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...
Despite the inhibiting factor that no operator has got a pan-India 3G license, the services have been rolled out in a large number of cities across the country. One of the leading 3G service providers that had got licenses for 13 out of the total 22 license areas had...
A key objective of the networks—2G, 3G, Ethernet or fiber—is to enable various forms of communication. While voice remains the most broad-based form, email is perhaps the most acceptable and well documented form when it comes to employing formal communication.The...
For the first time in at least 10 quarters in a row, share of broadband subscriptions in total Internet subscriptions declined during the October - December 2011 period, said a Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) report.Share of broadband subscription in...
If anything could be considered somewhere close to the growth of mobile service subscribers in India, it would be the growth of social media users. Data from Internet sources like socialbakers.com shows that number of Facebook users in the country grew at around 24...
For two out of last three months, data published by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has showed that wireless subscriber additions in rural areas decisively exceeded the subscriber additions in urban areas. In November 2011 TRAI reported 2.13 million net...
An expected announcement came in from Intel a few weeks ago when the dominant PC chipmaker announced its mobile phones foray for India, which is among the fastest growing mobile phone markets worldwide. While this was logically awaited ever since Intel had announced...
Unlike in the brick-and-mortar world, speed thrills in the realm of ICT, yet does not kill. Moreover, as a result of the mobile telecom revolution, high processor speeds have come in the hands of end-users in an affordable manner.There doesn't seem to be an upper...
Historically, computing and communication devices meant for the workplace have been different from the devices meant for the living room. That is changing steadily if not speedily, as the adoption of ‘mobility’ in organizations implies that the workplace extends into...
Evolutions in ICT technologies are happening at such breakneck speeds today that their effects are comparable to revolutions. An area where the pace of this rapid evolution is perhaps most notable is the development of processors that go into various client devices as...
In the past decade, what we have witnessed is rightly termed by IDC as Mobilution, and the handset adoption situation today can very well be classified as ‘Mobile Everywhere.’So where do we further go from this state? One answer, and the obvious one, would be to have...
As tablets get more and more powerful in terms of processing and multi-tasking prowess, they compete with the notebooks, especially the netbook variants, more closely. And as that happens, tablets’ abilities as computing devices gets pronounced and changes their...