Telecom

It’s Official – Bharti Airtel has acquired Loop Mobile. The deal is valued at Rs. 700 crore as per report appeared in Moneycontrol today. Loop Mobile operates only in Mumbai circles and nearly 3 million subscribers. These subscribers…

My woes of smartphone batteries are old and my rants on the topic nothing new. Where once the phones used to last for days, now, I do not think mine last for a day. It is either in my hand or on charging. I also have USB cables all around-…

TRAI has published their monthly telecom subscription report for December 2013. According to it, India added 5.16 million new subscribers in the last month of 2013 taking the total tally of mobile subscribers in India to 886.30. It is…

For the first time in the history of Indian telecommunications, mobile users would be able to use 4G data services on their handset. Airtel customers in Bangalore can now pay Rs 1000 to get 10GB 4G services on their Apple phones, and can…

As far as Android is concerned, I do not think there are many nations who have embraced it as well as we have. Be it due to Apple’s initial poor strategy or the HUGE number of low cost smartphones by Indian manufacturers, Android has gained…

2G Auction 2014 – Final Provisional Results & Highlights On the 10th and the final day of the 2G Auctions, 68 rounds of bids were completed All 3 circles in 900 MHz remained the same on the final day. 11 circles did not see any…

HP is one of the prominent PC makers in the world. My first laptop was HP and while it has been some years to that, the laptop is still with me working great. With the shift to mobile arena, most PC makers had to change gears as well and HP…

Nearly 8 out of 10 smartphones worldwide are currently on Android – That’s a staggering figure for a mobile OS that had it’s first phone launched just 5 years back in October of 2008! According to the International Data Corporation (IDC)…

When the world is going after smart phones, Panasonic has decided to re-enter Indian market with budget feature phones; and they have some really big plans related with them. Panasonic announced yesterday that they are launching two…

TRAI or Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has done a commendable job over here; they have found out the truth about customer satisfaction of Telecom Services all over India! Between April to September 2013, TRAI asked some…

The rise and fall of Flappy Bird has been stunning, full of mystery and entirely shrouded in doubts and questions. The game has been downloaded 50 million times, was ranked #1 on both Android and iOS for free category and reportedly, was…

HTC is one of the few companies that has always dealt in smartphones. Even during the time when the feature phones were prime, HTC was a company that created high-end Windows phone. That was also the time when barely anyone in India knew…

Just like our phones have become smart, education has also become smart. With the changing times and technology, learning-on-the-go is a new concept that has been fast gaining ground. So next time you see someone playing Subway Surfers…

Indian citizens, beware! A Chinese telecom Company Huawei  has hacked into BSNL’s network, and Government has ordered a probe into this incident. This is not a rumor, as the Parliament was informed about this incident. Minister of…

Updated: Feb 6th, 2014 | 9:30am I have personally never seen such a craze for a phone in India. Moto g seem to have flown off Flipkart shelves. The sale started at midnight yesterday, and looks like within first few minutes all the…

Paytm has today announced launch of a unique mobile marketplace app that allows users to bargain for a deal before they buy. Yeah, exactly how you do it in the offline world. While many shopping apps available currently on Android and…

The Indian startup scene is heating up by the day with large companies and investors from developed nations willing to acquire or invest in many of those instances. While that said, most of those companies are mostly in the SaaS model.…

Apple has never done it before – but looking at market conditions and sagging sales, they have broken the tradition and resumed the production of iPhone 4 just for Indian, Indonesia and Brazil reports ET citing Apple senior executives.…

True is when they say, “Necessity is the mother of invention”. In the Indian startup space, Innoz is a perfect example. While countries like South Korea is going 5G we are still fighting pending legal battles over 2G. With the number of…

TRAI today released their November 2013 telecom subscription report which states that India added 5.65 million new subscribers, second highest mobile subscriber addition since July 2012. The total tally of reached 881.13 million by end of…