April 29th, 2016 12:31 PM 7 COMMENTS

Idea’s 4G subscriber base reaches 680,000 customers, adds 8.4 million new 3G users

Idea Cellular, the country’s third largest telco, said that 680,000 customers were actively using its 4G LTE services till March 31, 2016, and it further added 8.4 million new 3G users in last one year. The company is currently serving overall 22.9 million 3G data customers, though still a low penetration of 13.1% of EoP Subscribers. Idea said that 60.4 million of Idea’s strong 175 million EoP subscribers have upgraded their... Read More

April 29th, 2016 8:00 AM 2 COMMENTS

Huawei unveils metal-clad Honor 5C with 5.2-inch full HD display and Kirin 650 chipset

After a series of leaks, Huawei has finally announced the Honor 5C. The device is a successor to the Honor 4C, which was launched in 2015. It will be up for sale in two variants - Standard (without 4G) and Dual 4G. As of now, the smartphone is limited for sale in China at 899 yuan (approx. Rs. 9,230 standard variant) and 999 yuan (approx. Rs. 10,250 Dual 4G variant).... Read More

April 29th, 2016 6:30 AM 2 COMMENTS

Motorola gears up for a launch event on May 17 in India, expected to unveil Moto G4 Plus

Motorola is going to hold a launch event for an unnamed device in New Delhi on May 17. The company is expected to unveil the Moto G4 Plus. This report comes in accordance with the earlier reports that hinted Motorola working on a successor to the Moto G 3rd Gen. In terms of specifications for the upcoming device, the rumor mill suggests the device to come with a 5.5-inch 1080p display.... Read More

April 28th, 2016 10:40 AM 144 COMMENTS

Rcom now migrating Netconnect dongle subscribers to superior 4G network

As we have been constantly been reporting, Rcom is hard at work upgrading its CDMA subscribers across phase 1 circles to its new upcoming 4G network in partnership with elder brother's Reliance Jio. Few days back the operator had begun upgrading FWP subscribers to the new GSM based fixed wireless phones, now the process has been extended to EvDO based data cards as well. Rcom subscribers who possess Netconnect or... Read More

April 27th, 2016 5:32 PM 55 COMMENTS

Telenor India posts huge operating loss, seeks spectrum at reasonable rates to continue operations

Telenor India has posted huge operating loss at NOK 3100 million in the first quarter, due to NOK 2.9 billion in impairment and write-down, the company said, and threatened to exit the Indian market if it fails to get spectrum at reasonable rates. While announcing the global results, Telenor global CEO Sigve Brekke said the company’s long terms presence in India is dependent on its ability to secure additional spectrum.... Read More

April 27th, 2016 5:08 PM 0 COMMENTS

Nokia says buying digital health firm Withings to bolster IoT play

Nokia said that it is buying French fitness gadget maker Withings for EUR 170 million or $191 million to bolster its position in the Internet of Things domain. The acquisition is expected to close in early third quarter of the ongoing financial year, subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing condition, the company said, adding that Withings will be part of Nokia Technologies business. "We have said consistently that digital... Read More

April 27th, 2016 3:44 PM 10 COMMENTS

Apple iPhone 7: force touch home button and waterproof design on the cards?

Rumor mills continue to churn on Apple iPhone 7. Taiwanese website Digitimes is the latest one to put up information about the forthcoming Apple smartphone. The first speculation is on its home button, where the website stated that Apple may kill off the home button of iPhone 7. Instead, the new model could use ‘force touch’ screen and built-in fingerprint sensor. The move will make the entire front of the... Read More

April 27th, 2016 3:34 PM 4 COMMENTS

OnePlus 3 with 6GB RAM gets tipped again via benchmark listing

After the OnePlus 3 got leaked in AnTuTu listing, there weren’t many speculations about the phone. At MWC 2016 held in Barcelona, the company’s Co-founder Carl Pie’s commented to CNET that OnePlus 3 is slated for release in June 2016. He further confirmed a ‘new design’ for the phone, regarding which he said,“it will be capable of captivating users like its first handset OnePlus One”. Now, a German website Winfuture spotted... Read More

April 27th, 2016 3:16 PM 4 COMMENTS

Vodafone facilitates electricity bill payment in UP through M-Pesa

Vodafone’s digital wallet service Vodafone M-Pesa has partnered with the UP’s three key electricity distributing bodies -- Paschimanchal Vidyut Vitran (PVVNL), Dakshinanchal Vidyut Vitran (DVVNL) & Madhyanchal Vidyut Vitran (MVVNL) – to facilitate easy option to pay the customers’ electricity bills. Vodafone has more than 115 lakhs subscribers in UP (W). There are 10,000+ outlets called CashIn points to convert cash into digital money. These CashIn points include Vodafone Company... Read More

April 27th, 2016 1:54 PM 14 COMMENTS

Net Neutrality: Airtel seeks Trai nod before entering into video content deal with a global firm

Bharti Airtel, the country’s largest telecom operator by subscribers, has reached out the Trai to seek nod for a video content deal with a "big global content provider", and to avoid any controversy on net neutrality. The company, in a letter to Trai Secretary Sudhir Gupta, said that it has been approached by one of the big global content providers who wishes to offer their video content on exclusive basis... Read More

April 27th, 2016 11:00 AM 1 COMMENTS

LeEco sets a new sales record of selling 7.5 lakhs smartphone units in a day

In a flash sale held in Beijing, LeEco has made a whopping sale of 910 million RMB (around 140 million USD) on LeMall.com and other platforms (JD.com, TMall and LePar Stores) by selling a total of over 7,50,000 units of Le smartphones, which the company calls as ‘Superphones’, says a release from the company. The website witnessed 23 million registrations for the sale. Among the smartphones sold, Le Max 2... Read More

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