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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...