Airtel Broadband has an awesome hidden Turbo 1299 plan – 512kbps to 1mbps unlimited speeds!

Airtel Broadband July 3rd, 2009

Airtel Broadband has an awesome hidden Turbo 1299 plan – 512kbps to 1mbps unlimited speeds!
More information continues to come in related to some new cool plans from Airtel Broadband.
These are not offered through their website currently.
The company is offering them to selected customers by calling them.
But you might be lucky enough if [...]

TRAI reveal draft norms for mobile number portability

Mobile Number Portability July 1st, 2009

TRAI reveal draft norms for mobile number portability
The telecom regulatory body of India, TRAI has finally released some draft norms for the upcoming implementation of number portability in the Indian market.
Number Portability would enable telecom subscribers in the country to change their service providers without changing their mobile numbers.
This would be a boon for [...]

BSNL CDMA data services now support roaming

BSNL June 29th, 2009

BSNL CDMA data services now support roaming
BSNL has announced that they are now adding roaming capabilities to their CDMA powered data services.
The company said that the roaming facility would now be available on their BSNL NIC and EVDO cards.
They are however increasing the service charges on these two services…
BSNL has also announced some [...]

Airtel Broadband might be offering 1mbps unlimited for just Rs. 1700!

Airtel Broadband June 29th, 2009

Airtel Broadband might be offering 1mbps unlimited for just Rs. 1700!
Not for all however. This plan was offered to an existing customer in Noida.
The plan also comes with 100 free calls.
The problem is that this plan is likely to come infected with the Airtel Fair Usage Policy virus.
So, the speeds might remain [...]

Nokia N97 in India for Rs. 36,119

Nokia June 28th, 2009

Nokia N97 in India for Rs. 36,119
Nokia has announced the retail availability of their N97 smartphone in the Indian market.
The phone has been priced at around Rs. 36,000 which makes it slightly more expensive compared to the Apple iPhone 3G 16GB.
Apple has not launched their iPhone 3GS in the Indian market.
This high end smartphone [...]

Tata DOCOMO to invest heavily to expand network in the country

Tata Indicom GSM June 27th, 2009

Tata DOCOMO to invest heavily to expand network in the country
Tata DOCOMO is the GSM branch of the Tata Teleservices Limited.
The company already is a major provider of CDMA powered mobile services in the country.
They are now aiming to become a giant in the GSM mobile services market.
Reliance has already launched their pan-India [...]

Reliance GSM to launch Mobile TV services

Mobile Television, Reliance GSM June 26th, 2009

Reliance GSM to launch Mobile TV services
Reliance Communications has announced that they are in talks with Apalya Technologies to launch Mobile TV services on their GSM network.
Reliance and Apalya would together offer this mobile television service through proprietary Mimobi platform.
Reliance is incidentally already offering similar services on their CDMA network.
Reliance said in a statement: [...]

Nokia N86 8MP is now on sale in India

Nokia June 24th, 2009

Nokia N86 8MP is now on sale in India
Nokia has launched their latest mobile device Nokia N86 8MP in the Indian market.
The phone comes loaded with an 8 megapixel camera and is capable of recording videos as well.
Juha-Pekka Sipponen, Director, Nokia N series spoke about this new mobile phone model: “People demand mobile [...]

Airtel Broadband updated Speed on Demand Tariffs

Airtel Broadband June 22nd, 2009

Airtel Broadband updated Speed on Demand Tariffs
Airtel Broadband might still be persisting with the much criticized Fair Usage Policy.
They have however reduced the prices of their Speed on Demand packages.
Speed on Demand enables an Airtel Broadband customer to get higher speeds for a limited amount of time for extra charges.
This comes handy when [...]

Reliance Communications in talks with China Mobile

Reliance Communications June 22nd, 2009

Reliance Communications in talks with China Mobile
Industry sources are claiming that Reliance Communications is in talks with China Mobile.
This news resulted in Reliance Communications stock jumping in the stock market.
The reports in the media claim that the two companies are in talks for potential strategic alliance.
Reliance Communications is one of the leading telecom [...]