The wait is finally over as the big day has arrived. The largest spectrum auction in the history of Indian telecom industry is set to commence today as 800MHz, 900MHz, 1800MHz and 2100MHz bands go up for sale. The government will be auctioning 380.75 MHz of spectrum in 800, 900 and 1800MHz bands and 85MHz in 2100MHz band. A total of 8 telecom operators will be bidding for spectrum out... Read More
The Supreme Court of India (SCI) has allowed the government to go ahead with the 2G spectrum auction scheduled for March 4.The outcome will not be finalised without its permission. While staying the February 12, 2015 interim order of Tripura High Court, the SCI bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel said no bidder, if successful, shall claim any equity in the bidding process. The Tripura High... Read More
Most android users must be familiar with the stock music app of the android platform ‘Google play music’ which comes bundled along with phones running Kitkat and Lollipop version of the OS. This app can be used to play songs and audio files stored in the memory of your phone as well as stream songs that you have uploaded to the free cloud storage or if you are a paid... Read More
DOT has published the list of pre-qualified bidders for March 5th spectrum auction. TATA and Aircel will not be allowed to bid for new spectrum as both companies have declared negative net worth. They are only allowed to buy additional spectrum in circles where they already offering its services. In the list of pre-qualified bidders, Bharti Airtel has the highest net worth at Rs 73069.60 crores followed by Reliance Jio Infocomm Rs 23029.58 cores.... Read More
One of the factors that plays a role in determining the voice calling tariffs offered by telecom operators is the interconnection charges paid by the operator on whose network the call originates to the operator on whose network it terminates. The more the operator would have to pay as interconnection fee, the higher it would charge the end user in the form of call tariff. Telecom regulatory authority of India... Read More
As we inch closer to the upcoming spectrum auctions, all limelight is focused on the 800, 900, 1800 and 2100MHz frequency bands. But one of the most efficient bands for the deployment of LTE is less talked about and still remains shrouded in ambiguity, yes we are referring to the 700MHz band. The 700MHz band is one of the most sought after band for LTE deployment around the world due... Read More
The biggest ever spectrum auction in the history of the Indian telecom industry is coming up next month and is slated to begin on 4th March 2015. The government will be putting up 380.75MHz of spectrum in the 800, 900, 1800MHz bands and 85MHz in the 2100MHz band and is expecting to garner a minimum of 80,000 crore rupees from this auction. Where does all this money come from and... Read More
Four telecom operators Airtel, Vodafone, Aircel and Uninor have submitted their applications for participating in the spectrum auctions charted to begin on 4th March 2015. So far, state owned BSNL, MTNL and Russian operator SSTL have decided to not participate in the upcoming auctions. MTNL and BSNL cited the lack of urgency in buying spectrum while SSTL cited the high base price as the reason for, not participating. Most of... Read More
As per the latest data released by TRAI, Airtel has become India largest broadband service provider. Airtel is also the largest mobile operator in the country. Airtel now has 19.19 million broadband subscribers pushing BSNL to the second place with 18.90 million users. Vodafone is at third spot with 16.65 million users. Idea Cellular and Reliance Communications secured 4th and 5th position with 12.95 million and 7.11 million user base.... Read More
Aircel is buckling up its armour and entering into the 4G LTE battlefield in which up till now Airtel and Reliance Jio have been locking horns for gaining the early movers advantage. Aircel holds 20MHz of spectrum in the 4G LTE 2300 MHz band across eight circles - Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Assam and North East and Jammu and Kashmir. In comparison, Airtel holds 20MHz of... Read More
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. Has the largest wired broadband market share in India. The internet backbone provides broadband connectivity to maximum rural areas as well as semi-urban and urban regions in India. BSNL has activated a new speed test hosting server on speedtest.net, the server is based in Bangalore. Multiprotocol label switching(MPLS) Network operating system(NOC) has reported that this server is capable of measuring connection speeds up to 100 Mbps.... Read More
With Reliance Jio's pushing for public Wifi services, India's WiFi demographics is going to see multifold interests among service providers, end customers, equipment vendor and related others. Reliance Jio and other existing mobile operators are rolling several WiFi hotspots across the country. The best part of these public WiFi is they are going with try before buying strategy. One of the old players of this segment is O-zone. It's been present... Read More
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