Category: Telecom

  • Airtel Launched its 4G Network in Kolkata, offers super absurd plans

    As rumored last month, Airtel has launched its 4G LTE network in Kolkata today. The high speed 4G LTE network should theoretically offer download speed up to 100Mbps and upload speed of 40Mbps. And as expected (given its history), Airtel is offering super absurd plans for using the service. here are the plans currently available:…

  • Bharti Airtel to Launch 4G LTE network in India this Month

    Forget 3G, Airtel is planning to start the roll out of its 4G LTE network in India this month, starting with Kolkata on 20th March 2012. Airtel has appointed Nokia Siemens Networks, Huawei, ZTE and Ericsson to build and operate its 4G LTE network in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kolkata and Punjab respectively. Airtel also holds BWA licenses…

  • How Airtel is alienating its premium customers

    I am not sure if there is any official terminology, but in my opinion, a premium customer to a telecom company is one who is ready to try their new (and expensive) services, pays bills well within due date, subscribes to ebills & pays bill online (as it saves logistic costs for the company). There…

  • ESPN Star Sports HD channels now available on select cable networks across India

    ESPN Star Sports, the body which owns the two first 24×7 sports HD channels in India (ESPN HD & Star Cricket HD) have signed a deal to allow select cable operators in India to show their HD channels. The channels are available to 3 cable networks – Incable, 7Star in Mumbai & UCN in Central…

  • TomTom Launches GPS Navigators in India

    TomTom – the Amsterdam based navigator company has launched GPS navigators in India. The devices will compete directly with rival company MapMyIndia’s navigation products and will offer touch & voice controls, emergency assist and bluetooth compatibility in addition to standard GPS features like turn by turn navigation & lane assistance. The three models Via 100,…

  • Airlines planning to introduce mobile boarding passes in India

    Despite advancements in the telecommunication arena with the launch of 3G, India is still far behind other countries in terms of mobile enablement of services. We reported a few weeks back that Indian Railways is now allowing paperless tickets on trains (although, some of our readers were fined because they were not carrying a paper…

  • Airtel, Idea & Vodafone to offer pan India 3G roaming

    The three major 3G operators in India – Airtel, Idea & Vodafone have join hands to offer pan India 3G roaming to their subscribers in the country. This move was inevitable as TRAI only allowed five 3G operators per circle. Those who could not get the 3G license in all the circles will have to…

  • MTS offers high speed internet connection on Delhi – Jaipur stretch of National Highway 8

    MTS is offering high speed mobile broadband connectivity on the Delhi – Jaipur stretch of National Highway 8. Users on this stretch will be able to enjoy high speed data based services like live TV, video on demand on their laptops and smart phones. MTS says that they plan to extend their network to other…

  • Airtel sets 1Mbps as the new broadband minimum, increases FUP quota

    Airtel has set a new minimum definition to broadband plans in India. Despite TRAI defining broadband as a minimum of 256Kbps, Airtel has set 1Mbps as the new minimum for its broadband plans across India, with 2Mbps being the minimum in 10 of its top cities namely Delhi, Noida, Gurgaon, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai…

  • Airtel partners with BigFlix to launch on demand video streaming service

    Airtel has tied up with BigFlix to launch on demand video streaming service in India. BigFlix is a Netflix type service in India offering a library of DVD quality movies & TV shows which you can stream to your computer, laptop or tablet device (no iPad support though as the site requires Flash). Previously, their…