Tata Docomo strategies to boost Wi-Fi revenue
Natraj Akella, vice president - Wi-Fi at Tata Teleservices, says Tata Docomo has identified certain segments where it’s going ahead and deploying Wi-Fi services...
Delhi to get 1,000 Wi-Fi hotspot zones
The Delhi government will provide 1,000 Wi-Fi hotspot zones in the national capital by the end of this year, Delhi Dialogue Commission (DDC) Vice...
Comcast Business to invest $9 mn for fiber expansion
Comcast Business has recently revealed its plans to invest more than $9 million over the next year for a major expansion of its fiber-based...
VSAT shipments to double by 2020
VSAT shipments will nearly double by 2020 as the industry reinvents itself, said Strategy Analytics.
The Strategy Analytics report said VSAT applications are evolving from...
1.5 mn Indians using Wi-Fi at railway stations: Google
Nearly 1.5 million Indians are using the high-speed Wi-Fi services at 19 railways stations across the country that Google provided as part of its...
Majority of global urban population has no broadband access
Nearly 57 per cent of the global urban population remains unconnected to broadband internet, with 37 per cent living in some of the world's...
TN villages linked to Nobel Laureates become Wi-Fi hotspots
Two small Tamil Nadu villages where two physics Nobel Laureates - C.V. Raman and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - had their roots will be networked by...
Video streaming cos win as DC court upholds net neutrality
The Federal Appeals Court for Washington, DC has completely upheld the legal authority related to the FCC’s Open Internet rules or net neutrality –...
Internet Saathi: Transforming women via digital education
Twenty-five-year-old Kamlesh Kumari, a resident of Sirmathura village in Dholpur district of Rajasthan, is deeply engrossed with a tab, searching for child healthcare tips...
RI Networks to invest Rs 15 crore in broadband
RI Networks, a regional broadband service provider in India, will be investing more than Rs 15 crore in network deployment and brand building in FY...
YouTube allows video downloads at cheaper rates
Video streaming service YouTube on Thursday rolled out a new feature 'Smart Offline' that lets a user download a video at cheaper night data...
Internet Saathi to digitally empower one lakh women in Bengal
Internet Saathi, a joint digital literacy programme of Google India and Tata Trust, is all set to roll out across 400 villages and reach...
China sets up global quantum communications network
China has begun establishing quantum communications networks in several cities, and is currently building a 1,000-km quantum communications line connecting Beijing and Shanghai.
Based on...
Starman to make investment in 10G EPON
Starman, a cable operator in the Baltic States, has decided to make investment in a 10-gigabit Ethernet Passive Optical Network (10G EPON).
Nokia said the...
How India broadband market performed during last fiscal
India’s total broadband subscriber base rose to 149.75 million in March 2016 from 99.20 million in March 2015, according to TRAI data.
India’s wired broadband...
Net neutrality: TRAI should ask telecoms to invest more
Indian telecom regulator, TRAI, has initiated the debate over a free and open internet by issuing an eagerly awaited paper that intends to define...