Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd, the state-owned telecom operator, reported a loss of Rs 3,803 cr for the year ended March 2016, taking its total loss to over Rs 47,000 cr. The silver lining to the bad news is that the loss is lower than those of the last few years. In the previous year (2014-15) […]
Honda Activa, India’s most popular scooter, can now also claim to be its most popular two-wheeler. The bike completed six months as India’s highest selling two-wheeler in June — a feat that was unthinkable for a scooter 5 years ago. For the last 17 years, the No. 1 position used to be taken up by […]
Telenor, the Norway-based telecom operator, said it has decided against participating in the upcoming telecom auctions in India as the reserve prices are too high compared to the possible return on investment. “We have, after thorough consideration, decided not to participate in the upcoming spectrum auction, as we believe the proposed spectrum prices do not […]
Following market leader Bharti Airtel, Idea Cellular slashed the rates of its 4G, 3G BIG Internet packs by upto 67%, providing more value to heavy internet users who consume data packs of 2GB to 10 GB. Last week, Idea had announced the price reduction by 45% in its sachet data packs. Idea is now offering […]
Bharti Airtel chose a Sunday to make one of the most important announcements by the company from both its earnings and customer perspecitve — a deep slashing of its data prices. The move is seen as a precursor to the changes that will take place after Aug 15, the day when Reliance Jio is expected to […]
Reliance Communications — an Anil Ambani company — is asking its postpaid mobile subscribers to choose from one of the new, more-expensive plans introduced by the company as part of its 4G upgrade. Wipod or dongle users are likely to continue on their old CDMA plans. There is some confusion on this point, please see the comments section. […]
Reliance Communications has started activating the connections of CDMA subscribers in its remaining circles — Kerala, Kartantaka, Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan, marking the end of its protracted migration process. RCom first started the migration process for its CDMA subscribers in late April and had set a target of completing the process by the first half […]
After initially not allowing users to post their reviews of Le 2, Flipkart has begun publishing customer feedback about LeEco’s latest mass market smartphone, and it’s a mixed bag. Predictably, the Le 2 scores high in terms of performance, but feedback suggests two key weakpoints versus main rival Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 — display quality and […]
Reliance Communications, which has diverted its CDMA spectrum to launch its upcoming 4G service, and its partner Reliance Jio have managed to get their new joint network up and running in southern states like Kerala and Tamil Nadu over the last one week. The two have created a joint 4G network on the 850 MHz […]
Now that many RCom users have finally started getting 4G signals, there is a likelihood that they may get 10 GB of 4G data. Reliance Communications had promised to give free data for everyone who upgraded from CDMA to 4G. “Existing Reliance CDMA Voice or Datacard customers can get their 4G SIM from nearest Reliance Store. Upgrade to […]
Business Standard reported that Bharti Airtel, India’s largest telecom company, will launch 4G services in four new circles in the next three-four months. These circles include Gujarat, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and UP East. With this, Bharti Airtel’s 4G network will expand to 19 circles out of the total 22 circles in India. The expansion follow the acquisition of […]
At long last, Reliance Jio’s sister company Reliance Retail has launched four new LYF phones starting at just Rs 2,999 in its ‘Flame’ series. These phones sound too good to be true, given that 4G handsets currently cost at least Rs 4,000 or more. But are they? Or should someone looking for a cheap smartphone […]
Reliance Communications, the telecom service from the Anil Ambani stable, has again put up a section on its website giving details about its new 4G service. The section was first unveiled about ten days ago, and was taken off soon after, setting off speculation that the company’s having trouble activating its roaming agreement with network […]
Demand continues to be strong for Le 2, the second mass-market phone launched by LeEco in India. The phone was sold out in a matter of seconds on Flipkart when sales started at 12 PM today. The device is arguably the most attractive handset in India in terms of value for money. For Rs 12,000, […]
Lenovo’s latest entry-level warrior, the Vibe K5 Note, started selling two weeks ago and going by initial user reviews, the phone ticks all boxes except one – camera. The device has been found to be acceptable or good in all respects such as performance and display, but the camera been variously described as poor, terrible, below average […]
Which are the hottest selling new phones in India? The answer, for most people, would be LeEco Le 2 and Lenovo Vibe K5. The two models started becoming available in the last two weeks, and have already sold in their tens of thousands, if not lakhs. Yet, if you were looking for user reviews of […]
Reliance Communications has taken down its official 4G home page from its websites a week after it went live. The page gave various details including tariff plans for three circles. The page also had a graphics that said “4G Network Live in Mumbai”. At present, trying to access the 4G section results in the user […]
With widespread complaints about the lack of 4G data availability for some CDMA upgrade customers, Reliance Communications has introduced a new SMS-based LTE data activation facility. With this, the CDMA upgrade process now comprises three steps – buy 4G SIM, send SIM activation SMS from old mobile, and finally send 4G data activation message from […]
A report by Economic Times suggests that Reliance Communications, owned by Anil Ambani, will start offering 4G services to new and existing GSM users from August, in turn suggesting that its network partner Jio too could enter commercial launch at the same time. At present, RCom is offering 4G services only to those users who […]
Xiaomi has priced its phablet Mi Max at just Rs 14,999, pitching it at roughly the same level as in China. The entry-level version is powered by the Snapdragon 650 chipset. The China price for the device is around Rs 15,200. Xiaomi also offers super-charged version with 128 GB of memory, 4 GB of RAM […]
