There’s a joke going popular on Facebook these days. It says: What is depression? I’ll lock you up in a room with a dying phone battery and no electric points, what you will feel the next moment is depression. Exactly that feeling is no less than a depression these days. There was a time when a phone was seen as a luxury, but today the list of necessities starts with... Read More
Vodafone India has started offering an unlimited local calling to any network in the Mumbai and Maharashtra circles with data benefits at Rs 297. With this new offer, Vodafone is trying to ape Bharti Airtel, which recently rolled out a similar offering for its prepaid customers across Kolkata, Mumbai, and Delhi. Vodafone’s new pack is applicable to a few prepaid customers and could be available as a limited time offer.... Read More
India’s largest service provider, Bharti Airtel has recently awarded a $60 million pan-India deal to Nokia to deploy Voice-over-LTE (VoLTE) technology across the country, according to a recent report by ETTelecom. While Airtel is already believed to be piloting VoLTE, other incumbents, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular, are also planning to deploy VoLTE. Greenfield operator Reliance Jio, which has recently launched commercial services in the country has been marketing VoLTE... Read More
Bharti Airtel is all set for a battle against 4G newcomer Reliance Jio Infocomm on the voice over LTE (VoLTE) front with a possible nationwide launch within this calendar year. The leading carrier has awarded a nationwide VoLTE contract worth $60 million to Finnish gear maker Nokia to counter Reliance Jio’s VoLTE services in India, according to a report by Economic Times. “Airtel was piloting the technology in a few... Read More
The Indian government seems set to adopt 5G technology alongside other developed markets, given its focus on programs like Digital India. The government has commissioned a research team on 5G technology, which has already filed 100 patents so far — of which around 10 have already been granted, according to the Economic Times. The research project, which was commissioned by the ministry of electronics and IT, was approved in September... Read More
With the rollout of 3G services by MTNL/BSNL in the early years of wireless data era in India, these were the government operators who took an early advantage in promoting high-speed data services in the form of Video calling and high-speed connectivity services. BSNL also has a very good advertisement for video calling services on 3G technology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4j6JIJfmSM Though 4G/LTE services are rolled by various operators, video calling was never... Read More
Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications, which recently switched to 4G LTE technology for providing high speed mobile internet services, is reportedly planning to offer voice calling over LTE (VoLTE) by the end of the year. The telco, according to an Economic Times report, is holding talks with major network providers like Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei and ZTE for the technology, and is likely to finalise a player within a fortnight. RCom has already... Read More
Ahead of Reliance Jio's 4G launch; India's largest telecom operator Bharti Airtel is now all set to launch their 4G network on Band 40 across 8 telecom circles for which they brought spectrum from Aircel at around Rs 3500 crore. According to our readers, Airtel has already started distributing 4G SIM cards in four circles including Rest of West Bengal, Bihar, J&K and Assam. In the remaining four circles namely... Read More
The changing voice dynamics and soon to be launched Reliance Jio’s 4G services is providing momentum to Voice over LTE (VoLTE) in the country. The incumbents, Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular are likely to focus on VoLTE in the coming few years. In fact, Airtel and Vodafone have already awarded IP Multimedia System (IMS) solution deal to Nokia. Incidentally Nokia has also bagged $100 Million IMS contract from... Read More
When Jio is offering its partner retailers to move to the digital ecosystem to ease their recharging and SIM activation process, Airtel doesn't want to go obsolete in the digital process to help their retailers. To do so, Airtel has brought a major update to their partner app called 'Mitra'. In the recent update to the app, Airtel has added several new features and significantly changed the user interface in... Read More
Indus Towers, the country’s largest telecom tower company, announced the appointment of Mr. Tejinder Kalra as the Chief Operating Officer, as on 1st July 2016. With over 26 years of experience in the telecom and telecom services industry, Tejinder holds an extensive experience in strategy development, implementation and service delivery across geographies. Speaking on the occasion, Mr. Bimal Dayal, Chief Executive Officer, Indus Towers said, “In line with Indus’ pursuit... Read More
A majority of telecom carriers (91 percent) surveyed plan to run voice over LTE (VoLTE) services over IMS in the next two years, according to IHS, which added VoLTE is the number-one driver for deploying IMS today. In India, Reliance Jio is the first mover in the IMS space, and it has adopted the IMS solution from Nokia to offer VoLTE services. Incumbent telcos-Bharti Airtel and Vodafone India--have recently selected Nokia... Read More
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Difficult to believe.
And there are wifi 7 router on amazon lol
wifi is western culture hence ban wifi -these ppl probably
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