We have been emphasizing on the importance of customer experience via various forms be it website, self care or an over all experience really from a long time. Looks like Vodafone IN is trying to provide an all new customer experience through its online platforms via its Website and Self care portal. Vodafone India revamped its My Account Portal with an all new look and experience making it more attractive... Read More
iOS has Siri, Android has Google Now and Windows Phone has Cortana. Cortana is the youngest of them all, and is as functional as its competitors. As a matter of fact, it understands the Indian accent better than others do. As per the latest reports, Microsoft is believed to be working on a new version of Cortana for Android as well as iOS. The project of bringing Cortana to competing smartphone... Read More
Whatsapp is by far the most popular instant messaging app available in the market. With over 700 million active users, it has given a substantial hit to the SMS revenues of mobile operators. Now it has launched the much-awaited voice calling feature through its newest update, which enables the ability to make VoIP calls using cellular data or WiFi connection at no added cost. There have been other apps like... Read More
Telecom operators like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India, Idea cellular and Aircel have reportedly sent an application to Telecom regulatory authority of India for reconsidering its proposal to reduce the ceiling tariffs for voice calls and SMS in roaming which are applicable in the absence of any roaming tariff voucher. Earlier we had reported how TRAI had proposed to reduce these tariffs . If the new guidelines are passed outgoing local... Read More
Telecom minister Ravishankar Prasad has refuted all rumours that have been going rife about the possibility of shutting down of public sector unit MTNL. Earlier we reported how talks about shut down of 5 PSUs were rampant out of which we only knew for sure about 3 units of HMT which is a watch manufacturing company as Heavy Industries minister Anant Geete had disclosed during the questioning hour. The identities... Read More
Airtel the leading GSM operator by subscriber base has come up with a solution to resolve the spectrum crunch issue plaguing the telecom industry today. Airtel had won technologically neutral spectrum in the 900MHz band in Mumbai, Delhi and Kolkata last year. This spectrum could be used to offer any service including 2G voice, 3G voice and data or 4G LTE. Airtel has decided to use this spectrum to offer... Read More
BSNL has introduced new voice STVs 88 & 54 offering 50p/min or 0.8p/sec call rate all India. STV 88 comes with a validity of 90 days and STV 54 has validity of 45 days. The new STV can be activated only by per second and per minute plan subscribers. Depending on the plan the call rate will be reduced to 50p/min or 0.8p/sec for Local/STD calls both onnet and offnet within home LSA.... Read More
Here is a reason to grin for all those who have been waiting for the Android 5.0 Lollipop update on their Cyanogen-powered smartphones. Cyanogen has announced that it will soon be rolling out the Cyanogen OS 12 update (which is based on Android 5.0 Lollipop) to OnePlus One, Yu Yureka, and Alcatel Hero 2+. The company has revealed a tentative timeline for the update to be delivered. Cyanogen also stated... Read More
The bidding process completed 6 rounds bringing the total up to 43 rounds. The total bid amount crossed 96,000 Crore and it is likely that tomorrow it may cross the 1 lac crore mark. In the 2100MHz band there was a demand for one block each in Rajasthan and Assam circles. In the 1800MHz band there was surplus demand in Kolkata and Haryana circles. In 900MHz band there was excess... Read More
As we predicted some months back, the Government will be in its move in shutting down a bunch of losses making PSUs which also includes the state-run telecom MTNL. India has totally 251 PSUs amongst which 65 are reportedly put under the scanner for being the loss-making ones. The five PSUs which will be closed down include HMT which was one of the early pioneers in manufacturing watches and tractors... Read More
Day 6 of the spectrum auction ended with 6 rounds of bidding, bringing the total number of rounds up to 37. Though the provisional winning bid amount per block went up, the demand for blocks at the increased price was lower. As a result for the first time there was a dip in the profits for the government which fell by 2000 crores from 94,000 crore at the end of... Read More
Sony had announced that it will update all its Xperia Z family of devices to Android 5.0 Lollipop. Now, it is being reported that Sony is in final stages of rolling out the Lollipop update to the Xperia Z2, the Xperia Z3, and the Xperia Z3 Compact. This news comes from Sony's R&D team in India, which also revealed that the update will have a file size of 630MB and... 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…
