Congress was first held in the year 1987, venue at Fira-de-Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.The 2012 MWC was known to be Android, was packed to the rafters with this year's top handsets. HTC have stolen much of the attention in the event, with the launch of one series (One X, One S, One V).The new entry Panasonic and UK’s mobile service provider Orange got into the league with the launch... Read More
Tata Docomo today launched an exciting handset bundled offer for its new CDMA customers in Mumbai and in Karnataka. Under this offer, customers can buy Huawei C2835 color FM handset at Rs 1099 along with which they will get 500 minutes of free local calling. Free calling value will be credited as 15,000 seconds per month for the next two months. Validity for free seconds will be 30 days from... Read More
Telecom in India is highly competitive market and operators struggling hard to lure people by lowering entry point for data service . By introducing low cost smartphones or by cuting down prices of data cards after all data gives more revenue than voice. Recently MTS India cuts down their EVDO MBlaze dongle price to Rs 999.Now Reliance Commnucations also takes the step and offers 3G-HSPA dongles at a lower cost.... Read More
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49 is not possible with 5MHz. EARFCN is 515, so, bw must be 10, not 5. for 5, the earfcn…
It'll take at least 3 years to happen that. People look at Airtel when they don't get good service in…
Very poor speeds. In three circles, Band 3 20Mhz gives 160Mbps easily. Vi in Gujarat, Airtel and Jio in Maharashtra…
No value left in airtel. 4G recharge is costlier than Jio. 5G isn't widely available plus 300gb restriction, cut from…
Damn, add that bandwidth already along with 700Mhz. Lot of phones support 1-28 CA on 4G.
