There is a continuous pressure on Indian service provider’s voice business today. Though voice continues to be the mainstay of the Indian telcos, the voice margins are under pressure for most of the telcos. For Bharti Airtel, revenue from non-voice operations is 28.9%, as per the company’s quarterly results at the end of March 2016. Both Airtel and Idea Cellular have recorded a drop in voice revenue per minute by 2.4%... Read More
Vodafone India is reportedly in talks with Norway-based Telenor for acquisition of the latter’s operations in country in a bid to increase its 4G spectrum holdings to compete with bigger 4G players like Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular, and the new telco Reliance Jio. An Economic Times report said that Telenor’s airwaves in the 1800 MHz band will be valued at roughly $1 billion (Rs 6,800 crore). Vodafone can use Telenor’s... Read More
In an attempt to grab more customers, LYF smartphones have undergone have price reduction at the Reliance Retail showrooms. Key LYF smartphones including the popular LYF Flame 1 is available at discounted rate. According to Reliance Digital located at Barrackpore, Kolkata, LYF Flame 1 is now sold for Rs. 5000 unlike the earlier price of Rs. 5500. LYF Flame 2 now comes for Rs. 3499, unlike the earlier price of... Read More
India's telecom operators may spend around Rs 1 lakh crore to acquire 3G and 4G spectrum in the forthcoming auction expected in the next 2-3 months, according to ratings agency Crisil, which said that a healthy participation is likely from incumbent telcos as they may look at ramping up their 3G and 4G spectrum holdings to better compete with Reliance Jio. Private telecom operators like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone India and... Read More
Kerala circle was the first circle in India to have four 4G operators(if you count Jio). While Idea had a near monopoly for 3G in Kerala, 4G story is a little different as all three incumbent operators are in battle field with their 4G service. We now bring to you our first speed test results from small city Kottayam in Kerala. The tests were conducted by our reader Sugu on his YU Yuphoria smartphone. Both Airtel... Read More
Whatever the loyal fans of CDMA are thinking, CDMA will continue to be ceased in India. Starting from BSNL and MTNL which has pretty low subscriber base, the largest CDMA operator of the country - Reliance Communications continues to shut down its CDMA services across the country in the favor of LTE. Before the migration RCom promised CDMA users will be shifted to 4G, but post-migration users were actually shifted... 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
So for the benefit of the new readers who have just recently joined the TT family I'd like to give a brief introduction to the spectrum chart. Couple of years back one of our authors Tharun George put in his efforts to compile a visually lucid chart with all the details of the spectrum held by various operators across 6 bands in 22 circles. This chart is of great use... Read More
After Delhi and Mumbai we have got another 4G speed test report from Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh. After launching on metro cities telecom operators have have moved to Tier-II Cities for launching 4G service. Idea is said to have the best 4G coverage in Andhra Pradesh, while Airtel 4G service is limited to few cities. Let's, see which one performs better in Andhra Pradesh. The tests were conducted by our reader Sri Rajasimha Reddy on his OnePlus Two smartphone.... Read More
Reliance Communications has reportedly received the legal intercept and monitoring (LIM) approval from the department of telecom in 12 out of 22 circles, which will allow the telco to offer 4G services to its CDMA subscribers, who have a 4G SIM. A Business Standard report said that Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Kolkata, Maharashtra, Punjab, east and west Uttar Pradesh, Mumbai, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh and Bihar are the first 12 circles. The... Read More
LYF brand has become the third largest LTE smartphone provider with 13% market share in the first quarter of 2016, according to data released by Cyber Media Research (CMR). Reliance Jio’s 4G services which come bundled with LYF smartphones has been the only driver for LYF’s growth in the quarter. Under the LYF smartphone, Reliance offers a number of Voice over LTE (VoLTE) ready smartphones with prices starting from Rs 3,999.... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) is planning to take the franchise route to offer 4G LTE services across 14 circles in the country. The telco has reportedly invited bids from private companies to roll out 4G services across these circles on a non-exclusive revenue-sharing franchise model. According to a Financial Express report, BSNL has categorised the 14 telecom circles, where it has spectrum to offer 4G services, into six zones,... Read More
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