Airtel, India’s biggest operator, has announced that it too will launch the next edition of the apple iPhone tomorrow, along with the new operator Aircel. Aircel had stolen the thunder from big competitors by announcing that it will launch the iPhone 4 on Friday. Aircel’s version will be priced at around Rs 35,000 for the […]
World’s biggest software company, Microsoft, should be praying for the victory of Google’s Android operating system against its own ‘Windows Mobile’ OS, if numbers revealed by Citi ground analyst Walter Pritchard are anything to go by. Against the $2 or so that companies like Microsoft charge for letting manufacturers put their product (Windows) on their […]
In one of the most daring and audacious moves in Indian telecom sector in the last two years, the Russian operator MTS has cut down all STD and local charges to half a paisa per second. The offer is around 20-50% cheaper than the lowest tariffs offered by competitors in the country. Most operators are […]
China has become home to the World’s highest number of Internet video consumers, according to the latest ‘Virtual Network Index’ report by the biggest networking firm, CISCO. According to it 284 million Chinese, around a quarter of its population, watch video on the Internet while only 9.6 million Indians — less than 1% of India’s […]
After the see-saw of the Indian PC crown between the World number 1 HP and its bette noire Dell, the latter seems to have given a decisive trouncing to its bigger rival in India. With consumers shifting more and more to the notebook segment, away from the boxy desktops, Dell took the top spot with […]
The body carrying out the development of the ambitious Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) — an Indo-Japanese attempt to take on the manufacturing might of China — has finalized initial details of the project. According to the blue-print prepared by the DMIC Development Corporation (DMICDC), there will be seven mega cities (called nodes) built over the […]
World’s most influential activist group, Greenpeace has accused India’s telecom industry of unfairly helping itself to Rs 2,600 crore worth of fuel subsidy meant for essential services and the poor. The allegation, made in its latest report on the telecom sector, is based on estimates by the telecom regulator on how much diesel is consumed […]
Nokia’s global mobile phone marketshare slipped by 5.5% year-on-year in the first quarter of this year, IT market research firm Gartner Inc has reported. It fell from 30.6% a year ago to 25.1% during the three months ended March 2011. Apple, HTC and Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE were the only big brands that saw […]
Google’s Android operating system became the World’s top smart-phone operating system during the first quarter of the year, overtaking Nokia’s Symbian, according to the latest numbers from Gartner. The confirmation from Gartner has come after a tight fight between the two OSes during the last quarter of 2010, when another agency, Canalys, said Android had […]
After remaining absent from the telecom scene for seven years, Mukesh Ambani too has now jumped into the ongoing ‘telecom war’ over the abolition of termination charges. In doing so, Ambani’s Infotel Broadband — the holder of the only pan-India wireless broadband license — has lodged itself of the opposite side of big incumbents like […]
State-owned mobile and fixed line telecom operator BSNL has accused the telecom regulator of “over-reaching” the judgments of the Supreme Court and the Telecom Dispute Settlement and Appellate Tribunal (TDSAT) by questioning the need for inclusion of capital expenditure in call costs. It said it is “shocked and surprised” at the move by the Telecom […]
DMK leader Karunanidhi’s daughter Kanimozhi will spend another week in Tihar jail as the Delhi High Court has adjourned her bail plea to May 30. The development is mixed news for Kanimozhi as the order setting aside the application for May 30 has come just one day after similar pleas by 5 co-accused were rejected […]
G’FIVE, one of the new mobile brands to make its presence felt in India, has announced that it will soon launch Android tablets priced at Rs 10,000 or less. Currently, branded tablets cost Rs 15,000 or more in India, including the iPad, which costs around Rs 30,000 and the Samsung Galaxy tab which costs upwards […]
The government will auction five more wireless broadband spectrum slots increasing the total wireless broadband players from 3 to 8 by the next year, going by what telecom minister Kapil Sibal told an international conference in Geneva today. Sibal, speaking at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva, said the total wireless […]
Despite strong reservations from the Telecom Regulator, telecom minister Kapil Sibal has said that the state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL) will be tasked with creating a massive optic-fibre network across the country. Speaking at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Geneva today, Sibal said that “initially,” BSNL will be in charge of […]
Intel has opened more cards on its $7.7 billion acquisition of anti-virus vendor McAfee. The two firms on Tuesday announced a new business line that seeks to address the biggest concern the emerging cloud architecture — security. Under the cloud architecture, a company moves most of its storage and compute power to a distant location […]
After Uninor, Reliance and Tata too have thrown their weight behind the telecom regulator’s proposal to examine whether 20 paise per minute is the right price for connecting a call from one network to another. The charge, called termination or interconnect charge, is paid by one network to another when handing over a call to […]
India’s electronic chip market — an indicator of overall electronics consumption — grew by a whopping 28% in 2010 — according to research conducted by the Indian Semiconductor Association and Frost & Sullivan. The consumption of electronic chips — almost none of which is produced in India — rose from $5.1 billion in 2009 to […]
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has again opened the subject of interconnection charges, much to the consternation of big operators like Bharti Airtel, Vodafone Essar etc.. Interconnect charges are paid by the mobile operator from whose network a call originates to the mobile operator on whose network it ends, i.e., on whose network […]
Indian mobile operators continued to see average bill sizes shrink in the last quarter of 2010, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has revealed in its latest ‘performance report.’ Year-on-year, GSM saw higher falls than CDMA. According to the report, the Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) — a measure of how big a bill […]
