Reliance communications the 4th largest operator by subscriber base which is in the process of merging wireless operations with MTS in an all stock deal will start migrating the CDMA subscribers of MTS to its own 4G network. The upgrade to 4G section on Rcom website has now started displaying the ability to enter an MTS number to register it for upgrade to Rcom 4G. The error message displayed in... Read More
Indian telecom companies have urged the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), to continue with current practice of using network statistics to calculate call drop rates, rejecting the sector regulator’s suggestion of calculating call drop rates through a meta data analysis of call detail records (CDRs), according to an Economic Times report. In their submission to Trai on discussion paper floated in August on reviewing quality of network-related services, the... Read More
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
Idea cellular the 3rd largest operator by subscriber base, which was in a 3G intra circle roaming agreement with Airtel and Vodafone to achieve a Pan India 3G footprint has now decided to end the agreement with Airtel effective from 15th November. Idea will continue the partnership with Vodafone going forward. The above screenshot is from an SMS that Idea sent out to a subscriber in Mumbai circle. Interestingly Idea... Read More
Bharti Airtel and Vodafone India, the country’s top two telecom operators, said that they are providing small credits or talk time loan to help their respective prepaid customers who may find it hard to get their connections recharged due to the government's move to take Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes out of circulation, which has also caused shortage of notes of small denominations. The move by the two telcos... Read More
Following Bharti Airtel, Anil Ambani led Reliance Communications which is in the process to merge their wireless operations with Aircel and MTS has started offering unlimited voice calls on their network at a low rate of Rs 153. Though, they had offered unlimited calling benefits earlier, this time they are offering similar benefits at dirt cheap rate to lessen subscriber churn rate as majority of people are moving to Jio... Read More
India’s telecom ministry has formed a committee to look into the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) recent penalty recommendation worth Rs 3,050 crore on top telcos, according to a report in Business Standard. "A committee is formed to look at the proposal sent by TRAI. The committee will give its considerations," Union Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha was quoted as saying by the publication. The DoT has been processing the... Read More
Adding a 4G smartphone to the Spark series, Micromax has launched the new Canvas Spark 4G. Priced at Rs. 4999, Micromax Canvas Spark 4G is a 5-inch smartphone with IPS display and Corning Gorilla Glass protection. It is powered by 1.3GHz quad-core Spreadtrum processor and has 1GB RAM. There is an inbuilt memory of 8GB as well. The memory is expandable up to 32GB. It runs Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating... Read More
On an average, the prepaid smartphone users in India live with zero balance in their phones for 7.5 days a month, according to True Balance. The study also pointed out that the most recharging activity is performed by the people at 8pm on Thursday. This data is based on the report for September 2016. With a download of 10 million in 19 months since its launch in 2014, True Manager... Read More
A Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, headed by BJP MP Anurag Thakur, will now discuss the unending call drop issue with Indian telecom carriers, the telecom department (DoT) and sector regulator TRAI on November 10. According to PTI, the Parliamentary panel has called members of industry body Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI) and Reliance Jio separately and it will hear the views of the representatives of COAI and... Read More
Vodafone India has announced the launch of its Vodafone SuperNet 4G service at Bahadurgarh, Jind, and Bhiwani in Haryana. The deployment will happen in few months throughout the state, says Vodafone. Vodafone 4G services are built on 1800 MHz band and can be accessed via a wide range of devices, including smartphones, Mi-Fi, and dongles. Commenting on the launch of Vodafone SuperNetTM 4G services in Rewari, Mohit Narru Business Head–Haryana,... Read More
The GSM telecom operator Aircel has launched an attractive pack for its customers in Karnataka. Priced at Rs. 178, the pack offers 2GB 3G data for 28 days. Announcing the launch of the pack, Kanwarbir Singh, Circle Business Head – Karnataka, Aircel, said, “Aircel has spiced up the festivities with RC178, another splendid value proposition offering by Aircel in the Karnataka market, tailor-made for the data users. Aircel understands its... Read More
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Tariff restructure? Can you elaborate? Like what kind of tarrif you wanted/were expecting?
they're too lazy to do that.
Bro, Let's enjoy VI's slow and natural death!
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