Telenor Group has requested Sanjay Chandra, the MD of the Unitech group, to step down as chairman of its joint venture mobile company, Unitech Wireless, the Norwegian company said in a statement. It had earlier this month sent a letter to Unitech Ltd., requesting Sanjay Chandra to step down as Chairman of the Board of […]
A quiet digital revolution is on in the countrysides and bylanes of India. Despite having one of the world’s lowest PC penetration (at just 1%), hundreds of millions of Indians are logging on to the Internet through their humble, tiny mobile phone. The latest ‘state of the mobile web’ report from Opera, whose browser accounts […]
Concerned over India’s galloping electronics import bill, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India will recommend a phased introduction of ‘local sourcing’ rules of telecom operators in a week. The TRAI chairman JS Sarma said most of the final details on the recommendations, has been arrived at and the recommendations will be put out next week. […]
Loop Mobile has chosen the unexpected option of not participating in the upcoming spectrum auction, even though its spectrum and license will expire in November. That means the company is taking a big risk as the mobile operations were valued at about $0.8-1.0 billion in 2005 when it changed hands from long-time promoter BPL’s TPG […]
Cornering over one-fourth share of the total number of new jobs advertised on portals and newspapers, Delhi-NCR has emerged on top with over 1.39 lakh new jobs created during the calendar year 2013, industry body Assocham said, quoting an in-house study. The survey analysed the vacancies posted by about 4,500 companies via job portals like […]
Shopyourworld.com, a website that sells imported items in India, has become the first to launch Google’s Motorola Moto G smartphone in India, marking the return of the brand after a long hiatus. Motorola was once the number two mobile brand in India, ahead of Samsung and LG, and behind Nokia. However, the company, which was […]
Idea Cellular has copied the post-pay plans of Bharti Airtel to announce a new flexible billing scheme for its customers. India, where over 95% of mobile subscribers are on prepaid schemes, has not found many takers for billing schemes, largely on account of a mutual distrust on the part of customers and operators about the […]
With a view to counter the attractiveness of Reliance Communications’ emi scheme for Apple iPhone and clear out existing stocks, Samsung has also tied up with credit card companies and Ingram Micro to offer a unique buy-back guarantee scheme for its mobiles. Under the scheme, which also enables the user to buy Samsung mobiles on […]
Vodafone Essar continues to hold on to its lead in the Mobile Number Portability statistics, according to the latest data shared by the Cellular Operators’ Association (COAI), the GSM interest group. Vodafone, which has been leading the list of ‘net gainers’ — operators who have seen more people join them than leave them — continued […]
One of the interesting insights into the results reported by Indian mobile companies in the last two weeks is the slowdown in growth. Idea Cellular, which was the most aggressive in hiking call tariffs, saw the biggest decline in growth, while Bharti Airtel, which was the least aggressive in raising call rates, saw the least […]
It was a big victory for Apple in one of the biggest telecom markets in India as it made its first real deal with an operator here to sell the latest iPhone 5S and 5C under contract. Apple had been trying for years to get any prominent mobile operator in this country of 1.2 billion […]
As new netbooks and tablets based on the latest generation of Intel processors trickle in, one thing is clear — Intel has overhauled its naming conventions for its products, and all the new chips promise all-day battery life. The new chips comprise of two broad architectures – Haswell and Silvermont (Bay Trail). The other big […]
The government’s move to promulgate a ‘food security’ ordinance to give subsidized food to two thirds of India’s population has drawn a mixed reaction from experts. While on the one hand, nearly all the experts agree that a form of food security is indeed required for the poor who cannot afford to eat, most are […]
Google has unveiled what seems like a winner for the search company — rich, targeted ads from online retailers next to search results. The new service, called ‘Product Listing Ads’, is far more sophisticated and ‘compelling’ than the link-based ads that used to appear till now. Not only are these richer in information, but in […]
Government of India does not have its own equipment to measure electromagnetic radiation from cellphone towers, Junior Minister Milind Deora has told the Parliament. According to the minister’s statement, the government depends on the equipment provided by telecom operators to measure the level of radiation emitted by their towers. “.. The test tools provided by […]
It should come as no surprise for those familiar with the Indian market, but now there are numbers to prove it. In a analysis of comments made by people on social media, research firm Simplify360 found 65% of the comments to be negative. “Though Blackberry received considerable attention of the online social media users, the […]
Despite challenging economic conditions, the enterprise software market in India is projected to reach $3.92 billion in 2013, a 13.9 per cent growth over 2012 revenue of $3.45 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. Last year, overall Indian enterprise IT spending, which includes hardware and services — in addition to software — was forecast to increase […]
India’s National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) has received an overwhelming response to its start up funding program. No less than 14,000 wannabe entrepreneurs registered. In all about 4,000 applications were received for funding. Early stage funding is typically called ‘angel funding’. Out of the total applications received, close to 23 per cent […]
Amazon has listed its six-month old Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9 inch tablet for sale on its Indian website on Thursday, and we do a hands-on review of the product. First things first – Amazon Kindle HD has been unofficially available in the Indian market for about three months now. However that came with a […]
Consumers may be flooding the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and other organizations with complaints about Mobile Number Portability (MNP), but the TRAI is yet to impose even a single fine on a telecom operator in this regard. According to a statement by the Department of Telecom, the TRAI has never imposed a fine […]
