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Reliance Comm to offer around 50% discount on 3G data to iPhone users

Telecom Lead India: Reliance Communications is set to offer around 50 percent discount on 3G data service to iPhone users on its network. Reliance Communications...
VoLTE by China Mobile

China Mobile VoLTE to land in fourth quarter of 2014

Telecom Lead Asia: China Mobile is planning to start Voice over LTE (VoLTE) services by fourth quarter of 2014. “VoLTE is more efficient in terms...
security-sensitive telecom products

Operators under pressure to buy Indian security-sensitive telecom products under new law

Indian mobile operators will be forced to buy security-sensitive telecom products from domestic equipment makers under new guidelines. The new guidelines, if implemented, will have...

Samsung dominance offers other Asian phone makers exit route?

A new report from Yankee Group says Samsung is winning the mobile phone war in Asia. Dominance of Samsung may force some of the...

Telecom operators gear up to restore operations in flood hit Uttarakhand

Telecom operators -- Vodafone, Idea Cellular, Bharti Airtel, BSNL, MTS India, etc. are gearing up to restore and improve their mobile operations in the...

Google + and Gmail on Airtel phones taking on Facebook

Airtel has launched Free Zone powered by Google. Google+ competes with social media major Facebook. Airtel mobile customers can access mobile web search and feature-phone-friendly...
SK telecom

Will Airtel learn from SK Telecom that expands 4G / LTE offerings?

Bharti Airtel, India’s first telecom operator and the only one to go live with 4G / LTE network, can learn a lot from Korea’s...
SK Telecom LTE-A service

SK Telecom LTE-A service is 2 times faster than LTE and 10 times of...

SK Telecom LTE-A service through smartphones offers network speeds of up to 150 Mbps, which is two times faster than LTE, and 10 times...

SoftBank makes another leap for Sprint as shareholders vote in favor

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse has welcomed shareholders’ decision to vote for the transaction with SoftBank. As per the transaction approved by shareholders, SoftBank will have...
Tata Docomo 2G and 3G data tariffs

Tata Docomo 2G and 3G data rate reduced by 90%

Tata Docomo has reduced its 2G and 3G data tariffs by 90 percent. Following the footsteps of Bharti Airtel and Vodafone, Tata Teleservices, which operates under...

Boosting 4G of Airtel and Reliance Jio, Nokia Siemens achieves 56 Mbps upload throughput

Boosting Indian 4G operators’ -- Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio Infocomm -- hopes to increase network speed, Nokia Siemens Networks achieved 56 Mbps peak...

BlackBerry unveils new service to manage Android, Apple devices

Smartphone major BlackBerry has launched a new service enabling government agencies and enterprise clients to secure and manage devices powered by Google’s Android and...

NTT Docomo dials Sistema to exit from Tata Teleservices

NTT Docomo may exit from Indian telecom market as its talks with Sistema to dilute stake in its joint venture with Tata Teleservices are in an...

Google’s Nexus 7, Amazon’s Kindle Fire eat into embedded mobile broadband cards market share

The popularity of Wi-Fi tablets like Google’s Nexus 7 and Amazon’s Kindle Fire has negatively impacted the growth of embedded mobile broadband cards. The vast...
Witold Sitek, SVP Technology, Telenor Group

Telenor to focus on mobile video, ties up with Alcatel-Lucent

Witold Sitek, SVP Technology, Telenor, said the telecom operator will focus on mobile video. The wireless operator selected Alcatel-Lucent to boost its offerings and...

Tablet market share to change as Intel Chromebooks may eat into Apple iPad, Galaxy...

A Gartner report suggests that Intel-based Chromebooks and Windows 8.1-based Haswell are likely to eat into Apple iPad and Galaxy Tab10.1 tablet market share. Gartner...

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