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Idea Cellular Added Highest Number of Wireless Subscribers in Jan – Mar Quarter Followed by Airtel : TRAI
According to the recent “Indian Telecom Services Performance Indicator Report” for the Quarter ending March, 2013 by TRAI, Idea Cellular has added the highest number of wireless subscribers in Jan – March Quarter followed by Bharti. However in terms of total wireless subscribers, Bharti remains the leading operator with 188.20 million subscribers at the end of Mar-13, followed by Vodafone (152.35...
More than 2.5 million people have opted for MNP in March alone: TRAI
According to the latest subscription data by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), in the month of March 2013 alone, 2.87 million requests have been made for Mobile Number Portability (MNP).
As per the data reported by the service providers, by the end of March 2013 about 89.70 million subscribers have submitted their requests to different service providers for porting their mobile number....
iPhone 5S to come with higher resolution display
With Retina 2 rumours around the brink, it seems that the display on the next iPhone might get an upgrade.
Chinese website Wei Feng network reported that the iPhone 5S (or iPhone 6) will come with a better resolution and a thinner bezel. The smartphone will have a screen of 1.5 million pixels, compared to nearly 730,000 pixels on iPhone 5. If screen size does not increase (which is unlikely to happen),...
Govt Plans 4G Refund
State-run, loss making telcos MTNL and BSNL got a relief as the Govt is weighing the option to refund Rs 12,846 cr to them as the duo don’t like to launch 4G/BWA services in some circles.
The PSU duo got the spectrum in 2008 and paid the amount as per 2010 BWA auction price. Both the telco are making huge losses for last couple of years – BSNL Rs 24,681 crore and MTNL Rs 13,759 crore in 2012-13.
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Tata Teleservices has been asked to give up the extra spectrum as per DoT
Recent sources has confirmed that DoT has asked Tata Teleservices to vacate the additional CDMA spectrum in the different circles across India except Delhi & Mumbai with the other telco operators.
DoT sources has stated that the Telco body may request TTL to surrender its one 1.25 MHz of CDMA spectrum in all respected service areas except Mumbai & Delhi without any such reason.
The reason...
BSNL & MTNL GoM meet together with revival cancellation
There was a meeting scheduled with Finance Minister P Chidambaram & other group of ministers to discuss on the revival strategy of state-owned BSNL & MTNLbut later the meeting was cancelled. As per news came from PTI, one of the government officials said that the next date of the meeting yet to be decided & also quoted about the non-availability of Finance Minister on11th May.
As per...
Vodafone carries one step forwards towards Delhi Court about its license renewal
The Delhi High Court’s decision has been challenged about the license renewal process of Vodafone the U.K. based Mobile Service provider in some major circles like Kolkata, Mumbai & Delhi beyond November 2014.
As per statement released from the company “The DoT arbitrarily rejected Vodafone’s applications for extension… Accordingly, Vodafone is constrained to take the legal recourse by...
Non-Compliant Billing Standards are being followed by Aircel, Vodafone, Idea
Recently Trai has issued a notice about the telecom operators percentage contribution to the billing disputes by Aircel, Vodafone, Idea, BSNL and MTS which varies between 0.11 percent and 2.42 percent. Of which lowest score is 2.42 percent scored by Aircel’s Maharashtra.
Gujarat, Jammu and Kashmir, Kolkata, Karnataka, Punjab and Rajasthan were most of the disputed regions where Aircel postpaid bill...
Nokia has won a patent for Camera’s Adjustable Aperture
In the next few years point-and-shoot handheld cameras will soon take on existing smart phone cameras which has been prevailing among us for such a long time. Nokia has been recently awarded as a patent for modification of smart phone camera in the aperture portion by making it adjustable.
This new modification has been implemented in handsets like Nokia Lumia 920 possess a large aperture size of f/2.0...
Reliance – Aircel Intra-Circle Roaming agreement to be signed
A new ICRA to be signed on between two big private operators one is Aircel & another is Reliance to continue uninterrupted services by expanding the network coverage across the whole country by offering handsome amount of facilities.
Already RCOM’s possess network foot print which would be expanded by 10,000 base stations which will attract 100 million customers where the market value is around...
MTNL second most preferred brand in Enterprise Segment- Voice & Data
Voice & Data and CyberMedia Research had organised a Enterprise Satisfaction Survey in communication services to benchmark the quality of services provided by Indian telecom operators. Amongst the 520 enterprises that were surveyed Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) has secured second position after a private telecom group (TTSL & Tata Communications) in overall satisfaction in enterprise...
Additional Spectrum to be surrendered to DoT from Tata Teleservices
Recently a news came from TTSL that the company is surrendering their additional CDMA spectrum of 2.5 MHz in all the circles except Delhi & Mumbai as a protest against Government decision’s to impose one time airwaves fees beyond a certain limit.
3.75 MHz of CDMA spectrum will be retained by the company in Delhi & Mumbai circles.
From January 2013 Govt. has given an order to impose one time...
