A slow rollout and adoption of LTE in Latin America has prompted 4G market intelligence and advisory firm Maravedis-Rethink to forecast that the region will account for over 50 million 4G subscribers by end of 2017 only. As a result, 3G is to dominate mobile broadband...
Google India Private Limited has sent out the following communication to all its Indian customers: “Due to a recent change in Indian tax regulations, the service tax rate for advertising services supplied by Google India Private Limited will change. The rate will be...
My first impression of the recently announced Microsoft Surface is that it exhibits perhaps a better understanding of device needs of consumers than much of the rest of industry.Ever after the Apple iPad phenomenon, the tablets market could witness little innovation,...
"Tablet that's a great PC - a PC that's a great tablet," reportedly said Steven Sinofsky, president of Microsoft's Windows division, describing Surface. Click this link to see the video: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/default.aspxFrom the video that the...
Recently, I happened to rehire a lorry after a gap of about one-and-a-half years for purpose of shifting some household stuff. The owner-cum-driver came in with a surprise makeover—driving an air conditioned light truck instead of an older generation tempo and...
I thought of doing a status check of IPv6 in India on June 6, the day of World IPv6 launch organized by the Internet Society, and went through a list of 3,011 website operators listed on the launch page. A total of 36 operators were listed for India, some of them with...
With LTE services debuting in the country after Bharti Airtel launching in Kolkata and Bengaluru, the country has nearly all the required technologies in the Internet access bouquet and the consumer is theoretically presented with a multitude of options.Are these...
Ever since 3G auctions earned a whopping 67,710 crore for the government exchequer, there has been a conscious effort to unlock more and more of the spectrum value. This is echoed in the recommendations on Auction of Spectrum by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of...
Last month, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) had issued its recommendations on unified licenses framework. The recommendations say there should be three levels of unified licenses: national level, service area level and district level. One-time...
It is interesting that despite pressing conditions prevailing in 2G and 3G segments for long, consolidation is instead showing signs of happening in the broadband wireless access (BWA) segment.With the recent Qualcomm-Airtel tie-up, a significant step has been taken...
The controversial Facebook IPO may be better seen as an illustration of hype building rather than book building. It also smells of some desperation to make maximum hay while the sun (read hype) shines.The desperation best shows up in the last-minute move to increase...
If 2011 was the year of 3G, signals are that 2012 would end up becoming the year of broadband wireless access (BWA). There has not been much hoopla around the potential LTE launches so far, but then that could be changing over the coming months.Last month Airtel...