Royal Enfield production disrupted for 14 days by Chennai floods

Eicher Motors, manufacturer of Royal Enfield bikes, said production at both of its factories in Chennai have been normalized as of Dec 14. Production at the Royal Enfield factories at Thiruvottiyur and Oragadam was suspended on Dec 1 after heavy rains and flooding disrupted operations. The company resumed production of motorcycles on December 7, 2015 […]

YU Yutopia’s price Rs 24,999; has Snapdragon 810 processor, 21 MP camera

[socialpoll id=”2316977″] Yu Televentures, the sister company of Micromax, is unveiling the price and other specificatios of the most ambitious phone ever launched by an Indian brand in the country – the Yutopia. “This is the most powerful phone, and it’s from India. I’m underlining it, it’s from India,” said founder Rahul Sharma. Micromax designs most […]

WATCH LIVE: Launch of Yu Yutopia, a QHD phone with expected price of Rs 25k in India

Yu Televentures will launch Yutopia, one of the most expensive phones from any Indian brand, today at 12 pm. The phone, which is expected to have a 5.5-inch quad-HD 4 MP display and 4 GB of RAM, is touted as the most powerful in India, despite costing less than half of what normal flagship phones […]

COLUMN: The True Price of Facebook’s ‘Free Internet’ program

Facebook, the world’s biggest social network, is prompting its users to send a submission to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India to save its ‘Free Basics’ program, urging them to fight the “small, vocal group” of net neutrality activists. “A small, vocal group of critics are lobbying to have Free Basics banned on the basis […]

Xiaomi Note Prime, to be launched next week, could disappoint fans despite powerful processor

The fans may be crying about the poor 720p resolution on the upcoming Xiaomi Redmi Note Prime, but possible benchmarks suggest that the model may yet have an ace up its sleeve — the new and powerful Snapdragon 618 chipset. UPDATE: The phone is based on the rather humble Snapdragon 410 processor, which, together with […]

Petition urges Xiaomi to launch Redmi Note 3 in India; current price Rs 15k

Desperate fans have resorted to an online petition at Change.org to get Xiaomi to launch its latest mid-range device, the Redmi Note 3, in India even as the brand prepares to launch the new Note 4G Prime here. “It is sad that the Redmi Note 3 is not in India,” said the petition started by […]

New TRAI net neutrality paper is a breath of fresh air after the last one

The latest consultation paper by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India on telecom providers charging different prices for browsing different websites — the so-called differential pricing of data — comes across as a breath of fresh air after the last one, issued under former chairman Rahul Khullar. While Khullar started with the assumption that net […]

Idea 4G launch: Registrations started for a list of over 150 cities in MP, Karnataka, Kerala, Haryana

Idea Cellular, holder of the biggest amount of 4G spectrum in the 1800 MHz band, has opened registration for its 4G service in over 150 cities across eight of 12 circles where it plans to launch the service. These eight circles are the four southern states, Punjab & Haryana in the north and Orissa and […]

From January, RCom customers may be able to use Reliance Jio 4G

Customers of Anil Ambani’s Reliance Communications Ltd may be able to use 4G services from next month thanks to an agreement with Reliance Jio, according to sources. Jio, as we have already reported, is scheduled to launch its services by the end of this month and the company’s subscribers will be eligible to use RCom’s […]

Jio Effect: Aircel slashes 3G rates; Will others follow?

Back in 2011, when 3G services were starting to be launched, there would be new announcements every three or four weeks from each operator on new tariff plans. Some would offer ‘free 3G’ along with voice recharge, some would offer combo plans, some heavy usage plans such as 10 GB for Rs 999 and so […]