The era of fast growth and bulging profits are over for the Indian telecom sector, at least for the short and medium term, said India Ratings, an associate of global ratings agency Fitch. The ratings agency maintained its ‘negative outlook’ on the sector, pointing out that costs are likely to remain high in the immediate […]
Will the Reserve Bank of India cut policy interest rates for the first time in almost a year even as price inflation remains above its comfort zone? Hit by slowing growth and declining demand, the industry sure hopes so. The RBI has been raising interest rates steadily for the last four years. Its official lending […]
The starting price for a quad-core smartphone has just fallen from about Rs 30,000 to Rs 11,000 – thanks to the new Karbonn Smart Titanium 1. Karbonn Mobiles has become the first Indian vendor to offer a phone with a quad-core processor – something that was restricted to the likes of Samsung (with its Galaxy […]
The alleviation of the alleged harmful effects of mobile towers (EMR) on human health has become more complicated with the Department of Telecom rebuffing a suggestion by the Ministry of Environment and Forests on the subject. Apparently piqued over a recent directive by the environment ministry seeking new limits on the number of cellular towers, […]
Micromax, which is placed third in the number of mobile phones sold in India, however, seems to be the hot favorite for those who buy their phones from online vendors, going by numbers from Snapdeal.com, one of India’s top online retailers. The Gurgaon-based company is among the few Indian brands that has survived the initial […]
BSNL, the former telecom monopoly of India, has lost nearly 8 lakh mobile subscribers, or about 1.5 percent of its active mobile base, due to number portability as of the end of October, government of India’s numbers revealed. There was also a sudden spike in October this year in the number of telecom subscribers using […]
India’s mobile subscriber base, which has grown consistently for the last two decades, has fallen by 30 million in just four months, primarily due to pressure on the operators to ensure full documentation of their subscribers and deactivate zombie accounts. Starting from June, India’s mobile operators, including Tata DoCoMo, Reliance Communications, Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular, […]
Bharti Airtel leads in the number of mobile base stations in India, while Vodafone comes second and BSNL is placed third, according to official numbers. In all, India had a total of 736,654 mobile base stations as of the end of October, 2012. The highest number of mobile base stations are in Maharashtra, followed by […]
The ‘3G roaming’ controversy, which continues to cast a shadow over services to lakhs of 3G customers in India, may be nearing an end soon. The controversy, involving the sharing of 3G infrastructure between operators, has the potential to disrupt the Indian 3G market in the coming weeks as the government decides to either crack […]
Anil Ambani group’s Reliance Communications, one of India’s biggest telecom operators, has joined the list of operators who will offer free or cheap unlimited data access to those who use Facebook services on mobile. While many others like Aircel offer free or unlimited access to Facebook on mobile, Reliance Communications has decided to offer unlimited […]
Gartner has cut by a third its forecast for the growth of PC industry this year due to competition from tablets. The growing popularity of devices like the iPad, which saw its second iteration on Tuesday, will bring down growth of the PC industry from 15.9% to 10.5% in 2011, the agency said. The impact […]
Evernote, the company behind one of the most successful mobile applications, has tied up with the maker of Tencent ONE Browser for Android, setting its eyes on the Indian and Asian market. Evernote allows users to remember all aspects of their lives by creating notes, snapping images, recording audio, saving files and having everything synchronize […]
Worldwide sales of mobile phones to end users reached almost 428 million units in the third quarter of 2012, a 3.1 percent decline from the third quarter of 2011, according to Gartner, Inc. Smartphone sales accounted for 39.6 percent of total mobile phone sales, as smartphone sales increased 46.9 percent from the third quarter of […]
People of Philadelphia turned out to be the most generous tippers, while those in Houston tend to eat out the most, acccording to the results of this year’s Google “America’s Top Restaurants Survey.” The survey, covering 1,822 restaurants in 46 U.S. cities and regions, also found the top-rated restaurants across the country. “Winners include perennial […]
Worldwide enterprise IT spending is forecast to total $2.679 trillion in 2013, a 2.5 percent increase of projected 2012 spending, according to Gartner, Inc. Banking, communications, media and services (CMS) and manufacturing are expected to offer the largest volume of growth opportunities through 2016. However, given the overall economic uncertainty, the projection may have to […]
After delaying the move by five months on operator requests, the government of India has moved to cut down mobile tower radiation by 90%. According to a statement given in the Parliament, the government issued an order with effect from September that reduced the maximum power permitted for cellphone towers in the country by 90%. […]
Google has introduced a new ‘free SMS’ (text messaging) service as part of its free email service, Gmail. While free SMS notifications – such as those about status updates, comments etc. on Google Plus – were already available, it is the first time that Google is promoting the SMS services as a standalone messaging service. […]
Samsung has powered ahead in the Indian mobile market and now has close to half of the total market, according to second-quarter numbers by Gartner. The Korean company’s share, in terms of revenue, will be even higher as its models are, on the average, costlier than what an average phone in India costs. Samsung’s share […]
Karbonn Mobiles, one of the original Indian cell phone brands, has added five new tablets and smartphones to its range – the biggest one-time launch of products by any Indian brand in recent times. In the new line-up are tablets Karbonn Smart Tab 3 (Blade), Karbonn Smart Marvel (Marvel) and smartphones Karbonn Smart A11, A7+, […]
Wikimedia, the non-profit behind Wikipedia, is holding a three-day developer camp in Bangalore from November 9. The camp is “a chance to participate and work alongside experts in development of PHP and JavaScript based internationalization and localization tools as well as mobile applications using Phonegap and LAMP technologies,” the organization said on the registration page. […]
