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GSMA recommendations to new telecom minister in India

GSMA today urged Indian telecommunications and IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad to share timelines on 2100 MHz and 700 MHz spectrum allocation, periodic review of...

Why BlackBerry Z3 costs Rs 16,000 in India and Rs 12,000 in Indonesia

BlackBerry Z3, a budget smartphone, will cost you Rs 16,000 in India and nearly Rs 12,000 in Indonesia. The Ontario-based BlackBerry said the price difference...
EE LTE campaign

EE to launch VoLTE in 2015 and HD Voice-over-Wi-Fi in late 2014

UK telecom operator EE on Friday announced plans to launch VoLTE in early 2015 and HD Voice-over-Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi) services in late 2014. EE's new voice-over-Wi-Fi...
Broadband user

Broadband misery continues: Reliance Jio and NOFN with small coverage in 2015

Indian broadband misery continues. Reliance Jio Infocomm 4G services and National Optical Fiber Network (NOFN) with small coverage will be launched in 2015. While Reliance...
network deals

Amazon smartphone to transform device market?

Amazon smartphone, which will be unveiled on June 18, will impact the global phone market and influence the digital platform battle being waged between Amazon,...

Tata Docomo celebrates 9.8Mbps speed when Comcast offers 150Mbps in U.S.

Tata Docomo is celebrating by announcing that Photon comes with an upgraded data speed of up to 9.8Mbps on the Photon Max Wi-Fi Data...
Mukesh ambani

Reliance 4G gets boost after Rs 4,000 crore investments in Network 18

Reliance Industries (RIL) today said its 4G LTE services will get a boost after infusing Rs 4,000 crore investment in Network 18 Media for...
Airtel growth

Airtel plans telecom Capex of $3.2 billion in fiscal 2015, announces 4G, 3G strategy

Indian mobile service provider Bharti Airtel said it would invest $3 to $3.2 billion towards Capex (capital spending) for telecom infrastructure in fiscal 2015. The...

OTT impact reflects in Idea Cellular, Airtel fourth fiscal quarter 2014 revenues

Indian telecom carrier Idea Cellular and its rival Bharti Airtel indicated drop in messaging revenue component – primarily due to OTT players -- in the first...
Microsoft Corp Nadella Elop

Microsoft-Nokia deal: Can Satya Nadella and Stephen Elop bring new life to devices?

Microsoft, which announced the closure of the Nokia phone deal today, will gain more as compared with the earlier agreement. But the question is...

Qualcomm Q2 FY 2014: Can CEO Steve Mollenkopf overcome Chinese 3G / 4G barriers

Qualcomm today said its Q2 FY 2014 revenue increased 4 percent to $6.37 billion, while net income rose 5 percent to $1.96 billion. Qualcomm...

Challenges to Facebook in mobile payment biz

Social media network Facebook, which is likely to receive mobile payment license from the Central Bank of Ireland, faces huge challenges in the mobile money...

Global VoLTE revenue to touch around $3 bn by 2017, says Infonetics Research

Infonetics Research projects that the VoLTE revenue is expected to reach around $3 billion by 2017, while VoLTE subscribers will be around $160 million...

4G woes continue in India: Can LTE experience zone by LG, Airtel, Qualcomm help?

LG Electronics, Bharti Airtel and Qualcomm have set up an LTE experience zone in Bangalore with the hope of reviving the 4G market conditions....

3G mobile Internet speed doesn’t bother Aircel, Airtel, Idea, MTS, Reliance, TTSL, Vodafone

India is celebrating the growth in mobile data. But 3G mobile Internet speed doesn’t bother telecoms such as Aircel, Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular, MTS,...

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