August 27th, 2013 4:02 PM 34 COMMENTS

4G India: Reliance Jio, TranSwitch, Rancore, Airtel, Tikona, Google, Videocon, Nokia

This week's biggest 4G news is Reliance Jio Infocomm has applied for unified license to offer any type of communications over its 4G/BWA spectrum won in 2010. That means Reliance Jio can offer voice and messaging services as well as data services over its 20MHz of 2300MHz spectrum. Govt recently has come up with unified license policy to open up new opportunities to telecom sector of the country. The new... Read More

August 21st, 2013 2:36 PM 2 COMMENTS

Nokia Lumia 925: A Brief Overview of its Specifications

Nokia has not been lagging behind in the smartphone market and has continuously looked at increasing its brand name. Though Nokia doesn’t require much introduction however the smartphone market cannot be called its forte. It has heavily banked on its Lumia series to get it through in this market and the series has performed exceptionally well. Being the most popular Windows based phone has made Nokia very happy about the... Read More

July 21st, 2013 11:04 AM 4 COMMENTS

4G Round-up: Reliance Jio, Airtel, ZTE & More

Reliance Jio Gets 6 Months Extension of Mobile Numbers to Keep Testing VoLTE Voice over 4G or LTE becomes more and more important to Reliance Jio Infocomm, as they asked for extension of another 6 months to keep testing VoLTE over its networks. The telecom arm of Mukesh Ambani owned Reliance Industries asked for allocation of 10,000 mobile numbers to test voice calls on its LTE-TD/4G network in October last... Read More

June 22nd, 2013 10:11 AM 5 COMMENTS

Google Partners Spice to Launch Retail Chain – ‘Android Nation’ in India

Though Google's official Android devices i.e. Nexus phones, tablets and other gadgets are delayed for launch in India, Google can't simply ignore India for Android penetration. Actually Google is all set to roll out Android Nation branded retail store across the country by partnering B.K.Modi's Spice Global. India will the second country to have Android Nation stores after Indonesia where Google has partnered local electronics retailer Erafone, and operates two... Read More

June 20th, 2013 9:21 AM 1 COMMENTS

Hike to Tie-up with Airtel, Vodafone & Idea; Similar to RCom-WhatsApp Plans?

The battle of free messaging apps over internet has reached to mobile operators too. In recent time India becomes a focus point for the messaging apps and VoIP apps like WhatsApp, Skype, WeChat, Nimbuzz or Hike. In the latest development instant messaging app - Hike, developed by Bharti SoftBank is in talks with incumbent players - Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and Idea Cellular to come up with special bundle packs... Read More

June 16th, 2013 12:08 PM 2 COMMENTS

Weekly Telecom Bytes: AUSPI asks DoT to reject COAI Plea on Tata Teleservices Spectrum Withdrawal, Lava to Launch Iris 504Q

AUSPI asks DoT to reject COAI Plea on Tata Teleservices Spectrum Withdrawal Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India (AUSPI), which represents dual technology players such as TTSL, Reliance Communications and Sistema Shyam Teleservices, has asked DoT to reject the COAI plea to take back spectrum from Tata Teleservices in 18 service areas. Earlier, The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), representing GSM players, had written to DoT asking... Read More

June 6th, 2013 2:42 PM 2 COMMENTS

India ships 10,000 Tablets every day; Datawind leads the Market

According to CMR’s India Quarterly Tablet PC Market Review, 1Q (January-March) 2013, India ships 10,000 Tablets every day to make up to total shipments of 905,000 during January-March 2013. As many as 53 domestic and international vendors sold (shipped) tablets in Q1, 2013, out of which only nine vendors shipped in significant volumes of more than 20,000 units during that period, the report said. However the good news is that the... Read More

April 4th, 2013 3:36 PM 3 COMMENTS

Mobile Browser War: Servo vs Blink

With the growth of internet enabled mobile phones and devices, there is a huge market created for the mobile browsers. As the days go, these browsers become powerful to more powerful and go cross-platform. Opera's mobile browsers - Opera Mobile and Opera Mini have dominance in the mobile market, though last few years other browsers are also increasing their user base. Currently Google backed Android platform has its own stock... Read More

March 31st, 2013 11:59 AM 8 COMMENTS

Poll: Next Wave of New Mobile Platforms Coming Soon: Your Choice?

The world has changed since smartphone goes mass mania. Google's Android, Nokia's Symbian, Microsoft's Windows, Palm's WebOS, Apple's iOS, Blackberry's BlackberryOS are the top performers in the mobile operating system arena. These operating systems are moving from smartphones, tablets to TV, camera, watch and many household stuffs. But following the huge success of Android, mostly due to its ability to offer low cost smartphones there are emergence of new mobile... Read More

March 10th, 2013 11:25 AM 47 COMMENTS

Locked Horns: Reliance Jio Infocomm vs COAI/Airtel over Voice Services

Though India's telecom sector is still messed up, pan-India BWA spectrum winner Reliance Jio Infocomm (formerly RIL Infotel Broadband) and mobile operators, especially GSM ones under COAI are locked horns regarding the permission of providing voice services by 4G/BWA players as well as internet service providers. In India internet service providers (ISP) were not allowed to provide Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) services. But Telecom Commission allowed this recently and operators lobbies started... Read More

February 8th, 2013 5:50 PM 15 COMMENTS

Smartphone Review – Lava Iris 501 #AwesomeValueforMoney

Few days back I shared some exclusive hands-on and unboxing pictures of Lava Iris 501 - company's first 5 inch phablet. May be Lava is a bit late to join the phablet party, yet it's first offering Iris 501 has its own uniqueness to impress people. In the box there are neatly packed smartphone with transparent screen cover, 2300mAh battery, charger cum USB cable, 4GB microSD card, a protective case,... Read More

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

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