Telenor India seems to have met with a network outage in Uttar Pradesh (UP) East and UP West since morning. The operator took itself to Twitter to announce the outage. “Due to some unfortunate incidents in UP East and UP West’, networks in some areas in both the circles has been impacted,” a message on the Twitter stated. “We regret the inconvenience caused to our customers and assure you we... 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
An international agreement inked between 10 organizations and the Economic Board Groningen led to the start of a 5G test bed called “5Groningen project” in North Groningen. The project will focus on the sectors of logistics, healthcare, the environment, energy, and agriculture. KPN, the Dutch Telecommunications Agency (Agentschap Telecom), Vodafone, Huawei, Ericsson, TNO, the University of Groningen, SURF and the Hanze University of Applied Sciences are the partner organizations of... Read More
While OnePlus 3 is set to launch on June 14 in all markets, the company has announced a flash sale in China on June 6. Around 1000 units of OnePlus 3 will be sold in the flash sale and one can grab it at the price of Rs. 30,600 (CNY 2,999). In a tricky twist, the company has specifically mentioned that the pricing is not final. If the price of... Read More
The global carrier Wi-Fi equipment market totalled $713 million in 2015, and is forecast to reach $1.5 billion by 2020, according to a research study by HIS Technology. The top three vendors for carrier WiFi equipment revenue share in 2015 were Cisco, Huawei and Ruckus Wireless. The worldwide carrier Wi-Fi equipment revenue totalled $367 million in the second half of 2015, up 6% over the first half of 2015, while mobile... Read More
Ericsson managed to retain its lead in telecom outsourcing revenue market share in 2015, followed by Huawei, HPE, IBM and Nokia Networks, according to a research by HIS Technology, which said that global outsourcing services revenue went up 3% on an yearly basis to $69 billion, due to telcos’ unabated need to outsource non-core tasks. The firm said that the slow growth in this market segment is the result of... Read More
Indian smartphone market is now flooded with 4G LTE smartphones from all manufactures. With RCOM migrating its CDMA subscribers to 4G, many have already started hunting for a new 4G smartphone. While almost all 4G smartphones in India supports LTE on band 3(1800Mhz) and band 40(2300Mhz), not many devices support band 5(850Mhz). We have put together the list of all smartphones supporting all three LTE bands currently used in India. The list is prepared based... Read More
Though India is yet to see 4G in full potential, developed nations are keeping their taste bud ready for next generation of mobile telephony. Verizon, United States' largest mobile operator already has kickstarted their 5G projects. and was able to hit 1Gbps+ speed in some 5G field trials. Verizon has used infra from Ericsson, Nokia and Samsung, and deployed 5G at 15GHz, 28GHz, 39GHz and 64GHz band, though most trials... Read More
Rumor mills churned heavily last week hinting that Apple could ditch the headphone jack in its upcoming phone. A design schematic released by a Japanese magazine confirms this decision. In the image, it is also seen that the phone carries a dual camera setup. Although, we are unsure of how Apple plans this dual camera set-up, there are reports that the phone will allow users to switch between two different... Read More
A report released by IDC reveals that Lenovo and Xiaomi have lost their position to other Chinese manufacturers. The data suggests that there were total 334.9 million smartphones shipped worldwide in the first quarter of 2016. The figure has gone slightly up from 334.3 million units last year. It also marked the smallest year-over-year growth for smartphone shipments. The new entrants to the arena are Oppo and Vivo with 4th... Read More
Norway's telecom giant Telenor is looking for a exit plan from India as reported by Economics Times. Telenor entered in the country in 2009 partnering with Indian real estate major Unitech's wireless arm, Unitech Wireless. After some initial roadblocks Telenor is now having its 100% owned Indian tele venture - Telenor India and operating in just 7 circles (out of total 22 circles) with its popular 'sabse sasta' marketing strategy.... Read More
According to a China-based analyst who works for IHS Technology, Xiaomi has made impressive sales result in Q1 2016 by selling 14.98 million handsets worldwide. The figure is almost similar to last year sales of the same quarter. The analyst Kevin Wang expects more sales in the Q2 2016, reports Android Headlines. Xiaomi has slightly missed its sales target of 80 million handsets last year as it managed to sell... Read More
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