ZTE, Apple and HTC emerged as the big gainers in the second quarter mobile phone numbers released by Gartner today, while Nokia, Samsung, LG, RIM and Sony Ericsson continued to lose market share. Overall, nearly 428.7 million phones were sold in the quarter ended June, up 16.5%. Though much slower than last year’s 31% growth, […]
Indians bought 5.14 crore (51.4 million) mobile phones in the three months from April to June this year, international IT market research firm Gartner’s India unit has said. In other words, one in nine phones is sold in India. For the full year, it said, Indians will buy around 215 million (21.5 crore) mobile devices […]
Advertisers who are spending their money on QR (quick response) campaigns, using a pictorial code to ‘continue’ an ad or message on a phone or similar device, are not off their mark, according to the latest data from digital research firm Comscore. A study by the agency found that in June 2011, 14 million mobile […]
Mobile phone manufacturers and cellular service providers have opposed many of the key recommendations of the government of India’s Inter-Ministerial Committee on the harmful effects of mobile radiation on human health. The Committee started its work after an experts panel pointed to possible negative effects of cell-phone radiation on human health. Though microwave radiation, such […]
A general trend by Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular, India’s big three GSM operators, to raise prepaid tariffs has got many customers irked. But a close look at the tariff numbers of the Indian mobile sector over the last two years reveals the reason for the move. It points out that hammered by competition, […]
Huawei, World’s second largest mobile network equipment provider, has just launched a data-card product that may turn out to be crucial to the roll-out of wireless broadband in India by players like Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. The data-card is the World’s first such device to support a host of technologies, including TD-LTE — seen as […]
India is famous for its World-beating wireless telecom expansion, but an analysis of the latest data reveals that its mobile subscriber base is increasingly getting filled up by junk, unused connections. Though showing signs of a slowdown of late, India’s wireless telecom market continues to add around 15 million telecom subscribers every month. The market […]
Sprint, America’s biggest 4G operator, has launched HTC Detail, a tweaked version of the HTC Evo Shift that it launched for consumers earlier this year. HTC Detail will be part of its offering for ‘wholesale’ customers such as Mitel, which repackage Sprint’s services along with their own to sell to other customers, typically companies. The […]
Google has reduced its call rates to Indian phones from 6 cents (Rs 2.70) per minute to 2 cents (90 paise) per minute and extended the service to customers outside the US, including those in India. Google phone-calls help customers call phones almost anywhere in the World at rates that are usually cheaper, sometimes much […]
Uninor, the joint venture mobile operator from the Telenor group of Norway and India’s Unitech, has posted surprisingly robust growth numbers for the second quarter. The firm’s revenues jumped 32% to Rs 572 crore in the just-concluded June quarter compared to the immediately preceding March quarter. Compared to the June quarter of last year, this […]
Vodafone has launched what has to be the cheapest 3G plan in India, for its USB-dongle users in Delhi, disturbing the stability in 3G data tariffs seen in the last three months or so. See chart above for a list of cheap data plans. Also see our latest analysis of the data plans offered by […]
After Airtel Digital, Tata Sky, one of India’s biggest DTH players, has introduced a mobile application that can control its recording-enabled set top boxes. The application, that will work only on apple products (unlike Airtel’s Java app) can also be combined with an ‘orb-shaped’ (elongated spherical) device to control the TV and set top box […]
China’s biggest local brand and the fastest growing mobile brand in India, G’Five, has brought out five new models in India — three E series (E680, E650 and E620) and one G Series (G20,) the highlight of which is the ‘gaming console’ on the last one. The E series phones have 2.2 inch displays while […]
Aircel emerged as the fastest growing telecom operator in the Country during the last financial year (2010-11), even as Bharti (including Africa) increased its lead over all others to become more than twice as big as any other operator in India. Smaller operator Aircel, which grew its revenues by 44.1% during the year, narrowly edged […]
Microsoft has opened a new research and development center in Bangalore, targeted primarily at improving its fledgling online ad business ‘adCenter’ and muscling in on the booming global online ad market dominated by archrival Google. The latter already has a huge research and development team in India which has been responsible for creating several of […]
Verizon Wireless has launched the 4G LTE-enabled HP Pavilion dm1 notebook, famous for being the first notebook to come out with AMD’s new fusion series of chip. The notebook is targeted at those who use their laptops outside the limited range of their home or office WiFi, but don’t want to compromise on WiFi-like speeds […]
Ever wondered how to safely dispose of your old mobile phone? Wondered what to do with the beyond-repair TV lying in the store-room? Enter Attero Recycling, a Venture Capital funded start up targeting the emerging Indian market for recycling. Thanks to new environmental regulations under process, all electronics companies will have have ‘take back’ mechanism […]
Thanks to its exploding appetite for computers, phones and TVs, India has emerged as the World’s fastest growing market for semi-conductors, more commonly known as electronic chips. Electronic chips, usually black in colour, are the brains of electronic devices and are responsible for controlling their behavior through an built-in system logic which responds to user […]
In the first VC investment in mobile advertising in India since the global downturn, IDG Ventures has invested $3 million (Rs 13.5 crore) into Vserv, an Indian tech start-up that specializes in serving ads within mobile phone applications. Vserv is one of the few Indian start ups in the mobile eco-system to make an impact […]
Disagreements have cropped up between the Department of Telecom and the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) over the cancellation of 31 licenses belonging to Loop Telecom, Sistema Shyam (MTS) and Uninor (Unitech-Telenor) See chart of the licenses While the regulator wants these licenses to be cancelled for failing to launch services within two years […]
