MTS India said it has become the first operator in the World to launch a mobile network based on the Phase II of the CDMA EV-DO (Revision B) technology. While that may sound like a lot of gobbledygook to many consumers, what it means is that the speed on the CDMA network can now hit […]
Barely a month after Reliance Communications broke the Rs 15,000 price-barrier for a branded 3G tablet in India, Spice Mobile has mounted a strong challenge to the company with its new Spice Mi-720 tablet. Though Bharti group firm Beetel had become the second prominent brand two weeks ago to to enter this category with its […]
India’s active mobile subscribers are only aorund half of the gross subscribers reported by the mobile operators, according to a survey by Juxt Consult, one of India’s pioneering mobile and Internet research agency. According to Juxt Consult, India had only 48.7 crore (487 million) mobile subscribers in June this year, compared to the 85 crore […]
Emailing continues to be the most popular online activity even as Facebook is fast emerging as a strong competitor to Google in India’s online landscape, according to the 2011 online survey by mobile and online research firm Juxt Consult. While 95% of India’s online population use email, it is followed closely by product search (with […]
Maruti Alto K10 created the most amount of search interest on launch, with the Ford Figo following close behind, according to Google India’s Auto Industry Report covering search trends for the industry for the last two years. Surprisingly, it also showed that would-be auto buyers in India are arguably more net-savvy than their counterparts in […]
Reliance Communications has announced a 7-inch Android tablet priced at around Rs 13,000 with discounted 3G data options, making it perhaps the cheapest 3G-enabled tablet in India. UPDATE: Since this model was launched, the Ubislate tab was launched for Rs 4,000 which makes the Ubislate the cheapest and most value for money tablet in the […]
Motorola, the US brand that was second only to Nokia in the Indian market before its US parent got caught in financial troubles, has taken a first step towards reclaiming its place in the Indian market. Though it has been launching some high-end phones, such as the Milestone, Droid and the Xoom tablet, Motorola was […]
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 […]
After keeping silent for a long time, Google has finally spoken out against Microsoft, Oracle and Apple for their “organized campaign” to dampen the growth of Android ecosystem by accumulating and suing over “bogus patent.” In a blog post, the company’s chief legal officer challenged them to compete with Android in the open market-place, instead […]
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 […]
